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New England Coonhunters Reunion

JUST WONDERING WHO'S GOING TO LYNDONVILLE VT. NEXT WEEK END TO BAD IT IS NO LONGER A PURINA POINTS EVENT, AS I FEEL IS SHOULD BE.

BTT

Doug,
Last year was a Purina Point Event. However, the entry numbers were not high enough for the club to keep the Purina Point event.
At one point earlier this year I talked with Allen via emails and PMs about possibly getting at least an RQE up here in New England. There is nothing up in this area to compete at a National level. The last I heard was the proposal was being offered to the VT club. Not sure what became of it after that.

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Joanne & Dave Doliber
Sampson Hill Sierra Redbones
Home Of 'The Sierra Legacy'
Lebanon, Maine
Website: www.sampsonhillredbones.com

ill be there- just to visit -dont have a coondog- -i havent missed many in last 25 years --i can remember when there wasnt room for another vehicle inside the clubgrounds-

WELL THAT IS TO BAD THATIT SLIPPED AWAY. I AM SURE THE EVENT WILL BE A GREAT ONE AS ALWAYS, THIS YEAR. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING AND VISITING WITH YOU ALL.

BTT

Don't know if I can go I might have to fill in for someone at work but My Dad will be there maby with some dogs to show! But not sure yet.
I was there the year before last and if I rember correctly they had decent turn out. I hope they do well this year.
Joanne, That sure would be nice up here!!!

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Hannah Graham
Bearcamp Valley Kennels
Home of:

GRCH PR Bearcamp Duke
GRCH PR Bearcamp's Sidearm Lil Flirt
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And in Loving Memory of
♥GRCH PR Bearcamp Miss Molly

BTT

btt

just wanted to say thanks

to everyone at the club who helped put on the event. I went, and had a great time.
Got back from Lyndonville late yesterday. There were lots and lots of dogs and people, a couple of vendors. The weather was great for most of the time (it rained during the water race, but the dogs didn't care.) They handed out gazillions of impressive trophies. The kitchen sold out. Altogether a successful hunt.
Eight casts went out on the Saturday hunt, fewer on the Friday poor boy. Quite a few went out on an impromptu Sunday morning bear hunt and treed a few, even though some of the guys who went had gotten no sleep after the Saturday night UKC-sanctioned coonhunt. There were lots of kids and puppies. Some interesting dogs of all breeds.
My potlicking Clamour dog came home with two very impressive trophies for line in the field trials despite an embarassing performance. : ) FCh Clam and his competition (another red dog, a female named Ruby belonging to Kathy Ash [sp?], of Maine) meandered into the tree after a visit to the pond. Neither bothered to tree. They went for a tour of the club grounds, instead.
In the non-sanctioned finals (for the memorial trophy), another one of Kathy's red dogs, a registered male, got tree and Clam got line after a hard-charging race to the finish. Clam won Line by a nose, with competition. But my biscuit eater failed to tree, again. He came up to the show bench I was sitting on and lay down in the shade beneath me! LOL
Bill Finney of the Patten Hunting Lodge in Patten, Maine let me handle a very sweet but slightly hyper young saddlebacked plott of his named Dan in the open water race. The dog came in second in his heat, but sure was spirited and fun to handle. Thank you Bill for letting me play with your hounds all weekend.
For any of you who have never been there, the Northeast Kingdom Coon and CAt Club is in a beautiful part of Vermont and the club grounds are huge and well-suited to camping and tying dogs out, with both big open fields and shady patches of woods. The swim pond is huge, and clear enough so I went for an enjoyable swim myself when it was hot on Sunday. Many kids were in the water all weekend. There was a great BBQ shack a couple miles down the road, for those of us still hungry after the kitchen sold out. My husband and I stayed in a very nice motel within a long walk of the clubhouse, with the hound getting his own bed, and there were half a dozen other motels within five miles, most with a few coonhunters in them.
Sure had a good time! Thank-you for putting on a fine event in the Northeast Kingdom!

While there, I heard that the Lyndonville club did have an RQE earlier this spring, although there were some paperwork issues. Joanne, you'd have to ask one of the Stevens clan or Norm Sanderson what the future of that will be.

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Emily,
This thread was posted in 2006. Since that time, the RQE vs Purina event has been decided. Vermont had their RQE already - It was the 23rd of June I believe. That was also the weekend of the Maine State Show and Water Race Championship (which Dave went to) and I stayed home that weekend while the Missy & Jimmy pups were being born.

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Joanne & Dave Doliber
Sampson Hill Sierra Redbones
Home Of 'The Sierra Legacy'
Lebanon, Maine
Website: www.sampsonhillredbones.com

Oooops!

Did a search on Lyndonville and posted on the first thing that came up. Thanks for pointing that out, Joanne.
Also, please tell Dave that I enjoyed seeing you guys and that Clam far prefers the Black Gold to the fancy pet food he was getting. He chases down every "berry" that gets away from him. When we got home, he turned up his nose at the old stuff. Then we went out to the woods and he treed a pussycat. Takes more than food to make a coondog!

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