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Location: Turtle Mountains, ND
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Frito is a nicely balanced dog that is just plain fun to hunt night after night. He trees coons consistently in my thin coon hunting area and has performed well in competition in multiple states.

He started at a young age with a well rounded set of skills and is still improving his strengths. He is far from perfect but all told there's not much about him I would change.

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July 20, 2008 -16 months old, covered with slobber and mud, treed alone by Lee Lake, TM Region, 1.5 miles from the road with the meat! He'll make you walk but will not often disappoint you when you get to his tree.

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Frito's not just a pretty face. He also has a good, horn bawl mouth, throws in some chops as the track heats up, locates with two or three loud dying bawls, and finishes with a hard chop.

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RICK, THATS A FINE LOOKIN HOUND YOU HAVE.

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What a looker!

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ol frito is a dandy. he fires hard , and is action packed . he will tree one under your nose , or bust in there a mile . he will tree about any kind of coon track there is. he has a real good mouth, and a locate that will blow your mind.frito is a front end track driving type of dog that forces coons to climb...
...i have started 6 pups out of the same cross as frito and all of them started natural. frito is out of an exceptional cross.

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Them to pics are pretty darn neet.

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Frito started at 6 months old. His first night in the woods was 10/16/07. He left me and went into the woods with my old female. She opened close by and Frito immediately struck with her, bawling loudly. He never stopped tracking until he sat with her under a coon a few minutes later. He didn’t tree much but didn’t leave it either. He was 6 months and 1 day old that night.

I hunted Frito a couple more times over the next couple weeks. He treed twice: splitting one time, and barked treed about 30 minutes on another tree with my female. He treed hard for a pup. On 11/09/07, I took him for a walk alone through the woods and he struck and treed his own coon. He was still 6 months old.

Thanksgiving 2007, I cut Frito and my female toward a frozen pond and they went opposite directions on tracks. My female turned around and headed back. Frito had already treed a little coon by himself on a snag (see below), and she split treed a short distance away. He went wild!

Frito, 7 months old, split treed, 11/21/07


A close up of Frito under same coon

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Rick I hunted with Curt and Sweat down in Alabama this weekend at a AKC hunt. In the swamp pouring rain and sweat was high scoring dog.

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Frito is at his best when collecting hides all by himself in the woods. When by himself, he slows down a little and puts a coon at the end of almost every track, hot or cold. He's not perfect in competition but is okay. His strengths in competition are: getting struck quickly, track driving ability and having the coon most of the time. If I stretch the truth on him my hunt buddies will put me back in line so I'll just state the facts.

Comp Hunts: Jan -Oct 2009

January – 7th place, PKC Jewett Classic Pup Derby, Texas
Feb-April – no hunts entered
May – 1st Place (tie), AKC Shelby County, IN
June – 1st Place, UKC ND CHA (550+, 0-)
July – 1st Place, AKC ND CHA
August – 1st Place, UKC RQE ND CHA
August – 1st Place, AKC Black Gold ND CHA
Sep-Oct – a few hunts but no wins

Qualified Fall SS 2008, 2009
Qualified UKC World 2009
Qualified AKC World 2010
Qualified AKC Black Gold 2010
Qualified AKC National 2010

He needs one cast win for an AKC NTCH title.

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I have a female out of the last cross and she enjoys stretching cats in the yard. A ball of fire for a 4 month pup.

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how about that frito dog,nice hound

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super nice lookin dog, i have a pup off cornell and female off of henry and GRNITEstylish lady di. its my first time trying this blood.

good luck with frito

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boys theres another fine looking walker dog well bred too ty chuck west

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Thanks for the well wish, Dan. The bloodline makes for nice looking treedogs. Good luck with yours.

I see you're from IN. I plan to enter Frito in the AKC national hunt in Greensburg in May.

It will be good to get out after this long winter.

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Grit: unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger.

August 24, 2007. 16 months old. Alone and treed with the meat. This pic says it best.

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You dont get no better than that.

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rick ,joe the plumbers mouth ,reminds me of frito's mouth, he is down in texas with hammie now ,he says he has too much tree! time will tell how he finishes out like. jim

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Weatherman promised warmer weather for last night but lied. We've not had a single thaw yet this winter. Last night it was 10 degrees or less and clear under the moon by the time I sent Frito into the timber alone.

He worked a cornfield and then dropped over the bluff into the MO river bottom and pushed deeper and deeper into the timber. When the Garmin read something over 3/4 of a mile I decided to walk back to the Jeep and try to drive a little closer. Didn't hear a sound out of him up to that point.

I drove the road a good distance and got out to hear him hammering the wood way back in the timber. I grinned wide and loaded the gun when I realized he was treed in a stretch of woods made up mostly of ash and small oak trees.

Strapped on my Tubbs because going over the bluff meant 10+ feet of snow to cross with over 2 feet of powder back in the timber.



A tree dog doing it track dog style.

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Impressive dog work in difficult conditions.

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good looking dog the best of luck to ya

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I run a hunting log every year on my dogs to get some idea what they are treeing and a record of where we hunted. This year I'm going to expand the log to include information on tracks finished and will post a monthly summary starting the end of March.

However brutal it may be at times -we'll all get to see Frito's game score in the woods!

Snow's about gone now and the river is open. Time to hunt. Frito got on a runner the other night and caught him under a small tree that had been torn off the river bank by a big slab of vertical ice. The ice was still in place and that missouri river sure looks extra big and ugly at night. That's the only part of coon hunting I don't like.

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hey buddy im just here to tell you man,,,,,,,,, you better not worry bout anything else as buying other males you better just stick with the frito dog there very **** few dogs that would of did in the water very few lol an better not get rid of him cause you wouldnt find another few fast as deturmend as he is

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good luck with frito, also used to keep records .fun to look back, talk to me about the may 7-9 hunt.

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i made 4 blanks last night and one plus. man i don't like these leafless trees. makes my dog look like a liar lol.. mabe he is.lol well in this case they..

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Frito's hunting log summary for March.

----Total Tracks: 19
----------Tracks Unfinished: 2
----------Tracks Finished: 17
--------------------Dog Caught Coon: 1
--------------------Dog Treed: 16
------------------------------Treed no Coon Eyes Seen: 6
------------------------------Treed w/Coon Eyes Seen: 10

Read this format like a waterfall. He started 19 tracks and of those 19 tracks 2 he didn't finish and 17 of those tracks finished with 1 coon caught on the ground and the other 16 tracks finished treed. Of the 16 trees, 6 didn't have coon eyes and 10 had coon eyes.

Dens, holes and slicks are all counted in the total for Treed No Coons Seen.

Our deep snow and rut runs well into March and I think he'll do better showing me eyes in April. We'll also get a lot more hunting time.

The good, the bad and the ugly. It's all included in the summary.

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why that no good sap sucker.........lol

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