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2 YR OLD BOOMER & STEBERS ANNIE UP MALE

Just brought home a 2 yr old male out of this cross. Could be one of the best looking blue ticks I ever saw. Hunted him my first time last night in a light drizzle and fog. He went little over 300 yards and fell treed. Fog kept me from being able to see if he had it but he went hunting when I cut him alone, fell treed and held till I got there. So for only having him couple days he did what he was supposed to do. He is going to be hunted in these thin coon mtns of Tennessee and tested. I'll keep him updated on here.



Picture of Blue Oak and TJ Guy in South Carolina

Oak got loose somehow this morning. I had no clue which way he went. After a little nervous looking and calling I went driving. Finally heard him treed prob ab 1/2 mile as crow flies through the woods. He was treed every breath and not sure how long he had been there. Treed up a big oak den tree at 10 am this morning. Glad he went to the woods instead of the main road.

Short hunt tonight. Hit the woods ab hour after dark. Oak ran a short track and treed every breath up a big oak tree. 2 coons hugged up that looked like kittens about 2 or 3 months old. Extremely lil for this time of yr. walked him off that tree ab 50 yards and cut him loose on a nice cold water branch. He went about 200 yards struck and treed real quick right on that branch....slick....pulled him off and sent him on, told him to find em. Didn't go to far and struck again, still right on this branch. Went prob 100 yards and treed up another big oak but kept going between two trees about 20 feet apart and telling the world. Again I couldn't find a thing. He acted like he had coons up both trees but I couldn't find a thing. Don't know if he just grabbed a slick or if those little coons and mamma had been feeding on those acorns up and down that branch and he smelled them everywhere. Either way when he trees he does it with conviction. For a young hound with not a huge amount of hunt time, he is doing it alone. Going to keep putting him in the woods and get it worked out.

he sounds really nice

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GRNITECH GRCH PKC SCH STEBERS MIGHTY LONESOME II
HIGH SCORING BLUETICK BLK & TAN DAYS 2016, 2017 and 2018
TOP 9 2017 FALL SUPERSTAKES
2018 2ND PLACE BREED WINNER PKC
2019 ILLINOIS STATE CHAMPION
2019 AUTUMN OAKS GRAND 16
2019 AUTUMN OAKS NATL GRNITECH OF BREED
2019 ZONE 3 HIGH SCORING DOG
2019 WORLD CH TOP 100
2019 PURINA NATIONALS BREED WINNER.
2019 FALL ROUND UP KING OF THE HUNT.
2019 ERCHA PKC PRO HUNT TOP 4
2020 WINTER CLASSIC SAT. 4TH PLACE CHAMPION DIVISION
2020 WORLD QUALIIFIED
2020 NATIONAL BLUETICK DAYS INVITATIONAL HUNT WINNER
2020 NATIONAL BLUETICK DAYS DOUBLE CAST WINNER 3RD PLACE GRNITECH FRI AND 4TH PLACE GRNITECH SAT
2020 Natl english days high scoring dog overall fri 1rst place grnitech sat 3rd place grnitech.
2021 invitational hunt winner
2021 natl bluetick days 9th place RQE winner
T0C Top 64 winner

ALSO HOME OF
PR Stebers Lil Blue Krayzee[dual grand penny x grnitech krypt]
nitech Stebers Big Ole Slick
NITECH STEBERS MIGHTY LONESOME 3 AKA CASH[7 wins towards grnitech
Stebers Mighty Blue Bell
Stebers 5 Gen
Stebers Pure Country
Stebers Shining Diamond
Stebers Lonesome Sue
Stebers Mighty Blue Patsy
Stebers Ole Blue Betty
Stebers Lil Blue Krayzee II
AND SEVERAL YOUNG ONES IN THE MIX

Getting him started was fun. Loved listening to him, glad I'm still able to follow his progress. Gotta send him on if you can't find anything and he will miss less and less. Can't wait to hunt with him again!

