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Post by Beverley Cross on Oct 19, 2009 7:39:55 GMT -5
Was talking to a friend yesterday who's neighbor has a beagle/basset mix. He said that sometimes the neighbor will sneak and put down where he's running his beagles...he can always tell by that dog's big ol' mouth. He also said that sometimes that Beagle/Basset shows all the dogs up on the checks.
Anybody here ever hunt with a beagle mix with any success, whether it's Beagle/Basset, Beagle/Rat Terrier, Beagle/Walker, etc?
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Post by TC on Oct 20, 2009 5:41:43 GMT -5
In Oregon they have Basset field trials just like they do beagle field trials, and those big boys can move a rabbit. Also have a friend that hunts dashounds with her beagles, the beagles hole the rabbit and the dashound goes in after the rabbit and off they go all of them in the race, pretty neat to watch..
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Post by Beverley Cross on Oct 20, 2009 6:09:51 GMT -5
The AHBA, American Hunting Bassaet Assoc, I think, used to be pretty active here in the midwest -- often having trials right down where we were for the SPO trial weekend before last. Don't know if they are still having the trials or not. Our Little Pack club (Wildcat Beagle Club) used to host at least one per season for them.
Where we used to go run our dogs, a fellow had a pack of both beagles and bassets he would occasionally bring. His bassets had some daylight under them, and when his pack would go by, you'd have to look closely to pick those bassets out. Sometimes they brought up the rear, but they weren't for behind.
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Post by TC on Oct 20, 2009 6:51:09 GMT -5
There is probably more of the basset and dashound hunters then we think it is just we don't run in their circles. Another hunting dog that I think would be interesting to watch is the PBGB, I hear they have trials for them in SC. Funny how the commercial pet business has put the public into believing these dogs are couch potatoes when actually they are pretty awesome hunters.
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Post by jimumbarger on Oct 21, 2009 11:03:15 GMT -5
I hunted over a Bassett/ beagle cross when I was a kid. One thing for sure, it was a rabbit dog. We shot rabbits all day with that ol' dog.
Not my thing any more but it was a pleasure when meat was the only thing that mattered.
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Post by foxxy on Oct 21, 2009 19:43:19 GMT -5
they have the basset world in lynnville three rivers beagle club was who hosted it the first year.
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Post by singleshot on Oct 22, 2009 13:13:14 GMT -5
Yeah, my brother had a basset/bulldog cross. He was a fairly good hound, we used him to blood track a deer and also to run a deer on a drive. He had a wonderful full bawl mouth.
I have had walker/beagle cross hounds myself. My dad was a fox hunter and I had beagles. One of my beagles got bred to one of his fox hounds and she had four pups. They looked like small fox hounds and could run rabbit real good. I then crossed the female beagle/foxhound back to a good beagle male and had another litter of 3/4 beagle 1/4 walker, lol. They were good hounds and fast on the line, lol.
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Post by mjd on Oct 23, 2009 15:53:09 GMT -5
i know a couple guys in michigan that run cottons and hare with them
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Post by gundogbeagle on Oct 24, 2009 14:56:33 GMT -5
my friend ran bassets for years and i use to run my old beagle hes gone now but he would settle in right in front of that basset and they would run the rabbit my friend finished about
9 of them akc field tittle they where pretty fast we have killed hare in front of her
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Post by bill4521 on Jan 17, 2010 12:55:44 GMT -5
Several years ago I bought a pair of pups, AKC papered as Beagles but were actually Beagle/Basset mix. The dogs grew into excellant gun dogs that absolutely did not know hw to lose a rabbit. Both had a very good nose and booming mouths, a real pleasure to hunt with. The down side of this particulr pair was that they ran at about a 5 speed, each weighed about 45 pounds and suffered from seizures. By age two, both had to be humanely put to sleep.
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Post by sgc on Dec 16, 2011 19:19:34 GMT -5
I knew a guy that had a 1/4 basset & 3/4 beagle he ran & guided on hare. It was his main dog & many times on guided hunts, his only dog. It was a bigger boned dog & had a real big nose. The part that surprised me the most the first time I ran with him was he wasn't close like I would have expected. In fact, he may have been the most un-close dog I ever saw. He ran hare great, but you never saw him with his nose to the ground. He ran with his head high & a lot of the time he was way off the line. Because of the way he ran, he was on the faster side. The only thing that really bothered me about the dog, after hunting with him numerous times, was that sometimes at a check, the next you'd hear of him was 200 yards away. I could never figure if he swang until he found the hare or went & found another. Probably a little of both. The above, however, describes how this basset/beagle mix ran. It was different than I would have expected.
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Post by Beverley Cross on Dec 16, 2011 20:05:56 GMT -5
I was surprised the first time I saw a real hunting basset, not one that had been bred to be a couch potato. The hunting bassets actually have some daylight under their legs.
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Post by Beverley Cross on Dec 17, 2011 13:57:25 GMT -5
I've bassets were even harder headed than beagles. The only reason they were easier to handle was they didn't have enough leg to get away from you, lol.
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Post by Patchwork on Dec 26, 2011 13:25:56 GMT -5
I think it was Rod Moore in Mich. and Jacob James out in Oklahoma are the two I remember off hand from the early basset hunts.
They hunt fairly close and ran at a medium speed but the thing that stuck out most was their tremendous mouth.
Coonhound, without the legs... ;D
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Post by Patchwork on Dec 26, 2011 13:33:33 GMT -5
No, it was Rod Place, I think. He was a school teacher, I pretty sure. always a happy fellow, I can still see him in my minds eye...  |
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