When I read this post I really wanted to post as James was a good friend and I still have his blood but I couldn't have summed it up any better than RRSlim did. I have been catching with Jeep/Redboy/Rascal dogs and they work but I am getting a linebred APBT catchdog at this point because in my opinion you don't need a dead game dog to catch hogs with. Mine never did want to go straight to the ear and sooner or later it was gonna get them hurt bad. That line is not natural ear dogs. Yes I believe that with time they could probably get steered that way but I'm going with dogs that do it almost automatic. On a sidenote, I am one of the guys that don't believe Honeybunch was off Bullyson. Bill Pitre says Ironhead sired her and I tend to believe it when how many favor him over Bullyson. But at this point it doesn't matter a lick.
I have heard that story about Honeybunch being off Ironhead as well. What a lot of fellows don't understand is that when looking at the papers / pedigree of any gamebred APBT, there is a pretty good chance that somewhere in that pedigree, there is gonna be some lies told somewhere.