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Originally posted by Reuben
My best dog as a pup would trail drags in my back yard and led his siblings by a good ways…they ran silent…
Between 3 or 4 months and first or second time in the woods he opened and running alone…a loud ball mouth on that pup…ran it about 300 yards and lost it in slough…in about a month he opened on track but never ball mouth again…not even on locate…I love a loud ball on locate and change over to a loud chop…

That pup took a track at about 5 months or less that his uncle didn’t even slow down on it…he took the track backwards and eventually lost it…I’ll never forget my hunting buddy asked me why I was so excited…I said because Yeller took a track that Smoke couldn’t smell…And he said but he took the track backwards…I said…look at his age…look at what he’s doing at this age…and Smoke is a top dog…
Smoke was going to have the meat no doubt…he would take a little bit to line out a feeder track…and he had the bottom to bring a runner to bay…at 9 or 10 months there was no doubt…it was a fierce competition between the two…but Yeller was special…he made it look easy…he knew how to find the hot end of the tracks…he had the knack to know where to look…and when he got older when to look…



Rueben, I love hearing stories of a special dog. I have hunted for over 50 years and an average dog just does not excite me. I get excited when a dog has something special going on in their abilities. Problem there is the special ones are few and far between. I pray for one more special dog while I am still able to hunt. Dave
the difference…brain power and a colder nose…

Yellers first time in the woods at about 3.5 months old and pitch black night…my brother and I cast the dogs and I turned Yeller loose…we went walking towards the same direction as the dogs went…I shined my light looking for Yeller and my heart sank because I didn’t see him…I told my brother to wait up I was going back to the truck and get Yeller…about that time we heard some splashing in the slough and I shined my light and it was Yeller coming by with his head up looking ahead and side to side…that was an adrenaline rush for me…after a while it was normal to see Yeller perform at a high level but the excitement never got old…

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Registered: Nov 2011
Location: Freeport,TX
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Thank you Dave…I’ve had some good ones…but none like Yeller…

I tend to analyze everything my dogs do…Yeller showed me the possibilities that most won’t achieve…

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