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Notes From Roger Dale - August 2010
Man, has it been hot! The heat indices around here have been 110 degrees or better on a daily basis! The 2010 Breeders' Showcase will be held later this month in Aurora, Kentucky, and I sure hope we....

'09 Labor Day Classic - Friday
North Vernon, IN – The Friday night edition of the 2009 PKC Labor Day Classic saw a total of 65 pups 121 open dogs, and vying for a final four spot and a piece of the $500.00 Added Purse Pup Derby a....

Breeders' Stakes Update
THE BREEDERS STAKES Jarvis Umphers The Breeders Stakes is finally getting enough history to get a little bit of a handle on just what a pup may be able to earn in it. I have spent some time this mo....

New Sophomore Super Stakes
THE NEW SOPHOMORE SUPER STAKES Jarvis Umphers The Super Stakes was begun in 1989 and consisted of around twenty sires placed into the program at a cost of fourteen hundred dollars each for the yea....

PRO CLASSIC RESULTS
PKC PRO CLASSIC ROBINSON, ILLINOIS The first round was completed without a question or complaint. Most all casts scored on coon, one cast scored on nine coons with a high score of 775+. The club....

BREEDERS SHOWCASE - THURSDAY
BREEDERS SHOWCASE THURSDAY NIGHT OPEN 79 ENTRIES FINAL FOUR SPLIT Zeb 3 Brad Mitchell – O Jeff Travis – H Score 600+ Josie Wade Hill – O/H Score 475+ Red Wilson/Clumpny – O Loyd Wil....

Illinois State Open Event
ILLINOIS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP Brownstown, Illinois Many thanks to the Fayette County coonhunters club for a job well done. - Jeff Nelson. Saturday April 16th PUP DERBY - 8 Entries - Awards....

2008 Breeders Stakes
Breeders’ Stakes Begins to Come into Focus By Jarvis Umphers The 2008 breeding season has passed and there were sixty-three sires listed in the Breeders’Stakes to give us a total of $63,000 from t....

$25 Truck Tickets
GET A TRUCK TICKET IN $25 HUNTS???? Jarvis Umphers Yes! Yes! Now you can get a truck ticket without having to drive all over the country. Getting a truck ticket in either the Pup or Senior Di....

Jason Miller
By Amy Kovac-Thomas You never know what motivates a person to get into the sport of coon hunting, but as PKC continues to spotlight good, quality members of the Association, we are learning more an....

Deamon Wins Ohio
Owensville, OH—The Ohio State Championship Weekend kicked off last night with the State Hunt and Open Event. Hunt Directors Vern and Kandy Newland reported a smooth night. Handsome Deamon, a 5 year ....

For those that believe in dogs...
The following is for individuals that we believe have a special place in their hearts for dogs and all that they bring to our lives. The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tai....

Our Coon Hunting Heritage - Part IV
This story from the pen of Fred Streever in his work The American Trail Hound, is about fox hunting with Walker hounds. But no story of the history of today’s coonhound would be complete without explo....

Our Coon Hunting Heritage - Part III
This story brings back a lot of memories for me, having grown up in mountainous terrain, hunting with a shotgun in the early fall, and sleeping in the car waiting for the dogs to come in at dawn in th....

Our Coon Hunting Heritage - Part II
“Our Coon Hunting Heritage” will feature stories and previously published articles from the bygone days of this great sport of coon hunting." The second installment of the “Our Coon Hunting Heritag....

"Our Coon Hunting Heritage" Series
Our Coon Hunting Heritage By Steve Fielder “Our Coon Hunting Heritage” will feature stories and previously published articles from the bygone days of this great sport of coon hunting. The i....

Important memo from Santa Claus
North Pole - I regret to inform you that, effective immediately, I will no longer serve the southern states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennes....

Raccoon and Dressing
Members looking for a substitute for the Thanksgiving Day turkey may want to try out this receipe for dinner today. Raccoon with Dressing Clean raccoon (assuming you can tree one first), removin....

PKC Judge's Handbook
The PKC JUDGE’S HANDBOOK is an official PKC document. The instructions found herein are “official” interpretations of PKC rules and may be used to settle questions in the woods with confidence that PK....

Show Biz - September 2002
The following article was scheduled to appear in the September issue of PROHOUND. Due to limitations on available space, the article was omitted and appears here. SHOW BIZ By Tricia Snedegar Stack....

2002 Animal Rights Nat.Convention Report
From: Americans for Medical Progress Dear AMP News Service readers-- What follows is a lengthy report on the Animal Rights 2002 National Convention, held in the Washington ....

A Tribute To Joe Brooks
Joe Brooks, 64, a Christian, a cowboy, a coon hunter, and a beloved father passed away quietly in his sleep at home on February 28. He had experienced two months of intense surgeries and hospital sta....

