Registered: Sep 2011
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the bottom line is, if ya dont like the price dont by it. If you go buy a dog for 3g without seeing it hunt, then its your own fault. Theres no need to make a big deal outa this, if somebody wants to charge 5g for a dog then let em. I totally understand what lyle is talking about with having to sell dogs because hes getting to many. Theres nothing wrong with that, but in my personal opinion i would never expect a top notch dog no matter what. Im not putting lyles way of doing things down either, my family has had bad success in it and we are realizing that were getting better and better dogs when we do it on our own. You buy these dogs at your own risk. The best way to git what you want is to start your own generation and its not gonna happen over night. You must put time and effort into it. It takes longer for the working man because you cant hunt half the time. If you put your mind to it you can eventually get what you want. Alot of guys that dont have good success will buy dogs to build a pack and sometimes it works and sometimes it dont. A man will let a dog go for whatever ever price he pleases, if he feels its worth 10g then thats what hes gonna charge, like i said your at your own risk.

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: s.c.
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An example is , look at the somebody looking for a "Red Leopard" over on the Leopard Classifieds. That's me responding. I ain't heard a word. But what I said is what I expect to happen. A gimme now, might not be a gimme if the switch trips in the dogs head. I feed her while I can't hunt her around here, for the Gators, because I have confidence it WILL flip. But I could be wrong. I have been wrong before.

Advertise a FREE pup LOL and see if somebody won't see if they can get you to deliver it to their house. I used $3,000 as an example because that is the most i ever got out of a dog , and this is the way it happened.:::

I had a dern fine coondog out of old Hickory Nut Harry. I had traded a dog for that Nutt pup, that would go off yonder and tree his own coon, for him as a pup.. Since I hunted with a pair of brothers they would go to their Bluetick and I would have to go to my dog. Thiers always seemed to get treed reasonable in open woods. Mine always treed three times as far across cut overs and a running swamp or two and at least a gator pond or two . The brothers would get back and toot the horn for me to get out. I ended up hateing that sob so I was glad to trade a coon treeing for a pup out of original Hickory Nut Harry. Not the Famous one , the original one. And I made a real coondog out of him, that wasn't afraid to get sent in to a dog on track and take over that track and beat that dog that could run fair to the tree by a minute or two unless they would turn into taggers along. But they better be quick and I do mean quick locaters.

Any way , a young boy who's daddy owned the Chevrolet place in town decided he wanted to be a coon hunter. He bought a two year old gyp that was hot blooded , highly advertised and promoted, for $5,000 . WE went on a comp hunt one night and 4 dogs treed on the same tree. He got second because she was very good at covering. WE got to the tree and she had the tree to herself more or less and impressive as Hell. She had both arms around that 12 inch tree spitting out 120 barks and the old dogs were backed off treeing. One of my best coonhunting memories was when the judge told us to handle the dogs and he went in and that bitch took hold of his right cheeck of his hiney and he took off out through the Palmettos. LOL He was screaming and she was dangling last thing I saw.

A week later I asked him if he wanted to hunt with me. I treed my dog on his locate and Nutt was always right . At the end of the night, once he realized Nutt had put it on him and her, he wanted to trade. I laughed and told him I would take $3,000 for Nutt and did not need her.. I got it and he kept his POS and we were both happy. He sold her to another young kid wth money and got his money back out. Now , Say to yourself? Why did not you say $6,000) for a better dog?) ? Because, he was likely a $3,000 dog, THe boy had just just gone coon crazy, And like his daddy woud say, since his Daddy was also a Ducks Unlimited Auctioneer , "Come On An BEE SOMEBODY" and bid. LOL. He just over bid, wanting to Be Somebody. I think the boy did not get screwed by me, at least half as bad as he got screwed by buying that gyp.

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Registered: Mar 2004
Location: tioga co.pa
Posts: 1728

i would never by a pup...started yes runnin & treeing....

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