Guys...thanks for the kind words...took me a little while to respond cause I was waiting for my day off...
Hillbilly Safari...when I finally decided to breed mt cur dogs I went to Louisiana and Mississippi and other places and still got screwed around...I was sold a truck load of culls but from good bloodlines...Finally got a good kemmer gyp out of Ronnie's Old Trouble who was out of Gold Nugget...A dog known for hunt and nose...
I named that pup Goldie and I bred her twice once to a Texas Smoke dog I named Nugget...A nice red gold colored dog...I bought nugget from a man close to San Antonio who loved the Texas Smoke Dog as I did...This man was about 80 years old when I first met him (HB White) and he had some nice looking big mt curs and some good sized ones like I liked...The dam to nugget was a daughter to the Original Texas Smoke and one of his best daughters Texas Smokette...so that made her 3/4 Texas Smoke and I offered to buy this old bitch cause she had some good looking solid red pups and I also wanted that line pretty bad...
Long story short a couple years later I bought her and bred her twice she was bred to a a grandson Of the Original kemmers gold nugget grandson whom was extremely line bred gold nugget and that dog was a top coon dog and almost bigger than what I liked...
I also bred her to a dog I had that was out of Goldie and Yeller I had named Buck Yeller was 1/2 bmc and 1/2 OMCBA mt cur and probably the best dog I ever owned...But I only bred him once...Yeller's dam was out of San Antonio area from a man named AC Zoeller who also bred race horses...he had some of the best looking mt curs I ever laid eyes on...I bought some good dogs from AC and Yellers dam was named dragon lady a hi tanned mt cur...her brother was as good a dog as you would see and I had named him Smokie and I gave him to my brother...Ac had been ill and in and out of the hospital so the pups were about 8 months old and kind of wild...they were running loose at the farm and they were treeing cats and running rabbits...I asked who he thought was the very best and he pointed out Smokie and he she was...I turned them pups loose in the woods the first time and we caught 2 pigs...morning hunt and afternoon hunt and I couldn't pull them off of the track...it was too thick to head them off or catch them...so I picked them up the next morning...AC was well to do so money wasn't a problem...He went to a big hunt in Tennessee and bout 5 or 6 young dogs that won the hunts or swim races and had looks...that was how he had started his breeding program...that is how I got the idea to test my dogs for swimming and liking to hit the water if needed...I quit looking at those traits when the gators started getting bad...
long story short I used Ac's dogs HBs Texas Smoke line of dogs with some Kemmer, but of the kemmer mostly the gold nugget breeding...just used this mixture more than anything else...
Ac's dogs were hard hunting with no quit and slightly larger than some of the average sized mt curs and they had some grit...the kemmer gold nugget line brought some decent size and excellent winding nose with some grit and the Texas Smoke line brought hard and fast hunting dogs with a lot of grit...also were the quieter ones on track...
I bred dragon lady once. Goldie twice and I bred Tut Tut twice but would have liked to have bred her more but age got her...Tut was the 3/4 Texas Smoke bitch...
The dog below is first level briar mt dude call name dude...I saw this dog in the full cry magazine and made a call and found the owner...he looks quite a bit like a few that I had...I also called the man that bred that dog and I liked what he said about his dogs...he is a good sized dog that hunts close but will keep ranging out until he finds game...a fast hunter and now he is 3 times world champion...my plan was to buy a female out of him and breed her back to him...but at this time in my game of life I am not making the trip nor spending the money but it was a good thought...
but I sure do like that dog...
as far as knowing the great dogs of today I don't...but there is 4 or 5 I know that are what I like but only what I see and read on the net...some are from the old famous mt cur dogs...
