Registered: Mar 2011
Location: waynesboro tn
Posts: 33

hey allen this is billie smith i sold u and paul the tree jammin ann female back in 2000 i was wondering if u and paul were still hunting and what line of dogs yall are hunting im just getting back to redbones i have a pretty decent female and a couple pepper pups

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Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Michigan
Posts: 9282

Billy, good to hear from you. Ann was a nice one, for sure. You should have sold her to us when we first wanted to buy her. She really lost her mouth in later years, to the point of making it rough to put her in anymore hunts to chase a Grand title. Otherwise, she was Grand material no doubt. Quick track dog. Wish we had another one like her.

We ended up selling her to a young kid that had just gotten the itch for huntin' dogs. He had pleasure hunted with her a good bit one kill season and really liked her. Perfect dog for him too. That young kid, Eddie Gottfried of Upper Sandusky, OH, went on to do a lot of winning in PKC with some very nice Walker hounds. Don't see his name much in the past couple years so not sure what he's up to these days.

We still hunt the same line of dogs for the most part. Paul hunts way more than I do. Just don't get the time to hunt like I used to. Wish I did.

Good luck with your latest reds!

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Registered: Mar 2011
Location: waynesboro tn
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allen ann was by far the best dog i have owned if i had not been working third shift and my parents moving to tn i would not have sold her when i did i was offered more and made a fella pretty mad when i did not sell to him i just knew yall would do right by her i sure wish i had another like her can u give me pauls number or text it to my phone 19313321675 i hope to c ya at st jude next month just about half hour from my house

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Unfortunately, I won't be at the St Jude hunt next month. We've got the Beagle Nationals (Autumn Oaks for Beagles)on the same weekend.

I'll tell Paul to call you. He doesn't post on here but does look around. Actually, he called me this morning on the way in and told me to check out your thread. So, pretty sure he'll see this before I talk to him again. He's snowed in today so probably surfing already.

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Registered: Mar 2011
Location: waynesboro tn
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ok good to hear from ya do yall have any prospects yall are nite hunting right now

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A couple but the jury is still out.

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Registered: Mar 2011
Location: waynesboro tn
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i remember the first hunt that i hunted with yall or a decent red dog yall was driving the nugent van and we drawed joe melton in a redbone sectional out of howe club

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Location: Michigan
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Wow! That's right, you were on that cast. I was actually hunting a Walker dog that night. Took me 10 years to convince "ole Fireball" that we weren't fooled by that one track 'Ole John ran. lol.

That was funny how that all happened. We're all trying to politely convince the legend that his dog is on a fast one when Big John rolled up on that snag. And in the midst of the debate Johnny Cash jumped three feet in the air and put him on the card to end ALL discussion! lol. Funnier yet, were the game tracks in the snow that we followed ALL THE WAY TO THE TREE. Shaking our heads but a couple young squirts too awestruck of a legend to make any further deal of it. I'll never forget it.

Nevertheless, one of the best I owned was a direct son of that high-powered tracking machine!

And the Nugent van........ oh my, good times.

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Registered: Mar 2011
Location: waynesboro tn
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i was huntng a walker and i was one of the young guys with not much experience it was one hunt i wont forget though that was near twenty years ago

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