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Folks,

Here is a Link to a Video I had not seen before. It was sent to me by one of the Great individuals who lurk around on here but hesitate to join.

The Video Shows one of the Greatest Houndsman/Huntsman to handle a Pack of Hounds. The Genre and Style may not be familiar, but the way the Hounds are handles and How they respect the Huntsman is amazing!

http://www.folkstreams.net/film,198

I hope you all enjoy this as much as I have.

Dog boy, I enjoyed that... close to the same except no horses...lol

Very good !!


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Thanks for sharing Brother...

That was great. Thank you

I can not get it to come up. Do you have any idea what I might be doing wrong?

Mr. Dan, try double clicking...it sometimes is slow to load.

Glad you all are enjoying the Clip.

While it is not a style most of us have seen, there is NO doubt that Mr. Poe was one of the Greatest Houndsmen of all time. He was much sought after by the Red Coated Clubs on both sides of the Atlantic, but he chose to stay with the Big Reds in VA.

I had a guy from Iowa come out and hunt with me this last year that was a member of a club that did this. He was on his way to flagstaff, the huntsman I guess had the the kennel there and there was some wealthy man that paid him. We put on a lot of miles looking for a lion track and he explained how it worked with the colors they wear and the whippers and all ...they ran coyotes and from what he said didn't really catch many of them and I guess catching was secondary to everything else.

I gotta say that when this guy called me from Iowa and said he was going to bring his own horses I was a little concerned... I explained to him that this wasn't Iowa and this was some really rough country and that I had a mule he could ride ...and then when he showed up at camp and was riding a big old long legged high headed thoroughbred with an English saddle I tried to convince him to ride one of my mules again but he just politely said no thanks.....and as we were riding on he said oh hell I forgot my helmet, I just shook my head and told him we don't wear helmets up here. We ended up going into some rough country and he never had any problems ...he had 2 of those horses and traded them out and nothing ever bothered them or him .... I'm going to Iowa this coming fall to run some coyotes with him....hell I might even wear a helmet

Cowboyvon,

When next you talk to your friend, ask him about Tony Leahy and his Hardaway Crossbred Hounds.

These are big white July, English Foxhound, crosses with a light touch of Penn-Marydale thrown in. Tony will catch 50 or more Yotes a year in IL and GA.

Tony helped the Iowa Hunt get started. If you get a chance to go ride with them DO IT! It will be quite the experience with some great people!

Seems to be linked thru VIMEO but I can not see it. I watched to 1 min. trailer but cannot find the 30 min. color video.

Interesting, the lead screen for the video comes up on my phone but not on my computer. Sorry to bother, I'll change my setting on the ol' laptop.

C. John Clay,

Do you know a Dan Alexander from TX... I guess him and his brother have a good line of coyote hounds and catch alot of coyotes.. I talked to him not to long ago and he was sure interested in seeing if they could catch some of our coyotes down here in the desert.

I'm planing on going but we are going to run some with stag hounds.. I use to do a lot of that.. I will ask him if he knows them.. is this the same Hardaway hounds that Dutch Salmon wrote about in his book?

Well, that was good. I don't know if I've seen better footage and it was interesting to get to see that much of the huntsman's interaction with the dogs. Sure wish I could ride like that!

I enjoyed watching the clip. The country the gear the critters are a bit different but the Huntsman energy link with his pack is no different than all the great Huntsman or true hound handlers I have watched .

You could come west throw a leg over a mountain pony or mule and observe such handlers whistle up the pack and line them out on the hunting trail. It is a thing of beauty to see such a handler take up to a dozen or more hounds into rugged broken country and handle them with ease. Many of the handlers commands are nearly unpreceptable to the novice's eye, but the hounds know the drill because he is their pack leader. If a person has never seen a large pack of dry ground lion hounds working a very old track he should at least once. The pack seems to be a single living mass as it swells out questing and then the track is found and they come together like a moving mass they drive forward and swell again as a loss is realized and the process repeats until they track becomes more constant and then it begins to string out as the drivers push and the mountains roar as the old song is sung one more time.

Good stuff wherever you are!


As Teddy Roosevelt said: no better sport can be found than to mbe mounted on a good horse on the trail with a pack of fine blooded hounds.

great pictures! impressing!