Where did you get her? That might be the one that Phillip had, he sold his and who ever he sold it to sold her or traded her or something. Thanks for the report on her. I have 11 new ones right now that I have High hopes for.
I night hunted (compitition) coons for years. Treeing walkers dominated the hunts (75%) where treeing walkers. I don't hog hunt with hounds. I just perfer silent dogs when it comes to hogs.
There is some truth to this statement! I dont however think the % will be that high now days! I competition hunted for over 20 years and I will tell you 30 years ago probably 80% of all dogs entered were walkers! Its not like that anymore. Two breeds that have made a big comeback are American Bluticks and English hounds. Redtick is not a breed, it is a color! The English hounds can be Bluetick, Redtick, or a mixture of several colors. As for Blueticks being slow, Ive drawn out with alot of Walker dogs and I will promise you thier handlers would beg to differ IF they tell the truth. Coon hounds are so refined now days there isnt a nickel's worth of difference in them any more. It all comes down to color preference now. For all it's worth my color is BLUE!!!!!.........
Raider54,
I understand that they are one in the same, and I was told by a fella who competition hunts that as a majority Redtick breeders mostly breed for competition in these parts. He did say if he was a pleasure hunter that a Blueticks seem to be bred with colder noses and run colder tracks, which wouldnt be good for competition.
I have two teams of cur dogs that are, in my opinion, as good of curs that can be found out there today or should I say do exactly what fits my bill. Of course everybody has their own idea of what a hog dog should be. My reason for a team of hounds is that I have truly enjoyed their natural ability and with the right handling can make acceptional dogs very fast, as far as bottom and heart goes.
As I stated above, I had the pleasure of hunting a couple of nice Plott hounds for Bud Goatcher this summer. If given the chance to run them again after deer season I will jump at it. However, they were to the point that I was beginning to grow very fond of them as hog dogs. For as young as they were, they were improving with each hunt and jumping hogs in front of my curs, but still needed woods time to improve at working out tracks a little faster. The last hunt that I took them on with Bud and Adam, they rolled right out nearly a 1000 yds and jumped hogs. Now the hogs broke leaving the hounds circling trying to figure out which way or which hog to run.(Sensory overload on scent) Now my curs being very expierenced worked out a track and we bayed and caught one then turned the hounds back in. While running the other hog Adam witnessed the hog run right to a little pond and swim across. The hounds, following their noses went right into the pond and swam across, as the curs all went right around the pond and picked up the scent. "Difference between a dog that hunts with its brain and nose and one that hunts strictly with its nose", (Adam Goatchers statement more or less).
I start my hunts with my curs and go with them until they either are getting tired or I see a hog peel off the pack and I will dump the hounds on it to comeback to it later, but I would like to find a pair of hounds to hunt this winter so I can just enjoy their music from time to time and to see how which ever breed I go with can hang with these hogs. I have had my curs get run 25 miles in one day during the winter on these hogs.(That is not as the crow flies, but the tripometer of total distance traveled back and forth and in circles on my Garmin.)
P.S. I got a female out of your last breeding that has really turned on and is in that video that Bud posted catching that big sow in the lake. Got her bred to a my Pit, I hope it takes, becasue she is built RIGHT!!!
