If you had to start over

I wouldn't do it the way I have the first go round! I would find someone who is using their stock/hunting dogs that fit the style I like on a weekly or preferrably a daily basis. I would then work my tail end off for them, beg, bribe, and do whatever I had to until I got the chance to buy a pup or two from them. I would then raise them up the way I wanted them to be raised, and hunt the fire out of them when they got old enough. I would have a base to go off of then, and earn the respect of my peers by having quality, not quantity.

By the way, breed would not matter to me. How they work and how the previous generations they were out of worked would matter. I don't care if it is yellow, leopard, black/tan, blue, white, or pink and purple polka dotted. If the line of dogs suited my purpose and style I would pursue it.