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by Redwood Coonhounds
Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:59 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Let’s talk.
Replies: 903
Views: 945132

Re: Let’s talk.

Mule Man, yes they are Registered with the NALC. The two older dogs came from breeders here in California, and my youngest one I bred myself out of my older bitch and a NALC male out of Utah... Lawdawg, I think a dog started on bears has way more of an advantage. With trailing, range, and learning h...
by Redwood Coonhounds
Fri Jan 28, 2022 9:14 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Let’s talk.
Replies: 903
Views: 945132

Re: Let’s talk.

Lawdawg, I use them just the same as my hounds. Truck to tree. My male is exceptional, he's as good as any I've had. He has his own style, but he rigs, roads starts, trails and even opens on a jump, bays and trees. He has a lot of range, speed and bottom, very tough and intelligent dog. My females a...
by Redwood Coonhounds
Thu Jan 27, 2022 10:56 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Let’s talk.
Replies: 903
Views: 945132

Re: Let’s talk.

No I get that, no one breed is best at anything. I use my Catahoulas to bear and coon hunt. I don't cross my curs and hounds together, I keep them separate and pure. But out here, no one wants a cur to do that type of hunting, they want running dogs or booticks. The cur hunters only want pups of pro...
by Redwood Coonhounds
Thu Jan 27, 2022 10:10 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Let’s talk.
Replies: 903
Views: 945132

Re: Let’s talk.

I sort of want to take my Catahoulas out pig hunting, I've been a lot with dogs when I was young. But in California you about can't get on them on public. Private has that monopoly. I have friends who use a lot of my hounds on pigs, I just never got into it. I keep saying I'm gonna go. I'd like to s...
by Redwood Coonhounds
Mon Jan 24, 2022 5:15 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Let’s talk.
Replies: 903
Views: 945132

Re: Let’s talk.

One more week until duck season is over and I can hit my private land. Public land is slow. I don't kill any but what the dogs catch on the ground, but everyone else thinks they need to kill everything they tree. Jokes on them because most don't have any private to hunt, so there coon season is pret...
by Redwood Coonhounds
Wed Jan 19, 2022 3:30 pm
Forum: Bobcat/Lynx Hunting
Topic: Anything to pass the time
Replies: 34
Views: 11274

Re: Anything to pass the time

I definitely have certain crosses the resulting offspring I plan from the get to outcross. I don't try to breed so close for a lot of generations. I've had a few that even if they aren't super linebred or inbred I will outcross because they ended up with a fault I know is in the line and want to go ...
by Redwood Coonhounds
Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:06 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Back on here after 8 years or so...
Replies: 1
Views: 2318

Re: Back on here after 8 years or so...

I'm from Yuba County, if you have areas to hunt that way and know the area, its not all that far. I would come over to hunt.
by Redwood Coonhounds
Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:04 pm
Forum: Bobcat/Lynx Hunting
Topic: Anything to pass the time
Replies: 34
Views: 11274

Re: Anything to pass the time

I look for a dog not related to mine that carries the same traits that is also linebred its self, so there's more predictability. I don't really have a set goal of when I want to bring in an outcross. I just breed each individual dog based on what I think is the best complimentary cross.
by Redwood Coonhounds
Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:03 pm
Forum: Bobcat/Lynx Hunting
Topic: Anything to pass the time
Replies: 34
Views: 11274

Re: Anything to pass the time

The problem with that Mule Man, is they won't consistently produce generation after generation breeding that way if the dogs are constantly outcrossed. Is breeding two alike unrelated dogs more predictable than breeding two unalike unrelated dogs, absolutely. But when it comes down to it you will ne...
by Redwood Coonhounds
Wed Jan 12, 2022 1:16 am
Forum: Bobcat/Lynx Hunting
Topic: Anything to pass the time
Replies: 34
Views: 11274

Re: Anything to pass the time

"A good breeding program will make you forget about the old generation" I wouldn't say forget. I was lucky and had some really outstanding foundation dogs. But you are correct, as much as I miss them, the dogs I have now are just as good or better, and I expect each generation to be better...
by Redwood Coonhounds
Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:54 pm
Forum: Bobcat/Lynx Hunting
Topic: Anything to pass the time
Replies: 34
Views: 11274

Re: Anything to pass the time

I do keep my dogs on probiotics, plus feed a decent food that has them already included as well. Plus I supplement Wheat Germ oil on bitches I plan to breed. These last misses the only thing different is I literally live in a different area with different climate and a well instead of city water. Th...
by Redwood Coonhounds
Mon Jan 10, 2022 4:17 pm
Forum: Bobcat/Lynx Hunting
Topic: Anything to pass the time
Replies: 34
Views: 11274

Re: Anything to pass the time

I didn't get much of a bear season this fall due to a back injury. I was hurt a few months and then out of work so couldn't even afford the gas to go once I did feel better. So I've been coon hunting mostly since first part of November. Nothing too exciting but it gets the dogs out. Then I just got ...
by Redwood Coonhounds
Thu Dec 16, 2021 3:33 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: First tree dogs. Advice?
Replies: 21
Views: 8517

Re: First tree dogs. Advice?

I'm not saying there's no one willing to help. I've mentored tons of people over the years. But my word of advise I wish more would have listened to, is put the work in and hunt with someone and get a good idea of what you are doing before you get/bring pups. I've trained a lot of peoples pups, and ...
by Redwood Coonhounds
Wed Dec 15, 2021 10:56 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: First tree dogs. Advice?
Replies: 21
Views: 8517

Re: First tree dogs. Advice?

There's a lot of us not far from the Sacramento area, North and South. I would start going now with someone to help you out before those pups are old enough to hunt. That way they would be likely to invite you out more and get a friendship struck up. As most people don't want the headache of helping...
by Redwood Coonhounds
Tue Dec 07, 2021 3:46 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Hardest trait to get consistently
Replies: 4
Views: 3371

Re: Hardest trait to get consistently

I'll have to agree with just the right amount of grit being a very hard thing to breed for. Intelligence, as far as game sense is another one that doesn't always pass down as well as you'd hope. For me, my hardest obtained goal is breeding dogs with no quit. No matter how tough the parents are, for ...

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