Darboone was some great blood. I had a line bred darboone dogs that were baying at 8 weeks and finding hogs at 7 months. Wish I still had them
If I’m not mistaken, Sam Mason’s old Buster dog was off the Darbonne dogs, he is the foundation to a lot of the good woods and using strains, the Dennison dogs go back to him and certain wager strains, and I could be wrong again but I think the Darbonne dogs were a lot of the foundation of the original Wager dogs...
The cur blood I have goes back to two grand pups off of buster, my dogs go back to crosses off those two dogs bred to some local cow stock that’s been used and bred around here for a while working cows and hog hunting...
Danny Drinkard in Alabama has a lot of the Dennison dogs along with Don Bradford also from Alabama, I’ve never hunted with or met either but have heard good things about them and their dogs from folks I think highly of their opinion, I don’t have any contact info for either, they were both on Facebook when I was on it, we bred a dog out of Danny’s dogs that was a really good dog even in his old age, he was a one out dog and real catchy, if he heard or smelled you coming he would catch out but was smart about it because he died of old age and was hunted fairly hard in his life...
Another man to contact who breeds probably the best registered catahoulas is Craig Boling from daholenga Ga, he’s a purest in true form when it comes to breeding registered dogs and his dogs are also off the Dennison/Wager/Buster dogs and are a family of curs that’s been bred up for along time, they’re the real deal as far as hunt and range go, he’s also on Facebook, or was...
I’ll be making a cross in the upcoming year that’s an aunt to nephew that should make some real nice dogs, the sire to the gyp is the grandfather to the male and is a complete outcross, he was an exceptional dog and through some nice pups and some that were mediocre , and they go back to the same cur family several times on top and bottom, it’s just an experiment, I bred the male to the mother of this gyp I’m going to breed and that was a firecracker cross, so I’m expecting some nice dogs out of this, they should have good grit but not suicidal or bay breaking rough, they got a good bit of stock breeding in them and all usually work hogs good, your welcome to try one, not making any guarantees that they’ll be super stars but I’d almost be willing to bet the farm they going to work, how good they’re at it is in the eye of the beholder...
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