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Just a note of interest Lucy is 7 years old,ignore any other teportings of her age.

It seems you have told the Blue Lacy breed story before, but I probably missed it. She looks a lot like a Lab, is it a cross of Lab and something that produced that breed?

I've been back in illiobis for a couple days now. I am so ready to come back. It really sucks here,weather,taxes,cost of living,bunch of liberal insane radicals,traffic,crime.obama land.
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Gonna be in the 70's this week in the Heart of Dixie .

It was 79 this afternoon in Troy.

Hurry back Mike you are one of the few yankees we would like to have come south.

About to get hot down here. I lived in rock island Illinois for awhile and was shocked how hot that place go in the summer

I figured you lived in Idaho....I don't blame you for wanting to leave if you live Illinois.

I was born and lived the first 40 yrs of my life in Idaho,go back often,have lots of family and friends there.

Mike, you got any friends with turkey hunting land? PM me.....Casey Clark

Sometimes some of my hunters tried riding with me in my truck,they couldn't fit in,because of all my stuff and dog boxes.lol!
Today I cleaned out the cab.
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This is a copy of a post I made on the dog forum. Thought it was worth a read for the non-dog people too:

I have had the pleasure this year of going on several tracks with Mike Lopez and his dogs Lucy and Andy. Their accomplishments in my mind are nothing short of incredible.
They came to Alabama this year on January 3rd and tracked through the end of the season on February 10th. During that period they recovered (as Mike says “put on the tailgate”) 33 deer. Amazingly, 23 (a full 70%) of these were tracked, bayed, and dispatched. .
Prior to coming to Alabama they recovered 103 in Georgia. Of these 42, or 41% were bayed and dispatched. The total combined numbers for the season was 136 deer recovered of which 65 were tracked, bayed and dispatched.
His main dog Lucy is 7 years old (born in May of 2010). Her first three years were her training period and she only tracked for Mike and close friends and relatives. The last five years she has been “on the road” and has recovered 567 deer, over 100 per year of which 243 were dispatched after being bayed up. Her three year old pup Andy is in training and goes with them tracking the deer behind Lucy but is kept on the lead until Lucy locks down on the deer. Then he can chase and bay the deer with her.
To achieve these results requires an amazing effort on the part of both dog and handler. They track day or night, often driving up to two hours to or between tracks. When not tracking they stay at a centrally located motel, resting and waiting for calls.
When I first started hearing about them a few years ago I was pretty skeptical. Since then I have witnessed firsthand what they do and how they do it. Lucy is a great dog and well trained. She has so much experience that Mike’s trust is 100% at all times. If she is moving, she is on the target deer and the only thing that will make Mike stop looking is lack of trespass permission or danger to the dog.
I have tracking dogs but my work schedule and my ongoing desire to hunt with my bow limit the tracks I take. If I can’t take a call for a hunter I always refer them to someone who can track it for them. There are a number of good ones in central Alabama but come January each year, Idaho Mike is number one on my list.