The American Beagler Forum

I've got one due any day and she's just about dragging on the ground :shock: They are all different but as long as you give her plenty of good quality dog food she should be just fine. Nine isn't that many. I follow a lot of dog breeding groups on facebook and it's hard to believe all the things the...

Here is another one from the next day, different dogs and a storm went through the night before.

https://youtu.be/txw5j4JuQ20

Uploaded some video from a couple years ago. Hopefully this puts to rest the idea that you can't run more than one or two dogs on snow :) It's actually easier to keep a pack running together when the snow is deep, they tend to follow the leader. The biggest problem with deep snow is that they are lo...

I came and hunted with you a few years back :) I'm not much good at shooting video but here's one Bud and Keith shot a few years ago. I think we put over 20 miles on the dogs that day. All of those dogs were hunted on hare in a pack all winter in all conditions, none were ever soloed. https://www.yo...

I keep about 20 dogs and always run at least 8 at a time. I hunt hare, all winter, in all kinds of conditions. It isn't easy and my dogs are far from perfect, but it can be done and has been done. Deep snow makes it easier. Right now we are running on hard old crust with lots of rabbits and it can g...

I must be looking at the wrong sites on face book, I haven't seen what you guys are talking about. What I see are lots of videos of dogs running rabbits and a few good discussions about beagles. I guess I'm kind of a no BS guy. I read some of these posts about the great old dogs and they are fun to ...

I am mostly a hare hunter but we have lots of cottontails also. Never used to have many but now they are in all my spots. They live in the slash piles left behind after an area is logged off. I have mostly cottontails by my house and I let dogs out to run almost every day. My puppies are all raised ...

We ain't all dead yet :roll: Facebook is killing these boards. Check out the group Jam Up Rabbit Dogs, more posts and videos in a slow day than this board has ever had. I also follow All Weather Hare Hounds and Hare Hunters Discussion. I'm sure there are lots more. One facebook group I like is calle...

Bragging on dogs on boards like this isn't very educational either. I would much rather see video. Not as good as being there, but far better than asking someone's opinion. Watch Budd or Mark Carder's videos and you will get a pretty good idea of the kind of dogs they run. The few large pack trial v...

It is easy to break a dog from being gun shy and only takes a few days. When you feed your dog, set the food down and shoot in the air (use a .22). If the dog shys away, pick up the food and leave. Next day do it again. Do not leave the food until the dog will stay and eat when you shoot. After abou...

I've got this disease also. I was born with it. As a kid I spent all my time in the woods with a dog. Never had many friends. Never could stand being in town or being around lots of people. I've pissed away more time and money on these hounds than I care to think about. I'm not proud of it. Somehow,...

John, you always have a way of saying a lot with few words!

The best feed for rabbit dogs is RABBITS!!

I've (and I know you have too) seen too many times in similar circumstances where the dog acted like the hare was never there Yep, I know that feeling all too well :???: To be honest, I don't think anyone else has ever tried putting together a pack that can run together on those kind of days. In an...

Good videos NorWester, some of the best pack work I've seen posted for our kind of conditions. Couple points for you, just to make conversation :twisted: We have days here when the dogs running behind the leaders don't have anything to run. In fact, I can count on one hand the dogs I've seen that ca...

Lots of good information on this post. I like to see where you are hunting and what kind of rabbit you are running, puts things in perspective. I hunt hare in Minnesota. We have 3 or 4 months when most days, no beagle ever born can run every hare steady for long periods of time without a loss. We do...