redbonemanII
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01/08/2012
Well I've had good time with dogs, but bad times with the land the last couple of outings.
Andy Sloan hunted his new female Dixie this weekend, and she did a good job. She's only been at his house a week and she ventured out a bit farther every time she got away from us. The first night she was went about 85 yards and disappeared into the timber for a bit. Can't ask much more than that for her first time in the timber with you.
Duke and Jack went in two different directions and were gone. Duke went straight out and Jack went left handed. Duke struck in and Jack was making his way towards him. Duke treed fairly quick, and hooked on a pretty decent coon for this area. Jack struck in and was working a track right back towards us. As we worked with Andy's new pup a bit Jack was lining his track out. Turns out he struck the same coon and worked it back to where Duke was and came on in and tree. We shot that coon out and Dixie did a real good job on it. It came out with a bit more life than I had anticipated, but it didn't seem to phase her a bit.
Then we come to last night....holy cow did this one go well at the beginning. Jonathan Christmas came down this way and was toting JoAnn (a litter mate to his Jim pup). We walked the dogs out there away from the trucks there and cut them loose. All of the dogs (JoAnn, Dixie, Jack, Duke) and they left with the dirt kicking up. Dixie went out about 150yards and then turned back towards us but kept on figuring the smells out and doing what a puppy does. She did good for her second night in the timber.
JoAnn, Jack, and Duke were flat GONE. JoAnn and Jack were together and Duke split off and did his own thing. They struck in and Duke ended up treed on a den tree. Jack had a mind to line it out good before he would tree. He came in by us at the tree wide open (both mouth and speed). He passed the tree and came right back to the tree and did a bang up job treeing.
JoAnn was the star of the night though. She stayed gone and actually treed on the tree with Duke for a minute before we got there. But before we got there she smelled something different she wanted to chase after and she was gone again.....alone. She traveled over 5miles last night. We had to go collect her about 800yards from the tree. She did a stellar job for her third night in timber. When we got her collected up she had ice on her fur clean up to her chest...that little dog has no fear of water folks.
Now to the crap part of the night. I hopped in the Tundra pulled down a path to go meet Andy and his daughter, a path that I have pulled down a hundred times before. Well this time was different, for some reason there was a flat boggy area in it. I hit it at about 20mph...and came to a complete halt. I was done. Andy pulled his F-150 around and long story short it was stuck by the end of it as well.....freakin no account tires got us both. Good news is that we had a really nice guy come and wench us out (thank you USAA) and we were on our way.
All in all it was a good night. The dogs did good, the trucks were fine, and we got home safe. I am very impressed thus far with the amount of Go that are in these pups. I'm not a breeding master or claim to be but I would watch the pups, what few there are, out of Jabo in the upcoming couple of years to see how this pans out. I fully expect them to do something, not sure what they will end up as, but as Larry said....It won't be because they don't go huntin'.
Kent
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12-29-2011 04:35 AM
WHEN I SHOT THE COON OUT IT STILL HAD SOME BITE IN IT. I HAD MOVED HER OUT OF THE WAY, BUT WHEN IT HIT THE GROUND KICKIN', SHE REALLY WANTED IT. SHE LIKED IT BETTER KICKIN' THAN DEAD. OF COURSE, I CAPPED HIM, WHEN HE AND KID GOT TOO CLOSE TO HER. SHE'S STILL AN INFANT. 
