Travis Brown
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Jackson, MO
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I started Style and sold him at five months. He was later sent back to me at about 20 months old and I hunted him about 70 nights over a three month period both by himself and in competition. He was one of the fastest and most balanced coonhounds I have ever seen. Very few dogs are anywhere near to what he was in his prime. I have never seen a dog that could move a track of any kind faster than Style.
I remember one night I cut him with a pack of nice hounds in competition and he went to the right and they went straight ahead. The rest of the pack struck and were really beating around on a tough cold track. After about thirty minutes of trying to hear style in the other direction he must have never found a track because he came back through and struck in with them. Forward progress immediately started happening when he got there. In just minutes he had moved the track the others had been struggling with down the ridge several hundred yards and was turning down the hollow. the rest of the pack was falling farther and farther behind as he crossed the hollow and started heading straight at us. he was in a full out sprint by then and you could hear the desperation in his voice as he was putting all he had into overtaking the coon. Suddenly he exploded treed and we could hear the others hounds in the distance coming down the same track he had already ran. Only one dog made it to him just before the five minutes and the others got in later if at all. And yes the coon was there. I've got a lot of good memories of hunting this fine hound. That certainly wasn't the only coon I saw him look dominant on. One of the few top balanced hounds that will soon pass on. He is ten now.
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