Young Guns

T-Dog I whole heartedly agree with you about the pen dog woods dog debate and I’m well aware of all that and why Dad owns woods dogs and my daughter owns pro pen dogs. Very very seldom do they excel at both but like you said there is always an exception here and there. In my opinion the good woods dogs that can get it done in the pen often catch out . Hell the #1 pen dog there is right now with several hundred thousand in winning can do both but in my opinion I feel he produces better woods dogs then pen dogs. It just blew my mind the lack of want to from the plot dogs in the pen. Hell we can’t run a 2 dog because the hogs just aren’t up to par at that bay pen but they have a 2 dog plot bay and doesn’t help any. The bays are at 2 minutes for 1st round now but I’ve seen several bay offs eventually pushing 12/15 minutes. The pen dogs are specialist these days and I understand it. First part of next year there will be a woods dog only bay in OK and if it wasn’t a 20hr drive for me I’d damn sure be there as I feel it’s going to be getting back to the old days and the origin of it all and Mr Rusty puts a set of hogs together that are the real deal.

I again agree with you on the hound thing and your right the F1’s are nice but I think when you get them back down to 1/4 that’s where they really start to shine again. If one was serious about it though and not a purest as you have to take the good with the bad when it comes to pure and wanted to make a line you’d be hard pressed to put something together that preformed better then a good game line bred for lung crossed with a true fox pen dog. A 3 day type and then put some cur in them or took it back to the fox pen dog and were real selective about it. Most don’t have the patience to see a 5 to 10 project through and keep there eye on the goal though.