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Two hour hunt tonight. First drop Oakley struck and ran what seemed to be a good hot track and came treed straight up and every breath. Had a young blue female with him that was screaming her head off as well and I think she convinced ole Oak to come up a lil short. Either way nothing there. One good thing from that tree was on my way to that tree we passed a doe bedded down real real close to where Oak was treed. She got up as we walked by and Oakley never paid her a bit of attention. Couldn't switch him on to find that coon cause we had gotten real close to a big road. So we hooked up and headed to another spot. Cut Oak alone down a real good flat with a lot of mature oaks and a good running branch. He went about 375 yards then cut right handed and circled back to me. Not a bark. I sent him up and over a ridge full of white oaks and acorns. He was prob 150 yards or so when he struck and opened up. Prob made about a dozen track barks and then the locate, then treed, and again he was treed hard. I let him tree to be sure he was sure and I eased in to him. About 30 yards out I see eyes. Not one set but two sets. Oak has rounded up another double. I get to the tree and Oakley is straight up and clicking every breath in what I'm learning is Oakley style. About that time my phone rings and it's my hunting buddy who had stayed back at truck. All I said was bring the rifle. I let Oak tree his head off til the rifle got there. Oakley had done a bang up job and had the meat and this time he got rewarded.

Another 2 plus hours tonight for Oak. Hit the woods about 9 pm tonight. Wind had gotten up and when I cut loose it was really blowing. Cut Oak loose and tonight he was gone. Wasn't but maybe 15 mins and the Garmin said Oak treed. I had not heard him open or tree for the wind. Garmin said he was over 700 yards from where I cut him. Took me several minutes to make my way to him but when I was about 350 yards out I finally barely heard him treeing Oak style, hard every breath. When I finally made my way to him he was stretched out and telling the world. Treed up a big and I mean a big den tree. Hole in bottom big enough for Oak to get his head in. I laid down and shined up to see if I could see it but it made a bend about 4 feet above me and all I saw was tree. Den tree was ab 10 or 15 feet off a good branch with plenty of white oak acorns around. By now the wind is really blowing and the trees are swaying and popping. Snap on lead and walk Oak off the tree. After ab 20 yards or so I drop the lead and tell him to heel and we walk out. I believe I hit the woods about hr to late. With that wind bringing in a weather change I think the coons had fed earlier and had already got back to the dens. Oak did a bang up job on the tree and held prob about 25 mins til I got to him. This 2 yr old off Boomer is making a nice coondog. Glad he is mine.

Took Oak Wednesday night. Good cold night and the moon as full as it gets. Cut Oak loose and he's gone. Oak doesn't kick dirt in your face but he gets gone. He went the way I cut him through some big timber on top of mtn about 450 yards and cut left handed. Made a big left handed turn and worked back toward the old loggin road I was Standing in and crossed the road about 50 yards ahead of me and hit the timber on left side of road. He went another 500 yards or so zigzagging like a good squirrel dog and turned left and went about another 400 yards then cut right and went deeper. Circled back and crossed the road again and hit the timber back on the right side. I am really liking how Oak hunts out a section of woods. He gets deep but doesn't miss things getting there. He spent good 45 mins to hr hunting both sides of road and just about time I thought nothing was moving Oak opened up. He was about 450 yards to the left of the road I was in and working away from me. He located and made about 3 tree barks and got quiet Garmin showed he was down and moving about 20 yards or so and located again. This time he treed but wasn't treeing like Oak usually does. He just didn't sound sure. Eased in to him and found him treed up a good white oak with about another dozen or so white oaks around. Oak had pulled up short so I pulled him off and walked him off several yards and after a lil correction I sent him on to find it. He went about 50 yards and opened. Deeper down the mtn towards the gulf with a big creek and huge hemlock trees everywhere. 250 yards and Oak located and treed hard. Going to him and he would stop for a min or so then treeing again. He kept doing this the entire time I was going to him. When I got there I saw why. He had the coon up under a small mtn stone ledge right on side of creek. He was laying on his side up under the ledge trying to get the coon but couldn't reach him. He would come out and tree for a min then back under to get him. I got down and shined but couldn't see the coon in there but when Oak was under the ledge with his head in the rocks I could hear the coon growling. Time to hook up and leave that one for another day. Oak is doing a good job and looking better each time. I like how he hunts with his head up and gets treed pretty quick after getting struck. He ain't perfect and gets a lil quick sometimes but he handles like a dream and has that desire I like in a dog. He wants to find a coon and get treed.

