FOXHOUNDS PAST AND PRESENT

New items in our online store

Rosemack — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:29:40 GMT

Look on the front page of our site... under FP&P store and check out our items. Alot of them I could still get to you in time for Christmas!!! Makes good Christmas gifts or stocking stuffers!!! I can personalize alot....Thank you for checking out our site!!!

Winewood lineage

WinewoodKennels — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:25:34 GMT

Hi all, I'm George Bell. My Father field trialed years ago. Due to Illness we had to auction off all our hounds back in '90. I'm trying to find someone who may have some of our old bloodlines. I'm thinking of getting back into it, but would just really like to hear about some of my old dogs.

I'm glad i found this great forum and look forward to hearing from ya'll

Prayers for "Fat Rabbit"

Rosemack — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:16:10 GMT

We are asking everyone to please keep our friend "Fat Rabbit" in your prayers.. he has attended Blackwater hunt several years now and has cooked along with Sandsifters, Andalusia and several other pens. He apparently had a blood clot in his brain and is now parcially paralized according to Radar.... Radar.. if you would keep us updated, we would sure appreciate it. Thank you.

deer dog trial

mywaykennels — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:36:13 GMT

CFDHA HAVING DEER DOG TRIAL NOV 7TH, OCALA FOREST. OLD CHECK IN STATION, AT BIG SCRUB CAMPGROUND. ENTER DOGS FRI. NIGHT 6-9PM, AND SAT 4:30 AM, UNTL CAST AT DAYLIGHT.
ONE CLASS, RUN 4 HOURS...HGA. CHILD'S HANDLING CLASS. SAUSAGE (AM)...HOT DOG , BAKED BEANS, CHIPS, TEA LUNCH AVAILABLE FOR SMALL DONATION.
FOR NUMBERS, CALL JERRY 352-787-2166.
BRING ON YOUR HOUNDS...

Sad day for us....

Rosemack — Thur, 10 Sep 2009 23:58:23 GMT

It is with a very heavy and sad heart that we have to say that Williams daddy, William C. "Mack" McCurdy passed away today at 2:50 in Fort Worth Texas at the age of 88. He would have been 89 the end of this month. Many of our foxhunting friends knew Daddy as he came to our hunts and field trials. He will be greatly missed. Thank you all for the prayers, calls and warm wishes as we greatly appreciate them. Thank you.

Fifteen Sportsmen's groups Oppose Nomination.

Rosemack — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:50:44 GMT

(Columbus) Fifteen of the nations leading conservation and sportsmen organizations sent a letter today to all U.S. Senators requesting they oppose the nomination of Cass R. Sunstein to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA).

In the letter, the organizations express deep reservations about Sunsteins views on animal rights and hunting. Sunstein has been quoted as saying, we might ban hunting altogether, at least if its sole purpose is human recreation as well as his discussions about offering animals the rights to sue humans.

The letter makes clear that as the head of the OIRA, a powerful federal agency with extensive authority to block rules, such views, raise serious concerns about the agenda Mr. Sunstein will carry with him into this position if he is confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Sunsteins controversial views on animal rights, hunting, and agriculture caused two Senators, Saxby Chambliss (R- GA) and John Cornyn (R- TX) to temporarily place holds on his nomination. This prevented the nomination from moving forward prior to the August recess. Though those holds were subsequently removed, there remains much concern throughout the conservation community.

The groups signing the letter include: Conservation Force, Dallas Safari Club, Fur Takers of America, Houston Safari Club, Masters of Foxhounds Association of North America, Mule Deer Foundation, National Shooting Sports Foundation, National Trappers Association, National Wild Turkey Federation, Pope and Young Club, Shikar Safari Club, Texas Wildlife Association, U.S. Sportsmens Alliance, Whitetails Unlimited, Inc. and the Wild Sheep Foundation.

The U.S. Sportsmens Alliance is a national association of sportsmen and sportsmens organizations that protects the rights of hunters, anglers and trappers in the courts, legislatures, at the ballot, in Congress and through public education programs. For more information about the U.S. Sportsmens Alliance and its work, call (614) 888-4868 or visit its website, http://www.ussportsmen.org.

