The American Beagler Forum

bbg, all the hounds were taking our rabbits, mind you my ours run med upper med, but to me it was the over competitiveness in the dogs to always be that lead dog at all cost, not saying they couldnt burn them up cause they did, but ours hunted them up while the others just were waiten on the chase....

Im not sure I understand your issue with my post. What i describe is a desirable trait called "competetive spirit" defined in the AKC rule book as "desire to out do its running mates". Hounds don't care about ribbons or trophys but the dogs that are still on the ground in winners pack have a want to...

you uys are right, us hunters dont get to see the num of hounds you guys have, and i dont believe trials are a bad thing, iv been to the world hunt once, it was exciting to be around that many hounds ,but in the trial dogs iv seen most are speed demons that care less about running the rabbit, just ...

Every FC that I personally have gunned over was excellent. I also would like to say that as an AKC field trial judge I always judge for a complete hound. I heard all the rumors discrediting FC's and became a judge because I thought honesty was needed. The rumors are false. Every judge that I have wo...

Nothing is as versatile as the 12guage. Lite game loads can be bought off the shelf that wont ruin rabbits. Heavy loads can be bought to handle any other game. If only one gun can be owned it has to be the 12... That said, my rabbit hunting gun of choice is a single shot .410 with a full choke. Its ...

I used floor heat registers for a forced air house furnace. I got them at Home Depot for a few dollars each.

Been feeding Joy 24/20 for 3 years. The dogs are healthy and have all day energy. I believe it is good as any and better than most.

I don't know of anyone fitting your description but am jealous of him if he exists. I do see people who make alot of dogs FC. It appears to me that they are only interested in the title rather than the quality of their dogs. They trial different dogs in different formats, under different judges, in ...

This is a hard question to answer. We have different ideas of what some qualitys are. For example we all like fast dogs. But fast to some means blazing foot speed. To me it means fastest to circle the rabbit (or most efficient). I have run with dogs that people say have big nose and found out that t...

There is nothing wrong with a field trial dog and I never can figure out why more trialers don't speak up when their sport is be maligned. A trial dog is not necessarily a hot nose dog or a race breaker just as rabbit killer dogs are not all great snow dogs and circlers. Most trialers I know run th...

how can you call it RUNNING mute When the dog is WALKING quitely :???: The dog should bark when forward progress is being made. It doesn't matter if the trail is 5 minutes old or 30 minutes old as long as they can produce the rabbit. Any other barking is "extra mouth". Any less is "running mute". B...

The dog should bark when forward progress is being made. It doesn't matter if the trail is 5 minutes old or 30 minutes old as long as they can produce the rabbit. Any other barking is "extra mouth". Any less is "running mute". Both are faults.

,I linebreed my hounds,but I have never inbred them. How do you differentiate linebreeding from inbreeding? In my opinion it is the same. If dog "A" is sire to the stud and grandsire to the bitch, or sire to both stud and bitch, I say its inbreeding. I am not opposed to inbreeding. All my dogs are ...

The breeding practices of most beaglers is to blame for the quality of the offspring. Breeding to the popular stud just because of his popularity is problematic. This poke and hope way of breeding will eventually yield another great one but without consistancy, and less consistancy will come from th...

The Tank stuff is real popular here. ALOT of successful field trialers are running dogs down from Tank. From what I have seen they are line control check dogs running medium speed. Check the ped on FC Scratch Ankle Jeremiah. He has some Tank and Branko. Im sure that Dan Brinsky would be willing to t...