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How often will you grab your pack of hounds and head off and hunt by your self? Or do you guys tend to hunt with other houndsmen or do you have a crew of guys that are there with you week in week out.

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Good post Sambar. I have hunted tons more alone than with a client or fellow houndsmen for many reasons. More recently because I have a box full of dogs and no room for somebody else to load them. I have, over time, left half my hounds home and let another hounddogger jump in but that is seldom the case. I have a couple buddies that don't own hounds anymore and I usually invite them which eliminates the too many hound deal, or invite somebody that hasn't been cause they are usually the most fun to have along..........

I just loaded seven hounds Saturday and 'Sunday without a ride along. My wife hates that but seems to have tolerated it for many, many years.......

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I'm with Ike I've hunted way more alone than with others, an for allota the same reason he has, it's hard for me to leave my dogs at home an run with someone else especially since at the moment I'm not gettin to go as much as I like. But I've always seemed to hunt alone or others that didn't have dogs. Another thing around here is bear politics! Seems around here u can't run with mire than one set of people or people get pissy an besides I don't lime to take many people to where the meats at.

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Ive hunted alone or with a close friend or with my father 75% of the years ive been involved in hounds. I do this often because it gives you a sense of peace and tranquility that you only get when your out alone with your hounds. But I also love the comraderie that comes with hunting with a group of friends as well.

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I try to hunt with at least one other person because it's a whole lot easier to keep up with the dogs, especially when they go to the other side of the mountain and it takes 30 minutes to get around there and by the time you get there, they're back to the same side you just came from. It's also easier to keep'em from getting smashed in the road when there are a couple others with you.

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So when you guys are hunting solo will you spend time hunting old tracks and try put and end to em or just hunting for the one day.

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i love to hunt doesnt matter if im alone or with company, i do alot of hunting solo as i do a good bit hunting with some1 else but more alone. it def makes it easier hunting with some1 else around here do to what J.R WALKERS is sayin the roads an takin so long get from 1 place to another, but when i want to hunt alone i tend to find myself huntin away from roads where i can stay up with my dogs an not have worry goin 30 mins out the way just get to next road, makes it hard! but not sayin one doesnt sometimes run into places like that or i know they headed that way i try cut em off an catch em up just because im alone, now with some1 else best believe they headed on to where ever they please, or i hunt any area, but then again every1 hunts different an has there own ways of hunting some only hunt alone some hunt in huge packs or with just a few people, it still goin be the same we are all hunting an havin fun right?

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So when you guys are hunting solo will you spend time hunting old tracks and try put and end to em or just hunting for the one day.

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until a couple of days ago no one has ever riden in my truck except me and my dogs. i had to clean out some stuff just so he would have a place a set. but it was nice to have someone to talk with. yet, i prefer going alone.

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Originally posted by RunninBear(Ike)
Depends on the time I have ahead of me and what my purpose is on the hunt. If I'm out to kill a big tom lion, and the track presents itself old, then I have always put down on it and played the game out til the end. However, if I have somewhere to be tomorrow I try really hard not to turn out on something I can't finish. Last spring was an example: I turned my hounds out after a top end boar that had been seen the day before, the track was there at daylight and my hounds could trail it....bad idea, lost two over the mountain and they ended up stolen for ten days before I got them back. I'm lots more careful after what happened last spring, and I'd rather pull dogs and let a top end bear or lion get away than have a a low life piece of chit load my dogs and throw the tracking collars in a pond again.............

ike

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the more people the better on my end. i enjoy hunting company and meeting new folks. getting more new folks into hound hunting is a good thing too. if ive got too many dogs and cant find room for some friends to come and run there hounds with me then i have too many dogs!!!

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Sambar,

There wasn't any solid proof that the people who had my two hounds were the people who took the collars off and threw them in the pond. If we could have proven that then the person involved would have had felony charges on them for stealing hounds with a value over $5000 bucks; without that proof a person can only make assumptions that the people who had my hounds for ten days were guilty.....

Facts:
1. Hounds were picked up early Saturday morning so very little time was available for somebody else to remove those collars.

2. Tracking collars were found in a pond not two miles from the people who had those hounds for ten days.

3. The people who had those hounds did not report them to the local dog shelter or sheriff.

4. By 9:00 AM one of the members of that family had arrived at the vet with Maverick to have quills removed. He told the vet it was a stray dog. My vet told him to report that dog next door to the animal shelter and he didn't. He failed to mention to my vet that he had also picked up my Kody dog, which to me proves intent to steal.

5. The sheriff left notes on the door at these peoples house to contact him and they never did, and he had to catch the young man out in the yard to speak to him about my hounds. That young man told the sheriff I was lucky that I got my hounds back. It would be easy to step outside the law on this deal and apply my own means of punishment, but odds are the law would find proof of that even though they couldn't prove and punish a thief..........in this state assault is a third degree felony if convicted which would cost me my job, the right to vote and bare arms, to hunt, and maybe up to five years in prison, so it's easy to talk trash but it's hard to accept the punishment.

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