June 1952 The Hunter's Horn

mason88 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:58:31 GMT

Looking for a 1952 The Hunter's Horn Magizine. If no one has one to spare would like a copy of the article that goes with the Front cover. The front cover features a picture of The Jim Elliotts of Hominy, Oklahoma. (I have the cover of June 1952 Hunter's Horn but is has been tore in 3 places. The man on the right side of the picture is Jim Father Tom Elliott, My great Uncle Who passed away 03 June 1952. I am working on my Family Geneology and would like the story that goes with the picture. If there is more information in any previous magizines would also be apperciated. Thanks Larry

CFDHA 36TH BBQ

mywaykennels — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:49:04 GMT

central fl dog hunters 36th annual bbq....sept 12th, doe lake in ocala nat. forest.
bbq lunch...$6.00 bbq pork, slaw and baked beans, bread and tea.
bouncehouse...waterslides...sno cones... pop corn... swimming...fishing...horseshoe tournament...raffle drawings...membership drawings, music and more...
for more info or tickets...call or e-mail vickie bryant, 352-787-2166, mywaykennels@cs.com... bonnie davis, 352-589-4640, firemanslove124@netzero.net or website http://www.cfldoghunters.org

Gun Hound Magazine "New This Fall"

laneline — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:44:37 GMT

Gun Hound Magazine is edited for serious gun hunters and competition trialers who are enthusiasts of the popular hound breeds of hunting dogs. Our focus is on gun hunters, training methods, hunting & training equipment... more stories less ads and no "hunt results". Specialized magazines will do this in their perspective formats. We will share views and have interviews with houndsman, their dogs and have trial "highlights" from the multiple competition organizations and formats.

The mission of Gun Hound Magazine is to educate, assist, enhance and inspire active participation in hunting, competition trialing and pleasure running hounds through coverage of hunting and training dogs, care and food for hounds, shotguns and ammunition, hunting strategies, and new products. In addition, Gun Hound Magazine includes regular columns written by experts in their field; advice on dogs that bring their game back to the gun, tree, or bay. Competition trialing; top kennel listings, top stud ads, advice from a Canadian perspective; and conservation news.

Gun Hound Magazine will be promoted within the trial Beagle Clubs, Coon Hound Clubs and Fox Hound Clubs. Gun Hound Magazine is also being sold to hunters as retail in stores across the US and Canada and intends to reach out and inspire, educate and inform hunters and houndsman everywhere. We feel that our magazine would be a great subscription to avid hunters, trialers and would be an excellent place to advertise your hounds or hound related business.

Please follow this link: http://gunhoundmag.zoomshare.com/

A true Winner Never Quits and A Quitter Never Truly Wins

Rosemack — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:39:22 GMT

A True Winner Never Quits and a Quitter Never Wins
The Hunter's Horn
April, 1954
Page Twenty-eight

I just got back from the kennels feeding and shutting up these few Walker hounds that I have, that just came in from last night's race. I am going to answer some of these articles about why trials don't foster better fox hounds.

There have been lots of field trials run since the Brunswick held its first field trial in 1889. There have been a lot of changes made since that time, but it looks like many of ht changes were made against what we all strive so hard to get. That is endurance with a level head and ability to drive the game. I will have to disagree with Mr. Wayne Sudderth about field trials culling out your hounds. There is no possible chance of telling if he has the ability to drive his game when he has got 150 to 200 hounds backing him up when he makes a runover or a loss. Some other hound will pick it up and then he will step back up in front again.

Any time you hear a man say that he has a hound that you won't hear unless he is in front, you can check this hound and you won't hear too much out of him. Nine chances out of ten that same other level headed hound in the pack will get all the pickups and this hound will only give tongue when he is on a straight drive. If this same hound was taken out by himself and let him strike a fox and put him to running, chances are he wouldn't run this fox for two hours until he would have him lost and wouldn't know which way to turn to find him. That is one kind of hound our field trials are turning out, and expect us to breed to them and produce better foxhounds.

You hear so many people say, "why is it that our field champions won't breed on?" Why is it that they won't produce field champions?" Now we will look on the other side of the picture and see what is over there. Over here on this side and you will hear one say if Mr. So and So's hound had had a little more luck he would have carried home the field trial trophies. Boys, there is one of our biggest troubles in field trials, luck, too many hounds win their championship by luck and there is no way for him to breed this good luck on to his offspring. You can check the records and you will find very few field champions that produce field champions and the ones that you do find will be true winners. A true winner never quits and a quitter never truly wins.

