okreds
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: martinsville, il.
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Re: Thanks, Ed/okreds
quote: Originally posted by thecoondawg76
I sure hope that some of these pups that will be closer than sons and daughters to the old dog may turn out to be the right kind, like he was. I sure enojoy hearing about the old dog who still is the best reproducing son of Fireball, Ol' Twister. To me knowing about each dog in a PED is about as important as the papers that accompany them. Been talking to several about this line I'm running and I really haven't thought about it until lately but I can tell a good bit about the different hounds in the PED and that I know for sure each one of the Fireball relations I have is right. This starts all the way back with my NtCh Ginger hound who was from a local bred daughter of Fireball used for competion squirrel hunts. Mr. Brown if you wouldn't mind I'd like for you to put down some more stuff about this fine hound Twister; How he came about, Training, Hunts, etc.. I sure appreciate your time and Thanks for all your help through the years, Steve
Old Twister.
At six or seven months old, I noticed he had trouble moving a track while a female, one month older than he, absolutely fired out on that track and went out of hearing. Twister continued on at his pace and came treed, down in a steep holler. When we got there, he was treed on an old tree that had blown over and fell up the side of the steep holler. The coon was not there. We tried hard to get him to move on away from this tree but he just couldn't. So we moved back to the top and was walking along when Twister came treed again. He never opened on track, just blew the tree bare of leaves. It was a den and Darrel Trammel climbed the tree and he had the coon. At this point the female came in along with Darrels dogs. We have no idea where they went or what happened. It was not uncommon for Twister to tree on lay ups or den trees with out opening on track. Other wise, he would strike and be as open as most dogs moving a track. We kept him in the woods and noticed he was getting better moving tracks. By the time he was 2 and 1/2 years old, he could drive his tracks to catch. He learned by trial and error and became an outstanding track dog. He took his tracks as they came, the cold ones he would warm up fairly quickly and be running to catch. When we moved to Illinois, he caught many in the corn fields. He was a natural born tree dog but had to teach him self to be a track dog. Normally, a second or third strike dog but it took an outstanding dog to beat him on tree. Once treed, he was there for hours.
More later.
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