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Your best hunting dog ever #6675668
11/25/19 11:31 PM
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Which breed or mixture?

Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675687
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Ole Cindy girl. She was a fiest. Kinda ugly and chubby, but adorable. She loved the kids until I said load up, then she was all business, ears up. She was a squirrel treeing machine and a ferocious scrapper. She weren't afraid of nothing, had to separate her a lot from ground hogs and coon, that was always fun lol. I still miss her.


I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675712
11/26/19 12:11 AM
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Stylish Clover's Dixie

Any Walker man will recognize Stylish Clover. Dixie was his double grand daughter and was the spitting image of her grandsire right down to the black toenails.

She could strike coon from the box going down the highway. Honest to a fault as she would check and double check before locking down. Could tree lay ups could run it cold to hot and have the meat.

Hands down best dog I've ever turned out.


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Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675715
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My favorite hunting dog was my dog Dingle, who was a mix breed dog, technically a feist. She looked mostly like a mountain feist. She killed a 26 pound raccoon by herself once and only weighed around 24 pounds at the time. I used her to hunt all small game and most fur in Ohio. We used her a lot in falconry. She climbed 14 feet high in an oak tree a few times going after fox squirrels. She could jump up and sit on top of a six foot privacy fence. She would go after anything I told her to. She would stop chasing if I told her to. She was great. She slept in bed with me in cold weather. I had to put her down last Winter at 15 1/2. I want another dog like her.

My most recognized, best hunting dog was a beagle, Blue Man's Soda Pop, who was ranked 4th in the World in 2012. He had enough points to be Champion in 4 different fast formats and was a champion in three formats.

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Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675718
11/26/19 12:19 AM
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I am liking the German wirehared pointer. They are still pups but are good dogs and on there way to being decent gun dogs. [Linked Image]

Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675733
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Tie between my mastiff mix and my blue tick Walker.
My mastiff (Dusty) would hunt anything from rabbits to coyotes he would go after geese ducks cranes etc.. once he was locked on he wouldn't give up until it was over. He even headbutted someone who was very intoxicated and making me very uncomfortable. Good boy!

Joy my hound, she we'll go toe to toe with the meanest cat fox or yote. It's easier to get her off yote and fox.

Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675741
11/26/19 01:04 AM
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I've had 2 GSPs, a wirehair and an English setter. Currently have a GSP and the setter. Best overall dog is the GSP I have now, Rowdy. Will retrieve geese and ducks in the AM and hunt chukar after. Best nose of those dogs was Sage the wirehair. Best tracker and pheasant dog was Tygh the other GSP.


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Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675742
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Freckles.....She was a 10 inch beagle. At 4 1/2 months she jumped a rabbit that dad shot and wounded. She trailed it and found it dead. Never was another rabbit could get away from her. Very well behaved, not stubborn, and very easy to handle. Not to fast or to slow. She was small enough to get into roughest brambles. If a rabbit went down a hole she would bay until she knew we seen where it went then she would go find another to run.


She was also the only dog I have ever seen watch tv. When a comm. came on she would get down and stretch or get her drink or bite, then be back in time for the show to start again.

Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: il.trapper] #6675748
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Originally Posted by il.trapper
Freckles.....She was a 10 inch beagle. At 4 1/2 months she jumped a rabbit that dad shot and wounded. She trailed it and found it dead. Never was another rabbit could get away from her. Very well behaved, not stubborn, and very easy to handle. Not to fast or to slow. She was small enough to get into roughest brambles. If a rabbit went down a hole she would bay until she knew we seen where it went then she would go find another to run.


She was also the only dog I have ever seen watch tv. When a comm. came on she would get down and stretch or get her drink or bite, then be back in time for the show to start again.


Best thing i heard all day about watchin tv. Awesome. Best bird dog was a german shorthair. She had a great nose, but watchin her work a running bird was the best. I have a lab/springer mix that is probably the most affectionate dog ill ever have. She does a decent job in the field, nothing special, she doesnt want to get too far away.

Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675795
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I had this over sized terrier that most would call a pit bull but acted more like a gun dog.

He was amazing squirrel dog. He'd do running back flips off the tree when he found one he'd get so excited.

He did point but he would what I call hold on pheasants and an efficient retriever with a soft mouth.

50 lbs but strong as an ox. In the winter time I got him a harness and hooked him to a sled. Could pull a full sled of cut wood or a couple of girls.

