What makes a good houndsmen?

[houndmen89]

Well I got a question for all you old timers. ..what makes a good houndsmen? I was talking to a buddy of mine the other day who does not hunt and he ask me if I thought I was good 1.. so I want to hear what you guys thinks makes somebody a good 1

[pegleg]

that exact question has been asked before . try looking below this post for it. it must be in a different area. but i'm sure its on here if someone else remembers where it would be helpful

[Cowboyvon]

Better question what qualifies as an old timer? lol

[pegleg]

well thats an easy one. it all depends on how old of person your asking. example a five year old can't imagine someone really being twenty six years old. but i guess once your about the only one left thats been doing what your doing for any where close to the amount of time you have you might as well consider yourself a oldtimer. or just lonely i dunno.

[Old dog]

a dog man is someone that don't buy a new truck to impress his peers, don't buy a fancy box to impress his peers, don't keep dogs just to impress his peers. a dog man is someone that raises,trains, and finishes a pak of dogs that consistently tree the game he hunts.whether he is hunting alone or with somebody. when you accomplish these things you will be a dogman or as you say, "old timer" and you can hold you're head high in any company.....just my opinion

[come-hunt]

[1bludawg]

To me a good houndsmen is a person who has good hounds,knows how to raise and train a good hound and who realizes you don't have to kill everything you tree to make a good hound .Also he'll try to teach this to the young houndsmen that a good hunter is also a conservationist.

[JTG]

To me a good houndsmans is 1bluedog or one that acts just like him.

[TrophyHusband]

A good houndsmen is one because its just "what he does", not because it is something he "wants to be".

Watch a 10 year old who has been tagging along since he could walk verses a newbie adult and you will see the 10 year old "just is" and the newbie "wants to be".


To be politically correct I should say "he/she". I am hoping my boys grow up to meet a nice "houndswoman" someday. Cuts down on the "your going hunting again" and the "not another dog" arguments.

[bearsnva]

TrophyHusband,

Very well said.

[shade]

Houndsman ( The guy that puts his dogs before everything else)

[1bludawg]

Shade,
A lot of houndmen do that,including myself,but i'm not sure that's a good quality.
There's something in our blood that calls us to hunt.It can be like an addiction or an obsession.
When we're standing on a mountain top,listening to our dogs build a fire under a varmint you can get kind of a high from it.That's why we have to go again the next day to feed that addiction.
If you start out hunting hounds at a young age it usually takes a major catastrophe to cause you to quit and even then the addiction remains !

[perk]

Back in 2010 I believe pegleg had a post about this in the bobcat hunting section, it was titled 'houndsmen or not' I believe. Probably worth searching think it got a fair number of posts
Perk

[perk]

viewtopic.php?f=72&t=13797&p=97120&hilit=Eats#p97120

Think this link will get you to that thread

[al baldwin]

In my opinion a good houndsmen is anyone who takes the best care he can afford of his hounds, enjoys hearing a dog work, gives credit to any dog who does a good job, regardless who the dogs owner is. It makes no difference if he bought the dog or trained it himself, some good dog men do not have the time to train their own hounds. New pickups & fancy box boxes do not make one a true houndsman, but it sure does not make them a bad houndsmen. Just makes me glad one can afford those luxuries & most of the time those hunters have worked hard to earn them. Al