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My personal opinion is you should always try and put the name of the kennel or breeding somewhere in the name. Its not just for respect but also for future generations of hunters. That way they know what is in the dogs pedigree.

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Chris thank you so much for the Great time we had while being your guest at your beautiful home. You are a lucky man to live in the place you do and have such a wonderful family. The only thing I didn't like was how the time flew while we were there and not feeling like we ever got to relax and soak it all in and see and do all the things I wish we could have. I wish we would have had at least a week of hunting and exploring the area. Jazz is a fine hound with a great mouth that I enjoyed listening to Thursday night. Sorry I took off so early yesterday but we had a long ride and when I wake up in the mornings I have to get moving. We got home at 9pm last night and drove through a lot of heavy rain but made it safe. Thanks for giving Bogey a chance to be a part of your family and a chance to make you a fine coonhound. I bet him and Miss Wisconsin ain't missing me a bit because your kids are probably spoiling them worse than I did. Take Care and hope to see you again soon. Thanks Again!!!

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Steve brought me fine pup. He is bold, independent and good looking. Thanks Steve.

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This update is a few days late and it will be brief. Jazz was far enough along in her heat cycle to hunt. Steve Bankston's Bo was still interested but she wasn't. After freeing two coons with Bo we came back and hunted Jazz by herself from the house. She got gone quick and struck at 380 yards on South Fork Creek. She worked the track away from the creek and it was a rougher track. She made a half hearted locate in a couple of different places but I knew it wasn't right. These coons are feeding heavy right now and hard to say how many wild grape vines, persimmon and oak trees they are up and down in a night.

At any rate; I was proud of the job she was doing. Watching on the Garmin she was making wide circles trying to narrow it all down. When she did, she piled on with two weeks of being confined frustration coming out. She was hammering.

We got to her and she was treed on a nasty cedar. I shined and squaller but never got a peak. Neither of the coons earlier looked either. Not saying she did or didn't have it. I watched a superb job on a tough track with a serious tree power effort in the end.

Our total is up to 105 trees made with 87 coons seen. Jazz turns a year old 11/14/15. Once our hide season starts 11/08/15 I'll have six days to hit her 100 by her birthday.

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Go get it Chris. That's pretty darn impressive and you should be proud. I know you've put in a lot of work but that's still quit an acomplishment for a dog to tree that many legitimate coon by a year old. I'm sure there are very few that can say they have, I know I cant. Good luck reaching that 100 and good luck with her in the future. Imagine what she'll be in another couple years!
Also good luck with Bogey. It's going to be tough for a hound to live up to what Jazz has done but I hope he is just as good.

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Jhannack, we are headed to A couple HTX this weekend. Should be able to add a few to the total. I'll keep you all posted.

