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Yea, sometimes mine are way ahead of the coon too.

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I hunt blue dogs but have hunted about all even cross bred. really like the blue hounds or blue crosses thru the years.
blueticks just suit my country and hunting style.
back in the day they were great chick magnets ,you young fellers should get yourself one! image is still every thing, got to look good somehow!

I also got a big headed Plott hound for the grand kid to hunt.

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well i started coon hunting at the age of 23. my younger brother told me to go with him and this older man. he had two grade blk/tans. the female was a good strike dog but this male who looked like a big beagle could locate with a triple yodel and go into the best sounding chop i have ever heard. this was in 1963. well he got me hooked i went looking for a coon dog. iwent to Cas Walker[ probably not many people heard of him] i bought a bluetick who was the deed runningest dog i have ever seen. the next dog was a cheap blue female who did the same thing. but she would find her way home the next day from 15 miles away. i gave her to some one 25 miles away and she showed up at my house in a week. i guess she loved me. i then bought a walker maleat 11 mths old, never been hunted. he was hunted with my friend and his dogs got on a deer and took it out of the county. my male walker would not run it. he came back. the next time out he hit a cold trail out of the dogbox , the other dogs could not even smell this track he trailed to the top of the mountain and treed by him self. i shot the coon out and the coon gave him a fit. after that he was a great coon dog. i moved to another county with a new job and started hunting with a man who had a 8 yr old walker female. well they were both great, he wanted to start comp. hunting and made his a grntch. he helped me make a ntch out of mine. i have always had bad hearing and he had to hunt him for me. well i got out of hunting in 1979 when i got divorced. my young son got me back in in 1999. we bought a walker female, she was so so after two yrs i bought a male english from my cousin and he started treeing his own coons at 7 mths. we got rid of the walker[ she made someone a nice dog after being 3 yrs old]. we bought a 3 mth old english female and she was treeing hers by nine mths old. we have breed her twice and we have gotten good results so im am now all english. this last liter some are treeing their own at seven mths old some are just getting started. i have only had one complaint so far. i told him to contac me i would be glad to take her back. i will gurantee my dogs.
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Well it has been a while since I have answered this question so I'll take another pop at it.

I have owned and hunted quite a few breeds redbones, blueticks, walkers, plotts, mountain curs, treeing tenesee brindles just mention a few off the top of my head. The first dog I raised was a plott that made a fair hound, but he got ran over at 17 months old. My second plott sort of steered me away from plotts. Then I bought a walcur pup. I named him Dan ... you all know why. He taught me more about coon hunting than all of the previous years and countless dogs. The dogs I have now all trace back to him except for one I bought as an outcross. I have one female and two 9 week old pups that represent my 5th generation of Dan's offspring.

So you see I am not so much a walcur man as I am a Dan man.

I have mentioned this in the past that I figure the best manor I can honor his memory is by keeping a little bit of him with me.

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When I was in 8th grade I saved up enough money to buy my first dog of my own. He was out of Howell's Bayou Shorty dog and I took him out when he was less than nine months old and he struck in with the old dog and then spilt treed and held the pressure of the old dogs treeing a couple of blocks away. We went to him and shot his coon out and then went to the old dogs and shot theirs out. I have been hooked ever since. I tried a walker once since then and felt like I was betraying the breed and just didn't enjoy him as much, so i sold hima nd went back to plotts. Plotts are kinda like the underdog where I usually hunt so I root for them. I have also found them to be fast, pretty straight and hard tree dogs that are very protective and loyal to me.

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It seems like that first good hound set the course for most of us. I know it did for me. Can't speak for anyone else, but I have enjoyed reading these stories. Regardless of the breed you hunt, have fun doing it, and enjoy this great sport and your dogs. Life is short. Keep God first, family second, work comes in there somewhere.........and of course Old Blue, or Dan, or Bowser, or whatever they're name is.

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I chose redbones because when i was 5 or 6, i sat around family reunions listening to my dad and uncles talk about all their old hunting stores and the redbones they had when they were younger. I musta begged him for a redbone until i was 12...and he finally cracked and said no boy should grow up without a hound and got me a redbone. I aint had nothin but red since.

