Cast type dogs genetics or trained

It helps to get dogs predisposed to do what you want ahead of time based off how the parents and their grandparents hunt and so on. I went on a mission 15 years ago to find the best line of dogs I could get my hands on. I been all over the south, and the real ticket boils down to nothing more than woods time. Some of the best dogs I’ve ever seen go didn’t have a lick of breeding behind em but they stayed in the woods every day. Another hard lesson I learned was dogs get better and better the longer they been dead. Your best dogs will prolly be from someone right down the road, bred for your country.

Judge you’re right though, I never pick the right pups, it’s like kids. Give em every chance and it still only goes so far. I’m no dog trainer, so every good dog I’ve ever owned, did it cuz I kept em in the woods and they were naturally smarter than me. All that said though, you will NOT go to a baypen and buy a pup off a world champ, and raise it and it naturally cast deep and get bayed. And it sure won’t produce that either. Genetics plays a huge role in what a dog will become, but woods time trumps it all. But if I had to have my choice, it’d be genetics paired with woods time, and you can breed em and get fairly consistent results.