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11-3-15

Jazz and I hit the Southfork last night. Coons weren't stirring here on the creek. Jazz put the wheels on and went 934 before swinging up to the ridges. I rode to the top and sat in a clearing.
Jazz flew by me on the trail and I didn't say a word. She didn't even slow down. She dropped over the ridge and struck at 275 and located but wasn't dedicated. She worked the track down hill towards Long Branch. She stayed in the creek for 75 yards or so and worked this bad feeder track. There are a several branches that cut up into the hills and I was losing the sound of her from up on the ridge 300 feet above. I checked the Garmin and she was at 580 working directly away from the Long Branch creek. I decided to move closer.
I fired up the quad with a pull start due to a bad battery. I worked along the property line looking for an old road bed I had found on foot a couple of years ago. I found it and it was a decent trail down into property I had permission to hunt. I made it to the creek and checked the Garmin. Jazz was still 330 out and working the track. I had gone as far as possible on the quad and one last check on the alpha had me hoofing it up a dry branch. By the looks of the Garmin there was a chance she was in that bad thicket she got into a month or so ago. I was hoping that was not the case.
I made it to the top of the ridge just in time to listen to her wrap it up. A good locate and roll over and it was over. I walked the 200 into her to find her treed on a 30 inch walnut without a leaf on it. A quick shine was all it took to find the coon 2/3 up on an eight inch branch. I was on property now that I didn't know, so I leashed Jazz and got out of there.
Jazz put me in strange country tonight to get one treed.
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I've been off the grid for a couple of days. I took a road trip out to Grundy, Virginia to drop off my oldest daughter at a Missionary School on 11/5/15. She and a couple of college friends went out to work for a few days. I had never been that far south east in Kentucky. I have a whole new respect for folks that turn a dog loose down there. I ran into a fella with a dog box in his truck in Pikeville and talked a few minutes about hunting. That is different world to hunt in there.
11/6/15
Ace Coon Club hosted a Hunt Test and Jazz and I went to check it out. We got our first pass. It was not pretty but Jazz got one treed in a big river bottom without any faults. As soon as we turned her loose she shot out about 175 and then swung back hard to get struck 45 yards in a creek bed. She beat and banged on that track for thirty minutes. She located and moved and was trying to figure it out. I was hunting with Mike Shepard and I told him, had we been on a pleasure hunt I would have been doing some training. All I could do was stand there and grit my teeth. she finally got it lined out and smoked it up a half dry creek bed with 20 minutes left in the hour. She worked it for 10 minutes and parked with a proper locate and tree. She was 425 yards away. We walked in and found the coon and that was that. A pass.
11/7/15
We hit the second night of the hunt test at Ace. I hunted second and turned into a creek bottom with high ridges surrounding. Jazz struck west in the bottom at 175 and worked it up the creek through the hills. She located right and treed right and I told the inspector if she doesn't stay she deserves a fault. Well, she got it. She decided she didn't like it and went back on track. Another 430 yards and she was parked. I put her on the paper again. She stuck it and we walked in to find her on a 20 inch beech den. Couldn't get him to look. Cut her loose with 12 minutes left on the hour and she went hunting good. She struck in a couple of minutes. She pushed it up the creek into the hills and must have put it in the ground. I've never had her stick in the ground which is fine by me but that was tough break. She came back in and I took a fault. That was number 2 and we were done.

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Chris, looks like you have all the equipment and ready. Good luck and have a great season.

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Opening night was lack luster. Jazz got one treed (in the picture above). After that it was tough sledding. I got discouraged and decided it was best not to hunt Jazz when I was frustrated. That never turns out good or yields positive results when hunting a pup.
11/9: Ken came over and we hunted in light rain. The first drop ended on a den. The second drop Joe treed on a leafy oak and Jazz pushed a runner 300 south east and locked down with a coon. It was rough going after that. Den trees and no tracks.
We will get after it again tonight.
Training note: I don't hunt with a lot of people. However, those I do hunt with are people whose opinions I trust. Ken Cone is one of those people. I haven't known Ken for very long but he is solid and gave me some advice last night that is worth sharing.
Jazz had just pushed a coon away from his treed dog and split with the coon. We were on the drop after that and Jazz just wasn't hunting to suit me. I was determined not to let her win and I was pushing pretty hard. Ken saw this and asked me how many dogs have I had that treed 100 coons before their first birthday. The answer was obvious at none. He said you don't have anything to prove to anybody. Just hunt this pup and have fun. The pressure I was putting on Jazz was more in line for a two year old dog.
Wow, I have said this many times myself in these ramblings. But when you're caught up in it, it's hard to see. Can't see the forest for the trees.
Simple stuff, but sometimes the answers are not complicated. Maybe even obvious. So, I will repeat something I have said before; keep it fun. If you are not having fun, chances are your dog is not either.

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Chris just checking in with you and Jazz to see if yaw been treeing a few of those Indiana coon. I registered last week for BO to hunt both nights of the Winter Classic and booked a cabin at the State Park. Hope you and Jazz get to make the trip down. Give Little Bogey a pat on the head for me. Take Care and Good Hunting!

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It's been awhile since I've written. Trying to be in the woods, work and family, particularly high school basketball has kept me from writing. There is a lot to report from here in Indiana.