Hunted Oak last night. Cut him loose with other female. He didn't act like she was around, off they shot. I'm liking his hunting style more each time. I like the way he covers an area. I really like how when he trees, he TREES whether he is right or wrong. So far he handles like a dream. Got him walking out of the woods without me leading him. He still has a tendency to grab a lil short at times but we working on it. I think he is gonna be one anyone would like. He dang sure don't bog down or straddle a track to death. When and if he gets a tad more accurate with as fast as he is...look out ! Going to put him in the woods again tonight. Let's see what happens.

took Oak to where i thought we could have a couple hours of easy hunting. WRONG.. Oak struck while on the lead walking in. Cut him loose and he worked a good track about 250 yards or so and located, then located again. few tree barks then located again. something new for our short time together so i started easing into him. there he is again, same spot, locate...tree....just doesnt sound like he wants to hook but he is treeing. as i get close i see whats happening. oak has worked that track right up to a bluff with a straight up rock face about 75 or 80 feet tall. oak is treeing up an hickory sapling that grows right against the bluff and im standing right at the top of the tree. looks to me like the coon prob climbed there and made his way out the top. good lesson for the young dog. so in my stupidity, i go get him and and we walk a long way around the bluff to get back to the top. before we get there i cut oak again. like a bullet he heads back in the direction i was standing looking down at him. strike oak. race is on now. he works that coon like hes looking at it about 300 or 400 yards right down the edge at the top of that bluff. left turn and back down the side of the gulf he works headed to the creek at the bottom. anybody that hunts these mountains, knows what grows along these rocks at the bottom. mountain laurel and huge hemlock trees. coons love a big hemlock. as i stand there kicking myself for letting him go again, TREE OAK. and i mean tree him hard and every breath. now i have to figure out how to get to him without killing myself. i ease down the slick, rock covered side of the gulf zigging and zagging till i get about 150 yards from him. rock face and boulders big as a small house everywhere. it has taken way over an hour to get this close and i still got another 100 to go. Oak treeing every breath. finally im there. Oak is right on the creek, treed up a giant hemlock tree prob 80 or 90 ft tall and too big for 2 of me to reach around. i squall and look but cant see anything over ab 20 feet from where im at. if you know these hemlocks you know you cant find an overweight elephant in one of these unless you get lucky or you can get far enuff back to see the top real good. neither of these was happening for me tonight. i shined and squalled what i could and let oak tell the entire mtn he was treed for a bit. now getting here was one thing but gettin out is another. thank goodness ive got oak walking out on his own cause i need three hands to climb out. well up and out we go. finally there is the top and there is the truck. i tell oak to load and i sit down on tailgate to catch what breath i have left. long story short, Oak did his job and did it in style. Learned a valuable lesson from a smart ole coon so maybe next time he will remember it. each night this 2 yr old bluetick is getting better and better. he hunts and handles like an old dog with sense. he trees his big ole heart out when he trees. maybe next trip he will get one up a tree so i can do my part.

Hey Kermit! Nice read about your new dog. I hunted with you a long time ago with my brother, Josh Bradshaw. You gave him a yellow cur dog that really got me into hunting with dogs. That little dog would tree a bucket full of squirrels during the day, and smoke the hound dogs on a coon at night. We had a blast with that dog! We need to get together and go one night

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Dwayne Bradshaw

NITECH CH 'PR' BODACIOUS BOMBSHELL 2012 ZONE 5 CHAMPIONSHIP QUEEN OF HUNT (CO OWNED WITH ZEB MYERS)

good to hear from you dwayne. those cur dogs were some good dogs back then. give me a yell anytime and ill come up and go with you.

