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Coon Island Beagle Club was blessed with hosting one of the Big 5's. We had some good running and some really great running, got to see a lot of old friends and make some new ones too.

Opens 63
1st Top End Creed - Top End Kennels


2nd Stavemill's Blue Knothead - Stavemill Beagles


3rd Minused Out

4th Branko's Slow Down Sally - Phillip Wheaton


5th S&J Weedeater Hydro - Diamond P Kennels


6th D&J Crybaby - Joe Murphy


7th York's 496 Jake - Casey For Kennels

8th Scroghams What's Up Doc - Triple X Kennels


9th Williams Black Lady - RL Williams


10th CGS Git-R-Done Dixie - CGS Kennels


Champs 26
1st Wildcat Earl - Kenny Vanhoose


2nd Bradleys Rebel - Terry Bradley


3rd Hopkins Rackem Up - Carroll Hopkins & Jeff Armbrister


4th Barefoot Miles - Joe Murphy


5th Chestnut Hill Hoss - Curt May


6th Kimbrels Kickem Up Kane - Neil Kimbrel

7th Hole Shot Sticker - Top End Kennels


8th M&K's Junies P-Ditto - Mark Freeman


9th Sangamon One Slick Chick - Sangamon Ridge Kennels

10th Country View Little Polly - CGS Kennels


Grands 11
1st Abshires Levee Rd TCB June - Stavemill Beagles


2nd Hillside Farmers Rowdy Boy - Diamond P Kennels


3rd Arnets Alice - Mark Arnet


4th Wildcat Joker - Kenny Vanhoose


5th Murphy's Dreaming Demon - Bryan Murphy


6th Hicktown Hanky Panky - Bill Arnold

7th L&L Hillcreek Rockies Reign - Allen McNutt

8th Sugar Runs Rollin Thunder - Top End Kennels


9th Bluff Springs Twister - CGS Kennels


10th Skyview Smoke - Top End Kennels


Bench Show:

Best Puppy & Best Of Show - FuzzBuster's Red Rack Jack - Jeff Armbrister


2nd Best Puppy - Bynum Hills Poetry In Motion "Venus" - Cynthia & Leon

Best Female - Turners Awsome Blossom - Carroll Hopkins & Jeff Armbrister


2nd Best Female - D&J Crybaby - Joe Murphy


Best Male - D&D Pistol Pete - Doug Kossak


2nd Best Male - Branko's One Tuff Preacher - Phillip Wheaton


Champion Best Of Show - Sangamon Ridge Jill - Sangamon Ridge Kennels


2nd Champion - Kiss Little Bit of Sarah - Jeff Armbrister


Grand Champion Best Of Show - JewKnee and Dream's Sandman - Joey Murphy


2nd Grand Champion - Kiss Buckshot By Sarah - Jeff Kissinger

Purina donated a bag of dog food to the first place field winners and best of show winners, in additon, all dogs placing recieved hats.
Tri-tronics/NKC donated a tri-tronics system to be raffled to the judges - Josh Witt winner
Dog Box raffle donated by May's Kennels - winner Ray Freeman
Tri-Tronis donated by Del Morgan - winner Mark Freeman
Each first place field winner won a lead donated by Stavemill Beagles
First place field winners & BOS bench winner won custom photo frames donated by M&K Beagles
First place field winners won a CIBC 2012 North American belt buckle made and donated by Ray Freeman
Cydnee Designs donated a custom embroided North American chair and hats.
CIBC donated shirts to all judges that did not win tritronics, chair or hats.
Thanks to Jeff Kissinger & Fred Hausman for being Master of Hounds and assistant Master of Hounds

A big thanks to everyone who came to the hunt, all the judges for your hard work, Neelyville Projection Graduation for the great food, guides, casting crew, processing crew - it takes everyone to make a hunt go as smooth as this hunt went.

Random Hunt Photos:





more photos from the hunt will be posted on the clubs website at http://www.coonislandbeagleclub.weebly.com

Congrats to all who won or placed! I really enjoyed seeing some old friends

That "Ear" dog was something else, wasn't it? Congrats to all the winners.

goodpickens wrote:That "Ear" dog was something else, wasn't it? Congrats to all the winners.

This one?

congrats to all the winners and everyone that placed

Ol Hank sure beats them ears up Bill.
i take it he got to ride up front.

Congrats to all that placed or won!
It was good to see old friends and make some new ones.
i think everyone had a good time.

That dog's got true grit Bill.

Congrats everybody.

Congratulations to all winners and especially to Kenny and Earl and also to Chris and Laura... the old man (June) is going strong! I had a great time seeing everyone and enjoying the hunting and visiting.

Congrats to all the winners. We had a lot of fun, from the ones that accidentally went swimming to those of us that that had a rough time getting out of the woods. We wern't lost, just bewildered.

congrats to winners and those who placed.wish i could of attended just too far.

barnold1 wrote:

goodpickens wrote:That "Ear" dog was something else, wasn't it? Congrats to all the winners.

This one?

I think he meant "Earl". It's misspelled above his picture.

hookset wrote: I think he meant "Earl". It's misspelled above his picture.

Sorry Kenny - my fault on the miss spelling....

Congrats to everyone that won or placed and as usual cibc put on a great hunt

Congrats to all the winners and the one's who placed. Glad to see the old man win another big 5. Had a blast and just wanted to say this hunt probably the best big 5 I had ever been to. Seen some really good judging and seen alot of old friends and new one's. Congrats to all!

Congrats to all! As always I had a lot of fun.