Jazz didn't hit 100 coons by her year old birthday. That came a couple of days later. I haven't been keeping close track since then. She took a spell after her heat cycle where I would have given her away. I've had females be a little screwy before and after cycling but this was more than I have experienced. Maybe my expectations were too high. She still treed coons but she acted depressed. She back to normal now and getting with it.

December always seems like a tough month to tree coons here. Trying to do it with a dog that has never tracked on frost and crusty ground adds to the challenge. We are putting a few up, but seem to be hitting more dens. One thing is for sure, you can't tree them in front of the TV or on the Internet and dogs won't get experience in the kennel.

My new addition from Steve Bankston and the Bogue Chitto Blues, "Bogey" is growing like a weed. He keeps the cats on their toes and has them treed on the woodpile regular. He is a hilarious pup. I tell Steve he is a deep thinker. When I am out getting ready to hunt I often see him sitting watching me. Chore time he watches as things are done. Working on the truck, he sits and watches. I have seen him doing some tracking down at the creek and it won't be long and he will expand his range. I'll post some pics in future posts.

Hope you all are having a great season and enjoying the Christmas season as well.

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Talking Stategy with Jazz before we headed out.

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Been burning vacation and the weather has been great. Jazz and I have been hitting it each night and tree ing a few here and there. I have been hunting a lot of new country and trying not to hunt the same place twice in a week. It is time for Jazz to learn where to find a coon no matter where I put her down.

Last night I started at the end of a dead end road. I cut her from the tailgate. She dropped in at 300 and turned north and worked a circle along the woods and fields. She got to 460 to the north and struck a good track. She parked under a big poplar and had a boat coon. Looking at the Garmin she had Hunted 1.2 miles on this drop.

Next drop was in Bear Creek Valley. This is big country with high ridges and there are four creeks that confluence into Bear Creek. Each creek comes together in on spot and each runs up a valley. Lots of game but the coons will test your dog and make you pay the price to look at them. Jazz got in the dark at 430 and struck where black creek and long creek come together. Jazz wooed up Black Creek and treed on a sycamore den. Good track and good job, just got outrun.

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Been burning vacation and the weather has been great. Jazz and I have been hitting it each night and tree ing a few here and there. I have been hunting a lot of new country and trying not to hunt the same place twice in a week. It is time for Jazz to learn where to find a coon no matter where I put her down.

Last night I started at the end of a dead end road. I cut her from the tailgate. She dropped in at 300 and turned north and worked a circle along the woods and fields. She got to 460 to the north and struck a good track. She parked under a big poplar and had a boat coon. Looking at the Garmin she had Hunted 1.2 miles on this drop.

Next drop was in Bear Creek Valley. This is big country with high ridges and there are four creeks that confluence into Bear Creek. Each creek comes together in on spot and each runs up a valley. Lots of game but the coons will test your dog and make you pay the price to look at them. Jazz got in the dark at 430 and struck where black creek and long creek come together. Jazz wooed up Black Creek and treed on a sycamore den. Good track and good job, just got outrun.

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Met Mike Shepard at Morgan Monroe State Forest. He brought along Mike Silcox, sorry if I misspelled. Wish I could have spent more time with Mr Silcox but we didn't get to hunt together.