Thursday night about 7pm and Oak and myself are back in the woods. tonight i brought my english pup along with us. this is freds second trip out at night. out of the truck and collared up. planning on walking to the end of this logging road and cutting oak loose. we go about 100 yards and he opens on the lead. cut him loose and off he goes already struck in. goes about 200 yards and there is that locate. no tree bark follows. he must have checked a lil better and he is back on track getting deep. about half a dozen track bawls and he is over 600 yards. looking at the garmin i see where i think they are headed and it aint good for me. looks like another gulf with all the goodies a gulf brings. still working that track but he is getting out of hearing. garmin shows .67, ouch he has to be in the gulf. as im standing there trying to pick my best route, Oak comes treed and he has gotten a tad closer. 973 yards treed. well thats better than 7/10 of a mile he was at. tree barks are faint but i can tell he is telling the world. off me and fred head towards the tree. luckily i find a pretty good old grown up logging road to follow, making the trek a lil easier. about 200 yards out and oak is letting those chops ring, so fred tears off to him. i get there and its an old tree growing out over the side of the gulf. got lucky, not going to the bottom. tree grows up about 15 feet the makes a bend and grows out over the side. as oak is treeing his big ole head off, fred has found the hole at the bottom of this den tree and has his head all the way up to his shoulders crammed in this tree. fred is making it obvious he smells a coon. he is digging on his side and whinning like a baby. he looks stuck. snap a few pictures of oak treeing and some of fred trying his best to get at whatever smells so good to him. remember this is only freds second time out at night. so no coon on the outside again but an obvious den tree and im convinced he is in there. again oak did a bang up job getting struck and working that track as far as he did and as fast as he did. leash him up and get him to some water to cool off cause he has thick slobber all over his head to his tail. he trees hard and tonight hes hot. i really like the way he didnt mind gettin deep and he got deep quick. this dog is going to make one ill talk about yrs from now i think.

What a better way to end christmas day than with a coon hunt. Took Oak about hr after dark to the biggest woods i have to hunt. top of the mountain and thousands of acres covered with hardwoods and cold creeks. cut oak up a real good branch off one of the creeks and like normal he is gone. watch the garmin and you can see he is cuttin the woods up like a good squirrel dog. Oak gets deep but he covers a ton of ground getting there. about 20 mins in and Oak strikes. good clear bawl mouth and he is moving this track. garmin shows him two big ridges over and on another branch of this same creek. big big locate and tree Oak....I like to give him plenty of time and space to make sure so i start easing in to him. looks like he is about 450 yards or so, should be easy to get to him.....WRONG... Few years back we had an infestation of the pine beetle. Well Oak has found where it looks like every dead pine tree on the mtn fell. about a 300 to 400 yard area of the biggest criss-crossed piles of dead pines I ever saw, and everywhere there isnt a tree laying its grown up with huge saw briars and holly bushes. Im right in the middle of it when i realize I have 80 more yards to go and I cant go any farther. wall of just jungle type growth. I back out 20 or 30 yards thinking I can just go around this junk...NOPE. Doesnt matter from which direction I attempt to get to the dog I cant. I get about 20 yards or so and thats it. I kill the lights and look around and I can see there are zero standing trees anywhere near me or where oak is treeing his head off by now. To make it worse Ive turned around so many times and its so thick Im not sure which way is out. Thank goodness for the garmin. Finally I convince Oak its time to go and he comes to me. I assume he had the coon treed up under some of those mountain high piles of dead pine trees. Heel him out a few hundred yards with the help of my alpha and cut him again. he makes short work of getting in the dark again. Oak hunts the next 3 hrs in some of the best timber you could ever want to see. Garmin shows he has cut the woods up like a surgeon. he hits the 1000 yard mark plus and i see him working right handed back down another ridge towards me. he crosses road and other side of the mtn he goes, up a nice running branch Ive treed coons before. like I said he hunted this way the next 3 hrs and never got another bark. when he finally came back his tongue was draggin so i figured time to go. We didnt see a coon but it wasnt for lack of dog trying. was just a great night to be out in the mountains, just me and Blue Oak. Going to head to georgia tonight and kick him loose again.

Hit the woods with oak again tonight. He got in the dark and got struck about 650 yards or so to my left. Ran good track pretty quick, located and treed. Head in to him and he is hammering. Get to the ridge above him and no not another hemlock tree. Ease down to him and throw the amber light up and bam...eyes. Can't believe it but that coon looked. Threw up rifle and no more eyes...squall and shake a tree....eyes.....rifle up and no eyes. Three times he just peaked at me but never long enuff to find him and knock him out. Oak is treed and I see it but can't get it so we head out. I decide to head to truck and change spots. Oak is right n front of me walking out dragging his lead. Out of nowhere the head goes up and he strikes....two or three times. Cut him loose and he bolts off with not a single bark....few seconds later, short locate and TREED HARD. ABOUT 70 yards from me he is treed. Thinking he must be wrong with the way he left after striking on lead. Get there and that tree lights up like a Christmas tree....seems eyes everywhere. Look em over and they look like kittens. Up toward the top it looks like mom. Time for oak to get a reward. All I see in scope is big ball of fur and one ear. Aim for ear and fire. Just my dang luck, it's not mom but two half grown kittens hugged up looking like a big one. Out rolls one and they all split up now and I count 4 diff sets of eyes in tree and one on ground. In all my years this is first time I ever saw 5 kittens n one tree. So oak made two trees and 6 coons. He must have winded those coons all the way cause he never made a track bark after I unsnapped him. Great job tonight Oak.