I'm not knocking the judges of our field trials. I think they do their very best and give justice to what they see at the field trial. It is the rules they have to go by. Too many hounds cast at one time for them to actually pick a winner.

Also I'm not knocking any hound that ever won the championship at a field trial. I am calling attention to the rules he had to run under. He had to compete against too many hounds to give him and the others justice, to truly show what it takes to produce fox hounds.

I think our present day hounds have held up extremely well for the rules and the conditions they have been bred under. There is a great difference between a popular bred hound and a good bred hound. Some of the fox hound breeds have realized that fact and bred to the hound that would run the fox.

If the dairy cattlemen would have bred their cows under the same condition that we try to breed our fox hounds you wouldn't have milk enough to put in your coffee for breakfast, and if the poultry men would have bred their chickens under the same conditions your wife wouldn't have enough eggs to bake a cake.

I would like to hear from all you fox hunters, let it be criticism or praise. I'm still your fox hunting friend and love a good fox hound; let him give out, but never give up.

J. R. Henderson, Matthews, NC

Lucas McCurdy Scholarship News Report

Rosemack — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:07:08 GMT

Please go read this article. It concerns our McCurdy/Carrier Memorial and the scholarship that we recently donated. We hope you enjoy it!

http://www.baldwincountynow.com/articles/2009/06/05/local_news/doc4a26d0ef17476837513159.txt

The Hunter's Horn, June, 1962 All 75 Entries Scratched at Texas Open

Rosemack — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:27:42 GMT

The Hunter's Horn
June, 1962
Page ten & Eleven

The Texas Open Fox Hunters Association's annual trials were held on May 6th through 10th at Waterman's Front near Carthage, Tex. This campsite is located on a 20,000 acre tract belonging to the International paper Company.

There were 75 hounds from five states answering the roll call of Master of Hounds W. N. Buckner, from Sterrett, Ala. We had judges from five states.

Not one of the 75 hounds entered finished the 28 hours of running over the four-day period. The membership is already planning on having the 1963 hunt the first full week of May and hopes that it can find a winner at that time.

There was some good running on the first two days of the hunt, but the last two days were rather spotty. The association is going to put out more fox and feed them for better hunts in the future.

The association is already in the process of making the Texas Open, bigger and better for the 1963 hunt. We raised $330.00 to buy fox, and five major dog feed companies are going to furnish feed for the fox. Tom Bridges and Chic Pipes are going to build feeders and keep feed out for the fox all of the time.

At the election the evening before the last cast, all officers were reelected for another year--Gent Hutchison of Summit, miss., president; Tom Bridges of Henderson, Tex., 1st vice-president; Dr. N. G. Ferrell of Silsbee, Tex., 2nd vice-president and Jack Rayford, Henderson, Tex., secretary.

The score sheets for the four day trial are pictured on the opposite page, showing all hounds eliminated. Reasons for being disqualified are written in by the master of hounds, and they include 58 loafing, 6 withdrawn or failed to cast or answer, and the rest eliminated for babbling, running rabbits or coon, or being tied in the woods or crated.

Santa Rosa Shoot Out!!!

Rosemack — Thur, 21 May 2009 09:14:30 GMT

SANTA ROSA SHOOT OUT
4 HOUR HUNT USING MASTER RULES
$50 ENTRY PAY BACK BASED ON NUMBER OF DOGS $25 PAYBACK(50 dogs 5 places 80 dogs 8 places, etc)
CAST - DAYLIGHT
May 30, 2009
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Altha First Baptist Benefit Hunt!!!!!

Rosemack — Thur, 21 May 2009 09:12:54 GMT

Altha First Baptist Benefit Hunt

2nd Annual
Altha First Baptist Church Benefit 1 Day
Bench Show & Speed & Drive
June 5 & 6, 2009
Sandsifters Foxpen, Clarksville, Florida
This is an Open Hunt
Scores will be kept using Masters rules.
All money will go to the Altha First Baptist
youth group. They use the money to go on their
mission trip to Mississippi to help families
build homes who are without.
Also, this is a "Buddy Hunt." If you enter hounds, then you have the opportunity to be paired with another hunter and judge.
Entry Fee - $35
Bench Show Friday Night @ 7:30
Cast Saturday morning @ daylight.
Prizes will be given away to the top 10 S&D, bench show and combination winners.
Call Sky Scott at (850)272-1983 or email Sky at huntinwithhounds@yahoo.com to reserve your numbers.
Meals will be served at the pen by the AFBC youth group.

