The American Beagler Forum

i seen the post about giving a kid a beagle. and made me think how i got started in beagling. so i wantedto thank a few that helped me along the way and the wisdom shared with me. a guy named kevin hale started taking me beagling . and introduced me to trialing. were i met people like . dale n carl larson. mike johnson/ bruce anna / kenny racine / deny pung / gene buyers/ . and i am so grateful to them all for taking the time to share there wisdom with me truly grateful. many days and nights spent runing with many of them . again THANK U ALL SO MUCH . for making my life filled with the love of hounds. its been one of the best things inn my life. and a special thanks to KEVIN HALE . for taking time to take a kid hunting. thats how it all starts. so if ya can take a kid with ya its the future of this sport. iam that proof . and my wife would like to thank u all for creating this dog running monster that caused here so many lonley weekends. . but now she runs her own hounds.

Mu Uncles Chuck and Don and Dad got me hunting; they let me tag along as a kid. Later I carried a BB gun and eventually a shotgun. Then for some reason--probably I discovered girls--the weekends changed. When I hunted, mostly alone, I was a jump shooter and not a very good one. Several years later, a woman we sub-contracted with told me about her step-dad having beagles for sale. That's how I met Jim Preston. Once my pup Annie got old enough, he let me run with him and his dogs. He also got me interested in trialing and the beagle clubs. But mostly I just ran dogs for pleasure and to hunt. Vic Eding gave me a Bredemeier bred female with a good nose. Later we bred her to a dog he knew that had some foot. One of those pups is my trial dog and doing quite well for a young dog. I hope to get his litter mate sister into the trials next year. I lost their mother suddenly last week --perhaps stroke or seizure or something else. Sure would have liked to had a repeat breeding. Thanks to all those, living and dead, who have given me a exciting and rewarding way to spend time outdoors.