Posted on 07/25/2010 1:08:52 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
I found this old shot from about 1990. It shows Longrifle Mountain Sunshine, Longrifle Abraham and Longrifle Beozle. Beozle was my original stud, out of the Omena Black Friday line. My dogs ran toward the upper size limit for AKC, deep chested long legged brush busters. They would hit the ground hunting and hunt 'til they dropped.
I used to take Sunshine with me when I hunted deer in Georgia. She would slow trail a deer, always seemed to know what I wanted her to do.
I was driving to Georgia with a friend one day, Sunshine was sitting between us. My friend said "rabbit" in a conversation and Sunshine went bonkers looking out the windows. He didn't realize what he'd done, LOL.
Those are gorgeous dogs, and that was a funny rabbit story too. I used to really love Shelties, but then I moved back South and couldn’t put them through this kind of summer. Since then I’ve taken in a number of strays, and they’re all short haired and only one (apparent) purebred among them. Dogs are the most wonderful creatures.
I wanted to mention that you posted some pics of the most beautiful birds, maybe ~around a week ago. I meant to say something at the time but I got busy and forgot to comment. Those were some stunning photos, and I enjoyed them SO much. Thanks for all your posts, and for the pings!
With all your nice pics from your Camera that you post, you got me looking Digitals now. I'm slowly getting the hang of the short focal lengths on Digitals being 'normal' to 'telephoto'.I'm looking at every camera with a Viewfinder (I can't handle that LCD screen alone) -- from Nikons (my pref) to Kodak, Sony, Samsung and Pentax (but no Canon for me, ever). Even the non SLRs, but I really want one with interchangeable lenses.
But I'm going to have to wait on the Digital Camera, I 'need' some other new hardware first, like a Mossberg 12ga w/2 Barrels or a .45 ACP 1911.
I am so happy to be on your ping list ......
Beagles looks like puppies now matter how elderly they are.....such sweet dogs.....I love when people post dog pictures, it brings out great dog stories......
Although I’m not a hunter, I’ve heard about listening to their voices which is a terrific tool/bond out in the field. I was speaking to a highly motivated hound in the front seat of a vehicle; ruckus came to mind, albeit a hilarious one!
With out dog it is squirrels. It used to be it was just the word “squirrels” that sent him on super alert to inspect the yard from the patio doors and big windows. Now you can say “its out there” and off he goes. When he spots one the doors shake under his assault.
Great memories to have. I worked for a veterinarian who lived for bird season. It was probably the only stress-free time he had, at least until he came into work.
Thanks for the ping SWAMPSNIPER. It’s always a treat to see your photography.
Mrs. RQSR and myself have been married 32 years now, and from the outset we somehow were magnets attracting every runaway, every stray dog wherever we were. We have three dogs today, but over the past 32 years have had a total of 30. Most of course were simply mutts. One Airedale, and one Chocolate Labrador, and one Cocker Spaniel. Other than those three all were mutts. Lovely dogs all.
We are down to 14 cats now. Had as many cats as dogs over the years.
So have I. Not an easy one, by any means.
It’s a sound you never forget.
Almost like bells ringing.
When I first got my Ibizan Hounds, I’d never heard them in their [infamous?] “full cry”.
They all lit out after squirrel one day [hencforth named “Stumpy Tail” for the rest of his life] and I got to hear it.
Completely unlike Beagles...it was so surrealistic, unearthly, almost downright scary in its tone.
I wish I could accurately describe it but the best I can come up with is a combination of wild geese flying over, hounds baying, screams and “yodeling”, all at once.
It freaked me out.
Fortunately, they never did it again.
My blood ran cold....LOL
My Portuguese Podengo Medio beats the Ibizans for weirdness, though.
Her “hunting cry” sounds like a Banshee shrieking.
It really hurts my ears and unnerves my goats....:)
The other beuatiful sound is coon hounds on a night hunt.
It’s utterly silent here by midnight and you can hear them sometimes a mile away “belling” when they finally tree.
So beautiful and primal.
My dad had a Brittany for bird hunting.
Paid a fortune for the dog and all he ever hunted was moving cars.
After catching and caging pigeons all over the corn and oat fields to ‘make it easy for him to get the point’, Dad gave up on him and he became just a pet.
[thank God..I really got tired of feeding and raising the barn squabs we’d go net every spring...yuck]
The place to look for your camera is KEH.com. They usually have a pretty good stock of various Nikon SLR bodies. I have bought two of the N6006 "consumer grade" bodies that were probably 20 years old, but looked and performed brand new. I think I would now get an N90S, having learned a bit more about them, rather than the N6006 (fine camera, but has a fatal flaw - - if you drop it, the latch breaks and the back pops open. Happened to me with my first one, I replaced the body for $25.)
I have a 35-70 mm and a 70-300 mm lens, both excellent performers. Of course, if I do go digital sometime in the future, they will work on a Nikon digital body.
No doubt. Love the sound of a treeing dog.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Face to face with a badger does take a lot of guts. They call that going to ground. They will go into the tunnel ready to kill.
Amazingly if they get stuck - the handlers pull them out by their tails... & do the same if they are in a dog fight. thing in a dog fight.. Their tails are one of the strongest parts of their bodies. They are very fast...moving like the speed of light!!! lol
“The other beuatiful sound is coon hounds on a night hunt.”
A friend had some Blue Tick hounds. Their sense of smell is astounding. We once heard them baying at a treed coon two miles away when the wind blew right. It was deep winter and it took us a couple of hours to plod across packed snow at night and cross some icy streams to fetch them. Once a coon is treed, the dogs are not leaving. There was no choice, we had to find the hounds or else. I asked my friend how long they would wait at the tree for us - he said days.
“There was no choice, we had to find the hounds or else. I asked my friend how long they would wait at the tree for us - he said days.”
LOL!
Been there, done that...on a school night.
Dad had Walkers and then Blue Ticks.
“Rock” and “Blue” were merciless on the trail.
Rock would sometimes catch the coon before it treed.
What a mess.
That was back when a good pelt brought $30-$40.
Rock cost dad a couple bucks...but he meant well.
[I think...he was a pretty savage dog with his own opinions of coons]
I grew up with my granddaddy’s old Black & Tan who was creatively named “Blackie”.
Lazy old thing wouldn’t run a coon if his life depended on it but lord, how we all cried when he died.
He put up with a lot from us kids.
We crawled on him, dressed him up, hitched him to wagons, put his long ears up in a bow.
Good ol’ dog.
40 years later, I can still remember how he smelled.
Always a sun-warmed dog fur smell mixed with straw, cool, freshly dug dirt and sweet grass undertones.
Funny how some things never get forgotten.
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