If he hunted half as good as he looks ya'll really lost a fine dog. Sorry for your loss.
the few times I had the pleasure of hunting behind him he showed out. best way I could describe him based off the handful of hunts we made together was that he was like a dang ping pong ball......he'd be 600yds that way then 800yds this way then 500yds that way.........lol I will tell you one thing that dang dog did some serious traveling in a nights hunt and stayed busy busy busy in the woods.
I know i've talked about it before on here in the past but a quick funny story about that ol dog........ we were hunting in dayton one night and happened to see some lights where they shouldn't have been. Mr. James left out to go confront the individuals and hunter left out with him...well time goes by and we eventually all meet up.....anyway the folks we run into have at least 7-8 dogs on the ground and we bs with em for a while, hell it had to have been 15-20 minutes and Mr. Bryant happens to look at his gps and shows striker treed like 5 r 600yds past where we are sittin talking to these guys....long story short we cut the bs hop on the buggies and head to em. We get there and low and behold ol striker done found him a boar in a hole.....good night and a great memory of a solid dog! hope you find another just like him Mr. Bryant.