The Mikes brought two fire breathers. I know Mike Shepard's was. Piazon pup. They showed Jazz what to do when you get dropped in thin coon. Their dogs got deep quick. The lay of the land here is steep ridges with long running ravines and seasonal creeks. We cut loose high and the two male dogs hit a ravine and were .7 in a hurry. We hear either one or both opening and they decided to drive closer.
In the meantime, Jazz was out about 500 to 600 and hunting up and down the ridges and ravines. She never struck a coon from that turn out. The Garmin showed she had hunted 3.2 miles and all of it was within 700 yards.
Mike called and said theirs had a split each with a coon. I had changed locations and was walking to Jazz first tree. She had hit a ravine and worked it down to where it ties into a bigger gulley with a small creek. She struck at 550 and ran the track up the creek. She made pretty short work of it as it was a good track. She located and rolled it over to a chop. She had worked the track back to me somewhat and I was walking 450 to her. It was steep and deep. On my way up the ridge to her she hushed. I pulled out the Garmin and showed her tracking again. I was boiling now. Leaving is one thing but doing it after I was most of the way through rough stuff is a whole new ballgame. As quickly as she left she climbed back on. I walked in to find her on an 18 inch
Maple. Slick as minnows Peter.
In my younger days, I would have done something rash. I talked my self down, looked at the situation and looked at Jazz. She was not really committed to the tree she was on as much as she was trying to get he nose as high in the air as possible. I still wasn't happy. No praise, in fact not a word. Just snap her up lead her away 10 feet and make her do it right.
Times like these call for more patience than I really have. Don't be fooled, I really wanted to throttle this dog. I was mad, frustrated, disappointed and a buffet of other not very Christian feelings. The things that kept me calm though we're these: having coons has never been an issue. I have needed her to learn to HUNT for a track, she did that. I have wanted her to pull the trigger on locating and freeing a bit quicker, she did that, although wrong. At least she was willing to take a chance. So, 2 improvements had been made. Time to be patient and direct her to figure this out right. She hunted the area and came up with a beech den. I don't know if it was right or she was putting an end to it. It was slightly uphill and upwind.
As I drove the two and a half hours home, I thought about that hunt a lot and decided to make one more drop. I had not put a lot of pressure on Jazz on the night but I hadn't showed much love either. I stopped a couple miles from the house and cut her towards a pond surrounded by hardwoods. Within a couple of minutes she had struck at 375 and pushed the track down below the pond dam. With what seemed textbook, she located and rolled it over to a chop after a couple hundred yards. I walked, she had a coon and we all went home happy.

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Thanks for sharing your experiences both the good and bad. Not many folks can be that honest.

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Merry Christmas to yaw CHRIS!! Hope all is well and God Blesses you and your Family this Christmas and in 2016. Give Ole Boogey and Jazz an extra snack for Christmas! Take Care and hopefully see yaw soon!

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And Merry Christmas to all.

Been lazy about writing but not hunting. We have been hitting every night that it's not storming. I am hunting a 3 year old Bocephus male for Donnie Walston and giving Jazz a break. I will let Donnie get into details if he wants. He is treeing coons and we are having fun.

Jazz is getting a little break. I pushed her hard getting ready for Baby Stakes. She needed a rest. I dropped her once Wednesday night and she got under a coon pretty quick.

Bogey thinks he owns the place. If I leave the kennel gates open while I'm gone hunting, he comes crawling out of one of the older dogs houses as if to say, "Eveything checks out in here. I guess I'll let you sleep here tonight."

Keep em in the woods good hunting. I'll write more when things slow down.

Merry Chtistmas and a prosperous New Year ( if that offends you, well Merry Christmas)

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Chris and the best to you and yours in the New Year.

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Hope you had some good holidays with your family and hounds Chris.

The new year is full of opportunities for you and Jazz to accomplish some great things.


I'm thinking about going to the Bluetick spring hunt in Ashland, OH this march. I went there last year to deliver Brickey's second pup and bring one back for McGinnis. It was set up nice, and we had a lot of fun for only being there a few hours. Maybe we'll see ya there buddy

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Figured I better update this thing. Jazz is still turning the crank. Not keeping track of trees/coons as close. Our weather has tanked so I have been hunting a little her and there. Thanks for reading.

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Where was I?
Oh yeah, I haven't been writing much because I have been pushing Donnie Walstons Big Country male. We put a first place UKC win on him after the Winter Classic. The classic did not go as well as I had hoped for him. We got dry holed a couple nights. The only coon I looked at Country treed it.

Jazz has been getting a break. I had noticed tell tale signs of burn out. I pushed the little girl a bit to hard getting ready for the baby stakes. We had a great kill season but it was more laid back.

The let up seemed to help. I qualified Jazz for $KC World and SS last night. We got in with 8 casts hunting. Double header. The pay out was $114. She did it like her daddy would-deep and lonely with a coon.

At 15 months she has a HTX pass and $$$ won out of three events. Not gonna push her hard on anything. As we are going to push Country as far as possible this year.

Country is Bocephus x Shelton's Cotton Oxy

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