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Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon
But ya gotta have beagles.
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35 years or so ago i had 4 beagles and 2 high school age sons who needed some thing constructive to do after the bird season ended. we ran the dogs every Sunday year round and hunted them Sat, and school vacations till their ribs were showing, they looked abused except for there muscle structure.
The rule was no shooting on the jump and the dogs had to run 15 minutes before you could load your gun. As they got better they switched to .22 rifles then pistols. The dogs when coming to where a rabbit was killed acted discussded and gave us a very hard look before going off searching again.
Kept two boys busy and out of mischief and got them a lot of time in the woods that taught them how to also hunt deer in that the same discipline applies to both.
I really miss those days, my last beagler friend died 5 years back and now when i hear a hound running i just listen to the chase and remember those days.