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Bear Pen Hoss
Entered by: Steve Fielder
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Weight
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55 to 60 pounds
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Description
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Solid dark brindle - no white
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Dob
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3/27/1962
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Owner Sire
Roy Prince of Mabscott, WV
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Owner Dam
Edsel Shrewsbury of Mabscott, WV
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"The hound that made a coon hunter out of me."
Bear Pen Hoss was the Plott dog that kindled the competition flame in me. My dad got Hoss as a puppy from a hunting friend named Edsel Shrewsbury in nearby Mabscott, WV. Hoss was a chuckle-headed pup that grew into a very handsome hound.
Hoss didn't start early but when he did, he was all business. He would run coon and bear only and didn't have to be broken off of trash. He was a classic tree dog with a heavy chop mouth on tree. He had a short bawl and chop on track.
Hoss had an exceptional nose and would not give up on a track until he put it up or down. He would stay in a hole as long as he would at a tree and often dug those old West Virginia coons out of groundhog holes. He was a crushing kill dog and loved to fight game. He and his running mate Bear Pen Sam would kill a coon very quickly. My dad did a lot of tree climbing in those days and I would release the dogs when the coon hit the ground. The coon would be dead before Dad could get down from the tree.
I won my first night hunt trophy with Bear Pen Hoss. Dad took me to Barlow, Ohio to the Southeastern Ohio Championship, a UKC hunt and Hoss placed 6th out of an entry of more than 100 dogs. You would have thought I won the World Hunt by the way that trophy made me feel.
I hunted in my first UKC night hunt with Hoss at the Blue Grass Coon Hunter's Club in Georgetown, KY. I drew a Redbone from Kentucky and a Walker female from Ohio named Deep River Linda that night. We hunted on Pin Oak farm, a beautiful horse farm now owned by the University of Kentucky. Hoss was winning the cast when he ran a coon track through a culvert underneath Interstate 64 and I lost him. He was gone for 2 weeks before Pete Markwell of Versailles, KY wrote that Hoss had come to his house. We had no tracking collars in those days.
Hoss was bred to Bear Pen Honey and produced two real nice hounds, Blue Joe, a maltese brindle, and Coley, a black brindle out of that litter. Coley is the hound I hunted in Texas in 1969 and 1970 when I was stationed there with the Air Force.
Bear Pen Hoss will always occupy a special place in Bear Pen Plott history. He was an exceptional hound. He would stay treed until you got there and he had the meat. Bear Pen Hoss died in March of 1972 and is buried on a ridge overlooking the Charleston Coal Tipple hollow in the Garden Grounds, an area we frequently hunted with him in southern West Virginia. A stone marks the grave of a hound that will always be special to me.
Copyright 2004 by Stephen F. Fielder
"All rights reserved"
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Copyright © 2006-2007 Steve Fielder
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