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I grew up with redbones.
My father probably had any kind of hound imaginable.
He said his redbones were always the best. He had told
me his first registered dogs came from a man named
C W Frye,in Tennessee that was back in the 30's.
I have a couple of pictures from the forties, and the
redbones that he had then,had almost a white ring around
their neck. He stayed with the redbones til he died in 1980.
He never comp. hunted but he had some really good hounds.
If they treed a possum he would just scold them a little, and
tell them he wasn't eatin possum. He didn't mind them
treeing anything that climbed, but he wouldn't keep a dog
that run deer or fox.
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When I was 15 my best friends uncle raised & hunted redbones, I paid 30.00 for a female she made a nice hound! I got out of hunting for a few years , but when I got back into it I bought a female from the same man, been hunting now for 19 years . Red dogs is what I started with, I have no reason too change now.
Sometimes it bothers me the way , some people talk bad on the redbones but I'm still not going too switch breeds.its like your football teams ,when thay have a bad season you still pull for them!

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I hunt Walkers because I am hard headed and don't know any better!! Used to hunt Oney bred English but I got away from them because he does not super stake them, pretty much only reason I got out of English dogs.

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I started out in the 80's buying a grade b&t, then a friend from school gave me a grade redbone. Then a neighbor had a registerd walker for sale so i bought her and sold the two grades and started to do some compitition hunting and went threw lots of walkers,good and bad ones. Then i got out of it for alot of years and when i got back into it i got some more walkers. If i ever change breeds i will try the b&t's next.

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I hunt Walkers.Thats what I was raised up on.I had a nice coon treeing English dog but he was chop on track and I'm not a fan of that.I sold him at like 16 months old and kinda wish I wouldn't have.I got some real nice walker pups now and got real high hopes for them.If they don't live up to my expectations I will prolly try another English or breed my walker to a English.

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Black and Tans : I got my first black dog for 50$ at a yard sale tied to a porch and 14 years later I still have black dogs and these pr. Dogs are still treeing coons

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i started with blueticks when i was 14-18 quit hunting for a few years and got back in to it with walkers i also have a nice leopard male.

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Back in 1967 when I was 12 years old a school buddy of mine wanted to give me an English Bluetick. Well my father already owned a black & Tan and a Redbone. I asked Dad if I could have him, so one saturday we drove to my friends house and picked up this young dog. He was half registered English and half Redbone. On his English side, his Grandfather was a half brother to Vanzants Sam. Well I now began hunting regularly with my Dad to train this pup. He started tracking quick but didn't want to stay at the tree. A coon, shot out of a tree one night, hit him in the back and dislocated his shoulder, He was laid up for about a year and even after it healed he wouldn't put weight on it. My older brother singled him out the following year and that turned the switch and he turned in to a coon treeing machine. Word got out, some guy came along with 600.00 and bought him from my dad. In 1970 my dad got a registered English female, Beech River bred, Cold nosed as any hound I ever followed but slower than molasses. He bred her in 1975 to a 1/2 brother of the dog the boy had given me in 1967.

Well at that time I was 20 years old, living in a college town and chasing all those pretty girls from all over the country, and working 60 hours a week. Dad must have seen that I was headed for a train wreck, and talked me into taking one of those pups from the cross he had made. This hound was Hooper Ridge Joy. Dad bred Ole Dolly again in 1978 to Bates Screaming Deamon, and gave me another pup which I called Tree Banging Buddy. Now Buddy made the most amazing coon treeing hound I had ever seen, but he just wouldn't give it to you in competition.

Ole Joy's father was a half brother to the hound my elementary school friend had given to me in 1967. Every dog I have ever owned goes back to Ole Buddy and Joy. I have hunted this same strain of English dogs my whole life. I have never owned any other breed. I stayed with the English hound because of the uncanny ability that Ole Buddy had at treeing coons.

I never liked the early walkers, (1965 to 1980 models as I felt too many of them would load up on a tree and then move on after you had declared them treed. With the introduction of Lipper, I now feel that is no longer the case with that breed. I didn't like the redbones as I felt they were too slow. I didn't Like the Black & Tan as I felt they took too long to check a tree before they came back to tree on it. Thus they may have treed the coon but ended up taking 2nd tree because they were double checking to be sure the coon was there.

I stayed away from the Bluetick ( even though I'm partial to the Blue English) because I felt the English were better/faster track dogs. I have never had any desire to own a Plott. I never hunted with but a few when I was young, but now a few of my hunting buddies own them, but I still feel this line of English is superior track dogs and quicker (more accurate) tree dogs.

There you have it, This is why my dear friends call me THE ENGLISH MAN. Because I have never in my life owned anything but an English.

I sure have enjoyed reading the many stories in this post!!

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Walker cause my dad said we wasnt waisting feed on anything else.

