Chris Herring
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Bunn, NC (Near Raleigh)
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Hunted as a child with my uncle and grandfather, they had redbones. However they lived 3 hours away so I only coonhunted a few times a year with them, usually at Thanksgiving and Christmas break.
I worked in Tobacco during the summers and at 14 years old in 1984 bought my first Redbone puppy from Tony Russell in Big Springs, WV. This dog turned out, though he was notjhing great, very much a me too dog with a low mouth. However at the time in my youth I thought he was the greatest.
My best 2:
Ch'PR' Herring's Pine Cone Chance - I bought her as a started dog from Lester Greene, she was bred similar to the JABO dog which makes sence since Larry got JABO from Lester also. Chance was a great strike dog and great track dog and a good tree dog she choked down when treeing which sometime affected my ability to hear her. She won many casts, but never got the first place need to be a Nt Ch.
'PR'Herrings Pine Cone Max - MAX was out of Bernard Schindeckers (sp?) Rambo male. he was small built, super dark red, almost dead silent on track, impressive tree dog. He was given to me by a redbone guy because he had health issues. Max was sick and I spent big $ trying to save him. We got him healthy, only to have him take a setback 6 months later and die. I do not normally like semi-silent to silent dogs, but I must admit Max was fun to hunt and impressive on the tree. I wish he had lived longer.
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L. Chris Herring
Pine Cone Redbones
"And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Gal. 6:9
Home of:
CH 'PR' Herring's Pine Cone Tally-Ho (TALLY)
and
In Memory of - CH 'PR' Herring's Pine Cone Chance; aka "The Phenomenon"
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06-08-2013 06:13 PM
The best finished hound I've owned would be a close one between my old NtCh Ginger with 4 wins after coming out of retirement at 9yrs old that dissappeared at a hunt and the NtCh Kitty female I have now. Kitty hunts harder but Ginger just made it all look easy. Ginger beat several that went on to make GrNtCh and beat one several times that got 22 in the Ukc World Hunt. Kitty beat a hound that got 4th in the Ukc World Hunt and one that had won over 18, 000. But the best young hound I ever had was one out of Ginger and GrtCh Brown's Oklahoma Twister named Ann. She was in 7 cast never lost a cast to include several Purina Hunts all before she was two and only needed a first to be a NtCh. She hung the buckle of her collar in a chainlink fence and hung herself with 8 week old pups on her out of GrNtCh YR Red Rocky. It was Rocky's next to the last litter and her only litter. Just to prove what kind of young hound she was she would beat NtChGinger in the woods 80% of the time, and her 3rd place at the Kansas State hunt came from her running a coon down. One of those you could hunt all night every night and never wear her down.
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