While Goosehunting

[LongSpur39]

We were sitting in our blind and heard some hounds goin. They were running long distanes through the valley. We had no idea what they were chasing but assumed it was deer. After about an hour and a half of hearing them. We heard one lone rifle shot. I thought what the hell?? Anyway a short time after that a dude and his hounds came walking past the gaswell carrying a nice coyote. I'm tellin ya ,after talkin to him. I think once I get settled ,I'm gonna get me some of those dogs. Around here its not popular. But the thought of running them like rabbits and hearing hounds. Guranteed I'd like it. Plus you can hunt anytime of the day. Around here,night hunting,early morning,and evening are it. never killed a coyote in the middle of the day. Unless it got bumped by deer hunters. It was in my mind the coolest thing. Havent hunted coons in a long time. And thats what it was like to me. Anyone know what kinds of hounds they use? I didn't know really what breed they were?

[grizz1]

Longspur, they are most likely Walker foxhounds, although some guys have a breed called July's. Other dogs can be trained but not as easily as the two I mentioned. That is the way I hunted coyotes all through the 70's and early 80's, had 40 dogs trained at one time , that was the most I ever owned and were ready to hunt. One of my best jump dogs of all time was a blue tick coonhound. I've seen other Walker coonhounds used but not often. Also had a beagle that would run coyote or fox but could care less about a rabbit.
It is quite a rush to hunt this way and especially rewarding when you are the dog owner. It also has it's downfalls, expensive would be a nice term to use, time consuming is another. There is a huge difference in these dogs and other hunting dogs such as bird dogs. They don't enjoy man's company near as much as the Lab for example, their main objective is to chase something until they can not go any further, they catch or tree it or you shoot it.
Times have changed since I hunted with hounds, my cousin that lives nearby has 30 dogs but he field trials them more than open hunting.
When he hunts with the local dog owners they now have all the dogs equipped with GPS collars so they can be followed easily and never lost.That is quite an improvement since I hunted but it is sure expensive initial cost. You should check out the area for the dog owners that hunt running foxhounds and ask to go with them, they will most likely welcome you to go along.

[LongSpur39]

Thanks Grizz for the very useful information. I did notice one thing about it, id be afraid of. The dogs ran the yote across a main road. Id worry about my dogs getting smoked by a car. Definitely gonna look into it. And ask lots of questions.