Larry Hall
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: NE Indiana
Posts: 589 |
Tar's definition sums it up well I think.. Same type of dog I am looking for.. some nights I have it, some nights, sigh.... LOL..
Pam - I drew one of the hottest winning $kc dogs at a UKC hunt this spring.. We cut together in a four dog cast..
$KC dog had second strike first tree on a coon.. Other two dogs covered him.. My dog went left handed and treed a few hundred yards away (after his dumb butt handler drew minus on him, but that's another story).. We scored the $KC dogs tree.. had a coon, plus him up..
we recut, headed in and scored my tree.. Beech den.. circle up.. We walk up to the edge of the field to recast mine.. $KC handler asks us if we can hear that dog? Faintly in the distance we can hear a dog treed.. He trees him.. I ask him do you mind telling me how far he is? 1.14 was the reply.. That cotton picker left about 8o acres of creek bottom and cornfield timber and ran across a mile of open fields, crossed a road and fell treed.. I respectfully withdrew at that point and said I'll see you boys at the club house.. Was a good cast, great dog work, just not my kind of dog work..
That dog won the cast handily and did it treeing coons.. But I want nothing to do with hunting a dog like that.. I'm sure we could have treed several coons in the timber in front of us.. Even if i'd not taken my self inflicted minus on the first tree by the time we walked 1.14 in and out in an hour cast no way I could beat him most likely.. And I'm not walking 2.28 miles to look at a tree and get back to my dog.. No way.. Too old and fat for that..
I've got friends that love that type, each to his own.. I'd caution everyone to hunt with any of the big time winners they are thinking about breeding to.. Not to hijack your thread, but wanted to share that independent loner story..
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