Line-Breeding Project

IMO, it is not linebreeding when you outcross every 2 or 3 genarations after the strain has been developed. The dog or gyp used to freshen up the line should look and hunt similarly to the strain and be a relative on one side of your line. The pups should be bred back into the strain and the dog or gyp used to freshen the line taken out of the program. Then every 3 generations or when you feel the need to freshen the line, repeat the last step...

In reality, when you do it this way it is still linebreeding....

The more generations you do this the more often you will feel the need to freshen the strain, but always with a small percentage of an outcrossed dog.

This is only half of it, the other half is to test the pups, dogs, and cull hard. Eventually, the worst dogs in the yard should be able to do it alone but does not necessarily qualify them as breeders.