i may not fully understand the last 2 posts . and i've not been around this line of dogs but about 20 years off and on . but the ones i've seen are pretty consistent . they either stay hooked and stay in the right place naturally from the first time you turn them loose , or they are straight culls .
i've only seen or heard of very few of them that were culls . the folks before me has done most of the culling already lol
now they don't all make cold nosed deep hunting dogs , but then again nobody freeranges cattle or hogs on 80,000 acres anymore either .
if i was strictly hog hunting , casting from the truck i would need some of'em to operate a little different . but hunting cattle and hogs horseback , either side of a 1/4 mile range is plenty . like i said i don't have to get a horse hot trying to get to a bay if you know what i mean .
i've had dogs jump a deer and go a good ways till they hit a lone track and go another ways and get bayed on a bucking bull , get there and his ear might be bleeding but he would be settled enough alot of times to ride up and toss a loop on him . sometimes it goes the other way having to waller him around in the brush till you can get a rope on him . but i could not do without my dogs .
