I’ve hunted behind a few Airedale x Pit crosses that my mentor bred. I believe he took a male Airedale to one of his game bred pit bitches. There were 2 litters and all of them turned out pretty decent. They would hunt within a few hundred yards, would go the distance once on a track, were silent, and pretty much 100% catch. Several got killed, I’m not sure where the others are now. His passion is in starting young dogs, so as soon as he gets a dog that is consistently striking and running lead he sells them. He always keeps a rotating stock of a few lead dogs and a pile of young ones. He will cull through the young ones and sell the ones that show good potential once he starts them. All of those airepits were extremely shy, and pretty small around 40-50lbs, but they were good dogs. You had to really work with them to be able to touch them. They were one owner type of dogs. By that I mean the people that got some of them had to really let them warm up to them and bond and those were the only people that could touch them.
He has a freak of nature pit named Colby that he just sent to a friend up in Louisiana to get bred to a pure Airedale bitch. The pit was gifted to him by a bulldog man from Alabama as a puppy. He’s long legged and around 90lbs, and BIG. I mean when he stands normal his head is above my waist. That dog is 11 years old now, and it’s a miracle he’s still alive as many times as he’s been wrecked. He only has one functioning lung now too. He is a 100% solo dog. You turn him out and he doesn’t come back for miles, he will go until he finds hogs and he will kill anything under about 150lbs and immediately relay. I mean this dog is an actual machine and his entire life purpose is to kill any hog he finds. There have been quite a few hunts where he was the one hunting and the people were just following his track and collecting dead pigs. They’ve bred him to several different females over the years, a bird dog and a pit that I know of, I don’t remember ever hearing about any of the pups so I don’t think he can reproduce himself. I believe they said this female Airedale that they are taking him to is 80lbs. I know the guy that has her has some legit hard hunting Airedale’s but I’ve never personally met him or seen his pure Airedale’s. If any of those pups come up for sale I’ll shoot you a message on fb Cheston
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