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Post by Wolfer on Dec 9, 2005 21:47:40 GMT -5
Viewing the stats and such we are getting hammered by vistors and also new members .......
Most of this interest seems to becoming from the registery debate and NAWATA and such.......
what im curious about is WHo is wiuth what Org. or are ya just Like Me and Interested in Airedales and Hunting....
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Post by Shane Watson on Dec 10, 2005 16:26:52 GMT -5
no clubs, no affiliations, no competition, and no desire for any of it.
I used to work my dog in a dedicated retriever and bird dog draining area of over 800 acres with several large ponds (small lakes really). I watched a lot of guys working and traing all kinds of dogs, as well as all kinds of competitions and events, and they just don't turn my crank Several nice dogs, but I'm just not interested in what they do. I'd rather have my dog break off a duck retrieve and kill an opportune rat, then get back to the dick. For that matter, I've seen him put up a lot more duck by breaking off a retrieve, and that is the way I preffer too. No robots, no rules, no clubs, just hunting/hiking/camping/whatever.
My dog is purebred, but I never even registered him with AKC, waste of money, imo. I wouldn't even have use for the airedale registry spoken of here, but I can see the good in it.
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Post by Bob McClellan on Dec 10, 2005 18:32:45 GMT -5
Have zero interest in clubs, organizations, affiliations, registries, or much of anything else organized. Guess I’m an unorganized kind of guy. I’ll just take my dogs out and do whatever it is we do. Might be squirrels one day and bears or cougars another. Even some quail or grouse from time to time as the opportunity presents itself. Does that make me an equal opportunity hunter?
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Post by Idaho Steve on Dec 11, 2005 13:54:13 GMT -5
I've not much use for registries and breeding, lean whole-heartedly towards the hunt, and don't care if they have hair on their face or not. Love to see dogs perform, be it game, birds, or livestock. Man-work is not my cup of tea, though I understand the importance of Police work & SAR. "Canned" stuff just doesn't turn my prop.
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Post by Idaho Steve on Dec 11, 2005 14:00:24 GMT -5
Curt,
I'm curious about what you consider the error of your thinking about going lion hunting?
Steve
Just fixed the broken link in the quaote
Wolfer
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Post by hicntry on Dec 12, 2005 1:27:30 GMT -5
Oh yea of little faith. Just get you some tracking equipment and go for it.....What is a P&Q???.And what do I know anyway. I know caged coons just are not near as tough as coons on the ground and it takes a really special dog to kill one of those. I now know that you can't find coons during the day and that they never climb small trees. I have never hunted lion and know diddly.  |
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Post by hicntry on Dec 12, 2005 9:41:23 GMT -5
I knew it. It was the deliverence comment. Picturing going out in the deep woods with those houndsmen....just you and Gator.LOL All that stuff you hear about houndsmen isn't true....at least not all of it Curt.
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, so I guess that puts me in a...
