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CH Bronco's Fancy Julie
Entered by: Steve Fielder
Updated by: Steve Fielder
12/24/2007 10:52:39 PM
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Weight
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50 pounds
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Description
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Rich auburn brindle - no white
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Dob
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7/12/1982
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Owner Sire
Steve Fielder of Beckley, West Virginia
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Owner Dam
Homon Fielder of Beckley, West Virginia
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"A fourth-generation Bear Pen Plott."
Inducted into the NPHA Hall of Fame as the 2006 NPHA Deceased Big Game Female
CH Bronco’s Fancy Julie was a bear dog and rig dog without peer. She is the dog that opened my eyes to what I consider the shortcomings of the NPHA Hall of Fame balloting system when she was nominated for the NPHA Hall of Fame and lost on the ballot. She was voted into the Hall of Fame on the 2006 ballot and we appreciate it but we also feel there should be a more strict screening of candidates. Today, the only criteria by which dogs are nominated or elected is by owner’s name recognition. We believe the Hall of Fame should be only for a select few dogs that were truly exceptional. There are now three Bear Pen dogs in the Hall of Fame and we are very proud of them. We would be more proud of that designation if the requirements were tougher.
Few bear dogs ever reach the plateau that was considered everyday performance by Julie. I hunted Julie one fall in Michigan before her bear hunting career began. I saw her tree a coon one night in a fence row just before a violent thunderstorm rolled in. I ran for the truck, leaving her treed. About an hour later, after torrid lightning and pouring rain, the storm moved out of the area. When I rolled down the window of the truck, Julie was still treed. She had blinding speed on a coon track. Bill Slaughter and Ed DeVelasco of Florida can attest to that. They were here hunting with her in 1986 at Plott Days.
 
Photo - Julie is shown standing on the back of Pee Wee as they tree the bear shown in the tree at left on a snowy October day in West Virginia.
Julie was hunted in West Virginia for her entire eleven years, aside from a short stay in Michigan were she performed excellently on coon. She was hunted by some of the toughest and best bear hunters in the nation in her day.
Julie was a perfect rig dog on bear. She could be released from the top of the rig box without fear that she would take the track the wrong way. She had an excellent nose and inherited the blazing track speed for which the Bear Pen line is famous. She treed a number of bears by herself.
When rigging along the haulage roads below the highwalls cut through the mountains in the strip mining process, Julie would often wind the scent of a bear coming off the top of the highwall (cliff) from above. When released, she would not struggle with the steep place but would immediately hit the road running until she came to a drainage or gap in the clift where she could get to the top. She would then come back to where she smelled the bear track and take it out from there. She was a rig dog supreme but there was no way to keep her quiet in the box once she smelled bear.
 Julie was hunted a great deal with the John Harris pack of her day, the chief dog of which was Mountaineer Santana (shown in photo at right), a tremendous bear, cat, and coon dog in his own right. An attempt was made to breed Julie to Santana because of their combined great ability on bear but the mating did not stick. Santana had become sterile due to frostbite to his testicles while bobcat hunting. Subsequently, Julie was bred to McLennon’s Plott Milton, a son of Santana. Milton carried Bear Pen Sam in his pedigree through a hound named Shearwood's Lead. Santana and Julie made many hunts together and treed lots of West Virginia black bears.
Julie gave it her all 100% of the time. She died after helping John Harris and party to start 11 tracks and tree 11 bears, giving her all to the task. Her 11-year old heart could not withstand the strain and Julie died. Julie was a bear dog second to none in her day.
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CH Bronco's Fancy Julie
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Copyright © 2006-2007 Steve Fielder
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