Alrighty...... Lets Hash This One Out......
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Alrighty...... Lets Hash This One Out......
I'm in search of a hare bred beagle pup that i'm planning on raising up and running on cottontail alone....
If anyone else has tried this tell me about it, did you have any luck?
Also, i've been told this won't work and that i'm wasting my time. However, genecticly both dogs are made the same. And since i'd be buying a pup verses an older dog it wouldn't have had time to develop hare style tendencies....... Or atleast thats the way i see it.....
Tell me what you think......
-Jack
If anyone else has tried this tell me about it, did you have any luck?
Also, i've been told this won't work and that i'm wasting my time. However, genecticly both dogs are made the same. And since i'd be buying a pup verses an older dog it wouldn't have had time to develop hare style tendencies....... Or atleast thats the way i see it.....
Tell me what you think......
-Jack
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I have never ran hare but sure hope to one day soon. Now I have been told by many a houndsman that it's not that hard for a cottontail dog to run hare but it can be hard for a hare dog to run cottontails. I've been told that a hare runs and runs unlike a southern cottontail in a heavy briar patch, which will zig and zag and double back. Like I said I've been told by hare hunters that it will take a little time for a dog that has ran hare exclusively to adjust to the twisting, turning line a cottontail in the briars will run. However, I think if you take a pup from northern bred hare hounds and start it on cottontails in the briars, if the pup has "it" in him, he will run cottontails just fine, maybe as good as the "southern cottontail bred dogs". I run hounds from the IFC Taylor's Sock It To Me line, which was a northern bred hound, here on our cottontails in HEAVY briar patches and they do just fine.
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xdawg...
it will work...you can take a well bred hare hound and train it to run cottontail...
i have heard that it is easier to take a hound that is trained on cottontail and train in to run hare than it is to take a hare only running hound and train it to run cottontails...
you could try and contact Paul Kormony...
his hounds usually go big..and have the foot and nose to carry it...
joe t
it will work...you can take a well bred hare hound and train it to run cottontail...
i have heard that it is easier to take a hound that is trained on cottontail and train in to run hare than it is to take a hare only running hound and train it to run cottontails...
you could try and contact Paul Kormony...
his hounds usually go big..and have the foot and nose to carry it...
joe t
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give me a hare breed hound on cottontails any day of the week over those hole blowing, 3 feet on the ground at all times, mouthy, trash running, never get any better after they turn a year old and used up by the time they turn 5, southern breed cottontail hounds. I don't know where you live, but there are hare breed hounds just burning cottontails down all over this country.
Once upon a time, a man asked a girl " Will you marry me?" The girl said " NO." and the guy lived happily ever after and ran his dogs as much as he wanted to.
Gee Chris, you wouldn't bust on the south's hounds at all, would ya?
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got a bit of hare breeding in a couple of our outcrossed dogs. they run just like all my others here in IL. if you have an older running dog, it might be an issue to switch from hare to cottontail or vice versa, but if you got a pup, i think its just a matter of training them to run what you want. shouldnt be a concern i wouldnt think.