Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Western NC
Posts: 1529

Why do you hunt redbones??? You're a minority and often ridiculed as such, so if you're a breed specific supporter and redbone hunter, WHY!?!?

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Registered: Sep 2014
Location: Moline Illinois
Posts: 407

I had hunted with friends hounds for a few years before I got my own. I have hunted with hounds in every breed, and I have seen some good ones and some bad ones in every breed! I got introduced to redbones on accident really. I was ready for my own hound, and I found a redbone female not far away that was free. She was very lightly started and her UKC papers were long gone... but she started my love for redbones!
I have only hunted with one other hound that was as accurate as Bailey. When she treed, there was a coon or a den. And she was FAST on a track! She caught coons on the ground regularly. And she could tree coon in 100 Degrees and she also did in -5 degrees actual temp one january. She has been gone now for a couple years, but she is not forgotten!

I love redbones because they live to please and have tons of drive. I have never had a trashy redbone, and my redbones have always been very accurate. I hate walking behind a slick treeing hound. I don't mind being in the "minority" when my hound beats all the others to the tree

Bailey

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Registered: Mar 2015
Location: Southern Vermont
Posts: 311

I tried all the breeds I come from a Bluetick Family! I liked the potential I saw in the Redbones the combination of Drive and Brains Redbones have isnt easy to come by and Big Voices also they accurate I really dislike empty trees. I want to win hunts but I want to win with a coon dog not a Tree dog ! I also like being the outcast and not just another Walker guy Its more fun that way

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Hounds I own
PR LT Redcoat Wait Till Sundown(Dual Grand T-Top Dark Timber Moose X Longtrail Redcoat Reaper)

PR Long Trail Redcoat Lucky Walter (Dual GR T-Top Dark Timber Moose xSML Dark Timber Bobbie Ann) co owner Ron Wolters


PR Long Trail Redcoat Reaper(GRCHPR Hershs Huntin Red 90/4 Life Gun HTX X CH PR Stone&Redcoat DBL Moon Kate II) co owner Ron Wolters

Hounds Im hunting
PR Soggy Bottom Dark Timber Addy : owners Buck Ratliff/Mike Laster

NTCH GRCH Dark Timber Red Angus : owners Buck Ratliff and Myself

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Registered: Oct 2014
Location: United States
Posts: 182

Because I have friends like Mark Marshall that like to see me suffer lol. Honestly though, when I got back into hunting a year or so ago I knew I wanted to run reds after seeing Nighty Nite Moonlight Kate in the woods in the past and after hunting KY Kate. They are solid accurate tree dogs and thats what I like. The holes in the breed are getting filled in every day also. The Outlaw/Moonlight crew was and have been very supportive getting me going and I want to be a part of turning this breed around. I hope all the lines of reds do good and gain momentum to compete and win in the hunts.

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Moonlight Game Over (Gr.Nt.Ch. Outlaw G Man x Gr. Nt.Ch. Gold Ch. Laytons Classy Cali)

Outlaw Hank (Gr.Nt.Ch. Gr.Ch. Glisson's Outlaw Jesse James Jr x Gr.Nt.Ch. Outlaw Billy Jean)

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Registered: Aug 2008
Location: RICHMOND MO
Posts: 1083

I was a dedicated plott man for 20 years and had some success with a handful of really good dogs that could compete. I was always told that redbones were lazy and rarely made good coondogs. And then I drew out with one that blistered me pretty good. Gr Nt Ch Farrs Ramblin Red Zach was the first one and then I was whooped by Gr Nt Ch Ramblin Red Bato and finally Hoffmeister Bomber beat me in the final ditch at the zones one year. After losing my old Gr Nt Ch plott, I culled a lot of brindle dogs and eventually bought a redbone. That dog was dual Gr Nt Ch Poney Creek Sadie. The rest is history and I'm really happy with the redbones of today.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1603

When I went to a pack of Red Hounds in our back woods blowing the top out of a big oak tree with a mask bandit in the top. It was a cold frosty December night and they got the blood flowing in a young kid. My first bunch of hounds where grade, but they would track and tree and there where very few trees that they beat the coon to. Than in the early 60's I got my first Reg. hound that happen to be Red. He was an outstanding hound. Started early, never ran anything but coon. I hunted with a Bluetick guy who's dogs where not straight, and when they ran junk, General would come back and set by me. And he would be at the tree barking until you came to get him, no matter HOW LONG it took you.

That is why I came back to the Red hounds in the 80's after hunting every breed but Plotts.

Now today, I'm not sure that we have the nose we had back then. I know that without the systems we have today, you couldn't hunt these racers you're hunting. The mouths today aren't as important as it was to the breeders/hunters of years ago.

So I feed what I hunt because they still have the traits of those earlier Reds, my hounds and myself don't complete with a scorecard-we still only care about treeing coon, on frosty nights with a cold nose that may not need to go 900 yards passing up old tracks. And a bawl mouth is still important.

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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Western NC
Posts: 1529

I'll give my oldest son all the credit that turned my head this direction, without his desire to own a redbone I may have stayed the same old course. Since then a few dedicated redbone men have been extremely gracious and helpful in showing me what a redbone can accomplish, and for that I'm very thankful as it helped me tremendously.

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