The American Beagler Forum

Who has given you the best advice on beagle dogs and rabbit hunting and who is your go to person for the best answers to your questions about beagles??

This board!!!

My dad has taught me alot about dogs. Trial and error is what works best now for me on problems with dogs.

School of hard knocks... also known as experience

Dave

Adam Seger, Neil Kimbrel, Matt Glomski, and Joe Roseberry.

Jim meachum, Dave Richards(my dad), Simeon Richards(my grandpa), Kenny Racine, Jeff Goff and John Quigley. All great guys and know their hounds, I have been lucky to grow up around them And be mentored by them.

When it comes to good advise, I always talk to my dad. I may argue and disagree for a while, but it seems like he is always right in the end. It's not just me either. I have had a lot of people tell me if you really want to know, just ask Old Jim.

In all the 38 years of hunting and trials.It was the dogs that coach me.

Old man Joe Macfarlen in central NJ. I think he got almost everybody I know into beagles from the 1970s thru 1990s.

JCM wrote:When it comes to good advise, I always talk to my dad. I may argue and disagree for a while, but it seems like he is always right in the end. It's not just me either. I have had a lot of people tell me if you really want to know, just ask Old Jim.

I can't believe it, we finally agree on something. Old Jim knows what it takes to make em.

Ron Conroe.........although I don't always listen either. You know us kids still gotta learn stuff the hard way sometimes!!

Ed Conley is great with health advice too when I run into a sick dog/pup and don't know what to do. Last year I had a pup come down with coccidia and had no meds. My wife was gone for the night and I had kids at home that I couldn't take out plus it was late enough I'm not sure where I would have gotten some albon from anyway. Eddy never skipped a beat and ran right over with the albon plus some electrolytes I could use to get me by until morning. You just can't beat friends like that.

This board is an excellent source for information as it is loaded with experiance. I've learned over the years that my parents were the smartest people out there on issues of the world. Seems everything they 'tried" to tell me has come to be a fact and if I wasn't so smart back then I could have saved myself a lot of wear and tear. I never get too old to learn and all I can say is that even though I don't know them personally, there are folks on this board that are like E.F. Hutton to me, "when they speak, I listen" as it is obvious that what they say comes from years of the best training out there.......experiance and on the job training!

Wayne Waits, Earl Bruner and Walter Sharp. They all agree to disagree but they have all produced winners for the last 30 years or so.

For trialing, Dave Tipton of Mo and for rabbit hunting this board is all I know

When I was growing up it was my daddy, and still is for the most part....what I haven't learned on my own I can still ask him and he will usually have an answer or opinion...

Breaks my heart that he will never get to run hounds with me again...arthritis has ruined that forever.