l.lyle
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Re: DIAMOND JIM !!!
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Originally posted by Rick Dennison
he might have'nt been the greatest reproducer, but he was a true winner.ray johnson of elyria, ohio bought and gave dolan $1700.00 for jim when he was just a young dog. hunted with him numorous of times and he really was'nt a pleasure hound, but he was fun to hunt. ray started to campain him, he made a grand nite champion very quick. the last year ray owned him he entered jim in 28 cast if i remember right and he won 27, the other that he did'nt win, ray withdrew him. he went on winning the a.c.h.a. grand american, the a.c.h.a. little world championship and the a.c.h.a. world championship in the same year, which was 1974. those three hunts were big hunts. buddy gilbert gave ray $8000.00 for jim after he won the little world hunt, ray continued to handle jim in the world hunt and won that as well. to me the world class coondogs were diamond jim, gann's finisher, bean blossom buck, carolina casey, rob's danny boy, vance's crowding billy, deep river mike, stan's sailor boy and sailor jr.. i have a american cooner dated 11/1974 that has diamond jim, gann's finisher, bean blossom buck, carolina casey, rob's danny boy and crowding billy on the front cover. those were some of the best lookin coondogs i ever seen. next to bawlie, i think diamond jim is the most famous, his win record would show it.
I guess it depends on location somewhat. I hardly remember the name diamond Jim but you mentioned Carolina Casey. I thought the only people that remembered him were from the Orangeburg, Denmark, Cope area. Mr. Mathis gave me a pup he ran over and had a pin in his leg when I was in highschool. Said he'd never be fast enought to win but he would not give me the papers so I can only assume. 9 months old I had hunted him enough in my woods to know he could tree a coon. A friend invited me to hunt on an Island that had a cattle feedlot on it. He treed 9 coons in about an hour that we shot to him. Probably not a big deal because we saw at least 30 coons up trees just shining around. Second semester freshman in college I really needed money so I sold him for $400 to a good friend that owned the stockyards and his good friend that managed 20,000 acres. It was $200 apiece. I hated to do it but that way I could keep up with him cause I liked that dog. Anyway, these guys were religious kind of, They did not smoke, even drink coffee or say daggummit. All I heard was praise about the dog. They did not comp hunt. I was about a senior and asked about the dog and they told me don't worry , they had got their monies worth out of him. In fact they had bred him to a gyp but ever since he bred that one dog he was never worth a tinkers ---- no more.
To this day, that is the only dog I ever made a profit on. But most of my "one in a lifetime dogs"die in my pen, cause they deserve it.
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