Russell Boyette
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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Vernon, Alabama
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I always hesitate to answer a question like this with a dog that I own, because I always feel like it'd be too much like bragging. To truthfully answer this question tho, I have to say my PKC CH Triple X-Rated dog has the best locate I've ever heard. He's off GRNTCH Xjr's Silver Dollar Cracker x NTCH Credit River KC(Credit River Tucker). He'll turn 6yrs old on May 5th, & he lost some mouth because the guy that kept him while I was in the hospital nearly all of 2009, kept him on a chain, & there's something about being on a chain he hates with a passion. He doesn't cut-up or anything, but barks(I believe anyway) out of boredom. He still has a dang good mouth, but's before he barked it off, hearing him get hooked would make the hair on the back of your neck stand straight up! Honest to goodness, I've never taken him to a hunt, what he wasn't the loudest dog in a cast, by far most of the time. Matter of fact, the last hunt I won with him before I got sick, after the casts had been called-out & all of us had walked over to find our judge/guide, 1 of the handlers on the cast saw "X" on the card, & told the rest of the cast, "**** fellas, it's going to be a long night." When 1 of the other handlers asked him why, he pointed me out & said, "Cause we won't be able to hear our dogs over his, to be able to call 'em." If "X" hadn't been so tight, & opened more on the ground, listening to him would've been something else! I wish I could figure out how to download video's from my camera to my computer. I've got a couple video's from when he was about 1.5yrs old, that catch his locate, & have some awesome footage of him treed. I had to back away 25-30yds from the tree & zoom-in on him because he treed so loud & hard that it'd cause the speakers to distort.
As far as treeing a dog off of a 1/2 a locate, I've heard handlers brag about doing it alot everywhere but in the woods. I could tree him on the 1st locate some, but he's a lay-up dog, & if the coons hadn't been down yet, u could hear him start looking up. Unless u knew him as well as I do, u'd draw some tree-minus 'cuz when he was looking-up, trying to pin-point a Ricky that was laid-up sleeping, it'd sound pretty similar to his locate.
Most people that brag about booking a dog on 1/2 a locate, are usually full of it. I've heard some pro handlers that'd brag about doing it at the club, or on the computer, but it's a different story when they're in the woods. That kinda handling more often than not, will end-up biting u in the ass, & they know it. Sometimes if u are in a position where u have to take 1st tree, then u've gotta take that chance. Very few accurate dogs out there that are hooked solid the 1st time they bark up. Now, I don't mean all accurate dogs take 5min's to decide they're right, but most of 'em are gonna be sure Ricky's home before they commit, & that's usually why they're more accurate. Most dogs I know of that are glued to the 1st tree they hit-up on by their 1st bark up, on every tree of everynight, wind-up missing a bunch of coons. At least in this part of the country. Now, I can't say the same for dogs in parts of states like Iowa, indiana, or Michigan where most woodlots are jam-packed, full of coons, because I carried "X" to the White River Refuge in Arkansas, where the coons are so thick they can't be stirred with a boat-oar. He was treeing a buncha lay-ups there too, but he was picking out the trees they were in so fast that if we'd been in a hunt, I could've struck him on his 1st bark & treed him on his 2nd. But that's just not the case down here.
Anyway, it's not that I don't have confidence in my dog, 'cuz even tho I might not have a sho-nuff COONDOG, & may not even have the best dog in my cast, but u can be 100% sure if u see me forking-over a $20-$100 entry fee, that whatever dog I'm hunting don't have to check a tree half a dozen times to know he/she is right, nor will I be wasting my money & time on a dog that never walked past a tree that they didn't lock-down, treed on, either!
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• PKC Ch 'PR' Triple X-Rated
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• NITECH Beaver Creek Knothead
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• Death Row Psycho aka "De"
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• 'PR' Skuna River Style
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UKC NITECH - PKC CH
'PR'Beaver Creek Stylish Nellie
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