Looking into 14" Beagle

[bigr]

Its been 4 years now since my waterfouling partner Brook had to be put down and Bailey,, he passed this past summer so we are now looking into getting another family member.
The debate is on.
My choice is that I want to take up a new challenge and train a beagle and help some camps push some deer around but chasing a flat out runner is not what I want. I've hunted in front of the smaller or 14" beagles and I think this is a better direction for me and if you all have any breeders I can check out, that would be great.
I just want to run one dog as I believe the pack runs a little hard for what I think I want to do.
As well if any of you houndspersons can suggest GPS tracking collars, I'm all ears.
Thanks.

[werner.reiche]

I don't have one yet, but will be getting one shortly - the garmin astro 320 seems to be the one to get. For trialing - beagles are separated into <13 inch and 13-15 inch. At 14", you're into the bigger size, but I think you are looking for a 13 and under since you mentioned smaller. I'm in the same market for a new one of those too...I'll getting in touch with a breeder near Kemptville next week and will get back to you on what I find. "beagle2618" that post here is going to have litter with a pretty good pedigree later this year, but I think those will be of the 15" variety.

[moosehunter]

We run 12 inch beagles I find females are better
We use the wildlife management tracking system best system ever
Our camp has two sets if theses trackers and callers
We haven't list a dog yet
With these
If you need any more info let me know
I have put 5-7 month old pups into hunt and they both have run deer soon as they get a track

[Bo D]

Hey guys, you may want to check out www.americanbeagler.huntingboards.com/index Scroll down to Trading Post Puppies Only. You may find something you are looking for there...

[Sharon]

old link Bo . This is the correct one:

http://www.americanbeagler.huntingboards.com/index.php

Also recommend looking at the :

http://www.ontariobeagles.com/

Click on any club and contact the leadership there about spring litters. VERY knowledgeable , helpful folk.
Consider attending a trial in the Spring to see the dogs and talk to the breeders. Visitors always welcome.

[Sharon]

We run 12 inch beagles I find females are better
We use the wildlife management tracking system best system ever
Our camp has two sets if theses trackers and callers
We haven't list a dog yet
With these
If you need any more info let me know
I have put 5-7 month old pups into hunt and they both have run deer soon as they get a track

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Wonderful thing isn't it. Wish we'd had that when I was running beagles in the 60s. Lost some fine dogs.

[Fox]

Our little guy Buster was a really crappy hunter, he got scared going out on a deer at a few months old and never recovered (we think he got kicked, heard the screams) but he was the best pet anyone could ever ask for. At the hunt camp he would not leave the yard unless you did, he would walk into the tall grass to do his business rather than mess up the lawn and he would flush grouse for me all the time. The bad part about taking him grouse hunting was shooting at one, he was so scared of the gun that once you took a shot he would walk about 20 yards behind you for about 10 minutes, ha ha.

[bigr]

Thanks for the tips everyone.
I started off hunting in front of dogs and I want to do this right this time. I don't believe in dogs Xrossing into private land and messing with others hunts. I really want to do this again. Its been 25+ years and I always missed the dogs sounding off at first light !

[Fox]

Thanks for the tips everyone.
I started off hunting in front of dogs and I want to do this right this time. I don't believe in dogs Xrossing into private land and messing with others hunts. I really want to do this again. Its been 25+ years and I always missed the dogs sounding off at first light !

It is a great sound eh.

What zone are you in?
The problem is that dogs always get away, beagles are not smart in an I am going to listen to you way, but they have ridiculous prey drive and stubborn as anything. I laugh when beagle owners say "I just don't know what to do with him, I cannot let him off the leash or he just runs away" well go figure, he is a beagle.
The way to keep them going where you want them to go is to learn where the prey wants to go and run the dog accordingly, if you learn the escape paths of the deer and run the dogs on those runs to blockers on those runs then you should either shoot the deer or have the blockers grab the dogs.

The problem lies when your blockers just watch the dogs run past and then tell you, the houndsman, that "oh I saw the dogs go past and out the back", well why did you not grab them? You did not want any dog scent on you?.

Dad had beagles since before I was born, still has1 pure bread and 1 cross with a walker, the pure bread is sneaky and the mix is a suck but dumb as a door knob, can he ever hunt though.

[werner.reiche]

Fox - there are things you can do to keep the beagles from getting lost as much.

a) go with the smaller ones - shorter legs, shorter range
b) go with a female - less independent
c) don't keep them as a kennel dog - keep them as a pet
d) have everyone feed them treats around camp - when the come out to a stander they'll go over to him to see if he has treats
e) make sure everyone carries a dog rope
g) give the standers a full load of crap if they don't make an effort to snag the dog when he comes out

Follow all that and ... well, you'll still lose them now and then, but hopefully less often.
A beagle will get lost a lot in its first 3-4 years. Eventually it will figure out how the game works.
In the last 3 years I've lost my 12yo beagle twice...once I used the tracking collar to find it the next morning 4km away,
the other time, it came back to the truck and 9pm.