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this topic is prone for some differences of opinion... so no offense meant here...any dog that is exposed to a hog enough and taught to want a hog bad enough or ran with a dog with bottom and range and such will pick it up. Its not very hard to teach a dog range and bottom and to find hogs, if you have the skills to do it you can take a young dog that wont even leave your side and pen it up with a long range dog for a couple weeks and the young dog will roll out with that dog 9 out of 10 times and pick up that range, same with the bottom and drive and all that. ask yourself out of all the dogs with so called great genetics how many young dogs just naturally do it on their own, without puttin them with another dog? Are they put all by theirself till they are old enough to hunt then just turn them loose all by theirself and they have the range and bottom and go bay hogs and from then on they just have to be taught not to run trash and to handle right? thatll actually do it and prove it instead just posting that they will? its a mindset that just cuz it has good blood it has to b the blood makin it such a great dog and not the training or other dogs its huntin with rubbin off on them...I been raisin dogs a long time and i like breedin for genetics and traits within a bloodline, but the fact of the matter is you can go spend alot of money on a finished dog and hunt a total $h!t eater with that dog and make a top dog out it if you had the desire to do it. breedin one or two dogs that you happen to get that are decent dogs is not breeding genetics or desired traits, 2 or 3 generations of dogs are not gonna b (line bred) and a top breeding program where you have natural talent every time with little or no culls, more luck than anything although there are some older lines that have far higher percentages... 20-30+ yr old lines, too many people luck up on a decent dog these days and start their own (line) of dogs and have no idea what they are doin or if that decent dog was the only decent dog from the litter or anything else. theres a few good guys on here that know what they are doin and talkin about, and alot of people that base their opinion on the popular opinion or what a certain person thinks to get brownie points, im sure my opinion is not the popular opinion and if it was then nobody would say so but a real dog man can make a top notch dog out of nothing as well as breed one to have it in his blood...genetics can raise percentages, bring pride to your pack, and make you proud of them, its a great theory and hobby, and i been breedin genetics a long time, but a good dog is born, a great dog is made JMO
we may have to send you a few of our lower tiered cull dogs for you to finish out for us
the ones that cant hang with our long range, long bottomed dogs because of their lack of want or genetically bred characteristics
