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[Tim H]

I can usually get 8 or 9 hours but I split it up and take a really long lunch break, like 3 hours, and then go back out till dusk. The dogs get food, water and rest so when they go back out they are pretty fresh.

I get a nap too which is really why they get a long lunch.

[JovanJ]

The average is about 5-6 good hours with no breask but first day my one went about 9 with 1 break for about 30 minutes

[danny vansickle]

well,i got up yeasterday mornin,was in the field by daylight,dogs ran all morning long,took lunch at about 1:30,back in woods by 4:30ish,hunted till dark,busted two bunnies in front of my youngins,let them run till midnight,all together,14 hours they where on the ground,and i had to call them off runnin rabbits cause i was cold,tired and hungry,and knew they where too prolly.

[Shady Grove Beagles]

Thirty years ago I lived back in the woods in New Hampshire,two miles from the nearest house or hard surface road.My house was kind of on a hillside with a big bowl of a valley aropund me . There were several beaver bogs and some high ridges surrounding. I had apair of grade beagles that I used on hare and they could get after one too.
I hunted right from the house and late one afternoon they jumped a fox and were off to the races[3:00P.M.] No way was I going to cut them off as they were running in some big country.I listened to them from my doorway after supper and again at midnight before I went to bed They'd been running 9 hours.Got up the next morning at 7:00 and went outside and could hear them on one of the opposite hills heading towards Mud Turtle Pond. Jumped in the jeep and drove around to the other side where I figured the fox was crossing. Got there just as the fox was skirting along the stone wall and the beagles were just breaking out of the woods about 50yards behind him. I could see this across a pasture but too far to catch the dogs.They now had been running that fox about 17 hours.
I went back to my house and within an hour I heard them coming through the bog/swamp.They weren't driving as hard but were still running it.Shortly after that I didn't hear them and my yard dog started barking and those two beagles dragged up the driveway and just lay down in the grass. I had to carry them to the kennel and the literally didn't move for 48 hours. They ate and drank water LYING down!
I figure they ran about 18-19 hours.

[JUDE]

My young male went hard for 6 maybe 6 + hours Monday 7-1:00 ish he hunted until we stopped , and we had hunted the evening before as well .
He was worn out and I didn't even consider taking him back out today .
My oldest male 2 1/2 slowed down .

[DIXIEDOG]

Unless there is a lot of snow mine go for around 12 hrs of solid running before they really slow down. Get 10"+ of snow and they are only good for around 6hrs.

[Jane]

My male could do 8-10 hours any given day, I am sure he could go longer given the conditions of the fall/winter versus the summer heat. The female maybe 6-7 but they are not exhausted when they are called in. The male could hunt 7 days a week I am sure but takes time to condition them. The better conditioned, the longer the staying power and a good diet with a bit of fat to burn doesn't hurt.

[S.R.Patch]

They've come close a few times of getting a new home address...

I hunt like I fish, if I go to the trouble of getting the boat out, you better have lunch and supper in your pack and we clean'um in the dark...

[reddog1]

I just got back from running hare on Drummond Island, We would turn loose about 8:00 am and run until 4:30 or 5:00 pm. Most of it was steady running the weather was cool and the ground was damp so it was easy on the dogs but stil they ran hard for 8-8 1/2 hours and we would rotate the packs every day so we had fresh dogs when we started. I started conditioning the dogs in september so they were ready at the end of October. Conditioning is the key. S.R. Patch you missed some good running, I know it was warm and dry when you were up there. The little bitch I got from Tom and Eva a couple of years ago ran fantastic and I just picked up the new one from them this evening. I can't wait to see what she will do.

[S.R.Patch]

I just got back from running hare on Drummond Island, We would turn loose about 8:00 am and run until 4:30 or 5:00 pm. Most of it was steady running the weather was cool and the ground was damp so it was easy on the dogs but stil they ran hard for 8-8 1/2 hours and we would rotate the packs every day so we had fresh dogs when we started. I started conditioning the dogs in september so they were ready at the end of October. Conditioning is the key. S.R. Patch you missed some good running, I know it was warm and dry when you were up there. The little bitch I got from Tom and Eva a couple of years ago ran fantastic and I just picked up the new one from them this evening. I can't wait to see what she will do.

Reddog, your kill'in me...
We'll be back Dec...
Is this new pup out of CC ? Ivory is her grandma and she should be a dandy.
I think Cloe was from Beanie if I got it straight
Eva is really good with the pups.
I got a litter by my Wheeler Dealer male, he is inbred Casey/Dottie, littermates. They are out of my uncle's grade redtic bitch I was left with when he passed. Them pups have been a joy to raise, no problems nada. Today, when I was feeding, I saw something up on the pond dam, after a minute I realized it was the pups. They had found a break in the wire and had gone the 200 yards through the round bales, across the pasture, and were up at the pond, 7 weeks old, now what do you think about that. One fellow that took a little bitch told me the other day, he'd been walking his every evening. Well, she got out on a beaver dam and fell off. He said she swam to a flow through the dam that was low enough for her to climb and made it back across. He said he's never had one so young get out like she does...
I think I'm gona put these whips in the chicken lot and see if'in they might find a rabbit, they sure got the go explore in'um...

[bluemouse]

got one male if he is kenneled all night and the next day while i am working, when I let him out he can whiz a good four are five minutes straight cause he never soils his pen. oh how long do they run, if they are in shape they are good from daylight to dark if the weather stays cool enough.

[danny vansickle]

I just got back from running hare on Drummond Island, We would turn loose about 8:00 am and run until 4:30 or 5:00 pm. Most of it was steady running the weather was cool and the ground was damp so it was easy on the dogs but stil they ran hard for 8-8 1/2 hours and we would rotate the packs every day so we had fresh dogs when we started. I started conditioning the dogs in september so they were ready at the end of October. Conditioning is the key. S.R. Patch you missed some good running, I know it was warm and dry when you were up there. The little bitch I got from Tom and Eva a couple of years ago ran fantastic and I just picked up the new one from them this evening. I can't wait to see what she will do.

all you guys talkin about hare huntin,i aint never got to go and it is drivin me nuts..........rub it in reddog.....rub it in!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Big Dog]

I just got back from Iowa and we normally hunt around 8 or 9 hrs a day. Rabbits run big there so if the dogs aren't in shape they will poop out in 3-4 hrs. Mine were in good shape so that lasted all day. I normally rotate packs of dogs everyday. I did run my Angel female two days in a row, and she never missed a beat.

[SilverZuk]

I have hunted mine all day quite often.
Normal hunting they will slack off after an hour if they aren't finding rabbits.
If they are running, they will run until they drop.
I have ran them all until dogs started dropping out.
Then it is usually collect the rest and get them back to the house.

The hardest I ever ran them was on a cattle farm in Greenbrier County.
All multiflora rose. Lots of running and little shooting because it is so thick. One race approached an hour before we killed the rabbit.
Both dogs were less than two years old.
We put them on the ground at 8:00 and pulled them up at 3:30 and it was solid running all the time. At 3:30 my female started laying down on me. She was falling out the race, laying down, and nursing her feet.
We packed them up and headed home.

The male died a couple years ago, and the male I replaced him with came from McGuire's Rocky. That dog ran all day and never seem to get tired. The bigger the running the further ahead he got as the other dogs fell back. He was electrocuted this spring. He was too fast for WV cottontail, too much pressure and put them in holes.

I still have the first female and she will start falling out the race around noon if you have big running. The other female does good, but doesn't handle the heat. I have had her go down on me a couple times in the heat.