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where or who did you get your all time favorite hound from? did you buy it trained? buy it as a weaned puppy? or did you make a cross yourself and keep one of the pups? or were you the breeder, sold it as a pup, then bought it back.. go ahead and name the breeder. give them credit where credit is due..

one i bought as a pup from old bud hines from hakensack mn. .......and the other i was the breeder and finished out my self . had some help starting him.

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Location: TEXAS
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My all time favorite hunting dog is my heavy Lipper bred female. Got her at 6 weeks from Darrell and Lou Dunbar and didn't start her in the woods till she was almost 15 months old. Been hunting a few times without her and it just WASN'T as much fun!!! She can move a track OR just lay one up real quick!!!!!

All time favorite show dog is my Dealer female, got her as a pup from Ray and Cindy Webb. I like her so much I got her half brother, half sister and her sire here

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Location: Minnesota
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i bought mine from a good friend when the dog was 13 months old, knew nothing i just took him humting every night alone for a month before he did anything ,and then one night the switch came on and the light has been on for 9 years now , the day this dog dies will be one of the worse days of my life im thinking

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Location: Turtle Mountains, ND
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My list of good dogs is very short at this point but one stands out. He was 7 weeks old when my son pulled him out of a big litter. Within two weeks of getting him home I knew he was different from all the rest of my dogs. Getting him running and treeing coons on his own at 6 months took no more effort from me than one session of showing him a caged coon, and then letting him go in the woods. Man, was I careful with that pup for the first 6 months he was in the woods. He's two now and I can hardly wait to see what the next few years hold.

Jay, I'm still surprised you let him go.

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Location: mobile, al
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my faorite hound i ever bought was a little walker gyp... bought her from a guy for 200 dollars at 9 months old... i let her get 12months old before i started training her. at 14 months old she had already treed her first coon, but she had a possum problem, wich was ok cause she was a pleasure to hunt... that dog was 90% accurate on a grinner... she would tree any coon off a feeder...

at 15 1/2 months old i took her to a comp hunt for the second time and after i tracked her over a mile in 45 min i found her dead on the side of the road.

to put so much hard work in a hound and just have it die, was almost way too heartbreaking for a 17 year old boy...

i still miss that lil walker gyp

heres her picture

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I bought a grade walker female from a local squirrel hunter 4 years ago named Keith Chaffin for 200 dollars that is the best dog i will ever own. She could tree a coon well when i bought her but after about 6 months she rilly turned it on. I single registered her first in pkc and won many casts with her then single registered her in ukc and within 14 months she was grnite ch. Put her in 3 akc hunts and won 2 out of the 3. What an amazing dog she was the most coon she treed came back to back to back nights. she treed 23 coon. Dont know what she was out of but when i cut her i expected to see a coon everytime. It was extremely rare to cut her and not see a coon. I will never forget her. I just wish i could have showed her off to everyone that talks bad about walkers. I never seen a dog beat her 1 on 1 and you wouldnt believe how many dogs shes been with over the years.

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my faorite hound i ever bought was a little walker gyp... bought her from a guy for 200 dollars at 9 months old... i let her get 12months old before i started training her. at 14 months old she had already treed her first coon, but she had a possum problem, wich was ok cause she was a pleasure to hunt... that dog was 90% accurate on a grinner... she would tree any coon off a feeder...

at 15 1/2 months old i took her to a comp hunt for the second time and after i tracked her over a mile in 45 min i found her dead on the side of the road.

to put so much hard work in a hound and just have it die, was almost way too heartbreaking for a 17 year old boy...

i still miss that lil walker gyp

heres her picture

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After some thought, I came up with 3 favorites;

My current favorite is 7 yr old Platinum Ch, GrNtCh Ramblin' Rudy that I co-own with Rick Salfen. I greatly appreciate the opportunity I was given by Dennis Thornhill to own half of this fully trained and titled pleasure dog. She is an absolute joy to be around and will walk you for miles to look at a coon.........

My old Finley River female, Toad Holler Rosie, I was the breeder of and raised her from a pup. One of the best I ever unsnapped.....huge mouth, great personality, accurate, COON DOG.

The old Finley River Jack dog that Jim Graff purchased from Lonnie Mears off Ol' FR Dan is my childhood favorite. Jim sold him to my dad when I was 10 yrs old. Jack taught me what a coon dog was supposed to be. Beautiful mouth and stayed treed. Wouldn't lead and dragged me around for years. LOL!

Great memories!

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Location: Eastern Kentucky
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THE best i have ever own i got as a 8 weeks old pup from BILL BOATMAN back in 82 little female around 40 pounds she started 6 months old treed her own coon . the only B&T I ever own but the best dog of any breed i have hunted with.

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looking for my all time favorite dog

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Location: Minnesota
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josh come to the dark side and ill find ya a walker dog that will be your all time fav. lol later jim hill

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Location: Sylva, North Carolina (the far Western Tip of the State)
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MY ALL TIME FAVORITE CAME FROM A MAN HERE IN SYLVA NAMED ROBERT OWEN.

