The American Beagler Forum

I run year round. No deathly dangerous snakes in my area, yet. The heat can be dangerous if we aren't careful. I go early in the morning or when its cloudy and damp. Coyotes are the ever present danger. It's been 9 years ago but I lost the best young dog I had to coyotes. She could solo a rabbit li...

Lost my best jump dog while birthing pups. Kinda put the hit on me and haven't ran at all in the last month. Has been extremely dry in southern IL. We did just get a couple of small rains but another inch or two wouldn't hurt us. Have been seeing several little and grown rabbits so that's a plus. My...

Sounds like a lot of fun. Our season went out the 15th. Was able to get our limit of cottontails on our last hunt. Only the second time we managed that. Not many swampers around here in southern Illinois but did get after a few and bagged 2. Sure makes for some impressive runing getting after one of...

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I tried a couple years ago to find one. Had zero luck.

I don't pay much attention to it. I know a guy though who is a big believer in the barometric pressure. Above 30 and rising is good. If it's falling running is harder.

I'm pretty hard on boots and in my opinion they do not hold up well at all. I'd much prefer Lacross. Mucks fit a little better around the calf but aren't around my lower leg so they still slip some. That's all anybody around here carries hardly though. I've got to make a decent trip to get a pair of...

My dogs are typically between 50-100 yards when hunting. Ada, my best jump dog hunts a little deeper but she covers a lot of ground. Sometimes when I hunt swamp rabbits I wish the others would get out a little farther like her but 95% of the time there are running in thick weed/briar patches chasing...

Like to see where these numbers come from. Every place I go seems like they are trying to hire but nobody wants to work. Why would they want to with all the free benefits?

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It’s about that time of year again. What does everyone plan on using to combat the pesty bastards?

I’ve only spent one weekend running hare. Would love to do it again. Sure was something to listen too. Of course at the time I owned prolly the 2 best hounds I’ve ever owned in my lifetime, plus to other above average hounds. One chase went 18 miles. After three days they where pretty much gutted. B...

Don’t know as much about swampers but I know of some state ground that floods every year about 20 miles from me. Most of the time it doesn’t affect the population too much but whenever we get a big flood and the water gets higher than normal and stays flooded for a couple weeks seems like it wiped t...

Currently have 4 myself. Three running dogs and pup I’ll start this spring. Don’t really like running more than 3 at a time so try and stay around that number. I’ve had up to 7 and just don’t have the time for that many. It’s dark by time I get home during the week so only been able to run in the we...

Just curious as to how many dogs everyone is feeding/running. Try and spark a little conversation