Van Dorns Roscoe is the BEST I've had the pleasure of seeing hunt. He was around 5 years old when I started hunting with Erik. This dog would do it all. You could track hunt him, wind him off a buggy or cast him. He would work a block of woods and just keep on til the next and next until he was bayed. This dog hunted completely for hisself. You couldn't hardly catch him once you turned him loose. It was pretty much we'll be hunting til Roscoe quits. There was a stretch of about 3 years that this dog would finish 99.9% of the hogs he started. There were no if ands or buts about it. You were going to that dog bayed somewhere if you turned him out. He was silent, worked relatively close to a hogs face and would help catch with the bulldog. As soon as your hands touched the hog he was gone. We once caught 8 hogs behind him in a 45 min span. It was truly amazing to watch. He was the great uncle to these next two gyps I'm about to talk about.
roscoe
Parvo and Girlfriend were littermates out of a black gyp and a woodruff male. These bitches were hell on wheels. They would cast as pretty as ever and within minutes would be running a hog. They hunted faster then most dogs run a track and they didn't miss much. I swear these bitches could count. If we bayed a group of say 9 hogs. There was a real great possibility we were about to put our hands on all 9. Both would roll of the bay as soon as you got there, and if there were other dogs already baying that hog. They'd leave and go find another. Parvo barked evertytime her foot hit the ground but Jesus she was so fast it didn't matter. 30 miles a hunt was nothing for theses gyps. I think it was 2008 that we caught 298 hogs behind these young gyps and an older roscoe. That was with about a 6-7 hog average per hunt. It seemed like nothing to go put 10 in a trailer behind these dogs. It's hard to put into words how good they were. Girlfriend is the dam to both Boogie and Briar which lead the way now and are not far off from being a part of this list. There's not much of a difference when dogs are that good
Girlfriend
Parvo
