running rabbits with a beagle

[Will05]

I cant wait to get my pups on hare!!!!! Hoping to make the trip to Drummond next fall!!! I hear tons of stories of hours long races and I cant stop thinking about it!!!! Around here we are lucky if we can get one to stay above ground more than 30-45 mins but most hole up before that

[Tsa la gi]

Will,
They will run 4/5 hrs and more. You young man are in for a treat. If tour dogs push it hard enough it will go 2/3 miles in. Hope to see you there.
Come Run

[Remmy]

Rabbit in front, dog behind. Lot of folks will try to act like there is a lot more to it and pretend they have it all knowed up, but that is it! The only way you can get it wrong is to have the dog in front, other than that, it is just a bunch of personal preferences!

Right on gw and then you will see ALOT of folks claiming to have trained a beagle to run a rabbit. I find that about the most hilarious thing I have ever read, unless they think that turning them loose in the field is training. I call it allowing them the time in the field to obtain the experience of honing their GOD given skills. Never seen a rabbit dog reading" rabbit running 101" or" how to run rabbits for dummies." I don't know how I would teach a dog to scent chase something that I've only smelled in the frying pan!

One time my buddy and I were sitting on the tailgate drinking a cold one while the hounds pounded a cottontail. I mentioned to him " One nice thing about beagles is that this is considered proper training."

[adirondackjoe]

remmy amen to that.

[44magman]

Where I live we don't have any cottontail just hare but not a lot of hare so the dogs stay on one hare .a couple off weeks ago on a Sunday we ran one hare foe three hours and the dogs put on twelve miles on the garmin it was windy and they were just flying drifting the track heads up like the running walkers running Yotes.seen the hare six or eight times and we can not carry guns on Sunday we had to pull the dogs off to go home.