Again a grade male...30 yrs ago.... he was the type of dog that either you shot the rabbit, rabbit went to ground, or the rabbit would just plain die while running him.
He never needed help, I would hunt him solo, the best jump and track dog I have ever seen in 50 yrs. and I have seen a lot of very good dogs over 50 years. He was one of the first dogs who ever won a trail, against AKC hounds, before SEIBC went to all AKC hounds.
I paid $50.00 for him from an old man who lived near Camp Atterbury (Ind).... I am sure he found him in the camp, he was known to sell dogs that were found in the camp during and after hunting season.
Happy Holidays
Jim
What is the best dog you've ever seen run?
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The best dogs i have seen run in the last little while,would have to be TURNERS TOP GUN BEAU and BADGERS BRUSH BANDIT .These are full brothers from different litters.We ran them this weekend and they did a super job.Badger is 8 and Beau is 4.
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The one I call the best that I have seen was Muskie Lake Ely owned by my very good friend Jim Davis of Ravenna, Michigan I did not get to watch him run or gun over him until he was nine years old needless to say he made plenty of other "good ones" look downright silly not with blazing speed with pure rabbit running ability and he was at his very best in conditions where most struggled to move a hare. He was naturally trash free and would "tell" on his pack mates for a little off game activity! He died two or three years ago and there is not a winters day of hunting that Jim or I do not miss him.
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Blue Banks Moon Pie and Elk Creeks Amazing Grace; littermate sisters by IFC Taylor's Sock It To Me out of Camp Creek Gertrude. They were unbelievable! Brent Gay owned them and though he doesn't trial much, just hunts and pleasure runs mostly, he was talked into entering them in one trial; Jessamine Co. Ky's '93 AKC licensed trial and they placed 1st and 2nd in a class of 62 entries. They were the best looking & best built 15" females I've ever seen also in my opinion. They made running a rabbit look so easy that it was astonishing; and they ran with the intent to catch it.
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I've had the privalige of seeing several good hounds from the past,but I would have to say the best I ever seen was F C Mark V Snoopy. He was owned by Bill Galloway from uniontown Al. He always traveled north to run in the mid west trials. When I seen him run I couldn't beleive what I was seeing. I talked Bill into letting me keep him up here in Oh.to stud him out,so I got to see him run all the time. He was a full 15 in hound that could controll any pack he ran in very fast with great line controll,and he had enough brains to walk a track when needed.The best hunt of any big male that I have seen to date,he went through and under everything. Handeled like a pet and didn't run any trash. He died at an early age from kidneys failing. I did get to breed my F C bitch Salt River Wrinkles to him, which produced IFC Mark V Ace In The Hole.