What breeding is he and breeder? Are you going to coon or hog hunt...they can be awesome hog dogs as well as squirrel and coon dogs.

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Some of the best dog posts I have read...thanks for taking the time. I agree that coon hound competition has created a dog that hunts hard and fast and looking for a track that will put a coon in a tree quickly...so after a short while the majority of hounds will evolve towards that type of dog... I...

I agree with the above. Also a dog depreciates pretty quick once it reaches a certain age. A dogs value goes up if it comes from a long line of great hunting dogs.

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Great thread. As already mention, the coon hound competition sport has changed the old hounds way of trailing. The dogs of today hunt faster and harder and drift on track looking for a hot coon track or hot end of track...also coons are way more plentiful today than back then. Even though the woods ...

That is a good recipe for success if the dogs are good representations of their breeds.

How have they turned out?

Yes...the David Hise Videos...
David Dean sounds to be a very interesting man and right now in the June full cry is the third section he is writing about the dogs he raised and hunted...an awesome read...

Just a day before you posted here I was looking on ETHD for the thread that had the David Hife youtube video but did not find it. I have been reading Dave Deans articles in Full Cry, he is now 83 years old and has proven over and over the exceptional dog man that he is and he has gone against the gr...

I stopped the outdoor life many years ago...same with field and stream...they used to be great magazines back in the 1960s to the 1980s...fur fish and game is headed that way...

At one time I was looking for a run to catch Croghan hound to try on hogs...and if he worked out I was going to breed him to one of my best females...never found one...someone mentioned a Hale/Croghan cross that consistently caught lots of coyotes...sounds like one I wouldn't mind trying out...