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NITECH Bear Pen Piney River Wrangler
Entered by: Steve Fielder
Updated by: Steve Fielder
3/26/2006 11:00:25 AM
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Weight
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60 pounds
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Description
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Rich auburn brindle - no white
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Dob
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12/15/1992
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Owner Sire
Charlie and Jody Hill of Hempstead, TX
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Owner Dam
Charlie and Jody Hill of Hempstead, TX
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"A fifth-generation Bear Pen Plott."
Isaiah Kidd Award Winner - 1997
 Nite Champion Bear Pen Piney River Wrangler is the dog on the right in the photo to the left. That photo was taken the Sunday morning after 1997 NPHA Plott Days in Pomeroy, Ohio after Wrangler won the Isaiah Kidd Award "Opposite Sex." Shown at left is Heath Hyatt of Narrows, VA with GRNITECH Hunt's Frosty Brandy, the 1997 Isaiah Kidd Award winner. Homon Fielder is standing center.
Homon hunted Wrangler on Thursday night in the All-Plott Hunt, winning his cast and placing, I believe, third overall. I hunted Wrangler the next two nights and cinched the high-scoring male for three nights honor. This win was particularly enjoyable because Dad and I teamed up to make it happen.
Wrangler was finished into UKC Nite Champion by my friend Steve Taylor of Beaver Dam, KY. He won in competition by treeing real live raccoons with regularity. He was also a PKC Super Stakes sire. I recall one PKC hunt in which he outscored a top Walker hound by three coons to one.
Piney River Wrangler was named for the stream that flows through the Fielder family farm in Dickson County, Tennessee. I purchased Wrangler as a four-month old pup in April of 1993 from Jody Hill of Hempstead, Texas. Harold Kirkes of Atoka, Oklahoma hauled him home and then to UKC Walker Days in Waverly, Iowa the following weekend for me.
Wrangler treed his first coon alone at around 10 months of age. He became what I call a "hard-core" coon dog. The weather or terrain never became too rough for Wrangler. He was all business and was responsible for the demise of hundreds of Michigan coons in his career.
Wrangler's greatest worth was his reproduction. While bred only twice, once to Roper's dam, Bear Pen Santina Grande, and once to Tony Beals' R & R Midnight Star, there were outstanding pups from both litters.
Chad Barth of Minong, Wisconsin had a male from the first litter out of Tina. He named him Bronco and he made an outstanding bear dog at a very early age. Bronco treed several bears alone. He was killed by a car at just past 2 years of age and no doubt would have made the Plott history books as a bear dog.
My Sundown Laredo and High Stakes Durango are out of the second litter. Their dam is Tony Beal's Star. Chad Barth has a littermate named Rock. All of these young dogs are doing exceptionally well. Laredo is a PKC Super Stakes Sire. Rock has proven himself the last two seasons on bear. Last fall he cold trailed a bear for 8 miles before jumping it and bringing it to bay. Galen Barth, Chad's dad killed the bear which weighed over 400 pounds.
Wrangler's pups have cold noses, are big, strong hounds with big mouths to match. They are natural tree dogs and are hard fighters on bear and stay put, accurate tree dogs on coon.
Wrangler died in late November, 2002 at just under ten years of age. He apparently had cancer of the spleen. He was another of my all time favorites and is buried on Gary Welburn's farm in rural Van Buren County, Michigan. I visit his graveside often to reminisce with the great hound.
 Everyone that truly knew Wrangler knows that he was a great hound. He didn't have the show-quality looks of Roper but he was every bit the coon dog Roper was. He was my dad's favorite hound of recent years. "He's my kind of hound," Dad would say when we hunted or spoke of Wrangler. To me, that's the highest of compliments.
Copyright 2004 by Stephen F. Fielder
"All rights reserved."
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| | GRCH Weems' Plott Butch (NPHA HOF) |
| | NITECH Weems' Plott Punie (NPHA HOF) |
| | Weems' Plott Jill (NPHA HOF) |
| Sire | Hill's Plott Solaman |
| | CH Bear Pen Rip |
| | Bear Pen Plott Blackie |
| | CH Bear Pen Fancy (NPHA HOF)
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NITECH Bear Pen Piney River Wrangler
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| | NITECH Weems' Plott Punie (NPHA HOF) |
| | Hill's Plott Fiddler (NPHA HOF) |
| | Cannon's Kansas Zip |
| Dam | Hill's Plott Bell |
| | Pace's Mt. View Dan |
| | Hill's Plott Josie |
| | Ursus Goldie White |
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