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I have been missing my old walker dog Highbawl. I just saw a picture of him and Train baying in Bremond on a dog gear website from FL. The last I heard he was around Missouri somehwere. If anyone has heard where he may be I would appreciate the info. Thank you.

Matthew Barnard on here did have highbawl then sold him.  maybe he can shed some light on his whereabouts

Highbawl  I love that name. I bet it has been the handle of many a good hound.

Yeah, i sold him to Mathew and he told me he sold him to some guy around Missouri. That dog hated hogs more than any dog that i've ever seen. I was thinking about buying some semen off of him. Thanks again for any info that you may have.

im a hound man myself and love to hear about them,give me a little history on highbawl,his breeding open or slient how easy was he to train extc.

x2 lets hear some details about Highbawl

Didnt yall know ? Ol' Highball was a world famous coonhound owned by Uncle Versie Ledbetter down in Yazoo City, Ms. Fast and furious he was. Died fightin a coon on a RRtrack and both the dog and the coon was killed.  Uncle versie was tore up about it cuz he didnt want ol' Highball dying thinkin that coon killed im. THAT"S THE TRUTH by Jerry Clower

Wrong Highbawl I am afraid.. But good story anyways. ;)

was highbawl a plot looking dog , i think my buddy has him .

no hes a walker

when did you buy him marshall? A couple yrs ago i believe that I almost bought that dog and train from a man with the handle "gj hesseltine" or something along those lines, I had gotten into contact with him but at the time I was working out of state and it didnt work out, if my memory serves me right highbawl was a walker and train was a bluetick correct?

pic of the dog on dogs on hogs  under freesone county -part 2

Train was also a walker and yes both dogs were bought from Glenn Hesseltine.. Hi bawl was a hog crazy, hog hunting, barking sob!! Yes he was OPEN.. But it didn't matter, he carry the hog as far as he needed and roll off when you got there. The first time Marshall took Hi-bawl hunting we were hunting about a 300 acre high fence in deer season, unknown to us there was a hole underneath the fence.. Just like that he started a hog, which headed straight for the hole and rolled on.. Hi bawl followed him and 4 hours later ran that red boar hog back into the high fence where we caught him.

We bred him to my gyp and only one pup lived, but at 2 she's finished and Marshll's number 1 dog!
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good deal, I love a hard hunting walker dog, best hogdog i ever had was a walker male named amos.......id give up alotta things to have that dog back in my yard!

Good deal! good lookin hound

some of the best dogs I have hunted behind had the right walker blood in them. High Ball looks to be a nice walker dog.

Sorry for the delay. He was a good dog. I am glad that I got to own him. He made all of the dogs I hunt with step their game up. He HATED hogs with a passion. I sold him because at the time I was not able to hunt him as much as he wanted to be hunted. I would love to breed him back to a good cur gyp. I bred him to my best gyp the day I sold him but of course she didn't take. The one pup that I do have out of him is great. Very athletic, pretty quiet on track, dedicated, and smart. I hope she is able to grow old. He may be dead for all I know but if not I would like to try to draw some semen off of him. Thanks for all the comments.

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Marshall,

That's a good looking walker right there. I wouldn't mind have a pup out of him.

http://youtu.be/c1sVS7nwits

I lost a good one on some rail road tracks once...

wow thats a nice walker, ive owned a couple but nothin like this one

Great looking dog

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I love how that hound works that pig...and that mtn cur ain't bad either...
I like thick muscled up fore arms in a dog. Seems they make strong swimmers.

Those are some great pics

im new to this site, was looking at it at work last night, and saw this topic.   i bought highbawl from a guy in hamberg arkansas i live in star city arkansas about an hour north from there.  i bought him in december of 2009 i think it might have been later than that.  he died in jan of this year,  i got to say he was the best dog ive ever hunted with.  i bred him with my strike dog(catahoula)  had 10 puppies i kept 3 of them.  they are 10 months old now and falling right into his footsteps.  it wasnt a question if he would find a hog it was when and where....he stayed with a running hog for 7 hours one day.  this dog was unreal was a great loss to my pack.  i will attach some pictures, i knew it was him in your pictures seeing the notch in his ear....i would like to talk to the previous owner.  my email is kennyb696@gmail.com   send me an email so i can contact you.

