Son x mother

Really, a huge percentage of the young dogs I am associated with including hunting with other folks that are starting pups pretty much come here winding and trailing, I consider locating strictly a tree dog trait, locating the tree the game went up whether he winded it or smelled up the bark on the tree. If they are winding or trailing hogs when they get to them they have located them, and are expected to naturally bay them. The strains of dogs I have acquired or am associated with are naturally hard wind dogs, I just figured a huge percentage across the board winded well so no need to test for it. But "until" an appropriate age I cannot judge how cold a track he can move nor how fast a track dog he is, nor if he will stick on tough game that's trying to run him down on the ground. I see "lots" of dogs wind a "cold" track that has not crossed the road but is several hundred yards off the road while driving 30 mph or more, that's why I say most I see and am around are hard wind dogs. Nobody that I know wants a foot print sniffing track straddling dog, I believe it to be the general consensus that folks want one that can move the track one way one time, that he didn't have to walk across to find and if it is a reasonable track get his head up and roll with it, and you just can't judge that at a few weeks old, granted an extremely cold track they will not move as fast as a better track.
There are no dogs here that I have "built" from the ground up and one breed of them I have raised and used for 40 yrs, I sought out a good solid strain of dogs that other smart people had bred up and solidified.