Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Northwest Indiana
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I just got done reading a very well written and informative article by Steve Fielder,in he tells a lot of history and back ground of the sport we all love and gives credit to some of the people that helped make our chosen sport what it is today!
This can be found is this months issue of the cooner!

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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Chattanooga, Tn
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I wonder why Steve doesn't write any nice articles for the Bloodlines Magazine? And how does the American Cooner do so well but the Bloodlines Magazine has shown such a decline? Is it time to bring Mr Fielder back on board? Magazines are for the OG crowd. Social networks are for the youngsters. Maybe UKC needs an OG guy in charge of the magazine and let the youngsters run the Facebook.

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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Yadkin County NC
Posts: 1657

Richard Haven't you gone to a hunt and seen who is taking subscriptions for the Cooner? Terry Walker is as nice a man as you will meet. Shaking hands and doing pr work kinda like Fred Miller used to do. I'm not critizing Todd K. I've met him and like him it's just some people are good at public relations and Terry goes out of his way to be nice. They cover a little wider range of hunts too, now if they would only quit with the Tommy and Bowser bs.

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Registered: Jan 2019
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BEST MOVE UKC COULD MAKE IS GET STEVE BACK ON BOARD ...👍👍👍

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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Yadkin County NC
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Yep but it ain't gonna happen. He's like the old cowboy, he's spent his time in the saddle. He's helped out three different registries and made friends all along the way now he's reaping the benefits and sure looks like he's enjoying the retired life.

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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Chattanooga, Tn
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I thought that they had a pretty girl selling subscriptions at the hunts. She was real good at pr. I always stopped to talk to her.

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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Yadkin County NC
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Believe you're thinking about the truckstop.

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Registered: Sep 2009
Location: Goshen, IN
Posts: 606

Steve Fielder is writing the virtual “History Book” on the great breeders of our sport every month in American Cooner. These articles, interviews with men who have dedicated their lives to this sport, should be turned into a book at some point. None of these fellas is getting younger and their stories are great ones, captured by a guy who has dedicated most of his life to the sport. I think these stories are terrific and will serve as an important part of the history of coonhunting.

Buy any bird dog, retriever or horse magazine and it is full of page after page of great training articles and photographs written by guys with lots of experience. Sadly, our sport has not been able to do that for many good reasons and for the most part, as long as I can remember, registries have seen the magazines as the money losing proposition they typically are. That was true 10 – 30 years ago and it is definitely true in today’s computer age. Part of it is, we never asked the publications for much more than hunt results. Much of it is the grey hair involved in finding folks who are qualified and can write well and are in it for the long haul. So many come and go. The few that can write, usually do not want to do it for little or no pay. We are going to run into a real content problem when John Wick and Steve Fielder decide to quit teaching, reminiscing and sharing their knowledge.

Good Hunting - Big Mark

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