Registered: Oct 2008
Location: mississippi
Posts: 16

brush hopper, i have a male dog 4 years old off tell sackett
and hard goin jill. would love to bred him to a nice female.
he is a very nice coon hound and great looks. will be hunting
him @ winter classic. look me up...

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Richland, MI
Posts: 61

This is an old post but got me interested. I know a whole family of coon, cat, and bear hunters in Michigan, and I won't mention their names but at least one person in this group should know whom I am talking about, that wouldn't give a plug nickel for Sackett Jr. They call him a "slick treeing s.o.b. But these boys swear by Old Sackett. They hunt Yadkin River dogs and their dogs for the most part go back to Old Sackett. Nothing out of Junior. They had no use for Skean's Dolly either. But I have never asked why and don't care too. These guys know dogs. But it is kind of hard to argue with the high number of dogs out of Sackett Jr. that place in the hunts. I have two Yadkin River females. Mother and daughter. Daughter is out of the stock I was just talking about and does go back to Old Sackett. She is mostly white and red headed. The old female is Yadkin River and Rodarmel's stuff. Bawling Banjo if memory serves me correctly. She is a good old hound. Best mouth on female I have ever seen and as good a tree dog as ever made. My brother-in-law has a Yadkin River dog from the same hunting family with old Sackett in her pedigree and she is Grand Night Champion and high scoring female at Walker Days a few years ago. All the stories I have heard was old Sackett was a coondog. But that is why we have Fords and Chevys, so everyone can have a choice. I never actually hunted with either one although we did cross paths one night when Frank was hunting both Old Sackett and Junior in my neck of the woods, I had a young River Bend female that out struck both the Yadkin River dogs. The last time I actually went to Frank's house to go hunting, he still had Rock River Ring. That was a few years ago.

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Registered: Feb 2007
Location: GREENE COUNTY/WESTERN PENNA
Posts: 255

Sackett Jr, May 2009.......260 Nt Chs'.....150 GrNtChs'......19.79%

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Central Michigan
Posts: 6544

Lester,

I know who you are talking about. I have heard many things about both dogs. What I can tell you is I don't remember walking to any slick trees of either Sackett or Jay.

Anyone who knows Frank, should know he doesn't tolerate too much of that.

Every body has an opinion and they are entitled to it, but I know what I have seen with my own eyes and it doesn't measure up.

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Richland, MI
Posts: 61

You are right. Besides, the fact that Jr. is in almost every pedigree says all that needs to be said. He definitely is a reproducer. Like they say, "opinions are like rectums, everyone has one".

I have hunted a lot of walkers from various bloodlines, some I thought the world of and some caused me considerable grief, if not when hunting them at least when i dug the hole. Don't matter to me what they are out of as long as they can tree a coon and do it the way I like to see it done.

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