plott hounds

[ncpreacherboy1]

Anyone on here using them? Especially for hogs or bear? Anyone local to me(central NC)? I have taken a notion to looking into these for the purposes I mentioned. Any help and/or advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Joe

[j104wd]

Ill ask down at my club this weekend and at the fox hunt next month. I know a couple of the guys down there used to run plotts. I live in kernersville and see a truck in town that has a "got Plotts" sticker on the back window so I know there are some close to you. I have a mutt plott but no longer hunt her.

[ncpreacherboy1]

Even if I didn't hunt them myself, I would loke a breeding pair to get some pups from.

[newstart2k]

Contact this guy:

Tom Cagle
Canton, N.C.
(828)648-3803

[claybyrd]

   I had one years ago. He was the best hound dog that I ever had. Hunted mostly coon up here, but he would of made a good big-game hound. They are a good breed for bears and such.

[Tonk]

Plott's crossed bred to an African Ridgeback make one heck of a lion dog I am told! The best way to get the true facts on any breed, is to look various breeds up and compare them all. Red Bone, Plott, Walker and  Blue Tick are all great breds of hounds and even in a litter, one may be more "bolder and fearless" than the rest, so you can't just go with what a particular person says about a particular dog etc.

I have several very good Coon Hunters around our area and most like the Walkers for that version of hunting but there sure have been many cross bred hounds around to make things interesting for lion, bear, hogs and coons.

[hillbill]

back in the day when i was hunting coon. plots were always known for being a rather cold nosed dog.prob good for bear, maybe not so good for hogs.unless yu like walking a lot. they are very agressive and good fighters.

[Brett]

I have a one year old Plott but I do not hunt her she's just a family pet.   She is very friendly toward people and other dogs.  Unlike my Lab/Shepherd mix she has a will of her own and is not easy to train.  The Lab/Shepherd would do anything to please me, the Plott seems to do whatever pleases her.   She does have a keen eye and seems to have a good nose. She seldom misses any bunny or squirrel that happens to be within 200 yards of her and would probably make a good hunting dog.  A neighbor up the street has a Great Peranise that always "greats" us at the fence when we take the dogs for a walk.  The Lab/Shepherd gets pretty rattled but the Plott barely pays it any attention so I would say she has little fear of larger, agresive animals.   

 

[kwells2006]

My brother-in-law has used them for years. His trusty ol' male Goose is one helluva dog and can track like no other i've seen

[hemlock_vt]

we've got a 1.5 year old plotthound that my girlfriend rescued as a pup from a neighbor who wasn't able to take care of him. He's first a foremost a pet/companion, but of course he has a pretty strong hunting instinct - he's chased/treed several bear while my gf was hiking in the woods with him. Recently I've been working on turning him into a rabbit dog. Obviously he's not "designed" for it, but we don't hunt bear or coons and I'd like him to have a job. Our beagles are also getting old and sore, and it's hard for them to get through the deep snow to go after snowshoe hares in the winter, while the plott can of course bound around in it easily.

We ran him with the beagles a few times on snowshoe rabbits, and now that he's got the idea he's learning quite well. He's got endless enthusiasm for it and goes baying right after the rabbits. His trouble seems to be that he goes quite fast and, when the rabbit hits a thicket and starts making sharp turns, he sometimes loses the track. He's not quite at the point where he can run a rabbit in a complete loop back to me, but I'm gonna keep working with him and I think he'll get there. He certainly loves it and would go all day if he was allowed to.