best stud dog for hunt & drive .15IN CLASS

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Alabama John
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Re: best stud dog for hunt & drive .15IN CLASS

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You will take the dog that is the best for where you will be hunting. Thick deep brush where rabbits sit tight with few openings on dry mountain sides, or low land swamps with clear open woods and deep water where rabbits are sitting on stumps or small pieces of land.

One needs a slower, dig deep hunter that hunts careful sticking its nose in every thick place while its tail is going back and forth full speed. One runs the track slower and closer as an overrun is harder to find in that crawling rabbits thick stuff.

The other covers a lot of ground while run hunting, (checking out) each dry spot as it comes to it while wide open with its head up. Runs a track wide open too as to lose scent of a track is easy to recover by swinging wide and circling while still wide open with head up scenting.

Neither of these dogs are as good when hunted and run in the others spot. Ones to slow and hardly jumps a rabbit and the rabbit loses the dog or, the others too wild, jumping high on top of the thick stuff trying to hunt running and is terrible running in thick stuff constantly overrunning the track..

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