REALLY SOUNDING GOOD!!!!

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GRNITECH GRCH PKC SCH STEBERS MIGHTY LONESOME II
HIGH SCORING BLUETICK BLK & TAN DAYS 2016, 2017 and 2018
TOP 9 2017 FALL SUPERSTAKES
2018 2ND PLACE BREED WINNER PKC
2019 ILLINOIS STATE CHAMPION
2019 AUTUMN OAKS GRAND 16
2019 AUTUMN OAKS NATL GRNITECH OF BREED
2019 ZONE 3 HIGH SCORING DOG
2019 WORLD CH TOP 100
2019 PURINA NATIONALS BREED WINNER.
2019 FALL ROUND UP KING OF THE HUNT.
2019 ERCHA PKC PRO HUNT TOP 4
2020 WINTER CLASSIC SAT. 4TH PLACE CHAMPION DIVISION
2020 WORLD QUALIIFIED
2020 NATIONAL BLUETICK DAYS INVITATIONAL HUNT WINNER
2020 NATIONAL BLUETICK DAYS DOUBLE CAST WINNER 3RD PLACE GRNITECH FRI AND 4TH PLACE GRNITECH SAT
2020 Natl english days high scoring dog overall fri 1rst place grnitech sat 3rd place grnitech.
2021 invitational hunt winner
2021 natl bluetick days 9th place RQE winner
T0C Top 64 winner

ALSO HOME OF
PR Stebers Lil Blue Krayzee[dual grand penny x grnitech krypt]
nitech Stebers Big Ole Slick
NITECH STEBERS MIGHTY LONESOME 3 AKA CASH[7 wins towards grnitech
Stebers Mighty Blue Bell
Stebers 5 Gen
Stebers Pure Country
Stebers Shining Diamond
Stebers Lonesome Sue
Stebers Mighty Blue Patsy
Stebers Ole Blue Betty
Stebers Lil Blue Krayzee II
AND SEVERAL YOUNG ONES IN THE MIX

another short hunt with Oak last night. temp on mtn at 7pm was 60 degrees. warm enuff to make me look for an old copperhead laying out. cut oak loose and off he went like normal. made about a 300 yard circle back to me and hit the other side of the road. didnt look at the garmin right away but he prob went about 200 yards or so and opened up. ran a good track and BAM, locate....2 tree barks....silence....garmin says he is down and moving. strike oak, moving away fast.....garmin shows him about 100 yards from where he first located and there it is...big long locate.....tree him....my blood gets to rushing when I hear a dog tree but i make sure i dont rush into him. get there and eyes right away. look thru the scope and ill be dang if it aint another small half grown kitten. where is momma? that makes 6 kittens ive treed in the last two hunts in these woods. why are they so small this time time of year. Oak did another real good job and got rewarded. we walked out of woods back to the truck, oak loaded himself up and home before 10pm. Oak still has a ways to go but he is getting there. not only is he a super goodlooking bluedog, he is making a coondog.

I've added two short videos of Oak on both you tube and my Facebook.....under Kermit Hester.....please remember both nights it was extremely warm and oak trees so hard he got hot.

Wednesday the 11th I took Oak down to hunt in north Georgia. Some of the most gorgeous timber you could ever ask for. He made 2 den trees, one was over 900 yards when he finally treed....big broke off hollowed out snag. Didn't see a coon but Oak hunted like I like and did a good job on track.

