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These are Posts from Tawney Ange, who Runs Fox and Bobcat in the Carolinas and VA. He uses PURE Running Walkers (remember they can not Tree...ha ha ha).


Post #1.
outside foxz and cat hunters?

Looking a post worth reading.

How's your running been?

Getting any tailgate trophies?

What breed of dogs are turning out good?



I had to work today and dad hunted had to live through phone calls I bet I called him every hour to get a up date they had two knock down cat races makes for a long day at work even worse knowing id much rather be right there with him chasing them dogs.


Two Saturdays ago me dad randy and Casey Gardner were hunting running a fox pretty good sorry dogs had thrown him away a time or two couldn't smell him but they would get back after him or someone would see him finally they got him where they could run him right and people started showing up to hear the race the fox took up around a big field and ran circles around this field 3 or 4 times I didn't leave the field and could hear all the best running it got so good we had everyone running up and down the road and field keeping the fox from crossing the Rd into a swamp area the fox ran across the field 3 times and the last time the dogs and fox were in the field together so you know the roar it was it couldn't of happened any better the fox ran right to Tanya Skiles and her son they were having a blast when the fox jumped in the path between them dogs were feet away fox ducked back
into the dogs and his luck ran out they were jumping up and down excited yelling they got him they got him we all got a good laugh and enjoyed the excitement of the good race and there first fox race. 30 min later got after another fox that never left the bloke we jump him in it was raining good and the dogs were running good got wet getting him but it was worth it had alot of begginers luck with us that day told them everyday fox hunting wont that good looking forward to the weekend ahead hope to find something to run.

Post #2

Cat race of the year!!!

me and tj started trotting dogs at day light after a hour of nothing was beginning to wonder if it was going to be one of those days of nothing when tj hollered on the radio ive stuck a mighty good tack and black boy and maybe going away from here with it I picked up my dogs and headed that way had several guys hunting with us that could hear the dogs trailing towards them dogs trailed into the rd and was up and down looking for where he went I got several hundred yards from tj dogs and figured id trot my dogs towards them bc ryano and chris could see the track in the rd going both ways I had 6 dogs in the rd and hadn't gone 50 feet when fred locked up twitched a few times and across the ditch he went everything left the road dang near running by the time we got around the block they were in the rd again took 10 min or so for the dogs to find him across but when they did they went straight to him we dumped the truck and the roar began in a real thicket I saw the cat Justin saw the cat and the dogs were all over him after 30 mins of around and around silent came gone up? caught him? we headed that way and all the sudden dogs went to treeing as pretty as you could ask for we got there and the cat jumped out and dogs couldn't even see him it was so thick 10 more min silent again we waited and nothing Justin said Im almost sure I heard his claws on bark going up he hadn't walked nowhere and said here he is sorry dogs missed him big time this time jumped him out again and they ran few min the cat ducked and dogs made a loose and got out the short 30 foot pines to big woods but man it was way thicker in the big woods we treed that joker 8 times climbing spurs was put to good use after I climbed the 8th time we were finally in a little opening and he ziged when he should of zagged awesome race really helped these dogs of mine with treeing.

Thanks for the stories C.John, Remember once those runnin walkers start treeing naturally they are no longer runnin walkers. They are then treein walkers and CULLS! Serious don/t think there is much difference between a treeing walker that is also a good track hound & a runnin walker that makes a tree dog. I have hunted with both & in my experience both breeds got tired at times & on given days saw one out run the other. Now have never hunted with a clay hound and cannot speak about them. GOOD HUNTING AND TELL MR FINNEY HI. Al

Al,don't you feel there was a difference 30+ years ago compared to todays tree'in bred stuff?The dogs today[most not all]seem alot further away from each other than back say at least before 1990 roughly.Just personal observation along with others,don't really believe anything is absolutley set in stone[no wrong answer].Was hoping to hear your analogy of dogs 30-40 years ago compared to today on the reg.treeing walkers.

Tim Pittman wrote:Al,don't you feel there was a difference 30+ years ago compared to todays tree'in bred stuff?The dogs today[most not all]seem alot further away from each other than back say at least before 1990 roughly.Just personal observation along with others,don't really believe anything is absolutley set in stone[no wrong answer].Was hoping to hear your analogy of dogs 30-40 years ago compared to today on the reg.treeing walkers.

Tim not sure I/m qualified to answer that, because I have not hunted with a large number of treeing walkers bred post 1900. The ones that come to mind would be Hawk a hound bred by Bob Marosock, owned and hunted by my hunting partner. Yes hawk did false tree at times, however seen him tree cats that it took the other hounds 5 minutes or so to honor him. Also seen him tree a few that the hounds hunting with him did not tree on and have the cat. That did not surprise me , giving his treeing background. The thing that did surprise me was to see him get hold of a cat track and carry that track for a couple hours and any time we saw the dogs, clearly hawks track, with dogs like the buddy hound in the race. I recently recieved an email from the young hunter whom I sold Hawk to thanking me for selling hawk to him. In that email he said Al if I did not know how honest you have been with me i would not believe Hawk turns ten early spring. I also hunted several times with those two good females owned by Tim Pickett, never saw thier pedigree, but understood they were very tree dog bred & they were good balanced cat hounds that most would have appreicated. The last experience was with a male who/s dam was direct daughter of Track man, Sire was a coon hound bred as they get. That male showed little if any tree in the two seasons I hunted him on cat however he was a very natural box dog, w ith a decent cold nose, outstanding hound mouth, good hustle roading and decent speed. I read that the treeing walkers have had the track bred out of them by the competion coon hunters and are tree happy. Another hunter friend had a litter mate to the hound i just described. At a very young age ( was told ) she was boxing, running and treeing her own game & he told me she would lead the track at times when hunted with two older hounds that I do know did a decent job on cat. Tim guess I just believe sometimes how well hounds perform depends on how they are hunted and the amount of game they are exposed to. Ofcourse, hard to make a cat hound out of a poodle or a nice looking walker hound that has the track bred out of them. There are some good track and tree hounds in the coon hound treeing walker breed, As well as bunch of hot nosed tree happy culls. Al

Al,I appreciate the post[I know that would take forever for me to have written it/slow at typing] like anything I know there's good/bad in everything,thanks.Mr.Clay didn't mean to jack your thread,take it easy on ol Dewey while he's down there with ya--I'm jealous.Maybe next time it'll work out for me to come.

Tim,

I wish that Dad and Dewey would take it easy on me.

Scenting conditions have been terrible all across the South the last few Days. S. Texas it is bad Hounds can not smell.....MS, AR, and AL the same way....You can RUN a Hot Track, but can not Trail a "Cold" one.

We treed one last night, holed one about daylight this morning and treed one later this morning.

Ask Dewey about the "Briar Seeds" that he wants to bring home!

Mr. Al, a very good post about the hounds.

For you Folks out West Tawney, Mr. Rod Vinson, Poon, Vacathunter, Perk and many more would love to hear Your stories told here on BGH about your Hunts. They will then be not so shy about telling you theirs. This is not a Typing contest or English Class....just tell us a Tale like you would around the Campfire!

I don't claim to be smart,but in this case my brain works faster than my fingers--hahahah!