Best I've ever seen was a maltese plott gyp named Gypsy. Cold, cold, almost silent plott. This was a dog that you could literally drop anywhere (in no sign) and go about hunting, track her hours later (using the old quick track) and most of the time she would be bayed and if it was a bad hog, she usually had a cut or two. Absolutely no quit, all the bottom you would ever want and hardly barked on trail.
This dog was so good, that the "old cur dog" men even said "that's a dog". Gypsy traded hands several times, everybody wanted her. 10 years ago when gypsy was in her day, I didn't realize how good of a dog she actually was. See her sold for $1,500 was a lot to me and at that time I could not see paying $1,500 for a dog.
Knowing what I know now, if I had gypsy, Id put her in the $10,000.00 range. She could flat put a hog at the end of the track and she did it all by herself. Now that I think of it, I think she preferred to hunt by herself.
Last I heard, she was sold to somebody in East TX for breeding stock.
Out of curiosity........ do you know what line she was out of?
