TELL ABOUT THE BEST BIG GAME HOUND YOU HAVE SEEN:NOT YOUR'S

[onalimb]

Kevin, Buddy was bred to a Salmon River bitch, and produced some pretty good pups. If I remember right Buddy was accidentally hanged. Dale was a friend of friends.

[Buddyw]

I would say Best Dogs I've seen is a dog called Penny From Don Gilbert.

I can think of several trips that we would not have seen a Cat if not for that one dog.

Dogs burning up the back track on a Smoking hot big cat, I don't know how a Dog learns backwards, but this dog turned around with all the pressure and left the Pack which was opening hard backwards.. 200 Yards in the other direction she had the cat and we were scrambling to gather dogs...

Rigging out of the inside of the box up in NE washington where I was told you couldn't rig cats.. I didn't stop when she barked because I was just used to a dog barking once in a while in the box... Went back and Sure enough there was a Lion track up the hill.

The funny part is, That dog looks like she couldn't run very fast, Looks like she's 5 years older than she is.. and You would never notice her in the pack.. 8/10 times all the dogs do good and catch the cat, but one those 2 cats when all the other dogs are fooled and screwing up,

That's when she comes trotting up the Road(taking her time) looks at you like.. What the "F" do you see in those stupid culls.. and then continues on to catch the cat by her self.

[ryan goodwin]

i would have to say the best all around big game dog i have ever hunted with in the 24 years i have been in the woods with hounds would be. STRAWBERRY MT. KORN aka horn, this was my sister-in-laws dog horn was threw and trew one of the best bear dogs i have been around not only a bear dog but lion, and a grand night coon dog, horn was just one of those dogs you love to be around he is greatly missed lucky for me i have a son out of horn that reminds me of him every time iam bear hunting. thanks for the memories good freind and happy hunting in the great skys above

[Ike]

This photo that I took back in the spring of 1995 of Sly and Dunny with Labrum was featured on the cover of Full Cry in about 96..........

Only the man who trains and hunts his hounds truly knows the value or worth of those dogs. And I suppose only ol' Labrum knew the value of his Dunny and Sly dogs after they ran down countless lions for his clients for ten or more years.

I had the pleasure of hunting behind both of these hounds, and they both were ground pounders that would move an open ground track on lions across some pretty tough trailing conditions. The tree photo above was the last tree that Sly ever made, as she tipped over dead the next winter while trailing another tom lion in deep snow for yet another client. Dunny lived on another few years but his best years were behind him, and the days I spent with these dogs were spent in their twilight years. Both of these hounds went back to dogs that came from Hal Mecham breeding......

These two dogs were only two of the hounds that provided the backbone of Labrum's guide business and both finished a lot of tracks and had plenty of long trails shot down to them throughout their working years.........

ike

[Ike]

Yup, there have been alot of pretty darn good lion hounds run down the tracks of those club-footed longtails over the years. Here is a photo ol' Shawn Labrum sent me of his Squaw dog and a pup out her's named Scratch (Squaw is the plott colored dog). Sqaw came out of a cross Labrum made from a plott dog he called Chief which came from C.J. Prock to a red bitch named Rip that came from a cross Hal Mecham made from his Gunner and Rachel dogs. Squaw was also the damn that my LionHeart dog came from.....

Squaw, like my LionHeart dog, was a natural that hit the ground running and catching lions. That bloodline these two dogs came out of loved the cats until the day they both died, and the stories of their adventures would take pages to document.....

And that bloodline lives on as I just made a cross between my Choco and Rui Li dogs. Choco came from a cross I made between my Ike and LionHeart dogs while Rui Li came out of a cross between my blue Ryan dog to a little red and white bitch named Echo that belongs to Richie Zacarrdi. His bitch also goes back to the Mecham bloodlines and these pups should be yet another generation of lion catching machines.

But I can't take any credit for these pups no more than any man that I've mentioned, as people like Mecham, Labrum and others have been breeding good dog to good dog since man and hound joined as a hunting team....

