Ron Moore
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: WV
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Natural??
Like most, I've owned or have witnessed several over the years that started at a very young age with little or no assistance at all but in all my years I've only ever owned one that I would call a true natural. My Mountain State Big Bud was that. I hadn't ever fooled with him other than to take him out of the kennel and let him run around the yard. One evening I noticed a coon turning over cow pies in the neighbors field so I thought I'd walk him up to see what he'd do with the scent. Surprising to me, as soon as he cut the track he immediately opened then proceeded up wind and made a circle with his head up. He finally ended up over on the fence row and just sat down on his butt and began to tree with his head straight in the air. When I got to him he was just above the tree with the coon in it. That was all natural, nothing man made. At 6 months old we took him to the woods with the old dog and she made 3 trees, one single, one double and a den and he was up on the side of every one treeing, (not barking because the old dog was, big difference). He just progressed from there, treeing alone with the coon at 8 months and I was hunting him alone regular at 9 months. I never had to run a training collar on him and he never treed a possum in his whole life. He was a natural deep, wide hunter that was not for the faint of heart hunter plus he had the biggest mouth of any hound I ever owned, bar none! He sired several pups but none quite like him. I would definitely label him a true natural.
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