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Those are some good looking plotts. kind of some unique names also ha.
pat

Hound 1 wrote:I have 2 red dogs that look similar to Lionheart, and they are from Hal and Shirley Cook's stuff. I have heard that Duster dog was a top notch big game hound.

I ran into Rusty the other day in the field at one of the locations setting dead man anchors and thought about Shirley. Years ago, I went to one of the field trials and he had a young English looking dog in one race that finished ahead of the other yearlings. That dog locked down and began to tree on the coon. well, ol' Shirley had a chew in his mouth and the harder and faster that hound treed the harder and faster he chewed on that stuff. He was in his element that day and proud of his little hound........

ike

Dennis,

Your post made me think back to 1979 when I was living in Vernal and I met Shirly at that time. Tex Evans Leland's Dad took me over there and introduced me to him. I remember he had his hounds tied in a building and he had some good looking dogs. I was asking him about this one and that one, and he was giving me the rundown on them. I guess I overlooked one sort of sorry looking old hound that was just laying there and didn't intrest me too much. Well I said which one is your best dog? and he pointed to the one I had overlooked and I can't rmember what the dogs name was now but he said that's the real dog in this bunch. Well I was a green kid and I really felt green at that time but he was always nice to me. While living in Rock Springs before I moved to Vernal I had sold an Outfitter named Don Ufford who lived in Vernal a very nice registered walker female and she was a good cat dog and Shirly remarked that he would like to have one like her if I ever had any more. Well my old hunting buddy up in Montana had the sire and dam and he raised another litter and I had a male that turned out to be a nice dog but Shirly said he was full up with dogs at that time. I ended up selling this dog Green River Drum to Doug Gibbs who I hunted with a lot while living there.
Lot of hunters I met there I am not sure how many are still alive or hunting anymore. Shirly, Tex, Leland, Scott Allred, Scott Gross, Doug Gibbs, DJ Reynolds,Kent Miller, Larry Gurr,Bruce Nay, Hal Meacham,George Kennedy,and a few others I can't remember their names now. Had a lot of fun up there.

Ike do you remember what dog of CJ's that lionheart dog was related to?
I grew up around cowboy and hunted his dogs for him late in his life. Knew most of them pretty well. Just curious if it goes back to any of my junk.

Mike Harris

The Grand Sir of LionHeart was a plott colored dog name Chief that Shawn Labrum owned and hunted. If my information is correct, that dog came out of a litter from Jay Levitt who hunted and traded dogs with CJ. Don't know a lot more about that stuff than that, but Labrum claimed Levitt kept a litter mate to his Chief dog he called Tar Baby?????? He claimed the sir of his Chief dog might have also been named Chief? Anyway, Jay ended up selling that hound (the Tar Baby bitch) to Burt Emmit out of Veyo????

Labrum was living down in StGeroge in those days, probably the mid to late 80s.......

ike

Mike Leonard wrote:Dennis,

Lot of hunters I met there I am not sure how many are still alive or hunting anymore. Shirly, Tex, Leland, Scott Allred, Scott Gross, Doug Gibbs, DJ Reynolds,Kent Miller, Larry Gurr,Bruce Nay, Hal Meacham,George Kennedy,and a few others I can't remember their names now. Had a lot of fun up there.

Heard of most of those guys, know or knew a few of them, some are still hunting and others are dead. See Hal and George on around town or at the coffee shop alot. Hal is still doing alot of training and I just don't know how much George is still into hounds. I talk to Geroge Gurr from time to time, he still buddies and runs bear.....killed a couple in the Books last spring. Never met Bruce but hear Hal, Shawn and Mike mention his name from time to time.....

I did work for Tex Evans for a couple weeks while waiting for a drilling job for Maverick Drilling Company on Rig #14 back in the mid-80s. I don't remember talking hounds with him, but I pick a talk with Leland about every time I bump into him out of Peter's Point. He and his brother Russ are busy doing completion work for Barrett and I visit those leases.........

gotta go,
ike

I know most of those Basin guys very well, I hunt with the Gross's and know DJ very well, the guys that got me started ran with Leland, Hal, Gross, Shirley,DJ. Shirley died a few years ago, I hear stories all the time about him. Lots of good blood from these guys. Happy hunting.

I suppose there have been a lot of good hounds and tough hunters over time all across the west, and it's something many of us probably don''t give much thought. I was out on a rig this afternoon and they were running surface casing and cooking stakes for everyone. The cook, a longtime casing hand, told me he use to run six or eight hounds on lions and bears and four of them were redbones. It's funny cause I've been around that guy for over thirty years (from time to time) and that was the first time I ever knew he ran hounds.

I suppose lots of people come and go in this sport and only the people that are close to them ever knew they were there, but I'm sure the Internet will change some of that.............

ike

Mike,
Talked to one of your friends the other day. Said alot of good things about you. I told him that one day I would like to meet you. I might go down and hunt with him this winter for a few days if I do, I would like to slip down and meet you as well.
Catman

Here is a picture of my best dog. She is 1 1/2 years old, she is doing very well. She is a plott, swampland/ursus lines.

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nice pics .

Yea, that's a good looking dog you have there Kurt. Thanks for sharing!

savage wrote:heres a few of mine....Spike, Sis, and Buzz

If you have these photos in high res they are calendar worthy and you should try for a feature page in the 2010. I think it is going to be the last calendar until the economy gets better. Those photos are awesome. I need them in the format you got them off your camera before putting them on hunt101. mail to gstaffiere@comcast.net if you are interested.
See calendar samples at
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here is a couple pics fo my best cat dog a banjo breed walker he died 2 yrs ago he was 13yrs old i dont guess i will ever be able to replace him.i have got dogs that wil run a cat but they are far from being cat dogs.


clyde

GOOD BOBCAT DOGS ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. WHEN YOU GOT A GOOD ONE YOU WILL KNOW IT WHEN HE'S GONE! IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME AND SOME GOOD BLOOD TO HAVE ONE.

WHAT KIND OF BREEDING DID YOUR WALKER COME FROME? THATS AN IMPRESSIVE CATCH BY THE WAY. FOR SOME OF US THAT WOULD BE A TWO YEARS CATCH HANGING ON THE LINE.

THIS IS A GOOD THREAD KEEP IT COMEING.