What is up with the ear?  I also bought a dog from glen and she has the same mark. My dog and highball sound like they were/are they same type of dog.

Kenny b thank you very much for the info. I will email you shortly.

Burton I was told that a hog bit that chunk out of his ear and I believe it because you could feel the scar tissue around it and it wasn't a clean cut like a mark would be. What kind of dog did you get from Glenn? He has some good dogs. 

man my heart sank when u said he died :( did he die of old age or a hog or what? sounds like a great dog. im sorry u had to find this out Marshall

a hog hit him and pinned him against a tree and broke a rib and got into a lung, he lived 3 days after that.  i had him in the house taking care of him he died with my daughter holding him.

thats a sad story right there

It's ok. I'm just glad he was appreciated and in a good home. He was a tough son of a gun.

that is exactly the kind of hound to use when wanting to upgrade a cur breed...

Dang.. dont know if i could stand that one.  that sure is hard to watch as a parent.

  yea that was pretty tough on both of us.  he was one of my daughters  favorites.  was trying to download some pics, wouldnt let me.  any advice?????

He sounds like a good dog.  He seems to have changed hands a lot.  What were his faults that got him passed around? 

maybe he was worth too much? ;)

could of been too much dog for the average hunter...

Marshall I bought a plott from glen and it was money well spent.  I was a little worried about driving ten hours to try a dog but she is everything he said she was.

Glad to hear that my dogs worked for some of you guys. Burton you bought Daisy from me if I remember correctly and I knew Marshall got Hi-Bawl from me. For some reason, my dogs are a little rough and those long ears get torn up when they get to close to a hog. The day Hi-Bawl had his ear torn was also the day the vet had to insert a tube into his hind quarter down to his back leg as the hog had cut him all the way down. I still have photos of that hog. It's always good to hear stories about some of the dogs I have sold.  Thanks Marshalll and Burton and everyone else who posted on this subject and on Hi-Bawl.     Thanks Glenn

  glenn you hit a grand slam with this dog, he was hard to keep up with the old tracking collars but the garmin gps you could stay with him.  i would let him and only him out until he struck a hog (was just a matter of time) if the hog was a runner i would follow him on gps and get in front of them, then kick a couple cur dogs out and it was game over just about every time.  most the time you could tell which way he was by that deep bawl (was unbelievable)  i like closed mouth dogs usually but he sure sounded good.  once i figured out how to hunt him with my curs my hog catching improved 100%.  marshall i can promise you he was well taken care of my daughter grew very attached to him, she called him pete (not for sure why) so thats what we called him.  i think he was alot of dog for the avg. hunter , i spent alot of hours with him in the woods when all my other dogs have gave up.  he will be missed by me and my family, i hope the pups that i got out of him are half as good.

Kenny I didnt realive that this was my pups daddy I am glad to hear the history on him my pup hates a hog bad .  She has struck one on her own and been on 3 more catching when the other dogs do when I let her out she goes straight to my pen if I got a hog in it and bays she will stay there all day taking a break to swim in the pond then right back at it. I got a few pics with you sent me looked like that little girl did love him.

Reuben you hit the nail on the head. The average hunter would not be able to keep up with a dog like him. He was ready to roll out EVERY morning. No matter how hard you hunted him the day before. Thank y'all for the comments.

I used to raise them kind so I know from first hand experience.

   Jason, glad to here your pup is doing.  ive talked a couple of other guys that i sold the pups to and they all are hunting and baying good in the pen.  The mom to that litter is ranging 500 to 600 yds when hunting and sticks with a running hog pretty good.   The two i kept are hunting and baying good.  Send some pictures would like to see.

Kenny I will im at work in Nam at the moment when I get home I will take some new ones and send them to you everyone ask is she a plott big strong pup she is my biggest dog already.

Does anybody still have any of Highballs offspring?

Marshal I kept a male from him.  He's about 5 years old now.

Awesome Keeny B. I sent you a PM.