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I’ve only ever had blueticks. Generally just love their loving nature with the family, friendliness, and beautiful voice. Nice to look at too. What is your breed of choice and why? I’m always curious what people pick and why. If you started with something else first then made a switch would like to know about that too.

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Location: Palatka, FL
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I started back in the mid 60's with some mixed hounds. Then I got a registered Walker pup probably because it came available in my area. I also purchased a reg plott pup from the area. Then around 1970 I got a couple blue pups for Cathy Jones in Iowa. Had them shipped down to Miami, FL and one made a real dog and the other one made a good dog. I don't admit this often but I think I should have stuck with Blue Dogs. I had spent a lot of time studying the walker bloodlines and taked to many of the old time breeders as I wanted to know what made this dogs click. Over the years I had had one or two nice ones from about every breed. Seen several real nice ones from every breed also. I just kept going back to walkers for two reasons. The first is I felt I knew more about their pedigrees that any other breed and enjoyed that. Second is the good ones, no matter what breed they were they were all just about the same. Just colored different. So I just stuck what walkers. There is a yearning in me to get a blue dog again. But that may not happen. To each their own and we can all find happiness in a different colored dog. The Joy is just having one of any color calling you to a tree.

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Always wanted a good black and tan female or a nice plot female but they are rare and even more, rarely for sale. Walkers performance wise are gonna be very hard to beat...

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Location: airville,pa
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I have hunted with every breed. I have owned almost every breed at some point. I have Had mostly only blueticks for the past 10 or 15 years and love them
Started with mixed breeds in the early 80's it wasn't long and I had registered Walkers and had the attitude there was nothing better. Wow how wrong could I have been? There are good and bad in every breed.
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Location: Washington, NC
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I have owned every breed except leapard hound. I have seen good dogs in every breed ecept leapardI(I have never hunted with any). A good dog is a good dog but a pup at my house belonging to me will be black!

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Leopards, Plotts and Plott cur crosses. I'm not a follower, I like to have something different from most.

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Always wanted a good black and tan female or a nice plot female but they are rare and even more, rarely for sale. Walkers performance wise are gonna be very hard to beat...

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I’ve noticed that walkers seem to consistently win in events. They also seem to be the most popular. I’m just beginning to try to get into coon hunting. I have someone lined up who has agreed to help me and be a mentor, but I don’t want to bug them all the time with small questions. I do plan to start seriously looking for a pup next month and wanted to learn more of why people go with the breed they choose.

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I’ve noticed that walkers seem to consistently win in events. They also seem to be the most popular. I’m just beginning to try to get into coon hunting. I have someone lined up who has agreed to help me and be a mentor, but I don’t want to bug them all the time with small questions. I do plan to start seriously looking for a pup next month and wanted to learn more of why people go with the breed they choose.

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The absolute beat advise I could give you is go away from the “getting a pup” part. Save a little money and buy one that’s doing it. Pups can really really be daunting to beginners. Especially being as less than 25-30% of them make a actual Coon dog. Find you a dog that is 5/7 years old that tree a Coon consistent and have fun. You will learn more that way than you will trying to raise a pup. I promise.

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Yup..........dogs can teach people a lot! There biggest problem is finding people who will listen!

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Blueticks is what my father had and hunted so grew up hunting Blueticks. I’ve also had a Bluetick x Plott cross, Treeing Walker and a couple English.

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My grandfather hunted High Tans. So my mom got a black and tan pup from the pound when I was a kid that I grew up with. So when I decided I wanted to coon hunt I got black and tans. 20 yrs later I hunt my own line of dogs, started from that 1st pup I got. If I didn't have my own line of dogs I would have no problem hunting Certain walker lines, English lines and Redbones. I haven't been in the woods with a line of blues or Plotts I would take a chance on. I'm talking about lines, i'm not saying there aren't nice ones out there. I like blood that you know what your going to get for the most part. It's just up to you on how much work your willing to put into it.

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I have had them all at one time or another, stuck with English dogs for 20 years or so, but in the past five years I have been messing with leopards. I like the leopards a lot they kinda remind me of the older hounds from the late 80’s / early 90’s. They have a head full of sense.

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Location: upstate ny
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Hunted for 43 years now. Ive owned redbones, english, walkers and Blueticks. Had my most success with Walkers. Right now i have a Bluetick female whos pretty nice little hound.

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Location: upstate ny
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Hunted for 43 years now. Ive owned redbones, english, walkers and Blueticks. Had my most success with Walkers. Right now i have a Bluetick female whos pretty nice little hound.

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Hunted for about 63 years with about an 18 year span where I didn't have time. Hunted with all breeds at least once I think. My Dad was a blue tick guy but eventually we were both hunting walkers. I had a couple of pretty nice Black dogs in there also. Right now I'm hunting 2 walkers that are pretty nice dogs. BUT!!! I'm getting a B&T pup in about 6 weeks. Just want to have one more nice Black dog.

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Hunted for about 63 years with about an 18 year span where I didn't have time. Hunted with all breeds at least once I think. My Dad was a blue tick guy but eventually we were both hunting walkers. I had a couple of pretty nice Black dogs in there also. Right now I'm hunting 2 walkers that are pretty nice dogs. BUT!!! I'm getting a B&T pup in about 6 weeks. Just want to have one more nice Black dog.

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