When he was inside he was the most mellow.

Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675801
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just had to put him down but had this guy 20 yrs.hunted cats and ran the fur shop.was 3 when i got him so lived 23 great yrs. [Linked Image]









Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675805
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Betty was Brittny would hold point until she couldn't stand any longer, put her down at age 8 due to cancer.


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Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: pcr2] #6675812
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Originally Posted by pcr2
just had to put him down but had this guy 20 yrs.hunted cats and ran the fur shop.was 3 when i got him so lived 23 great yrs. [Linked Image]

20 years......Heck of a run man.

Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675832
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I have been blessed beyond measure to own two great Brittanys. The first, Pearl, I got third hand out of Iowa and she was a hunting whiz. She's buried in Nebraska under her favorite loafing pine tree.

Now I have Grace, or should I say, she has me. I call her Gracie. She cost me a little bit to acquire out of MN and then get trained, but now at six years old, she hunts and sniffs on the trap line to show me coyote hot spots like none I've ever had. Plus, she is more obedient than any dog I'll "ever" own, which is a delight.

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Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675841
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Shea, My English Setter, The absolute best bird dog ive ever had the pleasure to hunt behind. The day i buried her nder her favorite apple tree in the yard was one of the hardest days of my life. First time my daughter ever saw me cry. Eric

Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675860
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This guy, he's a machine, no quit in him. He hunts himself bloody every time out. An AKC lab from a long line of top hunters and Hunt Test Champions.

Here he is after a hard day of grouse/woodcock/pheasant hunting in the heavy brush.

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Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675888
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I have had Airedales for almost 50 years and they've all been memorable the one I have now is a what I call a trap dog and he will tree or hold an animal till I show up. He has caught or treed coyotes,lions coons muskrats "field lions" rats and too curious people, can not trap without Pancho!

Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: il.trapper] #6675890
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Originally Posted by il.trapper
Freckles.....She was a 10 inch beagle. At 4 1/2 months she jumped a rabbit that dad shot and wounded. She trailed it and found it dead. Never was another rabbit could get away from her. Very well behaved, not stubborn, and very easy to handle. Not to fast or to slow. She was small enough to get into roughest brambles. If a rabbit went down a hole she would bay until she knew we seen where it went then she would go find another to run.


She was also the only dog I have ever seen watch tv. When a comm. came on she would get down and stretch or get her drink or bite, then be back in time for the show to start again.


My Gordon setter would sit with my ma and watch the twins game and when the commercial ended and the game picked up they would roll a ball out starting with it small and getting bigger as it approaches the screen and he would rush at the tv trying to catch the ball

He also had the best nose for finding birds of any dog I have ever seen

But Charlie my hound is definitely the most memorable of any dog I have ever owned not only was he an awesome hunting dog ready to trail any animal I wanted him to, but he was as a character we called him mother Charlie he loved baby animals and would steal baby kittens, puppies or even chicks to mother

On the trappline he was the best well behaved always ready to go, he always knew where sets were even ones that were not mine and would even locate snares that someone had put out, anyone that has had a good dog on the line would have been green with envy if they could have worked with Charlie

To top it all he saved my sons live

Spent 22 incredible years with him and while he has been gone for several years hardly a day goes by that I don’t miss him, he was one in 10 million



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Re: Your best hunting dog ever [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #6675896
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Boondocks "copperduke" male walker sired by hillbilly stylish banjo. he has the most drive and willingness to please you when you cut him loose. he goes as far as it takes to get the job done period. which has sent me on some vey long hikes in thin coon. hes the best coondog ive ever had the pleasure to own. I got him out of Indiana at 8 weeks. he aint no competition dog but a great pleasure hound that I like to follow anywhere.
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now he is a coonhound and doesn't have very good house manners so he is in the kennel most times when not hunting.

Nova my little British Staffordshire terrier and she is hands down the best dog ive owned she aint a real hunter but she is a great trapline dog that is very obedient she will sit and stay until I tell her to come. she is very protective of the kids and aint a cat come in the yard on her watch. she shows me things on the line I would never find myself. if your having a problem setting on sign and you have a dog just take it out with you. it helps with her being so obedient its a real pleasure to take her with. we are working on blood trailing deer and she has a fascination for antlers. just don't have any woods to shed hunt. [Linked Image]

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She was lady-like in the house and absolutely a tank in the field.
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