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even though they can be hard headed knuckleheads I do agree!

I would hope with your username you would agree lol. Being from MN hunting deer with hounds is a foreign concept to me but I remember growing up I would go with my Grandmas neighbor chasing rabbits with his pack of beagles! That was a good time!! And then he would switch out to Greyhounds and we would go chase coyotes! Pretty cool for a 7-10 year old boy to tag along on those hunts.
 
I actually don't use my beagles to chase deer. although when young most of them do! they are rabbit dogs. my mom and dad had a Bassett when I was born but I don't remember that dog. im 52 yrs old and a beagle is the only dog I ever owned. I keep a small pack. (5). it's hard to find places to hunt anymore but I run all year. almost all on state ground. I have met lifelong friends through beagles. It does get frustrating sometimes but be hard to not run hounds! I have a couple pictures on phone that I would like to post but don't know how.
 
As a teenager, one of my best friend's Dad hunted rabbit religiously with his beagles. He was famous in the county for having awesome rabbit dogs (and being a Trooper). Anyway, he loved his dogs and they loved him back. When the hammer dropped on a rabbit, those dogs stopped like they were on a leash, and he rewarded their work by teasing them with a rabbit's body. Anyway, I fondly remember those times and how hard those dogs worked to make us look good and put rabbit in the pot.
 
Last hunt club I belonged to, had a very nice mix of Beagles and Fox hounds they we used to hunt deer down here in the swamps, they knew when to chase and when to back off, never ran away into the next county where easy to retrieve. Course this is comparing them to the Red Bones and Walkers we used for a couple of years
 
My daddy was a die-hard rabbit hunter. He worked 3 shift 12 hours 7 days a week. He would get off at 7am and be home by 7:30am. He would load up the dogs, take me to school (unless he could get out of it), and hunt till 3 or 4pm. Lot of times he would come home unload dogs, tell me to feed and water them, clean his gun (if didn't I couldn't sit for a week), and take a shower, put on work clothes and head to work.
He ran his dogs year round, six days a week. He had 7 females that would flat out run the hair off a rabbit.
He liked the small 13 in beagles. First time I went with those 7 females. When he was taking them off the tailgate and sitting them on the ground. I laughed and told him them little dogs ain't gonna be able to push a rabbit that hard. All he said was just wait and see. They jumped a rabbit and ran that rabbit for 1 1/2 hours with no checks until they finally caught him. It sounded like they were looking at him the whole time!! My daddy told me after he got the rabbit from them. I told ya them 7 bitches would make go!!!! Still remember him standing in the field on a small hill, with a jawful of Levi Garrett with his old orange briar snagged hat, smiling ear to ear as they were running him. When he passed, those 7 dogs knew something was wrong. They just layed around in the pen. My uncle asked me if I was going get his dogs. I told him, no I wouldn't be able to run them like he did. I told him, look at them do you think they will hunt for anybody else? The guy that got them said, when he took them hunting they acted like they were lost. I told him they were, daddy wasn't there with them.
 

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