Grade dog pricing.

boss hog · Post by **boss hog** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:57 pm

W hat is the most somebody has gave for a grade dog.This question includes items people has also traded?

herbie · Post by **herbie** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:15 pm

most i `ve given is 75.00 bucks

L.J. McKenzie · Post by **L.J. McKenzie** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:41 pm

i gave $200 best all around dog i ever had. better then any paperd dog ive ever had. killed alot of rabbits off him.

New York Hillbilly · Post by **New York Hillbilly** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:56 pm

I paid 350 dollars for a four year old bitch eight years ago as a Christmas present to myself. I got call from my cousin late at night saying him and a buddy killed a pile of rabbits over her every day for a week and were sick of shooting rabbits (coon hunters...) and wanted her to go to a real rabbit hunter. They ended up with her from a guy who owed them money and she settled the debt. I knew she had to be something or would have never remained alive after only a few minutes out the first time with my cousin at that point in his life. I brought her home and kept her for a couple weeks in and around the house and kennel to get use to me and the first time we went hunting she blew my mind. She ran in any weather with no excuses or help ever needed. I ran her in a few PP ARHA hunts and she placed in the top each time and got a second in a State Hunt. She was capable of beating any hound on any day and I have no idea who she was out of and never even cared. I suspect there are lots of "Grade" hounds out there that can wax their fair share of big named line, "blue bloods". I know this ruffles some feathers but I believe it is the truth.
NYH

CORNERSTONE · Post by **CORNERSTONE** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:52 am

Two of the best I ever owned my dad brought me home from the mine parking lot. ( Davey & Noname) They were both Med speed and hard on the bunnies.

coolbrze · Post by **coolbrze** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 6:42 am

Paid $100 for mine. Only grade dog I've ever had, but he runs rabbits pretty good.

Cottontail Chaser · Post by **Cottontail Chaser** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 7:21 am

I paid $250 for a grade gyp that was 6 or 7 years old. I had hunted over her for a few years before when I was first introduced to rabbit hunting over hounds.. I mentioned that I wanted to get some dogs so I could hunt and the guy who owned this gyp said to me---"Son, I will sell you this gyp here that you love so much and she is and has always been my best dog for $250. I guarantee you will never find another dog like her because they don't come around too often especially for $250". He was a older Rabbit Hunter that hunted 5 days a week and this gyp was starting to get tired at the end of the week and he wanted a good home for her so he sold her to me right after a hunt we had.. He said he wanted to start me out right and help me as someone had helped him years ago. She was trash-proof and could run almost check-free and would get every check if there was any and had a coonhound bawl mouth and handled pefectly.. Her name was " Music "... She only raised two litters and everything we kept were top dogs themselves..He was right, as I have never been able to buy another dog at any price that was as good as she was all around,great jump-dog..I miss her to this day..I used to get up early on my only day off just to hear her run and I never owned a set of "Chaps" until she passed away...She got many of pups started and was a lead dog that ran the front and made it look effortless...She was so rabbit smart that if a rabbit squatted she would grab them and she even swam a running creek after a rabbit in the dead of winter.. That gyp had over 1000 rabbits shot over her... Man I get a tear in my eye just thinking of her...Her daughter died this past fall and was the last offspring she had living...

SouthernBeagles · Post by **SouthernBeagles** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:26 am

I only deal with AKC registered dogs but back when I competed in the ARHA I know of a grade dog that was purchased for $1,000.00. He was a sure enough rabbit dog! Finished as a RHC easily.

OK yes the dog had ARHA/ NKC papers on him but he was a grade dog till they spent the $10 or $15 on him to register him NKC to start competing him.

Robg · Post by **Robg** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:56 am

One of the best males i ever owned or could dream of owning was a grade dog. Paid $250.00 for him and to be honest would have paid more . He was 2yrs old when i purchased him , yet he could pound a bunny like a seasoned veteran . He was a drop the tailgate and get gone type of dog, most times by the time i got my briar chaps on and grabbed my 20gauge he already had a caincutter up and running . I truly miss those fall hunts with him.

WVBrushBuster · Post by **WVBrushBuster** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:13 am

I love these stories! Ithink everyone has at least one.

Windkist · Post by **Windkist** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:28 am

WVBrushBuster wrote:I love these stories! Ithink everyone has at least one.

I agree.. The best dog I have ever owned was a dog that wandered into my yard and stuck! I loved that one like no other since. He is now buried here in or little doggie cemetary and has been gone for years but, I still would give anything to have him back.

Registration papers do not make the dog and those special ones don't come along often enough

Leah

mud · Post by **mud** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:15 am

The best hound I ever owned period in 30 plus years of hunting was a grade female I raised from a pup.She turned out to be the best jump dog I have ever hunted with.I turned down a thousand for her from a fellow hunting partner.She died 6 months later at the age of 5. I will never again see her like and I don't expect to.She was the only dog I would not part with.I miss her to this day

Jr Walker · Post by **Jr Walker** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:07 pm

Well ive heard ALOT of high prices for grade dogs I own 7 grade dogs and I agree with Windkist the papers dont run the rabbits the dogs do and that rabbit doesnt care if the dog is ARHA or AKC if hes life is on the line hes gonna MOVE IT! Not to start any thing on here but where do you think AKC dogs came from they didnt just drop out of the sky

Jr.

Roy Pasmore · Post by **Roy Pasmore** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:27 pm

In 1958 My dad owned A grocery store. I had just gotten out of air force and was doing some coon hunting and rabbit hunting with others when I could I had no rabbit dog at that time. A man who came in the store all the time was laid off from work and was hunting rabbit every day. He would stop by the store on his way home from hunting and pick up A few things. He all ways had several rabbits he had killed that day. One day he came in to store and as he was leaveing he said you wont be seeing me much any more I have just taken Ajob driving A truck over the road so I will only be home 2or3 days A month. He turned to me and said Roy I know you like to hunt and I need to get rid of my rabbit dogs would you be interested in them. Now as I said I had just gotten out of service was hunting had no job yet. my only income was the 20.00 dollars A week unemployment we drew back then. I said sure I would like to have them but I do not have the money to buy them. He laughed and said I know you will take good care of them so they or yours . Needles to say the male he gave me still to this day is the best rabbit dog I have ever seen.

Beagled1 · Post by **Beagled1** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:36 pm

Windkist wrote:
WVBrushBuster wrote:I love these stories! Ithink everyone has at least one.
I agree.. The best dog I have ever owned was a dog that wandered into my yard and stuck! I loved that one like no other since. He is now buried here in or little doggie cemetary and has been gone for years but, I still would give anything to have him back.

Registration papers do not make the dog and those special ones don't come along often enough

Leah

My first Beagle was a Lemon & White 16" or 17" bitch. She was definitely purebred, but she was a stray that wandered into my school. No kidding. My other dog had died 2 weeks before this and the principal of that school was both a dog lover and knew my other dog died. When I get into details about the story, it sounds as far fetched & unbelieveable as possible, but its true. I'd just finished reading Where the Red Fern Grows and wanted a hound so badly it hurt. I prayed for one ... and got one.
Copper turned out to be the best dog I ever had and its just a shame that she was spayed & we never had a pup out of her. I got the chance to take her to New Hampshire one time and thats the day I got hooked on hunting - and Beagles. She had more hunt than any of my registered Beagles and was the best jump dog I've ever had. She barely needed to put her nose down to find a bunny. If they holed up, she'd dig it out and pound the hell out of it

She wasn't hunting with me - she was hunting FOR me.
Was also the best pet anyone could ask for. I'd take 100 more like her, papers or not.