Registered: Feb 2004
Location: kansas
Posts: 82

Who is carrying on the original Cameron line now that del isn't selling pups?

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Registered: Jan 2016
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There is a guy in Texas that has some of the old Cameron blood direct from Del. He has the good one's and the only one with that Cameron line.
Him and Del are good friends.
Good luck trying to get one.

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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Boise, Idaho
Posts: 87

There are others. High Lonesome Blueticks owned by Jim Harrel. Crazy Cascade Blueticks owned by Steve Phipps. A guy by the name of Kevin Dustin in Monroe Utah. Kevins dogs have a little Sugar Creek in them which is what Del had before his current strain but they are close to pure Cameron. Dels main stud dog Slash spent some time at Kevins house and Kevin bred him to his females a few times. If I was wanting a full Cameron or close to full, I would get it from Kevin. Don't think you would get one from the guy in Texas.Can't remember his name but he goes by JTG on the Biggame Houndsmen Forum. Not because they are in high demand but because he does inbreeding to the extreme and he keeps everything.

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Registered: Jan 2016
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Those other guys you mention have the newer Cameron blood, the guy in Texas has a different line from when Del was in his prime.
He is the only one Del said he would recommend and that come from the man himself when I called Del trying to buy another pup from the same line that I bought from him in the early 90's.
I saw some pictures and they look much different than those other breeders your talking about, good looking so of a guns.

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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Boise, Idaho
Posts: 87

I agree. Those dogs in Texas look different. They don't even look like Del's dogs. Just go through Del's old pictures of his foundation dogs and see if any of them look like JTG's dogs in Texas. Almost all, if not all JTG's dogs are monkey faced dogs.That's not a trait you see in hardly any of Del's blood. The guy in Texas is breeding for specific traits that he likes and for whatever reason he has gained Del's approval but Del didn't have any conscience about selling what you call his " newer line" to any sucker that was willing to cough up $1000 or more for an 8 week old pup for the last 15 years. Are you saying that Del didn't like those pups he has been selling for the last 20 years and you have to go back to the early 90's to find the blood that was worth breeding ?

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Registered: Jan 2016
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Don't know nothing about the new line, could be better.
Wanted one with the same breeding as the one I had and heard he had a littermate to mine and breeds them.
I can tell you this, mine was not a monkey face but was a bear hunting machine. Would like to have a yard full of them.

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Registered: Jun 2007
Location: Menard,TX
Posts: 1158

I have visited with JTG on several occasions and he seems like a real nice fellow that breeds the Cameron line extremely close. He has sent me photos of several of his dogs and they are a little bigger and heavier made than what I prefer down here in this heat but everyone has different tastes.
Adios,
Gary

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Registered: Sep 2015
Location: Scranton, KS
Posts: 9

I have been curious about the Cameron line and how good of coon hounds they make. I don't know anything about them, are they accurate, fast, slow, track drivers, hard tree dogs - does anyone know them well enough to tell me? I live in Kansas and I understand they come from the Northwest, could they handle this climate OK and make a competition coonhound?

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