Dave Richards
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Apr 2015
Location: church hill tn
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Tyler/OSU
No, never won a big hunt, never cared about hunting in the big HUNTS. I was foremost a pleasure hunter that demanded and hunted Top coon dogs, dogs that treed coons in the winter months and showed them eyes when you got to the trees. Coons are thin in these mountains and it takes a coon dog to tree them in the winter, no leaves no excuses. Most competition dogs these days are hot nosed and struggle in the winter months, that's definitely NOT what I choose to hunt. Question? How did my post get to be about me competition hunting, my post was stating facts. I Said, repeat that there were some Top dogs and Top handlers that never made it to the quarter finals, I said the competition was tough tough tough. I don't know where you got anything else from my post and by the way I do not own, nor never owned a stud dog. My dogs are for my use only, AND if I bred someone's dog, it would be for FREE. I am financially secure and DO NOT coon hunt for profit. I am secure enough in what I hunt that I do not need to prove any thing to anyone but myself. If you think that competition hunting is the defining measure of your coon dogs, so be it. I measure a dogs ability to produce coons every night in December and January as defining a true coon dog. In thick coons any dog that can tree a coon looks decent, put them in thin coons and you will find out what you are feeding. I too had some friends at the Prohunt this week and they entered every night all 4 nights and had good scores, but just got beat, that's coon hunting. Dave P. S. The twenty years or so I hunted in UKC we had 15 to 20 casts of dogs at every hunt, not the 1 or 2 cast HUNTS of today, not as easy then as it is today. JS. Dave
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