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What is the best blood line or at least some good blood lines for walkers or blue ticks as far as cat and bear hunting?

I have always had a Nance breed dog that has been able to catch a bobcat, not saying they are the best but the are nice tight footed and are a tight built dog that can carry itself very well. They seem too have good noses and drift a track rather than stradle it and are nice tree dogs. Not saying other breds cant catch bobcats as I am not color blind when it comes to bobcat dogs, just had real good luck with Nance breed walkers.

Has anyone had any luck with Mike Kemp dogs on bobcats? From what I''ve seen and heard they look like a good place to try for bear, not sure about cats.

Twist, I agree a pretty high percentage of well bred dogs along the Topper lines seem to retain the traits that make good bobcat and gray fox dogs.I have been around the Topper and Little Topper bloodline a good long time but not nearly as long as some of the folks who read these threads, and I talked to a man today who has a wealth of expereince dating back many years to Lester nances old Topper and dogs bred directly out of that dog and his kin and he said they really made bear dogs over the years. but don't get me wrong there are other strains of walkers out there that also make as good or better big game dogs depending on who does the breeding, and who does the culling.

One Blue dogs I really don't know anymore.They have been so mixed up and spread around it is pretty hard to say just get a Vaugh, or Smokey river, or hell just throw $800. in the mail to Del Cameron and wait a year or so, but I think if I was looking for a blue dog I would get on the horn to Terry Zink and get his take on it. He savvys blue dogs and he hunts hard and catches, and that is what it is all about.

Don't forget the Plotts.

I have a freind that has two of mike kemps dogs and they are great little bobcat dogs. They are very fast on a track and good tree dogs

don't for get about the kemmer curs from the striker line they reaqlly can go also with grit to spare.

OH come on breeze a CUR you might as well have a poodle Lol HEY buddie had any more trash rases.
Bill

Strawberry Mt

dog man wrote:What is the best blood line or at least some good blood lines for walkers or blue ticks as far as cat and bear hunting?

blueticks/
blueticks/ southern caif. blueticks from keepers of a line there in the santa Polla houndsmen clubmarty isson of corsegold ca. and his son Billy Ison might can hook ya up with them santa plool so.ca. hunters .
for walkers/ pac man x old topper line staway from little topper if ya can find old topper ans pac man crosses/even some house line trowed into it/ great cat dogs still today. hard too find a nace line with nothen in it but the new stuff floaten around. Ya got a chance though of combinations of old topper x pack man and houses clint mixtures kept and bred-on still today/ they arn`t the onlyest walker blood but are the package that a wize choice.

I like to use Vaughn and Sebastian bred blueticks. They have cold noses and can drive a track hard. Any kind of hound that can get the job done, is good.

Keep hunting and good luck to all!!!!

I don't believe anyone can say one line is better then another on either cat or bear, too many lines and too many hounds. Some may say Cameron and I have seen my share of good and bad in the line. Some can say bozo and again have seen both good and bad.

You need to get out there and hunt with others and see if they have what your looking for and go from there. I have hunted with a bunch of good solid cat hounds and I can throw 10 names at you but that does not mean you will get one of the handful that make the grade, JMO.

I don't believe one breed of dog is better than any other, BUT I do believe different strains of hounds are better than others. I'm no hound breeder, but there are those out there who consistantly produce top game dogs. I hate to train a pup, and in fact will not do it. I like natural ability from the hound and exposure, and correcting for mistakes from the owner. If a pup isn't trailing and treeing on its own after being exposed to desired game ....its a cull in my book. I'm sure not all are like me. I know there are some that like to take a pup that doesn't seem to make the grade and try to turn that pup into a top game hound, but to me that ability should all ready be there. Now this is coming from a guy that has mediocre hounds at best and doesn't cross them, but rather get pups from fellas that know how to produce good dogs

I'd get myself a Pocahontas bred Plott. They've been time tested and proven!
Just my 2 cents worth.

Good Luck!

probably not the answer your looking for but i would half to say some of the best dogs have no big name line and really no puriety in there breeding. they are so called muts made up of one great hound bred to the next regardless of the breed or bloodline.