Ridgebacks

The fella that introduced me to hog hunting hunted and bred (way to much imo) Ridgeback x leopard dogs, at the time I thought they were good dogs his were really short range and pretty much straight catch.They were Cool looking dogs about 1/2 had the ridge some were Merle with a ridge they came in every color imaginable.He strictly walk hunted or sight hunted from an airboat I can't recall one ever winding a hog from the boat and I remember walking them dogs through sign that I knew was fresh and coming up empty more than not.I raised a pair and put a lot of time in them doing mock hunts and what not gave them every opportunity to make dogs but at the end of the day they were junk culls.Zero bottom, zero hunt and zero trailing ability I reckon you could've used them as lead in Catch dogs but they also had a lot of people aggression and were all Culls in my opinion.Its crazy because he spent a lot of years on them dogs and beleived his own BS and thought they were fine animals in fact I think he still has them.