My best rabbit dog I got as a puppy when I was 14. She was a boot licker wouldn't open up on trail more than a bay or two and would not track much more than 50 yards before coming back for a few years. I was a jump shooter and she was my dog so I always took her anyway.

One day she opend up and ran over a hill into the spoil banks. She balled tell she was out of ear shot. I was getting scared after 10 to 15 min of not hearing her. Then I heard her coming back. It took a while and I was still worried but she got closer I was relieved. Suddenly about 50 yards out ther was a rabbit shooting across. I was shocked and missed the first two shots rolled it on the 3rd. A short tim later another was blazing down the same trail. I didn reload and missed my final shot out of my Remington lw20 870. I walked to the rabbit I hit hung it in a tree and stood back. My girl came right down the track and ran that remaining rabbit for a long time tell it went into a hole.

After that she was a rabbit running machine. She never ran a deer, but would not check up or run with other dogs. She was to slow for trials. She would tree squirrels due to me shooting a few out over top of her and she would get excited and flush quail. Those things I liked.

I hunted her for years. We moved and didn't have our pens set up yet so she stayed at my in laws tell I got set up. She got out and was running a rabbit when she was hit by a car. I will never get another rabbit dog that could measure up even if it was a better rabbit dog. I love watching dogs work but don't believe I will ever have any again due to lack of time. I'm busy deer and squirrel hunting from Oct- jan 5 and in trapping and I have no time to run a dog. Season is out at the end of February so it's not worth keeping a dog for a month of hunting. It's not fair to the dog to not bee ran 9 months of the year and if not ran hard would not be worth hunting over anyway.
Now I just need a friend or two with good dogs so my boys can experience the joy of hunting with hounds.

here are their pups. 4 weeks old last sat

I ran beagles for years, nothing better than a pack of around 5 to lite up the woods. What type of dog do you run? We ran some AKC and ARHA trials for awhile and had a blast.
One rule we had when hunting was no jump shooting, rabbit had to circle at least once before you could take a shot. Probably the best all around dog I had was a 13" bluetick from
Canada, medium speed hunt hard and refused to run trash, sure miss that ole gal!

Same reason I don't in trials, politics. Seems if you ain't in the click your dog isn't going to win. Another thing is I've noticed trial dogs need the rabbit jumped for them, not all , but enough I wouldn't have them .

I've got 4 with one being too old and hard of hearing to hunt anymore. Another is 11 this year and is losing her step. She can still go but just can't hunt as hard as she use to. Then my 2 young blueticks that are balls of fires. Basically Mo. Gunsmoke bred dogs. Great grand dad was Talk About Blue Jasper.
Right now is some of the best running of the year. Cover is down and them buck rabbits will give you some loooong runs.

Same reason I don't in trials, politics. Seems if you ain't in the click your dog isn't going to win. Another thing is I've noticed trial dogs need the rabbit jumped for them, not all , but enough I wouldn't have them .

I've got 4 with one being too old and hard of hearing to hunt anymore. Another is 11 this year and is losing her step. She can still go but just can't hunt as hard as she use to. Then my 2 young blueticks that are balls of fires. Basically Mo. Gunsmoke bred dogs. Great grand dad was Talk About Blue Jasper.
Right now is some of the best running of the year. Cover is down and them buck rabbits will give you some loooong runs.

Where you get those lemons?

Pedigree? Weir Creek?