HE BRED HIS DOG TO GET SOME PUPPIES TO BE USED ON BEAR. HIS DADDY WAS ONE OF THE MOST WELL KNOWN BEAR DOGS AROUND HERE.

ROCKY, THANK GOD, WAS NOTHING LIKE HIS DADDY.

WE GOT HIM WHEN HE WAS 3 MONTHS OLD. BY THE TIME HE WAS 4 MONTHS OLD HE WAS TEARING A CAGED COON UP. AT 6 MONTHS OLD HE WON JUST ABOUT EVERY TREEING COMPETITION HE WAS PUT INTO, AND WAS TREEING WITH OUR OLD DOG COPPER EVERY TIME OUT.

BY THE TIME ROCKY WAS A YEAR AND A HALF, WE WERE TRAINING OUR PUPPIES WITH HIM. I KEPT UP WITH IT, AND IN ONE KILL SEASON FROM OCTOBER TO FEBRUARY WE LOOKED AT 143 COONS WITH ROCKY. I WOULD SAY HE WAS 95% ACCURATE.

THERE WAS NONE OF THIS BS IF HES GOT IT I WILL COME BACK AND GET THE GUN, YOU TOOK IT WITH YOU CAUSE YOU KNEW IF HE OPEND HIS MOUTH HE WAS ON EITHER A COON OR APOSSUM.

HE DIED AT A VERY YOUNG AGE. JUST WAS ABOUT TO TURN 4. HE WAS ANTIFREEZE POISONED AT A FRIENDS HOUSE BY A NEIGHBOR.

HERE IS HIS PEDIGREE AND PHOTOS. AS YOU CAN SEE, HE WAS BRED EXTREMELY WELL WITH LOTS OF OLD COON DOG BLOOD IN HIM.

BOY, HE IS SADLY MISSED.

------------------------- NITE CH Stans Sailor Junior
-------------------- CH GR NITE CH Wrights Pistol Pete
------------------------- Wright's Sue
--------------- NITE CH Yadkin River Jeff
------------------------- GR NITE CH GR CH Yadkin River Tom
-------------------- NITE CH GR CH Kyles Rozell
------------------------- Coleys Queen
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------------------------- Power's Tidewater Nite Hawk
-------------------- GR NITE CH Power's Tidewater Shep
------------------------- Tisdal's Little Lucy
--------------- David's Dinah
------------------------- GR NITE CH Wolfe's Tree Picking Bill
-------------------- NITE CH Stoney Roads Ida Mae
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------------------------- NITE CH Finley River Chief
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-------------------- Jones' Carolina Trudy
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-------------------- GR NITE CH Ball's Hickory Nut Harry
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--------------- NITE CH Ray's Hickory Twig
------------------------- Hemlock's Trouble
-------------------- Mcconnell's Roxie
------------------------- Wooten's Polly
Owen’s Southern Sound Rocky
------------------------- CH GR NITE CH Wrights Pistol Pete
-------------------- NITE CH Yadkin River Jeff
------------------------- NITE CH GR CH Kyles Rozell
--------------- Yadkin River Champ
------------------------- GR NITE CH Watson's Sundown Hank
-------------------- Tar River Jill
------------------------- NITE CH Tar River Mindy
---------- GR NITE CH Yadkin River Dudley
------------------------- NITE CH Dohoney's Mike
-------------------- GR NITE CH Dohoney's Boone
------------------------- Dohoney's Superstar
--------------- NITE CH Mcconnell's Jill
------------------------- GR NITE CH Harley Creek Clipper
-------------------- GR NITE CH Mcconnell's Heather
------------------------- NITE CH Ray's Hickory Twig
----- Cheek's Marylou
------------------------- GR NITE CH House's Tom Tom
-------------------- GR NITE CH House's Clint
------------------------- NITE CH Kentucky Judy
--------------- GR NITE CH GR CH House's Lipper
------------------------- GR NITE CH Shive's Goldhill Tom
-------------------- House's Queen Lou
------------------------- NITE CH Shive's Goldhill Lou
---------- Cheek's Squirt
------------------------- NITE CH Yadkin River Jeff
-------------------- GR NITE CH Yadkin Tar Rattler
------------------------- NITE CH Tar Heel Peggy
--------------- NITE CH Blue Ridge Big Martha
------------------------- GR NITE CH Harley Creek Clipper
-------------------- GR NITE CH Mcconnell's Heather
------------------------- NITE CH Ray's Hickory Twig

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I got my best dog from Mr. John Eddington of eastern Music Kennels almost 4000 miles away. She is now going on 6 years. I got her as a 5 month old pup. She has been the best acting dog dog I have had. Just the best to handle and did most everything on her own... John was very honest about his dogs and was great to do business with..

