Biggest regret

I don't have many regrets in any facet of sporting dogs I've been in involved with but my biggest was not breeding my old Bo dog more than once, I got him as a pup when I was 16 and blessed to have owned a dog of his caliber so early in my hunting career because he set the bar as to what I expect out of a dog and still use him to compare my dogs today, I'm not going into detail about this dog because we all know what makes those special dogs just that, special, at the time I never had any older hunters to hunt with to compare him to anything and just went off my pawpaws observations of him when I decided to breed him when he was young, he went on to make a name for himself the more folks I hunted with and I really got the big head and boy thought I had something when our former state senator "60" Rayburn contacted my pawpaw and sent him over to my house to talk me into selling my dog, Mr. 60 had bought Bo's sire since I had owned him and had heard of him through other hunters, that man could have offered me a million dollars and as poor as I was and am would've never sold him, looking back I thought he was going to live forever and kept telling myself I'd breed him later and later never came after he got killed, now today I still have some dogs that go back to him but nothing close, after he died it took me along time and going through a lot of dogs to get back into going to the woods with confidence about what I had in the box and not "hoping" we were going to catch a hog, listening to whom I thought were top tier hunters say all that gibberish about not breeding a dog till they were older and proven themselves and basically on the death bed was the biggest mistake I made and almost put me out of dogs before I ever got started good, now a days I have no problem breeding a younger dog, I know my family of dogs and what to look for in them at certain time frames, if you have something good don't be afraid to breed it, you just have to be honest with nobody else but yourself about how the breeding turned out...