Training vs Genetics.

I'm even more curious now as to why you would consider breeding that Molly dog into your line. Shouldnt you just train them better...after all you said you can train them to hunt as far as you like.

Honestly if I had been line breeding a line of dogs for 40 years and was still trying to put some range on them I would have scrapped them all about 35 years prior and started over with something completely different....but that's just me.

You also seem really hung up on the pups that will roll and hunt on their own. Once again, I never personally said that mine would consistently find hogs (yet) but I can assure you I could start hunting these pups alone and in short time they would. You see they were born with the hunt and prey drive "built in". They don't need an old dog to make them go, nor do they need one to make them bay. What running an older dog does is teach them to trail better...something they would eventually figure out on their own, it just greatly speeds the process.

Maybe you just haven't hunted or worked with some really well bred pups.

And in the words of Forrest Gump...That's all I have to say about that.