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For those of you out there training your dogs from start to finish. My hats off to you.

When it gets tough keep at it, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Nothing beats the feeling of looking into the rear view mirror and seeing dogs trained up by their owner.

Happy holiday's & Good hunting. John.

Man that buys trained hound= Man that owns a hound.

Man that trains his own hound= houndsman.

I've never thought of it in those terms before. I just was never happy with a older dog I've bought from someone else.

I am sure going to give it hell! Wish a newbie luck. You got to start somewhere.

Depending on what stage you are in your hound hunting it relates to your ability to train a hound. We all start somewhere. The key is where do we stop. I don't think any of us know as much as we think we know no matter how much experience we have. There is always room to learn. Dewey

Very true, nothings more rewarding then raising a pack of hounds that do the job for you and catch game. I can understand falling on hard times and having to buy a finished hound, just wont see me doing that!! Ill stick it out with what i have till i get something i want. It actually bugs me when guys buy a pack of hounds that'll catch game and brag about them like they made em the hounds they are. The hounds might be outstanding, but a finished dog is gonna do what it's gonna do long as one puts it on game. I might not have the coldest nosed or fastest dogs out there, but they get the job done and when they do i'm sure proud of em!!

couldnt agree more nothing better than seeing a dog have that light bulb moment and everything clicks. i challenged myself to get a pure blood hound to hunt track and tree and the trailing was nothing he had that from 12 weeks old but i still remember the day he figured out it was in a tree at the end of a trail, over a year latter, it was a proud moment eventhough he aint as fast as some of the other dogs and not as open mouthed all the time he is my favorite hound. In my eyes a dog has the want to hunt or it dont and basic obediant training for the first yr is more important than anything sure makes a differance in the hunt when the dog works with you instead of for itself.

Thanks needed the motivation. I have been walking ridges, doing drags, reading books. Thinking about suck starten a revolver with the results im seein.

icehole wrote:Thinking about suck starten a revolver with the results im seein.

That's funny.

There's 2 ways to look at the spot your in.....

1. It's always darkest right before the dawn.
2. Know when your beat.

You have a decision to make.........Wait for daylight or end it before it gets worse. I'd choose to wait for daylight. Hang in there.

Scott

I started from scratch for every one of my dogs, some turned out great, some okay, and one was completely worthless (that I think was the individual dog's fault, but you need to weed through sorry dogs to get to the good ones!) I think it's far more rewarding as a hunter to see your own dogs, raised from pups, trained by you and your older dogs with no outside help, catching critters on their own. To me there is a much stronger bond with a dog you've trained by yourself.