Chocolate lab/ blue tick?

[pup42]

Does anyone hunt or ever heard of anyone hunting with a lab/hound cross and if so how did it work out?

[brantpalmer]

I'm also interested.... I've got a chocolate lab who has ran a couple short races and trees hard, jumping, climbing foaming at the mouth. I've wondered how this cross would be.

[pup42]

Yeah we just picked up a 3 year old female chocolate lab and somehow her and my blue tick male hooked up, so we may have a litter coming in about 8 weeks.... So I'm just curious what I have to expect.

[david]

You guys need to go to the search button above and do a search on every post by TomJr Key word: lab
You will get pretty excited about what is happening to you...
You might be about to witness the best game catchers you ever saw.

[pup42]

I just checked out his posts. Pretty interesting. Thanks for the info.

[JakeG]

I had a dog who's mom was plott and dad was a black lab cocker spaniel cross. I kept the only brindle colored one. He was an awesome dog. At six months old he was leading some long bear races. He would strike gray squirrels on the farm off the truck and would run and tree them. I caught tons of coons with him and he even caught a few bobcats by himself. He would bark on track but just enough to tell what he was doin. I could bring him to the mts and he wouldn't mess with squirrels. I brought him duck huntin and I could get him to fetch ducks. He wanted to hunt anything I'd let him. Real pleasure dog. We were good buddies and I could get him to do anything. He would even flush quail. Wish I would have bred him. He got salmon poise and died before I figured it out. Real cool dog. Not sure if any of his litter mates made dogs. I think he would have made a good dry ground cat dog if I knew what I was doin back then.

[pup42]

Sounds like you had yourself a pretty nice dog. I am really looking forward seeing how theses pups turn out. My male died the other night. Jumped over a 6 foot kennel and got hung up by his collar. I didn't find him till I got up to go to work. It was a pretty hard thing to see. Just a sweet dog and all he wanted to do was run. Now these pups will be all that's left of him.

[Mike Leonard]

According to Author and Professor Frank C. Hibben in his wonderful book (HUNTING AMERICAN LIONS) Frank Colcord legendary Arizona lions hunter had a very famous lead dog that was mostly Chesapeake Bay Retriever, so you just never know.


If you have a good lab and he likes you he will do just about anything for you. My current lab Tuggs thought he was a lion hound for a long time until a big tom on the Black Mesa of Arizona taught he he needed to leave the heavy work to the hounds. LOL! He is still one heck of a cheerleader though. LOL!