Who's the best?

seems like most of the dogs mentioned had hound in them...some of the best I have seen had hound as well...

I have had quite a few that I could turn loose with most any dog and they wouldn't look bad...

but I had one named Yeller that was born to be a star...at 8 weeks he led the pups around trailing drags and winding...I made some tuff drags and he made it look easy as a 3 month old pup...when I saw him figure out a back track and then trail it into a five gallon bucket and him standing up trying to stick his nose over into the bucket I knew it was time to move on to other types of training sessions...he wasn't five months and he struck and worked a track on some shoats...at 10 months he was striking neck and neck with a very good mt cur I had bought...I like dogs that can find a pig quick but this dog made it look easy...it was like he had a very hi IQ...once he got older when I dropped the tail gate he made a big loop and if he came back you could bet your bottom dollar there weren't any hogs in the area...back then we didn't have as many hogs and some places the hogs were there for a while and then they moved on to other greener places...so he knew to check and see if it was going to be a dry run...

but if he didn't come back he would be baying shortly...once he got old and crippled up he would hang back and let the other dogs hunt...but when he left out he was going to pass up them dogs and be bayed somewhere and always first to strike...to me it was unbelievable...

I thought so much and so highly of that dog that I had to write a story on him and posted it in the full cry magazine because after he died I kept thinking for several years I should tell the story about him...he was 1/2 mt cur and 1/2 taylor brindle bmc...I only bred him once to a kemmer mt cur and used one of his sons to line breed and inbreed off of...

Yeller was more of a colder nosed dog than that of the average mt cur...when he came to a large feeding area and the dogs were trying to line the track out and they would eventually figure it out in 5 minutes or so...but yeller just made a big loop pretty quick and found the exit track out and would be looking at the bacon pretty quick...yeller was a joy to me because I sure did like analyzing everything he did...me being more of the analytical type every hunt was exciting with that dog...