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Post by jimstc on Feb 18, 2017 16:25:42 GMT -5
I know I am very fortunate when I get to rabbit hunt with one of the top guys in the state in terms of knowledge and quality of dogs. Today I hunted with Shane (as I do most weekends) and brought along my 16 year old grandson. Tough, dry, warm conditions. His dogs were incredible. Long story short, my grandson got his first rabbit. Dogs ran over 9 miles in under 4 hours. They have no quit in them. Zero!
Thank you Shane. You are a good man with great dogs.
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Post by greghopper on Feb 18, 2017 17:58:48 GMT -5
Wow..... had no idea rabbit season was still in. Congrats sounds like had a great hunt.
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Post by trapperdave on Feb 18, 2017 21:41:01 GMT -5
In until Feb 28
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Post by span870 on Feb 19, 2017 17:11:32 GMT -5
I know I am very fortunate when I get to rabbit hunt with one of the top guys in the state in terms of knowledge and quality of dogs. Today I hunted with Shane (as I do most weekends) and brought along my 16 year old grandson. Tough, dry, warm conditions. His dogs were incredible. Long story short, my grandson got his first rabbit. Dogs ran over 9 miles in under 4 hours. They have no quit in them. Zero! Thank you Shane. You are a good man with great dogs. Always my pleasure. Love to take new guys out and show them what my passion is all about. Tried to get him into position to shoot more but sometimes them rabbits just don't cooperate. Not 100% sure on the compliment on the quality or knowledge but I appreciate it. We had some tough running conditions but they brought it together the last jump. Stryker and me are going to have to come to some agreement on his check work, not going to have that. We ran 'our' spot after you left. Jumped one and brought it back. Rabbit ran to us and checked up and cut to the left. Bo leading and Stryker slotting. Bo checked up where the rabbit did and Stryker continued on about 15 yards. Brought the fear of the Lord into him and he promised to amend his ways. He is just way to competitive. More than likely going to ship him to a conditioning pen to run that out of him. You should have been out with us today. First have a terrible chest cold, didn't want to go but Josh wanted to run his lemon female with some of my slower dogs. We ran just under 5 miles in 4 hours. The pain was excruciating watching them slowly WALK the line out. Pretty sure Josh is set on a faster dog now. We did get his female out front and she did keep it but it was rough. Made sure he knew that it's nice to see your dog in front but if they are ALL the breakdowns are their fault. You guys are more than welcome any time. Really appreciate the friendship and I can see your true love of running those dogs. It's rare to find someone that doesn't own hounds.that does it for the love of the sound and not the kill. |
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Post by span870 on Feb 19, 2017 17:14:07 GMT -5
Wow..... had no idea rabbit season was still in. Congrats sounds like had a great hunt. When DNR pushed the season from opening October first on state properties they gave us an extra month at the end of the season to make up. |
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Post by nfalls116 on Feb 19, 2017 20:07:40 GMT -5
That Stryker is the kind of dog that other dogs look up to.
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Post by omegahunter on Feb 22, 2017 8:48:00 GMT -5
I know I am very fortunate when I get to rabbit hunt with one of the top guys in the state in terms of knowledge and quality of dogs. Today I hunted with Shane (as I do most weekends) and brought along my 16 year old grandson. Tough, dry, warm conditions. His dogs were incredible. Long story short, my grandson got his first rabbit. Dogs ran over 9 miles in under 4 hours. They have no quit in them. Zero! Thank you Shane. You are a good man with great dogs. Always my pleasure. Love to take new guys out and show them what my passion is all about. Tried to get him into position to shoot more but sometimes them rabbits just don't cooperate. Not 100% sure on the compliment on the quality or knowledge but I appreciate it. We had some tough running conditions but they brought it together the last jump. Stryker and me are going to have to come to some agreement on his check work, not going to have that. We ran 'our' spot after you left. Jumped one and brought it back. Rabbit ran to us and checked up and cut to the left. Bo leading and Stryker slotting. Bo checked up where the rabbit did and Stryker continued on about 15 yards. Brought the fear of the Lord into him and he promised to amend his ways. He is just way to competitive. More than likely going to ship him to a conditioning pen to run that out of him. You should have been out with us today. First have a terrible chest cold, didn't want to go but Josh wanted to run his lemon female with some of my slower dogs. We ran just under 5 miles in 4 hours. The pain was excruciating watching them slowly WALK the line out. Pretty sure Josh is set on a faster dog now. We did get his female out front and she did keep it but it was rough. Made sure he knew that it's nice to see your dog in front but if they are ALL the breakdowns are their fault. You guys are more than welcome any time. Really appreciate the friendship and I can see your true love of running those dogs. It's rare to find someone that doesn't own hounds.that does it for the love of the sound and not the kill. I love to eat rabbit, but really enjoy when the dogs make a great track. I won't shoot unless they bring it full circle. Sometimes it takes two circles if the rabbit is lucky and spots us before getting in an opening. Also we never shoot all we run. Leave some for seed!! |
