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This pic. is from a hunt last thursday when I took my culls out for a round on the family farm. It turned out to be a quick hunt I wasn't in the woods 15 minutes making my way toward a old woods pond. When my Redtick gyp "Britches" opened once like she hit a track then it got quiet. It was about 30 seconds or so before I heard her again. When I did she wasn't alone "Trouble" my Mullins feist and "Otis" an ol' farm cur where right there with her bayed solid. I slipped on in before that poor bo(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z404/drstuart8/Hunting/IMG_20110811_071927.jpg)ar had a heat stroke and gave him a shot of lead. Good hunting.....Denny

That's a good lookin' redtick... is that dog out of old blood?  I got to hunt with a fine treeing walker yrs ago reminds me of that dog... Good hunt 

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Thanks . Yes she is a registered U.K.C. purple ribbon bred English coonhound. The purple ribbon means she has a minimum of 6 generations of purebred ancestors. Actually all her great grandparents are purple ribbon bred. If that even answers your question. Yes she is out of old blood. That played no part in my decision making when I purchased her for hogs I just rolled the dice. She had been hunted a little for coons and never seen a hog till I picked her up in march. I liked her looks and was looking for a redtick gyp for hogs and to cross my mullins dog over.(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z404/drstuart8/Hunting/Denny3.png)

How's she hunt?  That treein' walker I hunted with hunted 90 miles an hour... would make a big, 1000yd loop, check back in... and repeat... and I mean RUN a track when he hit it... I don't care for hounds too much, most just hunt too slow for me...  but I wish I'd got some blood off that walker dog...

Good hog and looking dogs

She is no 1000yd. dog for sure. She will range about 4-800yds. but when she hits a track shes kicken up dirt.Theres no slow rollin hound race when she is on track. She does circle back thru if she don't hit a track which makes her easy to hunt. When she hits a track she will see it thru. When I first started her on hogs she was alot more open on track. I worked with her some in kennel with bark collar and that seemed to take alot of that opening on track out.

How does your mullins dog hunt?

He hunts out about 400yds. Thats why I picked up that redtick to get a little more range. That being said if he hits a hot track he'll run it out. I've had him with my cousins walker dog on a boar that ended up running 1 1/2 to 2 miles and he hung in there with the big dogs. Hunting him by himself or with my redtick the hogs usually will bay up pretty easy. He bays pretty tight but just don't put to much pressure on em and they will usually hold pretty good for him. If they break bay he will put some teeth in em and shut the ol hog down. I've had better luck with him on hogs not breaking bay.This was my Mullins "Trouble" at 10 months on a 233lb. boar to give you an idea of how tight he bays.                          (http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z404/drstuart8/Hunting/trouble1b.png)

Good Hunt!  :)

Man, thats a really good action pic. Good lookin dogs. There ainy nothin wrong with a hound as long as you got the right kind. Old boy I used to hunt with had one of the fastest trailing red tick gyps I ever seen. We bred her to a nice male I had, but only one pup lived. I ended up with the pup, and sold dad and pup for BIG money bear dogs.
That might be a real cross, I am interested to see how they will be built.

goood  hunt and that is some fine looking dogs you have there  :)

Cool pictures 
     great hogs and great looking dogs
          thanks for sharing
           Dexter

Hey,....I'm with Tom here,....not a thing wrong with a hound if you get a good one that suits you. One of the boy I hunt with from TN has 2 redticks, they started kinda slowly but they're coming on now. One is pretty rough on hogs. Good job on the hogs,....you may have something with that Mullins cross.....good luck with it.

sure is green where ur huntin  :) its so dry here its hard to find anything unless its around water but we hardly have any of that  :( even the creeks are nearly dried up

Thanks for all the response on my dogs I'm super pleased with them. I just started hog hunting with dogs back in february and have had pretty good luck, especialy here in south arkansas. I grew up hunting tree dogs with my grandfather and started hunting and raising Mullins feist for squirrel hunting about 4 years back. I have to say I'm hooked. To reply on how green it was in the picture the only reason its so green is because that is actually a pond that has dried up. Here were I'm at in S.W. arkansas about a mile north of the Louisiana line its super dry we're losing oak trees left and right. I have to give credit to my hunting partner Shane Mason for the action pic. he took that from the video he shot of that hunt. Hey tnhillbilly heres a pic of the pups at 8 weeks out of that cross.(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z404/drstuart8/Hunting/pups1.jpg)

good story and pics