A friend of mine is pretty serious about field trailing and has had some very nice hounds in the last few years. He's been trying to get me to start back. I use to be into it pretty big myself. At one time I had close to 30 dogs from pups, running dogs to retired hounds and brood females. Between my dad having a stroke and passing away and getting married I got out of hounds completely for a couple years due to lack of time and other priorities, always loved it and missed it though. I started back deer dogging a couple years ago. Long short I went to a buddies pen last weekend and ran my deer dogs. They are as fat as I am but they still made the coyotes move. My buddy had some field trial dogs there that drug mine around until they had enough of it. No one likes to deer hunt and run on the outside more than me but man is it nice to turn loose and just kick back. No worrying about roads, property lines or the wrong game. I made some great friends going all over NC and SC too field trials. Not going to swear I won't get back into it. My son is getting to the age where he is starting to go with me. Much easier to take him to the fox pen than running on the outside. If he really takes a liking to it I might just have to get serious once again.