Last two years my buddy I hound hunt with has been saying no more blueticks, he's swearing off of em...... Aaand he send me this today

Good looking blue dogs i bet they can stand on their heads with the best of them, lol.

walkers win more hunts for being faster but I never heard walkers sing as pretty as a loud bawl mouth blue dog

That's a nice looking hound.

I like the big block heads and low set ears! What’s the bloodline?

Had a double Stylish Clover grand daughter that had a big bawl mouth as good as any blue dog I've been to the woods with. A big dying bawl that would send chills down your spine.

But you're right most walker folks have no idea that a true walker should be black and white, mostly white, without any red and bawl mouthed.

I wouldn't feed most these babbling squealing chop mouthed curs that pass for walkers these days.

Love a blue dog.
Be nice to be the first to win the world hunt with a blue dog

My first love was blue dogs. Dad ran smoky river dogs way back when. I was just a little thing back then but I remember them well. Nothing cuter in my book than a ticked up pup.

Nice !!!!

Nice you will have fun

As long as they run only what you're After..they're good hounds

I love a good old blu tick ...
I got a lot of fur , and a lot of memories from my ole girl ..!
Nice looking hounds

guy here in ks with blue dogs that has a dandy again this year. blue dog has never won the world but i keep thinking gerald and one of his dogs may be the first.

Good conformation on that bluetic. I never had bluetics, always redbones.. They treated me right on the trail and tree.

OK, I haven't been on all that many tug boats, but, I never remember seeing blueticks on any.

My Brother Herbert won a bunch with his Bluetick. He is from outside of Columbus Ohio.in Pataskala. He won a lot including a Pick Up Dog Box and a 22 rifle all at the same time. He hunted that dog Rain or shine every night. Clear down to Florida and everywhere else. When that dog let loose you could figure it would tree very soon. I never liked Walkers. They are better Deer Hounds. They use them in Florida in the swamps.

I have ZERO knowledge of coon hounds. But if someone sneered at any kind of bird dog…..ive hunted with most breeds and Ive at least seen some good in them, even if it wasnt the best. Whats so bad about a bluetick?

I followed coon dogs for over 40 years, strictly as a hide hunter.
I was 100% colorblind. If the dog was what I liked I hunted the pads off them come winter.
I’d have hunted a poodle if he’d hunt the way I liked and tree the snot outa coon.
Best meat dog I ever owned was 1/2 redbone, 1/4 black&tan, and 1/4 leopard fur. When he treed you could load the rifle, and he treed a lot.
I miss it, but I’m not killing them for nothing.

Nothing other than personal preference.

All the coonhounds, except plott or leopard curs, originated as the same thing american treeing foxhound then split out by breeders who fancied color.

The blue breeders, as are the black and tan, are often accused of favoring color, ear and extreme cold nose over track speed. While walkers are accused of track speed to the point of outrunning the coon. Reds bred for color and nothing else, lol. While the english guys claim to have the original coonhound as they take all colors, though the secretly want redtick only but won't admit it.

Truth is there's old style and new style in all the breeds. The walker speed is what is desired in the comp hunts so now you got dogs that are cookie cutter in every aspect save color.

But then you got dogs like nuggets new blues that reflect the old big rangy blues of the past.

Best dog I ever owned was a Bluetic out of Smokey River breeding

One of my favorites since childhood!

My neighbor as a kid, Mr. Tom, ran them, and I'd crack my window or get up and go sit out on the porch to listen.

Many decades later, my new neighbor penned his up a 1/2 mile from his house, and a 100 yds from mine.

Not so big a fan then, lol.

Emet Brohard came the closest to winning the world hunt with a blue tick coming in second place with his Goose Creek Tack hound.

It may look like a bluetick but it identifies as a black and tan.

Friend had a pack of deer hounds that included a former coon dog that was donated because he would also chase deer. That dog would trail a day old track and rarely ever hunted with the others, and was never loaded up at the end of the day. He was usually out for 48 hours.

I raised a grandson of Emet Brohard's,, Solid Rock. I got Buddy at 6 weeks of age. His sire was a son of Solid Rock and his dam was a non registered blue female. I single registered Buddy when the English Assn. opened for single registration. The Bluetick Assn. didn't open their single registration for several years. They goofed up big time. I showed him in the woods with an inspector and he treed a coon. He had a locate that a 6 year old kid could recognize and treed so hard that he sounded like 2 dogs treeing. I made many a Treeing Walker owner sad on the competition hunts. Ole Bud became Nite Champion Mud Creek Buddy. He sired PKC champion Tic Toc Doc.

That was the bulk of our pack of deer dogs back in the eighties. Trash running hounds and curs give to us. That didn't last long though as afternoons riding the roads rounding up dogs miles away wasn't fun.

Switched to big beagles and had more fun.

I own a few Blues. Also one red with some Blue in her blood. I love how they handle. Bear, Bobcat, Coyote, Lion.

My fur hound was a Bluetick out of Dave Deans , Hammer 4.
Ran him with a walker out of Gold Creek Mundo.
Bawl mouthed hard, set down tree dog.
Bluetick worked a cold track.
Hot nosed walker would make it climb or Bay him.
When he opened might as well head that way , he would tree it before you got there.
Squall mouth hard chop tree dog.

Still not knowing anything about coon dogs, that was an awesome read. Seemed like some hardcore coonhound slang.

Hot nosed = won't work an older "cold" scent track needs fresh scent, usually quicker to tree and not wasting time but not so good in areas with thin game populations or game not moving.

Cold nosed = able to work older tracks but can get bogged down or unable to catch up to game

JMO, a good hound should be able to do both but pairing a brace of both types that will work together are a coon's worst nightmare

Bawl mouth = the classic OWOOOH hound cry given while on trail

Chop mouth = ARP, ARP, ARP usually given when treed or bayed

Squall mouth = sometimes called a yodel but a higher pitched bawl with a quicker cadence like a chop

Bugle mouth = more of a clear bawl sounding much like a bugle

Coonhounds typical bawl/squall on track with a changeover to a chop when treed. Some do not, I've seen many a modern chop mouth all the way walkers. Some are all bawl.

Most old time houndsmen want a bawl on track with a distinct changeover when they go to tree followed by a chop on tree.

Cur folks prefer dead silent on track only opening on tree.

I like em all if they got fur at the tree. I do like to hear that bawl. Got my first bird dog now. Him and my grandson are buddies. Hard to coon hunt around here now due to antler hunters. I got permissions but no way to keep a dog on property with permission. Twenty five years ago very few cared. Antler hunting/leasing changed all that. Guys 8 states away have cameras up that beep their cell phones. They will call the game warden from 800 miles away if your on their lease.

I love a cold nose dog…that’s why I have blue dogs. I was in a two night competition hunt and my dog treed a layup in the last few minutes of the first night to win. That spot was our first dump the next night…’ol blue went straight to the base of that layup and cold tracked it and treed it again. The other dogs in the cast never even opened up. Two guys withdrew and me and the other guy hunted it out. My dog won the second night too…he was as honest as the day is long and knew how to handle his cold nose. RIP ‘ol boy…keep ‘em treed…I’m on my way.