Message #583040

[The Old Man]

This strain of dogs actually started with Ricky Driver, ff to a very influential cross made with Ricky and Bob Owens dad, ff again to Ben Jordan, and a cross he made with a Jerry Camp dog. They were good when I began with them and I have just attempted to maintain the traits in them. They are very heavily linebred.
Ricky, Ben, myself and numerous others bred them for Cowdogs, but lots of people have had success with them on hogs. I hog hunted them some early on, but then didn't for many years----but my wife and I earlier this year while hunting some escaped cattle in several sections of a big creek bottom bayed hogs with them 2 different days, the second day it was a really good boar, had fun since it was the first I'd bayed any hogs with these Curdogs in a long long time, the dogs with us had never seen a hog. Lisa's nephew and I bayed another boar a couple months after that while looking for some more cattle.  If there had been cattle in there for them to find I doubt we'd have bayed the hogs.