Mike Van Dusen
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Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Northwest Indiana
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quote: Originally posted by mhanson
tyson was never hunted with many other dogs...he was mainly hunted by himself....barney was a good fella and he told me woody was a good dog...from day one every pup started when they were very little...i give bobby howard all the credit in the world for finishing a good started dog...i hunted him mostly by himself since he was 5 months old...the whole litter started very early but the females were more complete at an earlier age.i think suzy won her first hunt when she was 8 months old.the females would really take pressure...it was natural..arrow would
also take it very early in life...i wasn't trying to take anything away
from anyone...i raised a line of of excellent reproducing females but its always about the stud dog..i drove all over this country
looking a better dog to breed my females to.kentucky..miss..ect
sometimes i bred them sometimes i went home with my female in heat in the truck...i wish more guys would breed for the hunt instead of the papers..and your right a lot of good dogs come from indiana i have bought them and seen them..most hunters in
wis have lost touch what a really good dog is...i was more than
happy when i saw tyson on the cover of bloodlines.alot of english
breeders sure missed out on some good dogs and im happy that
someone else got some aggravation and enjoyment out of a good
reproducing female i took 20 plus years to create..good luck
Just wanted to let you know I am not offended, matter of fact, this thread sure brought back some good memories,espesially about Barney, he was a card.
Barney would call me up, and say, "WHAT ARE YOU DOIN TONIGHT, I HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW YOU, BRING YOUR LIGHT AND BOOTS"...
I could write a book about some of those hunts,but we always had a good time and when Barney was involved in anything, something funny always happened, that was just Barney,I miss him and those hunts, and he was 1 of the best with getting a young dog going.
If Barney liked ya, he would always mess with ya about anything, and everything,he was 6'6'',he admitted to 375pds.,had a beard and looked rough.
1 night up in Mi. we had made a drop,had our dogs leashed and were heading back to his car(he usually hunted out of a car)suddenly a strange car pulled in by this barn, we didn't know who it was, we stood back in the corner of this field for a long time, finally Barney slipped up by that car, shined his light in the car, it was 2 teenagers parking, I bet they thought they saw "Big Foot', when they saw Barney,they left there in a hurry!
That is just 1 in many things that took place on some of those nights in the woods with Barney.He was 1 of a kind.
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