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I hunt mainly Leopards but I certainly am not color blind. I have owned and hunted everything but a plott. I have hunted with good and bad dogs from every breed but I mainly hunt Leopards because they tree coons and not trees. I like deep hunting, independent to a fault, deadly accurate dogs. If they hunt that way I'll feed 'em.

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i hunt english now but i started out with a bluetick then i trained a walker dog with the bluetick then got a english dog that was a natural and been hunting english since

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Can't find anything better.

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i myself now have blue dogs. over the last 6 years i have grown very fond of the blood line i have. i have owned every breed except the leopard. i started out with a plott collie cross when i was 7 or 8 her name was queenie she was stone cold silent and 100 bark a minute tree dog that never needed a leash then i had a few walkers and black dogs my first reg dog was a redbone named snooper then i found out i liked girls and sports and was out for a while been back since 2000 and have let them bluedogs lead me to tree now

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I hunt Walkers and plotts bcuz that's what dad always hunted and I've seen an he said as long as I live here thats all there'll be. It'd have to be a dang good dog for me to have somethin else anyway

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I hunt black dogs blue dogs and will hunt the right walker dog

Black dogs I was always raised on black dogs and my first real coondawg was a black dog
Blues because after having a streak of losing young promising black dogs to freak accidents and one dying of heart failure I started hunting blue dogs for a buddy of mine and was really impressed by what I seen out of them and am so far happy with the pup I got
Walkers because I hunt with a bunch of them and have been impressed with a bunch of wipeout dogs clean dogs and bonecollector dogs that seem to suit me and have all the traits I like a hound to have

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I Hunt Leopards now and have for about 8 years.
Why?? I'll get to that.
Long years ago my first registered dog was one of them weak mouths. he never got out of hearing because I stayed close on foot. I had to break him and got him to treeing by the time he was 2. He turned out good enough to keep for 13 years.
Then I got louder ones that were a little easier to break and might tree before 2 but be running real good by 6 months.
Then I got one that was showy treehugger clicking out barks but he was mean to other dogs.
Then I got a line thaty treed at 3 to 4 months and way before they would put in and run. They were straight and easy to train as young dogs. but when they got older They would get struck close and always tree within a couple hundred yards and I wasn't finding many coons. I finally figured that out after years.
Then I got a line that if you wanted to hunt at the back of the plantation you better turn him loose at the front gate and vice versa. You had to pick him off a tree right or wrong. And he did not mind grabbing a tree either if it was far enough away. didn't take me long on that line.
Then I started to looking around at other breeds as well as other lines.
Then I got a line that was Big Beautifull and LOUD! they were not as early to start but straight enough. They would take a cold track and work it. And mostly were a bragdog when they opened and deafening when they treed. and lanky. I was pretty real well pleased.
Then a man brought some leopards over . We turned out and his struck an old track and moved it oK . mine put in in a couple hundred yards and they all got to trailing towards a big woods with some bad backwaters and little access I did not want them in. By the time we got to where we could cut them off they had already crossed the road. he was able to call his off but I was not. anyway the dog kept working and working that old track all the way across that big woods and got in some better woods. I told him to turn his dogs back in. Well it wasn't long and probably overdue that the coon finally got hot. Not that the leopards made it get hot . But here they came like they had jumped a deer right at us. We ran up a little ways to see around a curve on that trail road and sure enough saw a coon cross. The leopards were about 15 seconds behind it and thirty seconds later here comes my BIg Beautiful LOud Lanky dog not saying a word. He had got runoft and left as they say. about then the Leopards caught the coon on the riverbank.
That's why I hunt leopards.

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Well since my dad is Lonnie Smiley all I have ever hunted is Bluetick. I hunted alot when I was young then around 17 like alot of us I found something else to hunt on Friday and Saturday night. I allways figured I would start back when I got married but it has been 22 years and I just now started back to hunting.
As many of you that know dad know he has had heart trouble and several strokes over the last few years. I started back hunting to try to carry on what he has built over the years. He owns a young English male, and is wanting me to hunt it, but I told him I was hunting the blue dogs because that is what he has built a reputation with.

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Guess every young boy remembers where the Redfern Grows. But what got me into Redbones is around where i hunt everybody and there brother almost has nothing but walkers just a few black dogs round here so when i started hunting i had to have something different, like to be the under dog and prove people wrong cause guys i hunted with had never been round any reds. Found a good redbone good accurate thats what i'll always hunt!

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