Michigan new guy introduction
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 1:15 am
Hi, I'm introducing myself from Michigan. I am fairly new to hunting with hounds as I purchased my first bluetick approx 3 years ago. She handles extremely well comes when called loads and has good manners. She was started on coon and squirrel when I purchased her. After a year of trying to get her to take a coyote or fox track I realized she will only run coon and squirell. She has been in on a couple bobcat, one that treed and timbered wich she didn't figure out and one other time she got lost in the cats circle. She wasn't quite a year old yet and am hoping she can get on a hot cat track this year, we will see. I have had her out at night in -20 degree weather on a hot fox track only to see her hit a lay up coon in a old sugar maple den tree. Several times. Took her on a coyote hunt once and 6 walkers had a tote bay up on a big downfall and she had a coon treed 80 yards to the west. That's when I said enough is enough and kept her as a honest coon dog or squirrell if its daytime. I have another male who is just over a year and coming along well, another female who seems week on tree so I've been running her ( in a pen) with a 4 year old running walker jump dog that I recently purchased. The male is a super good looking big male that looks like the smoky river bred hounds, you know the " old time hound look". I could go on but already feel like I have written a novel. If ya wanna bs a little I'm on hear a bit