BA-IV that’s why I went with the Lipper blood years ago. They were being bred for big motors, less track barking, and faster on track and faster in general. That led to cleaning up the build on them as well. They also have to be stay put tree dogs which I equated to staying bayed wether they were alone or could hear another tree or bay going on. The fighters get weeded out as well. You are right, they have done a good job of concentrating their gene pool.
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I have a house bred gyp I been contemplating crossing over my male dog. Lipper was the star but he was produced by Houses Clint, and the house bred dogs still have the old traits so I might consider the cross and cull for performance and body structure. I know a couple local boys that also bred to lipper, once you tree a coon with a lipper bred dog…for one you are DEAF, cuz they have MOUTHS on em, and second you’re spoiled. If this was on a coon dog site, it would piss off more people than you could count, you either HATE or LOVE LIPPER and Tom Hopkins.
