Boarninja: you have obviously had a lot longer experience with the line and surely seen more dogs of the line than I have. I'm still relatively new to hog hunting, only about 5 years but in that time the 2 dozen or so dogs from that line all helped to produce 200-300+ hogs a year for the people I've been fortunate to hunt with.. An I've yet to personally witness any culls or bust's in the line, that being said I do know of a few full siblings to some of those really great dogs that never turned out.. I just never saw those dogs, only heard of their demise! The main thing I love about those dogs are the puppies, it just seems so natural to them... Other than exposure and time in the woods there's not much training involved.. the 2nd time out huntin my pup found his first hog and ran him for 2 hours at 8 months old.. I have a few young dogs and don't plan on quitting anytime soon, I plan on hopefully using this line as the foundation for all my future dogs
That’s how it works with the good ones! Just keep em in the woods!
I don’t have that much experience with them actually. I just remember seeing most of them as a kid and hearing all the talk and stories about the Perry dogs from the local cowboys I ran with back in high school. You didn’t get a pup from a Perry back in those days unless you were family it seemed.
More than one of us would have traded a limb or two for a Perry cull back then! Lol.
My son’s old brindle dog is probably not even a good product of Perry breeding himself and I often joke about him getting culled if he was left in a Perry yard. My black dog out of the same cross about 5 years later, well, I lost a dinger when I lost that dog at 18 months old. He was everything his old brindle brother is but faster and acting like he was going to be a little better at some things.
I guess if you breed hog dogs for as long as the Perry’s have, working them and hunting them almost daily, you are bound to figure out how to breed a few good ones.
