Recessive traits

I believe recessive genes have to pair up to show themselves as a trait...one from the sire and one from the dam whether it is a desired trait or not...so if a recessive gene pairs up with a dominant gene the recessive trait will not be displayed but will be passed on but be hidden...and if this dog gets bred to another carrier and those recessives pair up then that recessive trait will show up whether it is a good trait or not...I haven't found much data on hunting traits and range etc...

So what I say is line breed the best to the best and this way of breeding will produce better dogs...to me one of the biggest problems out there is that different breeders have different ideas as to what a good dog is...then you have breeders that keep adding this or that bloodline or breed... which keeps you at the drawing board...decide once what to bring in to the bloodline to get what you need then select the dogs that exhibit those traits and stick with those to go forward...that's another biggy mistake as I see it...