TalkHunting Pro Staffer, Luanne "Beaglepup" Bragg, started hunting (going hunting) with her Grandfather in the fall of 1965.  He loved to squirrel Hunt and would carry her into the woods sit her on a rock and let her hold his prizes.  He took Luanne on her first Pheasant and Rabbit hunts when she was 7.  Shortly after that he had a massive stroke and was never able to return to the woods again.  When Luanne was 9 her Father, who was about to retire from the Marine Corps after 20 years active duty, and Uncle decided that since she could shoot she could remove the ground hogs and crows from the farm fields.  Luanne spent the next few years watching all the wildlife and removing varmints from the farm.  She took herself deer hunting for the first time when she was 15 and took her first deer at 17.  There was a long time between Luanne's first deer and her next deer due to college and work and general life.  She did a lot of small game hunting with her boyfriend and now Husband starting in 1985 and killed her next deer in 1988.  She has not missed a deer or turkey season since.  When not hunting they are fishing (when they are not WORKING...)

Luanne and her Husband have been raising, training and field trialing Beagles in the UKC and ARHA formates for 20 years and have produced several Field and Show Champions and Grand Field and Show Champions.  They usually only breed one litter of puppies a year.

Her work consists of being a licensed Real Estate Agent in Virginia, a mortgage professional and Owner of a Dog Boarding Kennel.  Her Husband and a partner just opened a new Restaurant in Ashland Virginia on January 16th of 2010 and she seems to have inherited many different hats for their business venture too.  Luanne belongs to the Richmond Virginia Association of Realtors, Big Buck Hunt Club, Central Virginia Beaglers, NRA, NWTF and Buckmasters.  She was the Pennsylvania Appaloosa Queen in 1980 and runner up to the National Queen Title the same year.  She graduated from Kent State University in Kent Ohio in 1982 with a degree in Applied Science.