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frozen hot dry eny weather

When you find out let me know. I will buy one.

Everyone knows the answer to this one. It's whichever dog I own at the moment. LOL

That question could open pandora's box, but when you find em, let me know. I think you could find the dog you are looking for in any line. You might look at a few dozen before you find it though.

dan, if u get any leads on this - id like to hear about it .. pete

whatever line u choose it will be the RED dogs!!

im with these guys if u find one i want to know ill buy 5 of them

Everyone knows its Swamper Dogs, hands down.

Snow, I'm sending you a litter soon, your hunting will never be the same again. LOL!

Seriously though, this a good question. I'd be willing to bet that the answer will be a grade hound that is probably crossed with some hound sometime in the last 5 generations. Majority of beagles, probably 99.9% do not have the nose to run consistent in all conditions. Hounds seem to posses the nose so a cross of that may do it.

Good luck finding it for sure. We are all looking for that perfect nose.

Any luck Yet? It was -15 this morning with a wind chill around -20. One week old snow, that the cold has sucked out every ounce of moisture, its like tiny crystals. My best dog made some noise, but couldn't hold for a complete circle. Three hours and called it quits. Anybody else in the north try and run today?

i tried yesturday and only had one real good run for about an hour or so but like u said the snow is so dry its hard to scent

Aaron, not much better here. Yesterday was the same as today- about 15 below with a stiff north wind. I waited til about 9:30, then took Stella and her mother Hannah out for a run. Took over an hour to get a start but they ran fairly well considering. In fact it was better running than the cold weather and bare ground early in the month. I didn't bother with a gun, just wanted to see how they'd do. Twice I thought my eyeballs had frozen in my head. They had to just pick at the track about half the time but looked pretty good when they were able to get up close on him. Seemed like every time they headed towards me they'd have a hard check. Hannah's well over 12 so I picked them up after running about an hour. I'd had enough. If this cussed wind would ever stop, I think we could shoot a few. We need fresh snow and a calm day would be greatly appreciated.

yes steve a fairly wet snow with temps in the high 20's low 30's with now wind what so ever so quite u could hear the hares heart beating when he runs up to u

Don't get carried away, JR! You know that if we ever get a day like that we'll pay for it for the next three months!!!

but atleast we would have one really nice day

Was pretty cold here the past few months but managed to get 6 hare on Sat.was about -25c not nice weather but running was pretty good considering.Take care.