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Not quite old enough to go back 30 but if I could go back 20 I know of a couple of things that I believe would have helped us.
First thing is before Jon moved instead of building a Nice dog Kennel we should have built a 60 acre pup pen.
Second without doubt 3 really nice hounds we should have bred to
1st is Pinedale Clown
2nd is J&R CJ
3rd is Rolling Creek Primetime
A few things I am proud of over the last 20 years is the fact that we have taken some basic ol Raider Stock and crossed it on some Modern day stuff and we have created a "Family of Hounds" that has some defined traits that we want out of our hounds. First is NEVER Quit, have mouth you can tell, and good feet. We never turn our heads no matter who there daddy is. Hounds are only as good as there owners, so we try to hunt regularly enough to keep descent hounds. On that note there are a few times over the last 20 years that I should have been at the house because without a doubt the weather was way to bad to be out in it, but we hunted anyways.
All in all I am satisfied with our last 20 years of breeding and raising hounds. Yet there are a few things we could have twicked a little.
If I could go back 20 years because I was 12 30 years ago I would have made alot more effort to stay around the old school outside bred fox hounds of that period. There are alot of hounds from that period that were worthy but it always seemed that more than other breeds alot ended up being bred strong to the old Hornet and Midnight cross that spawned so many exceptional hounds.If you could look they are in almost everyones papers if you could go beyond the fifth generation you see on papers today. I would have made it my mission to get to know Author and Tony Purvis, Mr Reggie Edwards, Lewis Jordan, George Hill and Carlton Dawson who have repeatedly shown the ability over the past 30 plus years to have the knowledge and know how to breed what it takes to take you to that next level of breeding fox hounds. I had my fair share of hounds out of Mr. Purvis Senator Sam dog and they just flat had what it took to run there game with authority.I also had my fair share of Roscoe bred hounds that coudl also run the heck out of a pc of game. I feel as if I have had alot of pretty good hounds in my life time but only two really exceptional ones. Both of them were out of Senator Sam. Just my two cents worth. May only be worth a cent or less.