Hunted OAK last night. First drop he teamed up with my buddies walker to blow up treed on a big den tree. Sent them on from there in different directions. Walker dog fell treed and Oak went to her and covered...lol and behold a po boy...grinner...possum. Great opertunity for a life lesson for mr. Oakley. Needless to say he should now think that smell is shocking. Well loaded up and moved to a different spot. Walker dog down the branch...sent oak over a ridge. They again got together a treed up another big big den tree. Sent them in separate directions again. Walker dog opens deep down the branch and moving deeper fast. OAK is working a ridge full of hardwoods. Walker dog treed...DEEP...about half mile...OAK Strikes up the ridge and is working a decent track...all the while the walker dog is hammering treed. Tree OAK now..ease into him and there sits what turns out to be a large sow coon. Roll her to Oak for good job reward. Load up and drive to get closer to walker dog. She has another big fat den tree. Oak proved he can do it alone with a big mouth walker dog calling him and telling the world she is treed. Loaded up and went to the big ridges. Drop Oak down a real good holler and he works down and thru a good running branch up and back over two ridges. Makes ab a 500 yard circle without as much as a whimper. Leash up and walk him to new holler just as nice...this time he cuts up a section of hardwoods and branches for about a 700 yard circle. Again not a bark..load up and head home. Only one coon on the outside but not for lack of Oak trying.

GOOD NIGHTS AND GREAT MEMORIES!!!

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GRNITECH GRCH PKC SCH STEBERS MIGHTY LONESOME II
HIGH SCORING BLUETICK BLK & TAN DAYS 2016, 2017 and 2018
TOP 9 2017 FALL SUPERSTAKES
2018 2ND PLACE BREED WINNER PKC
2019 ILLINOIS STATE CHAMPION
2019 AUTUMN OAKS GRAND 16
2019 AUTUMN OAKS NATL GRNITECH OF BREED
2019 ZONE 3 HIGH SCORING DOG
2019 WORLD CH TOP 100
2019 PURINA NATIONALS BREED WINNER.
2019 FALL ROUND UP KING OF THE HUNT.
2019 ERCHA PKC PRO HUNT TOP 4
2020 WINTER CLASSIC SAT. 4TH PLACE CHAMPION DIVISION
2020 WORLD QUALIIFIED
2020 NATIONAL BLUETICK DAYS INVITATIONAL HUNT WINNER
2020 NATIONAL BLUETICK DAYS DOUBLE CAST WINNER 3RD PLACE GRNITECH FRI AND 4TH PLACE GRNITECH SAT
2020 Natl english days high scoring dog overall fri 1rst place grnitech sat 3rd place grnitech.
2021 invitational hunt winner
2021 natl bluetick days 9th place RQE winner
T0C Top 64 winner

ALSO HOME OF
PR Stebers Lil Blue Krayzee[dual grand penny x grnitech krypt]
nitech Stebers Big Ole Slick
NITECH STEBERS MIGHTY LONESOME 3 AKA CASH[7 wins towards grnitech
Stebers Mighty Blue Bell
Stebers 5 Gen
Stebers Pure Country
Stebers Shining Diamond
Stebers Lonesome Sue
Stebers Mighty Blue Patsy
Stebers Ole Blue Betty
Stebers Lil Blue Krayzee II
AND SEVERAL YOUNG ONES IN THE MIX

Hit the mtn again last night with OAK. I've hunted late and I've let go early just trying to figure out when these coons are out. This morning though I did see a coon that was run over on the road sometime between 7am to 11am. So are the coons around here just moving and feeding during daylight hours? Anyway, OAK and I hit the woods about 8 pm last night. Wasn't the best of nights I guess. OAK struck and worked 3 different tracks all the same way. Struck with big long drawn out deep bawls. 2 or 3 here and then the next time he would be 50, 60, yards deeper. Finally ending up treed each of the three times over 500 yards deep. All I can figure is the coons had fed about right before dark because those three tracks were old and cold. OAK really did a pretty good job on each of those tracks but each ended at a legit den tree. So after about 4 hours we loaded up and headed home. This place I was hunting is full of mature hardwoods but it seems every other tree is a den. Now there may or may not have been a coon in each den but OAK thought there was. I still say we went 0 for 3. The way I count is eyes are plus...everything else is a zero. Going to hit it again tonight.

