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Does anyone run Fox Hounds anymore? I've talked to a couple of old timers around here that used to have them. Sounds like a good fox chase would be a lot of fun. From what little I've heard, sounds like a fox will run a big circle simmiler to a hare?

Gray fox run a smallier circle than a red fox. They are fun to run with beagles. The beagles I use to have would run a fox. The dogs I have not have never ran them. When a gray fox gets tired they will cliam a tree. If a dog will bark treed, you will find the gray sitting on a limb.

I saw a kennel full of July Walkers , while traveling thru Virginia last fall. Only ones I've seen in years.

OH YES THERE R AFEW HERE N NORTHCAROLINA THAT STILL FOX HUNT I DID IT 4 25 YRS. MAN WHAT ARACE THERES NOTHING LIKE IT . SOME OF MY BUDDIES STILL DO IT N SOUTH CAROLINA PAVE ALL ROADS IN N. C. THATS WHY I WENT BACK TO BEAGLES. ITS TIME TO GIVE UP WHEN U C A1000 DOG N MIDDLE OF ROAD DEAD HAD SEVERAL KILLED AND HAD TO QUIT BUT I GOY SOME OF BEST MEMORIES A MAN COULD HAVE

there are still some old school fox hunters in my area here in willard ky
they are old school
they hate fox pens they just carry a sleeping bag and hit the hills with the hounds
they have some really good dogs
i heard a race or two and it was really something

Hogbody, I run fox in Michigan all the time. It is definitely better than hare running. Really, tough conditioning and they run close and wide opening.

Big Mike wrote:I saw a kennel full of July Walkers , while traveling thru Virginia last fall. Only ones I've seen in years.

Never heard of a July Walker. What type of Walker Hound are they?

bucks better beagles wrote:Hogbody, I run fox in Michigan all the time. It is definitely better than hare running. Really, tough conditioning and they run close and wide opening.

Bucks I knew you would hark in on this one. I've heard you talk of your fox running beagles before. Sounds like a lot of fun! Do you run on a lot of wide open land? Do you use primarily beagles or do you have fox hounds to?

http://southgajulys.bravejournal.com/ rnb

www.gingersridge.com has some good pic's of July Walkers . Very leggy fast hounds, usually yellow/red, like a yellow lab . Very courageous hounds. Other stains are the Trigg, and the Goodman. hope this helps.

When Buck was a pup,his Daddy Western Allen,Me and a host of others,now running fox hounds in the great beyound,would meet at the fire and turn about 25/30 hounds loose. We had awesome races most times all night long.All had Walker hounds,and they were good ones.

I went to the National Foxhound Field Trial in 68 and took a Trigg for a friend,it was a thing to see over 600 hounds turned loose at one time Derbies and all Age ran together.I beleive their was a man in Mi that had Julys but never remember him running with us. Those were the good ol Day`s Huh Buck.

I used to go with some boys that had real foxhounds not pen dogs or racing dogs.They would have 2o head or more and call a single dog out of the box and get a fox on his feet and start packing to em.Would catch a couple foxes a day.If you ever get a chance to go on a real foxhunt do it.I still have walker hounds but they are deerdogs.Aint nothing like 15 or 20 hounds running the toenails off a grey fox and the more the run him the stronger he scents.

I went to a 500 acre pen here in Ga when i moved here,spectator only just wasn`t the same. We ran in the wild Waterloo recreation area around Chelsea Mi.

bigdogpace wrote:OH YES THERE R AFEW HERE N NORTHCAROLINA THAT STILL FOX HUNT I DID IT 4 25 YRS. MAN WHAT ARACE THERES NOTHING LIKE IT . SOME OF MY BUDDIES STILL DO IT N SOUTH CAROLINA PAVE ALL ROADS IN N. C. THATS WHY I WENT BACK TO BEAGLES. ITS TIME TO GIVE UP WHEN U C A1000 DOG N MIDDLE OF ROAD DEAD HAD SEVERAL KILLED AND HAD TO QUIT BUT I GOY SOME OF BEST MEMORIES A MAN COULD HAVE

Big Dog Pace, Those were some good old days. I enjoyed as much as you did and those trials at Lauringburg were like going to Heaven every Fall. I have never heard anything to compare with 10-15 broke Walkers in a bean field in the late summer. Harvey Hardison still has some true Fox Walkers in New Bern and Johnny Corbet has a real pack with some of our old stock in them. ROWCO/Bobby and Johnny

One thing I'll never forget is the mouths on the July hounds. Used to see them crossed with beagles, usually July in color.