Cracker Tales
By Steve Fielder No, this is not a collection of stories from the swamps of Florida. It is however a collection of memories from those who most vividly recall a Treeing Walker hound with the unusu....

Wash. legislature finally getting it.
Legislators finally getting it, and so might I-713 Bob Mottram; Tacoma News Tribune outdoors writer February 20, 2002 Unless they're fixing to commit political suicide, politicians don't u....

Christmas Letter From Bubba
Readers of PROHOUND and American Cooner magazines look forward to messages from my old friend Bubba each month. Bubba sends this special Christmas message to all his friends concerning his new Christ....

The 2001 PKC World Hunt
By Steve Fielder. The long and winding road to the PKC World Championship Final Cast, which began in October of the year 2000 has now become Kentucky Route 80 out of Aurora heading to Benton. It's t....

2001 PKC Futurity Championship
An interview with 2001 PKC Futurity Winner E.R. "Babe" Dabbs, by Steve Fielder. E. R. Dabbs lives today within a half mile of the place of his birth, in Humphrey, Arkansas. Humphrey is in Arkansas....

Sharp Woody is Reserve Nat'l. Champion
by Steve Fielder Mike Sheppard of Adrian, Michigan has been around the block in competition hunting, placing hounds in world hunts of various brands, as well as making he final four in last year’s ....

The 2001 PKC National Championship
Robert Sheppard doesn’t fit the mold of the die-hard competition hunter that one may see at the entry tables and in the photo sessions after midnight in fast lane PKC competition these days. Picture ....

The 2001 JOY Super Pup Shootout!
Chris Allen is 33 years old. He has been seen over the last few years at dozens of PKC hunts across the country, hunting a Walker female named Snatch for Allen Wilson. This year, Allen went to Lula,....

2001 JOY Super Handler of the Year
MIKE FERGUSON By Steve Fielder In May of 1999, I wrote a feature article for PROHOUND about a two-year old Walker Super Stakes pup that had just done the unthinkable. After winning the $25,000 ....

2001 Tejas Outdoors Lone Star 5000 Plus
By Steve Fielder Driving Interstate 45 north out of Houston, I near my destination of Huntsville and am greeted by a mammoth statue of Sam Houston, a testament to the rich history and unsinkable re....

The New Hunter
Below is a column written by a very strange animal: a young American living in the heart of liberal America who is still able to find sense in gun ownership, hunting (with and without dogs), and the i....

PROHOUND INTERVIEWS - Mike & Don Hall
by Steve Fielder Don Hall, 71 and his son Mike, 40 are two happy coon hunters. Don owns the 2000 PKC World Champion Patoka Lake Bozz as a result of the Walker hound’s ability to tree coons in comp....

Youth Champion Ken Emerson Interview
By Steve Fielder Ken Emerson is a seventeen year old junior at Cord-Charlotte High School in Charlotte, Arkansas. Ken lives on a farm with his dad Eddie, his mom Debbie, and his younger sister Kar....

2000 Male Leader
2000 MALE LEADER GCH Lytle CK Mountain Man by Steve Fielder We sidestep the breeder’s format of our Super Stakes coverage this month to talk about a hound that was the top-winning male coonhound ....

2000 Female Leader
2000 FEMALE LEADER GCH BLK RV SHOWBIZ LIZ By Steve Fielder PKC presents Leader awards to the top male, female and pup each year. There is no specific “National Leader” award but it is generall....

2000 Pup Leader
2000 PUP LEADER PCH BAD HABIT By Steve Fielder In this special issue devoted to the pups of the PKC Super Stakes program, it’s all together fitting that we take a hard look at a pup that has had ....

2000 Junior Super Stakes Championship
2000 JUNIOR SUPER STAKES CHAMPION GCH Homer’s Stylish Queen by Steve Fielder Phillip Vining of Marion, Junction, Ala., loves to competition hunt. He told me so in an interview following the 20....

The 2000 Super Stakes Championship
THE 2000 PKC SUPER STAKES CHAMPIONSHIP GCH Buckhorn Mountain Nighttime Savage By Steve Fielder Go with me on a trip to the southern Appalachians where coon hunters outnumber coons and a good ho....

The $62,500 Cast!
The $62,500 Cast! (A Play by Play Account of the 2000 PKC World Championship Finals) by Steve Fielder The adrenaline of the moment surges through my veins. I pull up my boots and snap them secur....

SILVER DOLLAR CRACKER WINS $100,000!
By Steve Fielder Gold Champion Silver Dollar Cracker became the first hound in history to win $100,000 by virtue of a second place finish at the Blue Ribbon Event in Tallulah, Louisiana in mid-Febr....

High Tech Red Necks & Millennium Coons
By Steve Fielder January 1, 2000 presented one of those picture perfect nights for coon hunting at this time of year here in Southwestern Michigan. The temperature at dark was about 40 degrees wit....