Dan Edwards
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You are right, I can not comment on your huntin conditions, sorry about that.
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a fast dog would not last a week in the places i work my dog ,mabe ok for you on them vast plains where they get time to pull up or turn wide ., We run ours in timber ground all the time so I aint buyin that either.
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I want a dog that is fast as can be but when he comes up on his game, he should slow and rate it and then explode and then its all over.
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Most the of the slips or dumps are at the 100 to 200 yard range though. We dont really slip here though. We either dump out a truck or we walk hunt them and when it warms a bit I will be huntin off my mules.
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Its hot as can be in July. Ground aint terrible hard in July, not like it is now anyhow. When it gets real dry then yes it gets hard. I aint tryin to be a hard ass but I dont baby myself nor my wife or kids so I damn sure aint gonna baby no dog. We hunt when we can and we hunt year round. Like I said, not tryin to be a hard ass but aint no dog livin a better life than we are. Oh ya as far as the joint thing goes, I suppose you are right but my joints dont feel real good when I wake up in the morning either so if them dogs are willing and able to go on and do it, then we go on and d
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Another thing one must seriously take into consideration here is this. The truely great fast dogs are not weak or brittle. They are not injury prone at all. They are the best of their kind and they can absolutley fly and take any tumble that a half breed collie lurcher could take. If you think of it, they should be able to. They are damn near perfect in every aspect. If they were not, they would not be the athletes that they are in the first place. Never will you see a straighter legged, more muscled, solid hound that them fast as lightning jack rabbit or hare dogs that them boys run.
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There is really no reason to ever add any hotblood greyhound to these dogs. They are not really "lurchers" at all. The predominant blood in them is already greyhound. There may be some deerhound from way back when in them but its mostly just greyhound blood with a dash of this or that throughout the years. There is no reason to ever add hotblood greyhound to dogs if the men that are breeding and raising the dogs are breeding for speed already in order to catch a runaway coyote with a slip between 200 and 400 yards. It does get added here and there but in my opinion should only be done if
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Very nice. I could get into some of that pretty easy. We cant really do it over here cause our country is too big but I bet it would be a blast. Too big where I live anyhow.
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In my opinion a dog can never be too fast. I can never understand why anybody would believe this. They can be to inexperienced or just plain stupid for sure but never too fast. A dog can also be injury prone or just plain brittle and weak but never can one be too fast. You really have to call a spade a spade if you are wanting great dogs. If a dog gets wrecked here, I dont say they were too fast. I say they were either inexperienced, stupid, brittle and weak, or in certain cases it was just a bad unfortunate deal. I own a male dog that wrecked himself last July but it werent cause he wa
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Yes, I will slip any male dog that stays at my house sinlge several times or he wont be stayin at my house.
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We hunt them up, we drive around and look for em. I know areas where they are more likely to be so we will walk em out at times. All different strategies. The key is just to be out everyday you can and you can find them, then its all about what you are carryin and if they are up to it or not.
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Caught 3 coyotes on Saturday. Dogs were out of shape cause I was gone on vacation and didnt hunt them for a couple weeks. They did look good though even considering.
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Nice pics, thanks for sharing.
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lets see the working/raceing grayhound
Dan Edwards replied to davidlloyd's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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bigshrimp, my dogs eat them bunnies so fast you would never get to em before they were gone.
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I'll tell ya what. I gotta go on a trip here next week but after that gets over I will give a holler and see whats up. Call me sometime in the next day or so even and we can work on some dates.
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It can hurt them of course but they heal. Most stags can take cotton tails easily but hare require the right type and I dont really feed that kind.
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Ya, its frozen solid as a rock.
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Ya, they got a "scent" alright. LOL! I think they are playin with that coyote a little too rough. HAHA!
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This ground here is all frozen solid and them black "clumps" you are seein is called lava rock. They do not make frozen ground any harder than that stuff. It will cut you to pieces if you hit it. My buddy uphill runs on this stuff every week.
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If a dog is raised tough, they will be tough. I wouldnt take a track greyhound out and run em on this frozen shit but our dogs grow up on this stuff and are as tough as the coyotes they are catchin and killin.
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I'm not arguing with anybody and I dont care what anybody thinks but we do run them on frozen ground every day we go out. If we did not, we would never get to go. It was -11 farenheight, not celsius, Sunday morning when we left the house. Thats what my winters consist of, we dont have a choice and we catch coyotes all winter long.
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Yes, I have 17 now but am not really worried about catchin many more. I know what I have and am happy with them and I need to let them be before something bad happens and I'm behind the 8 ball again. Its the story of my life. LOL!
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Coyote run between 30 and 40 pounds depending on where you are from. Of course there are smaller ones and bigger ones but not usually.
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We call em staghounds but a deerhound cross would really not be that far off.
