Black Streak is Magnus owned by Booth?
The dog I mainly use now, the red dog I call Tuff is the son of Magnus. Booth also has the mother to Tuff called Macey. He made some more little Tuffs that are now 6 months old I think. He sent me one of them. She is a firecracker for sure. Booth is transitioning like me to finder holders now that he has used them. Magnus is a crop dog not a finder holder but because of the way Magnus is bred and his size and structure, he can be bred to a certain type catch dog and produce some extraordinary dogs.
Magnus like his daddy Thunder is a very unique and special crop dog. His daddy was slightly better do to his heart and uncanny knack for heading straight for pigs right off the truck in complete darkness hundreds of yards away but Magnus being bred to be thicker boned, thicker muzzle, bigger, stronger, faster was superior when it come to holding big boar 1 out. I kept Magnus for a couple years was all and sent him to Georgia after breeding him to Macey. Magnus was the last strickly crop bred dog I have ever owned. I'm thankful that Booth has him because of how we can breed him to dogs like Macey and get dogs like Tuff and the two male littermates to Tuff that Booth runs. Those two dogs made a believer out of Booth about the efficiency and effectiveness of proper finder holders. Forget Thunder and Magnus, it's those two dogs that will blow your hair back. You see in the pictures I post what Tuff does and catches and where. Those two are the same caliber as Tuff. Booth is doing same thing with them as I am Tuff. He started off doing crop work with them because he i think was a little nervouse about true finder holder work since he was a bay dogger. He eventually took them to the woods and left the bay dogs at home. Those two pups showed him what hunting proper finder holders is all about. He was certainly impressed and now I think he takes them to the woods more than he does the curs. Actually he doesn't take them both at same time now. He says that's not necessary lol.
I used to talk a ton to those guys in Georgia. All of them wanted speed. They put so much emphasis on speed that their greys and stags were no where near like mine when they got to a pig. Took them 3 stags to catch 1 pig where it was taking me 1. Speed only gets you there but once you get there, then what? I kept pushing hardness but preached stay away from the stag pit cross because they are to small to controle a big boar. Once Magnus got to Georgia I think it woke a lot of guys up and it opened their eyes to how to breed better crop dogs than crossing the stag to a pit. I just out of simplicity sake claim that Magnus is half stag half wolfhound but that's not 100% accurate. He is half stag for he is the son of Thunder BUT his momma was not actually a full wolfhound. She was half wolfhound based finder holder from same line of finder holders I still have today and half wolfhound or outcrossed to a full wolfhound. Really making her around 3/4 wolfhound and not the 100% wolfhound that I just say for simplicity sake. So Magnuse has a little more secret to the sauce than just stag × wolfhound. But people in Georgia liked Magnus so much that they were really interested in knowing how to breed for dogs like him. I've even been contacted by people in Georgia claiming they have found littermates to him here in Texas and wanting to know it no could verify whether or not they had indeed finally found a littermate to him lol.
The most common question I was asked by the Georgia guys was why did I sale such badass dogs and not keep them for myself. I just tell them I didn't sale the bad as dogs, I still got them, I just sold the culls lol. Really they aren't culls lol I just had a different type of dog called a finder holder / hairy dog that were harder and just as good at crop work and almost as fast as a pure stag but we're bred to hunt the woods and for their nose. So I just sold the specialty dogs and kept the finder holders. I now have great Danes in addition to the finder holders. They do same finder holder work, just a more long range type of finder holder