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Post by duff on Feb 22, 2017 20:07:32 GMT -5
Always my pleasure. Love to take new guys out and show them what my passion is all about. Tried to get him into position to shoot more but sometimes them rabbits just don't cooperate. Not 100% sure on the compliment on the quality or knowledge but I appreciate it. We had some tough running conditions but they brought it together the last jump. Stryker and me are going to have to come to some agreement on his check work, not going to have that. We ran 'our' spot after you left. Jumped one and brought it back. Rabbit ran to us and checked up and cut to the left. Bo leading and Stryker slotting. Bo checked up where the rabbit did and Stryker continued on about 15 yards. Brought the fear of the Lord into him and he promised to amend his ways. He is just way to competitive. More than likely going to ship him to a conditioning pen to run that out of him. You should have been out with us today. First have a terrible chest cold, didn't want to go but Josh wanted to run his lemon female with some of my slower dogs. We ran just under 5 miles in 4 hours. The pain was excruciating watching them slowly WALK the line out. Pretty sure Josh is set on a faster dog now. We did get his female out front and she did keep it but it was rough. Made sure he knew that it's nice to see your dog in front but if they are ALL the breakdowns are their fault. You guys are more than welcome any time. Really appreciate the friendship and I can see your true love of running those dogs. It's rare to find someone that doesn't own hounds.that does it for the love of the sound and not the kill. I love to eat rabbit, but really enjoy when the dogs make a great track. I won't shoot unless they bring it full circle. Sometimes it takes two circles if the rabbit is lucky and spots us before getting in an opening. Also we never shoot all we run. Leave some for seed!! LOL if I get shots on 1 out of 4 chases it is good. I am catching on to rabbit hunting with dogs! |
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Post by nfalls116 on Feb 22, 2017 21:25:56 GMT -5
When I missed when he and I went hunting he said "don't worry sport, At least you aren't duff " |
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Post by jimstc on Feb 23, 2017 11:04:24 GMT -5
Always my pleasure. Love to take new guys out and show them what my passion is all about. Tried to get him into position to shoot more but sometimes them rabbits just don't cooperate. Not 100% sure on the compliment on the quality or knowledge but I appreciate it. We had some tough running conditions but they brought it together the last jump. Stryker and me are going to have to come to some agreement on his check work, not going to have that. We ran 'our' spot after you left. Jumped one and brought it back. Rabbit ran to us and checked up and cut to the left. Bo leading and Stryker slotting. Bo checked up where the rabbit did and Stryker continued on about 15 yards. Brought the fear of the Lord into him and he promised to amend his ways. He is just way to competitive. More than likely going to ship him to a conditioning pen to run that out of him. You should have been out with us today. First have a terrible chest cold, didn't want to go but Josh wanted to run his lemon female with some of my slower dogs. We ran just under 5 miles in 4 hours. The pain was excruciating watching them slowly WALK the line out. Pretty sure Josh is set on a faster dog now. We did get his female out front and she did keep it but it was rough. Made sure he knew that it's nice to see your dog in front but if they are ALL the breakdowns are their fault. You guys are more than welcome any time. Really appreciate the friendship and I can see your true love of running those dogs. It's rare to find someone that doesn't own hounds.that does it for the love of the sound and not the kill. I love to eat rabbit, but really enjoy when the dogs make a great track. I won't shoot unless they bring it full circle. Sometimes it takes two circles if the rabbit is lucky and spots us before getting in an opening. Also we never shoot all we run. Leave some for seed!! 100% agree on the won't shoot comment. Time before last I was standing next to a tree and a rabbit comes out of cover and takes a rest. Dogs weren't on him and he got a pass. Could have clubbed with my butt stock he was so close. Then was walking a trail and one hopped out of cover on to the trail. Dogs weren't on him. Another pass |
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