Good stuff, John. Wish you had kept that going. I remember stud ads for FC Herb’s Rambling Man and thinking what an interesting pedigree.
Oh its' still running in the Marshes of South Louisiana every year day in and day out. That blood still runs deep behind many a good hounds in the Deep South.
Rabbit Hunters have it.
People won't probably see it in hunting test on a Saturday morning.....put on by the AKC though. Not usuallyt. These hounds are working on the weekend not playing. They are earning a living for themselves and their owners. You have to load up in an air boat or marsh buggy or 20 foot flat boat to watch these guys perform under the GUN!
I let friend of mine who is a hunting guide get a good male 4 years ago for his pack. He needed a real "Jump Dog" for his Marsh guide business. I had two good 2 year old males and a bitch descended from many of these old kind of dogs bred to my dogs. I let him purchase one of the males that I had two of and retained breeding rights.
This good old HUTING BLOOD even shows up in the back of hounds that place in and win the AKC Nationals....people just don't know the pedigrees behind all the winning and placing hounds so they don't speak of it or check on it. Some of the SPO guys would roll over in their graves if they knew what just beat them.
Some of you guys in KY and TN would be shocked at how some of the hounds in past years were bred (in the back) of their pedigree that won and placed in the AKC Nationals and the Deep South if you dug down to the roots of some of those hounds from down here.
That's why I say to young people starting out all the time what do YOU want beagles for???? not what does your buddies or SPO or Brace or Large pack or ARHA want beagles for.....what do you want your dogs to do? Why do you really want beagles...to hunt or to play games or both. Once you know that.... you can get out of other peoples box and move around.......the air is cleaner and the view is much better outside the box. Don't follow the pack. Do something different...make something Great Happen. Count the costs and Do your own thing....Do it for you...do it for beagles...do it for all of that. Do it for FUN!
I and many others I hunt with in the Deep South still have dogs that go back to lots of these old dogs Mr. John Posted Huntsman....Just like the Eveready Bunny....... it is still...... going and going and going!!!
The BEST and most COMPLETE hounds I ever had the pleasure to watch run a rabbit and or gun with were crosses of hounds you would never imagine existed. These guys bred good hound to good hounds...... they didn't follow fads or chase ribbons though their hounds could shine when brought to any kind of a trial where a rabbit was the target game.
If you notice....Lots of the good old gay blood mixed heavy behind lots of those great Gundog Dogs Mr. John bred \ owned and posted for us.!
Rabbit Hunters would never let something like this just vanish...no sir. They protect the Beagle Gundog Breed.
Just because people don't see it in Hounds and Hunting magazine or at an ACK field trial don't mean it doesn't exist.
People would be surprised maybe even SHOCKED at what is out there... OUT SIDE.....THE BOX.....In the REAL WORLD!
HUNTSMAN you've got some real good old blooded fine hounds at your place and I wish you lived closer so we could hunt together every weekend for a season. Then we would know what might cross well. I know you have some hounds I would love to cross on some of my junk.
Mitch