That's exactly why I do it too Goose, exactly. I can place pups with people I feel will hunt them right and give them.the opportunity to turn out. 9 out of 10 people will ask for breeding advise when the time comes and offer me whatever I want or need out of it. I have put in the time with my little family and I can't afford to keep a hundred dogs to keep it going the way I want. I let others help me. I get to hunt with 9 out of 10 that i place or that helped make a breeding decision about so I don't have to just take the word of someone else. I can form my own opinion. I'm not the type to withhold advise if asked for fear that someone might know as much as myself. I'm also not the type to not let my blood out for fear of someone out hunting me or whatever. If they do then I can still be proud and be happy that they are doing justice for the dogs I shared with them. I would have a major regret if I lost friends or didn't better my family because of foolish pride.
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That's one of my biggest blessings with messing with these dogs is that I have a support system of folks around me that I trust with my dogs and they trust me with what I tell them to expect out of dog, and follow my breeding plans, if I didn't have them in my corner to send pups to be hunted and tested there is no way I could financially afford to breed dogs like I do, I've never sold any of them a pup( although I'm not against it) and I let a pup leave on 3 conditions, if they get rid of it it comes back to me, if it doesn't make the cut it comes back to me so I can see for myself what's wrong and can rest assured that the dog isn't contributing to a gene pool, and if they make the cut on being breed worthy I raise the first litter off a pairing of my choosing, I've had a few "friends" stab me in the back but I never sweat the small stuff because it's only themselves that they are hurting in the long run, I may get burned once but refuse to let there be an opportunity for a second time getting burned...
