just had to put my add in on hunting dawgs... My old savannah, (English Springer) is now 14 years old and still has the spirit for ducks like she did for her first 7 years, but her body will no longer take it.  Our Lab will never be the dog savannah once was when it comes to finding the ducks in the marsh grass, but is good enough to keep old savannah company around the house and the wife has honored his ability to guard the house and his food dish with his very own  dog pillow next to savannah at the foot of the bed..
No, she , nor my lab are hounds for water fowl, but when someone ask me what is my favorite HUNTING DOG, I automatically say treeing walker. Don't get me wrong, I love my duck hunting and enjoy training a water dog and albeit my old hound will never sleep at the foot of the bed, they hold a top spot for hunting dogs.  
Those old walker hounds were named proper because when you get on a long tailed mountian kitty, you quickly learn what walking up one mountian and walking further up and down a few more is all about. Everything is fast and they will not give even though many time I have wished they would have. 
One of the more famous houndsmen out west is Mr. Del Camron and  his pick breed and the Camron bred bluetick redtick mixed is a cold nosed son gun, and although the walker hound will never have that cold of a nose, they make up for it in drive.
Any hound hunters around share in these feelings for the poor old hunting hound out in the kennels......

I wondered when or if I would read a post dedicated to the long eared wonders. I chased English hounds for 40 yrs during which time there were few coons to to many coons. I loved every minute of my time listening to that great music.

Still love it. Since i moved back to to the States from Thailand a few years back, i have thought about getting back in the circut with the comp hunts. But enjoy the annual lion hunts up in Wy. i had to say something about the Del camron hounds as cuz just brought me a 2 year old that has been on lion, but he wants to make him a coon hound. man, he is as tough as a bull and about as smart as one. Figure since we retired that english dog boomer, we will breed him to some good lines and start the pups out on coon and work them on lion later. Boomer is a former GNC comp hound that we turned into one of the best lion hounds we have ever owned.. Not many coons up in our area in Wy. but he is going nuts since they brought him down to LA where the coons come up to the feeders behing the kennels.
just afriad to hunt him as he has been above 8000 feet elevation and never been hotter than 85 for the past 6 years so the humid La swamps would take him quick. Figure will look at some good English blooded gyps to start out the bloodline again.
mark

 

I'll date myself a little. I hunted a few of the Stagner line of hounds both female and male. They proved to be the right type for the COLD northern hunting as they could track on frost, snow and ice. I had 3 dual grand champions but he best was a Red Valley Joe Jr. female that was never hunted in a night hunt, but could beat my 2 dual grand males hands down. Hope you have good luck with your breeding program.

Bill

I started with a walker gyp out of Arkansas's finest blood lines, she could trail a deer track a day old when she was just one year old but she was like greased lightning when she started running and all though I loved that in her I needed to slow the pack down when La. brought all this leaseing into the state. I crossed her with one of the states finest, Paddy's Spider, Black and Tan. No better coon hound had I ever hunted with. From that union I got Molly half walker half black& tan and with a nose for both coons and deer but still fast as greased lighting. I waited till I found the best trail dog I could find in the state, a lemon walker named Wildman. Had a reputation for cold trailing beyound belief. As with Little Girl, Molly's mother Molly was entering her fourth year and thats when I like to breed a gyp by then their well trained and can pass that knowledge on to the pups when they go into the woods together. Well I got ten in the litter and raised six of them. Kept two gave four to close friends who hunt with me. Every pup out of every one of those litters Little Girls eight and Molly's six have turned into the finest trail dogs these parts have ever seen. This last litter has almost slowed down to the speed I 'm looking for and I just this month bred one of molly's pups we call her maggie back to one of wildmans grandsons from another gyp walker from a Tenn. Blood line. So what we'll end up with is one quarter black and tan and three quarter Walker which in these parts years ago was known as Line Walker. Superior Nose super stamina and long and easy on the trail. With plenty of that Black & tan Voice. Been working on this one for seventeen years. Little Girl is gone, Molly is still hear and one of her sons and two of her daughters. One of her grandsons from one the gyps I had given away has been given to me and he was crossed with a Bluetick and what a hound this puppy is going to be he's a year old and allready trailing and running with the pack like an old veteran. We'll post the birth of the new litter when it happens and may or may not raise them all. Hound hunting is still alive and well in old La.and if I have to camp on the steps of the BatonRouge State House it will remain so.......South West La.

I coon hunted with my cousin and his dogs for almost 30 years of and on. I just said to my wife the other nite while watching a show where they were chasing hogs with hounds,how much I missed listening to the dogs sing. that makes me think back. happy hunting to all.

never too late to work a dog again. Some of the folks that I started out hound hunting with did it up until they either passed away or were just too old to get around. Can remember taking my great grandfather into his late 80's and he had a great time just waiting at the truck listening to the race and then calling us out.

Mr. Pardues I dont know how old this post is and I wish you the best w/ your health I am in the Picayune Mississippi area lookin for some exceptional dogs anyone you know have any walkers for sale in this area I would greatly appreciate some info Thanks bwood98