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it sure is! that was a fun night... i just had to shoot em out

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About 1980 I got a 6 month pup from Donnie Young from Orangeburg,SC. Donnie was not a big time breeder. The best I remember he was out of Wolfe's Tree Picking Bill and a McGills Lone Pine female. I believe Ball's Hickory Nut Harry was in there somewhere.

I got him on a trade. My buddy and his little brother and I always hunted together. The dog I had would always get of from their dog and tree which meant that my buddies would go to their dogs and I would go to mine. Theirs seemed to tree in open woods and mine always seemed to tree three times as far and in the middle of a briar patch clear-cut or chest deep swamp. We had already been hunting together for 12 years and I never had this problem with my old dog that had recently died. I thought that was a fault. I had never heard of an "independant dog" and it didn't matter because I came to hate that dog.

One day at Donnies place I saw these pupsand wanted one. I told him about my dog and asked if he'd take him on trade. He seemed interested so I brought the dog and his papers and Donnie was impressed enough. So he asked me how much bootie I wanted. I was shocked. I thought I would have to come up with extra to get rid of him. Donnie had that dog about three months and he got out of hand and got run over on Highway 21.

I named mine Hackett. He ran the first night out and never treed a lick till he was 14 months old, which was young enough for Walkers back then. From then on he was a coondog. He would run and tree so far so far ahead of my buddies dog, he considered getting a Walker. He was trash proof. You could turn loose a young dog to strike then turn him out to check and if he didn't put in, you better kick off your boots and tie up your keds. We didn't have shock collars back then. Breaking was done by hand and on foot.

He died early, about six years old. There was a Four O'clock flower bush at the dog pen fence gate. Some of those hard seeds fell in his feed pan and then he started picking them up off the ground. They tore up his stomack lining and he passed a lot of blood. The vet said that's what killed him, that the seeds were toxic.

He was a good one.

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I got my favorite from a buddy of mine, for free...6 week old pup. He's 4 now...could be 5, and just a pleasure to have. I dont hunt as much as allot on here but he's shown me a ton of coon. Looking forward to many more fun nights with Cruiser. He's just an unknown country coondog that suits me perfectly.

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i had both of my dogs give to me didnt pay a red cent for them, bell was 3 years old when i got her untrained had to break her off a many possums, i got doc when he was 10 months old untrained, both now will smoke a coon and i had an accidental breeding and i got my youngun and she will smoke a coon to so i have a little power in my pen but they was all free

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Given to me by my friend and partner as an 8 week old pup.

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I got him from a friend when he was about 7. Shame of it is, he spent some of his best years on a chain. I was going over and picking up the dog to take him hunting about every night. His dad said to take the dog, chain, house, even feed dishes. I truly appreciate Dennis and David Kennedy for breeding and raising, and training this dog.

Took him to my first ever comp hunt. Put a 1st on him that night. he was walking right through to Grand. Just died too young.

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that ol' boy will be my measuring stick for awhile.

I've got an 11 week old pup that shows 2 littermates to Rock and a half sister in his 3 gen ped. I'm pretty excited about this little guy

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My best were bought.
Had a pup out of Beaver Lake Lightning and my dads old female that was coming on real strong and somebody stole her. Don't know what she would have finished like.

Peg was a female out of Yadkin River Champ and Ralph Pritchard's Rosie female. Bought her as a weened pup.
Clutch was a 5 year old dog I bought from Tom Nelson from the American Archer tv show.
Both were tough coondogs and bear dogs both.
But , because of the stolen pup , I don't hunt with many people (even after 30 years) so not many got to see them go.

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looks like wolfes tree pickin bill was in a couple of these best hounds. he has been the measuring stick for alot of hounds in this area and few have measured up. billy wolfe turned 75 years old this year and still is packing extremely nice hounds.

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Location: SC
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The best hunting hound we've ever had the privilege of owning came from Mr. Harold Kay in Belton, SC. He was a 10 year old Walker named 'PR' Miller Time...by a son of Nailor and out of White River Coon Crazy Casey. We only owned him a year before he died unexpectedly at the beginning of this summer. He was truely a pleasure to both hunt and have around the house, and we miss him dearly.

This isn't really a fair subject, because I am super attached to all my hounds! My other two favorites are still working on their hunting skills (we're learning together) but they'll never leave my house. One is my Walker pup, Poison Whiskey Waylon that I got from Mr. Doug Bowers. He's my little buddy...lives in the house half the time, and I believe is going to be a nice coon dog. The other is my 3 year old bluetick, CH 'PR' Moss Blue Carolina Rain. I bought her from a gentleman from MO that had her at the Grand American, but she was bred by Jim Moss in OK. I've had a lot of success with her as a show dog, but I've VERY proud of how she's coming along in the woods and I hope to start campaigning her in the hunts at the beginning of next year.

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Mine came from Mike Dohoney as a pup. I raised him from 8 weeks old and trained him.

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My best hound as of today i got from Mike eaton as a young dog! I am still looking for my all time favorite and hope to own it in my lifetime!

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