Tail gate hunting

spiceoflife · Post by **spiceoflife** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:50 pm

I run dogs 3to5 hours aday 4to6 days A week. Now my dogs or trained to handle from the tail gate. So for I have killed 12 rabbits in this old strip mine country. Standing or setting in 30 feet of my truck. I don`t carry my gun I just wait untel the rabbit begens to tire and then Get the old gun out load it lay it on tail gate untel race starts in my derection. Now I pick up the gun and if he breaks out in the open shoot him. The dogs or trained to go hunting without me but stay in 150 yards of me when track is completed they come in for water and to load and move to new area. Now to hunt this way you have to be at least 70 years old and out of shape with A lot of aches and pains to complain about. And have lots and lots of
public hunting available. Good hunting to all of you know matter how you hunt.

LaMarr Rhoades · Post by **LaMarr Rhoades** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 6:12 pm

Sounds like my kind of hunting

Buckeye Bob · Post by **Buckeye Bob** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:29 pm

Your my kind of retiree sir,may your chases be long and loud,the rabbits never go to ground and all your aches be forgotten as you swing your gun up.

Bopeye · Post by **Bopeye** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:02 pm

I'm half your age, but I'm quite fond of that kind of hunting myself.

YGD ( BUNNY BUSTER) · Post by **YGD ( BUNNY BUSTER)** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:38 pm

SPICE, IN A FEW SHORT YEARS I'LL COME DOWN & JOIN YOU.
WE CAN SIT ON THE TAILGATE & TELL EACH OTHER HOW GOOD WE USED TO BE. MAYBE EVEN SHOOT THE RABBIT IF EITHER OF US CAN RAISE A SHOTGUN. FOR THE PRESENT, YOU GO AHEAD & ENJOY YOURSELF UNTIL I GET THERE. HAVE FUN

BUNNYBUSTER

redsrule · Post by **redsrule** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:01 am

well i rather go with and be with the dogs right now but maybe one day if i cant and that isnt an option i'll do what u do but that will have to be a have to case!to many tailgaters think they have good dogs around here but have back trackers cold trailers as long as they r barking they think there dogs r doin good .. this not to say this is ur situation at all just saying what i have seen about some of these tailgaters around here ....i am a lp judge and love to run with the dogs but at 45 i have to hit a lick here and there on the long runs lol.unless ur out witht the dogs u cnat know what is goin on truthfully!

thornie · Post by **thornie** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 4:22 am

Redsrule,
I hunt with spice of life, and I welcome you to come and hunt with us. I think you would enjoy sitting on the the tailgate after you had run behind the dogs for an hour. I usually walk behind and watch what the dogs are doing. You can ask anyone about the area we hunt and it doesn't get any better.

backyard beagler · Post by **backyard beagler** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:29 am

I have some uncles that do that and I have run with them a couple of times and what redrules says is true but it doesn't matter because as long as the owner is happy thats all that count.

Bopeye · Post by **Bopeye** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:48 pm

I'd set in a recliner and eat M&M's while the dogs ran if I wasn't too lazy to drag the recliner to my truck.

Cannon Hollow Hounds · Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:01 am

spice, I can only pray that I'm able to do that much at that age. I would say you are a very fortunate man. Keep on runnin' em

. Good luck, CHH

spiceoflife · Post by **spiceoflife** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:06 pm

I have ran in competetion formats coonhound and beagle UKC,ARHA LP. ARHA PP. and seen A few AKC trials. In the last 50 years of trialing I have held every office in these clubs at present I hold master of hounds lic. bench show lic in both ARHA LP. and UKC .I really feel like I know A good dog and what to expect from A bad one .I defy any one to come run with my dogs and then tell me I have cold trailing .back tracking or babblers,You will find honest mouthed mediam speed dogs that will account for 90 percent of their rabbits, OH yea I am allso president of LP. club at this time .Allso hold seat on the board of A ukc club. So I thank I deserve A little tail gate time, HAVE A GOOD DAY .
Beagling is the spice of life.

Dexterc · Post by **Dexterc** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:16 pm

Sounds like a great way to spend some time out with the dogs running and knowing dogs the way you do, you understand what is happening by the way the hounds are running, barking or on a check, etc.. so I say keep enjoying life like most of us would love to have and keep us posted on those good times, so we 'younguns' will have something to look forward to! May God continue to bless you in your 'spiceoflife' time!
Dexter

Ga. Beagler · Post by **Ga. Beagler** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:50 am

Sir,
I believe I will try to go hunting with you. I am 37, with a fat belly and a broad rearend. I can only hope to make it to your age. You sound like you have some good hounds and that you have a good time going hunting. If you ever need a fat Middle Ga. boy to sit on the tail gate with you, I'd be honored.
Colt
Reynolds, Ga.

YGD ( BUNNY BUSTER) · Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:41 am

BOPEYE, I DIDN'T KNOW YOU LIKED M&M'S.

BUNNYBUSTER

laal · Post by **laal** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:47 am

I do like you Spice, not all the time but most of the time. If I'm looking at a new dog or running a pup I like to watch them a little closer. The best houndsman I ever ran with could tell you what every dog in the pack was doing from just hearing them run. This man was Mr. Glinnes Hamilton do you know him?

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