Message #339419

[Bryant]

Range has nothing to do with how good or bad a dog is.  If a dog covers a lot of ground while hunting out, but misses hogs along the way....well rangy or not that's just not a very good dog in my own opinion.

I like and try to breed up dogs with a ton of go to them because that's my personal preferred style of hunting.  I cast my dogs and expect them to get gone and cover some area.  To answer your question, I'm convinced it's 98% genetic, 1% hunting them how they're bred and 1% not screwing them up along the way.