Brains.
With out brains all of the speed, grit, nose, heart, and desire would be useless. If a dumb dog can run really fast who cares? What is he running for?
If you had a gritty and I mean gritty dog, what good is that with out any game to sink teeth in to?
Nose a dog can have a great nose but ...

Great hog there. What state do you run in?

Huntintony:
You know I think you have hit the nail on the head with that one. I have been talking with him about a bear dog or supposed bear dog he has for sale. And even though he stated that he would show the dog in the woods he has only made excuses as to why he can not. And its very funny this ...

Sounds like your having a good weekend. Well all But the deer race. You know there is a guy on here from Australia asking about deer dogs. Maybe we have all been looking at it wrong? We have just been training them for Australia all these years.

(brush stomper) I dont know how many of Mikes dog you have hunted or hunted with but I must say $1500-$2000 for a started dogs not a bad price at all. I dont know if you have ever trained a dog but if you were to buy a pup with his breeding and train it up RIGHT to 8 months you would have more then ...