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quote: Originally posted by DL NH
One of my old coon hunting buddies who now lives in East TN had one of the nicest pleasure dogs I've ever been to the woods with. Nt Ch Robinsons Blue Drum was a son of Vaughns Mack II and Fly's Bugle Ann. She was by Vaughn's Blue Buck and Dub's Blue Fly. Drum like his ancestors , was a cold nosed track dog that could finish 95% of the tracks he struck. Not sure how many people out there now like to here a dog work up a track from a bark or 2 every 2-3 mins into a flat running track and then slam the tree. He wasn't flashy, but steady as a rock and moved the track according to conditions. He had a mouth that would make anyone who loves to here a trailing dog run grin from ear to ear. He had some faults yet inability to work up an old track and have the coon at the end was not one of them.
I have a sense that like many things in life, many coon hunters today have not the patience or the time to enjoy listening to this type of track dog anymore. Hence the lack of them! I've always wanted a good tree dog but I want to hear that sweet old music of a hound working up an old track into a running one and then that moment of silence that precipitates the rhythmic tree song telling the world the race has ended!
I'll take 1 or 2 quality long runs that end with treed game over half a dozen or more pop ups any night! Am I the only one left of that breed?
Totally agree
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