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Just figured I might give a little back lol

Well we never know what we are gunna CATCH when you and I turn out together do we Teddy lmao!

Ten four but its enjoyable to hunt with a buddy and admire other dogs and what they have made for them selfs a lot of good cat dogs are on the west coast and they produce game buy there selfs some just do it with more style but even them make a guy wonder how they get er done at times

Never get too high on em and never get too low on em

mark wrote:Never get too high on em and never get too low on em

Mark,there i way more to this statement than a guy realizes.

TRW wrote:Fox hunt as many dogs as you want for a week at night but the same ones and in a few days you will see plain as day what grit, speed, endourance and all the things that make a hound tough.

TRW,
I enjoy your comments but I still disagree on the "grit" part. You will sure find out how bottom on your dogs, but you still won't find out grit hunting fox. The definition of grit in our area (which is primarily from bear), resides on if the dog will stick when the critter stops.

I think some running dogs trials run for multiple days in a row. Now I don't know if the dog is in there running the whole time or if they take a break at night and go back at it in the morning. In any case these dogs run, run, run and run some more and run fast. Tree dogs most likely won't be able to hang that long. Many of these dogs won't bay a coyote or engage it if they actually caught it. If they did they'd get kicked out of the pen. These dogs are about as high end as you can get on speed and endurance, but many don't have any grit. If they did, they'd get kicked out of the game.

Some of the old timers around here used to run red fox back when they were worth a bunch of money. Now most guys I know won't mess with them or grey fox. The reason being that there are lot more fox than other critters, so you'll end up with fox chases rather than what you're intending to run. But the chases are exciting, a good grey run will fool a guy into thinking he might have a cat going.

Your absolutely right on the bear side you bay a bear in heavy ferns and briars that is gritt but I was just talking about grit in the varmint department I really would like to go and check out the yote races with the running style dogs would be a good time.