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Looking to get into hounds and run big game and was looking suggestions on my first breed. What is best and easy to train and start with.

plotts

Drive around the neighborhood. Locate a dog box. Find what him and his buddies run and make a educated decision. Don't go and buy one for about two years until you can understand the game.

I have been researching fir about a year it took me two years to buy my pointers. So I'm not jumping in just getting opinions and base some of research off that.

I agree with Unreal_tk, if the guys you are going to hunt with all have the same kind of dog (hot nosed, cold nosed, competition dog, whatever) a good place to start would be to get a similar type dog. I have a close friend who has some competition walkers, and I ended up getting into a more cold nosed line of blueticks... we each enjoy our own hounds and they are great for their own use, but when we go out together its a bit of a 'dogs breakfast' for lack of a better term. Mine will run a scent miles until they hit the tree, and his tear through the bush until they find a hot track and put it up quick. But at the end of the day it makes for some interesting and fun nights.