recon
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Location: SE TEXAS
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Echo IV
Echo IV (AKA: IKE) finished to NITECH with 2 UKC 1st, a 2nd, and an 8th (2011 Battle of the Breeds). He will be finished to grand as time allows.
2012 Performance Sire
Owners:
Jeff Bradford
Jimmy Waller (goes by bigcountry277)
Ike goes hunting the minute you unsnap him, alone or with company, and hunts fast and smart. He does not hunt a straight line away from you, but covers a lot of ground fast. He absolutely will go as deep as he has to go to get a coon treed. Ike gets hunted alone 98% of the time, is independent, and will do his own thing. He will move tracks with speed and gets treed on the outside, making very few dens. He makes very short work of most tracks, rarely having a track last more than 10-15 minutes at the most. Maybe he is picking only hotter tracks, or making all tracks look hot, but either way, we don’t really care. When he opens his mouth, he gets treed quick, and that is what we want. He comes on a tree fast and can be treed on his locate. He misses some, but not very often. Ike runs a track with a very loud clear bawl, and trees with a chop/bawl mix on tree. He is a no non-sense hound that just trees coons.
To be completely honest, Ike is not perfect every night. I have seen nights when he missed too many, didn’t move a track right, or got beat to a tree. But, I have seen far more nights when he looked like a million dollars, making other nice hounds look really silly. The key is, there are many more good nights than bad, and when he looks good, he looks better than any hound I have ever had a lead on. He continues to get better and more consistent the more he gets hunted.
We have several females bred, or lined up to be bred to Ike when they come in. We are breeding him because he is a coondog with a big motor, and has the traits we are looking for in a competition hound, as do the hounds behind him. Speed, quickness, hustle, and drive. We hope to get another one just like him.
....................GRNITECH DOUBLE SPRINGS ECHO
...............GRNITECH DOUBLE SPRINGS ECHO II
....................PR CANEY CREEKS BLUE AMY
.....GRNITECH DOUBLE SPRINGS ECHO III
....................GRCH GRNITECH SMOKEY RIVER JEAN’S BLUE TRAMP
...............NITECH PINE SPRINGS BLUE TROLLOP
....................NITECH PINE SPRINGS BLUE HEIDI
NITECH DOUBLE SPRINGS ECHO IV (IKE)
....................GRNITECH DOUBLE SPRINGS ECHO II
...............GRNITECH EZRA’S PREACHER ECHO III
....................PR ZACK’S BLUE LADY
.....PR DOUBLE SPRINGS AMAZING GRACE
....................GRCH NITECH ROBERT’S BLUE GATOR
...............PR EZRA’S BLUE BANDY
....................CH K-BAR 5 NORTHERN BLUE MAGGIE
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