Most of what I know about OFRN comes second hand from Orval Sneed or what I have read. I do know that Iron Mike up in Indiana had some good ones he called OFRN. I got my LG stuff by breeding to Musket while he was at TLK. I have access to it up here now thru a good son. But I only have the one dog anymore with real dog bloodlines. I have a bulldog bred strictly for catching for the last 20 yrs. I had limited success trying to make catchdogs out of the dogs I was breeding. They were not wired to go for the ear and they were more wound up than what I have now. I didn't have a bunch of dog aggression but when I only hunt on my one trip to Texas a year it's hard to get a catchdog consistant unless it's bred in. Years ago I judged MachoBuck in a show in Liberty when I was still Judging. I don't know if Chico showed him any other times but he looked like an ol Warrior then.
Now there is a name from the past . . . Norrod.
I remember when I first got into dogs in the 80's, I would see Mike Norrod's Ironline Kennel ads. I would always turn my nose up at it because the names in the pedigrees were not impressive or considered mainstream at the time. I was bad wrong. That Maximillian/ Ch Iron Spike stuff was actually some real good dogs. Going back to Red Devil/Creed's Iron Dusty/Corvino stuff. Then I noticed some years later that Mike had the dog I believe called Gambler, who was out of Miret's Bud x Norrod gyp. Notice how Miret's Bud was the heavy Redboy stuff and a grandson of Kitten's Ch. Britches. I believe Norrod knew how Redboy was truly bred and that's why he crossed it into his stuff. I am one of the people who 100% believes that Bass Tramp Redboy was down from Creed's Iron Dusty/Wise's Red Devil breeding, and NOT out of Howard Teal's stuff as his papers indicate. I have probably had more Redboy dogs than any other line I've had. I had several off Deacon, Hunter Red, etc. and I was shown an old photo of Iron Dusty/Red Devil (same dog) and it was like I was looking at my dogs . . . identically. I owned Holland's Haymaker ROM and he is the spitting image of Iron Dusty, and so is WCC's Deacon, and so was WCC's Ernie who I had for a couple of years. I bought Haymaker from Dykes when he was 9 years old and kept him until he died. He is buried down by the creek behind my house. My partner and I also had Kitten's Ch. Britches when he died in 1995. He was 12 or 13 years old. I guess Redboy dogs are actually some of the closest thing there is to old family red nose if you believe they are bred the way I believe.