Well me and OAK hit the timber again last night. Pretty much same results as night before. Several different drops and twice he got on old cold or bad tracks he couldn't seem to handle. First one he actually stopped himself but the other one he just kept bawlin and driftin and bawlin and driftin. I'm learning when it's a cold track for the ole man his track bark is a deeper longer drawn out bawl with no short bawl to follow. One big bawl here and further down the line another. I let him work that one over 700 yards but when he started working off the steepest side of the mtn and the track not gettin any better, I called him off. During these bad nights I've learned something that I really never thought of before. The handle on OAK is unlike any I've ever seen. I didn't realize how valuable that tool is. When you can get your hound to come to you anytime you think he is getting where he shouldn't be or keep him out of danger is invaluable. I remember many nights worrying about different dogs if they got to close to busy road etc.. Just another thing to add on the pro side of the pros an cons on ole OAK. I can send him in the deepest timber or narrow little patches with the same confidence. With the way he hunts an area out, I can send him in little patches that a straight line go yonder hound would blow thru. Plus with his get deep when needed ability I can send him in the big woods as well. Remember OAK just turned two. Give him another year of hard hunting and experience and he will be the stuff I think. With the speed he uses to open and get treed most of the time I think I'll put him in a hunt or two this year.

keep him in the timber

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GRNITECH GRCH PKC SCH STEBERS MIGHTY LONESOME II
HIGH SCORING BLUETICK BLK & TAN DAYS 2016, 2017 and 2018
TOP 9 2017 FALL SUPERSTAKES
2018 2ND PLACE BREED WINNER PKC
2019 ILLINOIS STATE CHAMPION
2019 AUTUMN OAKS GRAND 16
2019 AUTUMN OAKS NATL GRNITECH OF BREED
2019 ZONE 3 HIGH SCORING DOG
2019 WORLD CH TOP 100
2019 PURINA NATIONALS BREED WINNER.
2019 FALL ROUND UP KING OF THE HUNT.
2019 ERCHA PKC PRO HUNT TOP 4
2020 WINTER CLASSIC SAT. 4TH PLACE CHAMPION DIVISION
2020 WORLD QUALIIFIED
2020 NATIONAL BLUETICK DAYS INVITATIONAL HUNT WINNER
2020 NATIONAL BLUETICK DAYS DOUBLE CAST WINNER 3RD PLACE GRNITECH FRI AND 4TH PLACE GRNITECH SAT
2020 Natl english days high scoring dog overall fri 1rst place grnitech sat 3rd place grnitech.
2021 invitational hunt winner
2021 natl bluetick days 9th place RQE winner
T0C Top 64 winner

ALSO HOME OF
PR Stebers Lil Blue Krayzee[dual grand penny x grnitech krypt]
nitech Stebers Big Ole Slick
NITECH STEBERS MIGHTY LONESOME 3 AKA CASH[7 wins towards grnitech
Stebers Mighty Blue Bell
Stebers 5 Gen
Stebers Pure Country
Stebers Shining Diamond
Stebers Lonesome Sue
Stebers Mighty Blue Patsy
Stebers Ole Blue Betty
Stebers Lil Blue Krayzee II
AND SEVERAL YOUNG ONES IN THE MIX

Oak and I hit the woods saturday night kinda late. Dumped him out and off he shot. down an old logging road about 100 yards then left handed into the hardwoods. made about a 350 yard circle back toward me but looking at his track on the garmin, in that circle he prob covered more a mile with the way he cuts and zigs and zags. People dont believe me when I tell them how he hunts till they see it for themselves. anyway he shot across the old loggin road and hit the other side just as before. ziged and zaged his way a few hundred yards then cut a hard left turn and opened. sounded like a pretty decent track. Oak worked it pretty good but I could tell they were headed towards the gulf of the mountain and down the side to the creek. Thats exactally what happened. Oak located twice then set down treed. I knew before I got there that the chances were slim on seeing a coon where he was cause down where he treed its about 5 to 1 on hemlocks vs other trees. Just as expected OAK is straight up on another giant hemlock. I move everywhere I can and squall like hell trying to see eyes but no luck. pull him off and move back up to the flat woods and send him again. this time he hunts and zigs and hunts and zags till he has covered a huge area of the mountain and he is now over .7 on the garmin. Not a bark and when I say he covered a big area, he covered several miles of timber getting to those .7 of a mile. I figured that was enuff for the night and I called him in. Loaded up and headed home. Its starting to get frustrating for us both I believe. Wher im hunting is rough and can get steep and covered in big den trees and all on the creek is covered in these giant hemlocks that you could hide a freight train in. Up north of us where coon population is wonderful, Id give anything to see ole OAK working. He is quick and fast and trees hard as any dog ive seen. Maybe this spring I can get him in the flat part of the country and in some coons.