Since I don't like to hunt on the weekend.....does that exempt me from being considered a weekend warrior?
I'm Not bashing any dogs just speaking plainly about what I've seen in them, and everyone is welcome to hunt what ever they feel like hunting. A man could even hunt with something crazy like number 2zoos or hounds if he feelt like it and more power to him. I really can't say exactly what kind of Ben dogs I have seen. Other than the endless ads for weatherfords been bred dogs in the thrifty nicle classifieds, they reall do not seem to be all that popular around here. So what I have seen could be an uncharacterisit subset. I really cannot cay for sure. But I do know for sure the ones I have seen work, the dogs whose owners used " High % Weathords Ben breeding" as the identity with which they chose to describe them, did not impress me. They were one dementional, very rough baying, got cut up allot, lacked finess, and tended to bust bays. Sure those dogs caught hogs but unless the hog was solo to begin with, that caught hog was usally a stragler which originated from a busted bay.
Its very possible that I've seen some good dogs that have some percentage of Weatherford's Ben in thier backround, yet that fact escaped me because it was not the Sole Identity of those dogs. It is also possible that the dogs I hunt share some common ancestors with the line of dogs which produced weatherford's ben. (From way back) I say this based on some conversations I've had with people knowledgeable on those blood lines. There is also the possibility that they don't share that common ancestry. Which, really it makes no difference to me becuase the dogs I hunt have a more recent ancestry which is what I am really interested in. The point is I was never impressed by any YBMC ive seen work that carried the lable of Weathorford's ben blood. The idea that said dogs identities were based off of a single individual dog, makes me skeptical from the start. And like I said the so called weatherfords ben dogs I've see did nothing to erase that skepticism, they reinforced it. Now come to find out, that dog was originally culled for a reason which I would also cull a dog for.
Waylon