Ike

[Borderpond]

Best bear dog I have ever seen was Mike Lords Bullet dog.He wasnt the best cold trailer,the best fighter,best tree dog, etc that I have ever seen but he was the best at treeing bears I have ever seen.He was an excellent rig dog .I have never seen a dog tree so many bears.He was a little quiet on track but man he could get up on a bear fast.So many times he would strike from the rig and we'd cut him down.He would get out several hundred yards before hed open sometimes.By the time we were cutting in other dogs it would be all over,treed bear.I saw him on around 100 treed bears in one training season alone.His perecentage of bears ran and bears treed was unreal.

[Liberty]

Kevin, I hunted with Sam alot. I never seen his dad hunt, but I've seen sam do some amazing thing's. It's to bad they had him neutered when he was young. He was another die hard bear dog! He didn't much care for cat's, guess some dog's are funny that way. Probably seen him at 60 bear tree's. I think he died last year, that's one u wish could stay young forever.

[Hi Tech]

The best hound I have ever followed was a half black&tan walker crossed dog named Homer. Homer is the reason I got hooked on bear hunting. I still have offspring that goes back to him. This was an unbelievable hound, with every trait you could want. He had a long bawl that could be heard for miles. Pick up a track that other dogs didn't know exsisted. Then after trailing for most of the day he had a running gear that was hard to keep up with. If they didn't want to climb Old Homer had the grit that changed their mind. I purchased a pup ,which turned into my first bear hound that was out of Homer when he was 7. Homer lived until he was 12. What an remarkable creature! That I would have loved to own!

[Kevin D]

Kevin, I hunted with Sam alot. I never seen his dad hunt, but I've seen sam do some amazing thing's. It's to bad they had him neutered when he was young. He was another die hard bear dog! He didn't much care for cat's, guess some dog's are funny that way. Probably seen him at 60 bear tree's. I think he died last year, that's one u wish could stay young forever.

Mike, I'm trying to remember who Sam's mother was. I want to say he was out of Dale's Hooker dog but it's been too many years. The Buddy pup that I had was out of a plott walker cross that Bruce Smith had.

I don't know whether you ever hunted with Tony Hollingsworth's Cowboy dog much, but he was much the same way it sounds like Sam was, hell on bear but too amped up for cold trailing cats. That's why I always figured a dog was either a cat dog or a bear dog but not both. That was what made HoundDawg's Sam dog so unique in my mind, because he was a dog that could do it all.

[Liberty]

Kevin, hooker sound's familar but i'm not sure either. I have been around cowboy a little when Todd had him. He's another great dog, there is some brother's of his that turned out pretty good also.

[fox hunter]

Best I ever seen was a walker trigg cross named poacher ownad by Edgar Roden. Poacher was a one dog army on a rough bear in the thick coastal brush with the speed to bite a little grey in the back on a black nite.Four generations later his blood still lives on in some dandies

[drygroundhound]

2 dogs Buford and Boomer they were a real team. They belonged to Gerry Washburn. Those 2 dogs would tree a bear and stay for week I have seen it more than once, they would get thirsty and take turns treeing 1 would get a drink while the other treed then switch off. Gerry wasn't afraid to leave his dogs out if we couldn't get to them he knew they would still be treed we when we finally got to them. After Buford died Gerry left old Boomer in the woods one time and came home he called and asked if I could go help him get him, so we went and located him in a nasty piece of hell somebody called a canyon, it was about dark. Gerry said that is where he had left him so he figured he was dead, he had something important to do at home so we went 200 miles to the house. We returned on the 6th day Boomer was still there I started walking in to him and there he was under a damn bear tree. He sure was happy to see somebody but did not want to leave that bear up that pine tree without pulling some hair!!!
Kyle

[Catch]

As of yet, I have never seen a dog of the caliber spoken of in this post. I have heard that there are a few Trig/Walker cross in Homedale/Nampa that kick ass and take bear hair home with them!

[larry]

As of yet, I have never seen a dog of the caliber spoken of in this post. I have heard that there are a few Trig/Walker cross in Homedale/Nampa that kick ass and take bear hair home with them!

Homedale huh

[fox hunter]

Cath if you want to see some walker trigg crosses take home a little hair or leave some blood and hide in the woods come to kendrick Id and hunt with Mike Kemp or go to northern Cal and hunt with Jessie Turner