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This bear put his running shoes on and went several miles before treeing.

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Another pic of bear and hounds. The pic of the single hound treeing is a young dog we are working with, I believe she will be OK.

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This is a pic. of my all blue male that we hunt on bear. He has a cold nose, good feet and is fast on track, and plenty of grit to make a bear climb.I beleive he has the right tools to help the bluetick breed. He has one litter that is 11 months old and getting some good reports on them. Some are used on coon and some on big game. If interested in breeding to him ,just give me a call. Thanks-540-833-6325.

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This is the pedigree to the all blue male above.

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With the cooler temps. we can get the hounds back out after the bear.

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Treed this bear right before dark.

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Treed this sow and 3 cubs.

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Treed this bear and got my best female pictured below bit by a poison snake. The vet thinks it was a copperhead. Her leg swelled really fast. Vet thinks she will be ok, time will tell.

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I've had three hounds that were bitten. All three were bitten in the head and neck area and all recovered completely. I hope your female will do the same. How's Chloe doing?

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Good to hear from you ,was your hounds bitten by a copperhead or rattler. I've been told that the copperhead is not as poison as the rattlesnake. We did not see the snake that bit our dog but the vet thought it was a copperhead because the fang marks was not far apart. Chloe is doing great, had her out the other night , and she treed us a coon. Hope to get her bred this January. If she has pups, I'll make sure you get one. Take Care.

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I believe all three were bitten by copperheads. There are plenty of rattlers here,but I don't hunt in their territory until we have at least two good killing frosts.

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Some more pics of bear and hounds.

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Since the acorns started to fall the bear tracks is getting a little harder to find, but we are still finding a few to run.

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The hounds are looking good and running to catch, another pic of bear and hounds.

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This bear had a very bad attitude,but learned it was safer in the tree.

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Thanks for helping me out with my female. Looking forward to the pups
it was pleasure meeting you.

guys he's a first class fella I'd consider him if you're looking to breed a female

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Kenneth, it was a pleasure meeting you and your family . Stay in touch and let me know how your female does. Thanks again.

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Treed this nice boar bear.

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Some more pics. of bear and hounds.

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We have had a great chase season and the hounds are doing great.We have some young dogs that are really turning it on.

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More pics of bear and hounds.

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This bear came out of the first tree, and he and the hounds had a round on the ground. The next tree he went straight to the top and stayed there.

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is hard to get. What a great picture!

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Its not easy to get bear and hounds in the same pic.Hope everyone is doing great, our bear hound training season has ended and we have had a good year. Its time to do some coon hunting, we have a 4and 5 month old pups that we need to work with,sometimes they can be a hand full.Hopefully Chloe can help them a lot. One of our pups is doubled- up on Anderson's blue jake ,and the other pup is out of Edwards Smokey River Blujake. We have had them in the woods and they like to go. They even like to swim in our pond. Time will tell. Talk to ya later.

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