The Hunter's Horn, Nov, 1969 Breed For Perfection

Rosemack — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:32:20 GMT

Breed for Perfection

By Benson Rule Stout

Knoxville, Tennessee

The Hunters Horn, November, 1969

Page Twenty-five

About the time of World War I a group of men at a field trial were talking, and Frank Armstrongs Uncle Jim made this remark: The way to build up a good pack of running foxhounds is to get you an old gyp that has stood the test, and has the qualities in her that you are looking for. Then mate her to a stud that you knowone that you have heard run night after night, and that has the qualities you are looking for. Keep the pups and you will soon have the kind of pack that will drive a fox night after night, with few faults and mouths that stand out in a race. I never forgot Uncle Jim Armstrongs remark.

In 1939 I got a letter from a stranger who signed his name Cal Cawtnon, asking if I would accept a pup out of old Bell C., a gyp that had produced many many champions both on the bench and in the field, the pup sired by Liberty Bond, by Ona Boy by Sampson out of Ch Ona Stride. Bell C was a grandpup of Ona Stride and by Ray Raider. That was breeding, and by return mail I gladly accepted the gift. Cawthon said he had kidney trouble, was likely to meet St. Peter any day, and wanted to tell him that he had done one really unselfish thing, and that really he was selfish in giving me the puppy. He got well and lived for years, but he certainly did me a kindness telling St. Peter.

I bred Snowbird (she was almost white) to five different studsall of them I knew and well, and she never dropped a poor foxhound by any of themall were good hounds without faults, and in every litter there were about two that were super hounds. The three hounds that I gave Ernest Braden when I had to stop hunting all run back to Snowbird, and the reason I have always had hounds that stood up in the woods or at field trails was Snowbird.

When she was about 10 years old she whelped a litter by Mac-Arthur. I let John Rose have her to raise the pups, and he sold all but two for $35.00 each he said, but two he would not priceone a perfect marked male, and the other a BW&T female named Nylon Nel, and she died mine at 13. An earlier litter had Gale, perhaps the most perfect female foxhound I ever heard run a fox. John Rose always claimed that his Pearl, a litter mate was just as good. They were sired by Rock K. (Ch Hill Top Hustler was also sired by Rock K.) Orphan Annie (she belong to Wayne Farmer, but she too was always at the front, and a perfect bench type) like Gale, she had a squall that could be heard for miles, and it was always the first you heard when the pack topped up.

One morning I was out at Waynes when a man drove up, pulled $200.00 out of his pocket and said, I just have to have Orphan Annie, but he did not get her. She died an old hound still belonging to Farmer. The first time I bred Snowbird to Little Ken, and there were five outstanding foxhounds raised to maturity, one, Four Spot, could run at the front with any hound he ever met for about three hours after which only one hound could stay with him, Callie, his mate. Foxhunters would not run with Four Spot if they knew it, as he took the fox and left, then caught it right on the ground. Farmer lived in Dutch Valley between Waldens Ridge Mt. and Pine Ridge. One winter, Sam Spessard stretched nine red fox hides on boards, caught by Four Spot and Callie coming toward the creek just above his mill he would release Bluetick, and he would stand by the dead fox and bark till Sam came to him and picked it up.

Snowbird was bred in the purple. She was almost a perfect field trial hound. When the scores went on the board she was always either first or second. Cal Cawthon is responsible for the super hounds that I have owned down through the years. I was talking to Ernest Braden a few weeks ago and I asked him about Harp, now 9, and he said Harp had not slowed down one bit but was still getting his share in any race, and could still run from dark to sunup. I never heard of a Snowbird bred hound quitting, no matter how long the race, and I have known many that were 12 and 18 hours long, and only one great grandpup that ever barked out of line, just one. He would open when he crossed a covered trail. One in a hundred.

Uncle Jim Armstrong was 100 per cent right.

(Back 60 years ago Dr. T.A.R. Jones told me that foxhunting was the most relaxing of all sports and to keep it up and it would add 10 years to my life. I always stayed with the hounds through the night, or day, but at night I tried to get at least three hours sleep rolled up in my hunting bag, and was there when fagged out hounds came in. I like daylight hunting, then you can really check and find out which hounds do the work.)