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basically the info im trying to find out is, what is each line/studdog's strengths and areas it could use improvement on and what outcross do you think would be ideal.

ex.

XYZ bloodline or studdog-start early, cold nosed, lots of tree in them.

dont move a track real quick and woudl out cross them with RST to get a faster dog.

well hope yall get the idea,

the lines i was thinking of were utchman, rambo, hammer, jet spanky, droop,

some studdogs jammer, river, coonbuster and basically any of the big names.

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I know I'm going to get in trouble for trying to half-way answer this one...but here goes nothin'.

I have found Uchtman dogs to be easy to train, well balanced dogs with consistently good mouths. They generally aren't trashy. I think of them as the ultimate pleasure dogs that are still snappy enough to be competitive. I find a higher percentage of this bloodline make coon dogs than anything else I've tried.

I haven't hunted with a lot of Hammer dogs, but I find their strengths to be that they are powerhouse tree dogs and are sharp about treeing layup coons moreso than the average dog from my favorite line. They tend to be more hyper, trashier, and you get some poor mouths, on the negative side.

The Rambo dogs are hard going dogs with a lot of drive and track speed. The ones I have known tended to be a little trashier than some, but that goes along with the tremendous drive. They are also great tree dogs that will stay hooked when things get rough. The Uchtman dogs, on the other hand, at least the ones I've hunted, tend not to stay hooked too good with rough dogs. The Rambo dogs are similar in style to a lot of Walker dogs, but more accurate.


The Spanky dogs are similar in their traits to the Hammer dogs, I think, and while the Jet dogs come from Hammer, I think Ed Mead has been a little more selective in his crosses than Dave Dean.

Disclaimer: This has been an OPINION. And I am admittedly biased.

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john could you go thru the walkers like that ..... ???? .... pete

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John that is a true reply, but I have one question. Rambo Dogs ??? Are they mostly not Uchtman Bred, and were do they get the go in them, and the willingness to stay treed with a rough dog, and the Uchtman line won't stay hooked with a rough hound.

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ESPECIALLY WITH THE COMMENT THAT THE JET DOGS AND ED MEAD WHERE MORE SELECTIVE IN THE CROSSES THAT WERE MADE MORE SO THAN DAVE AND THE HAMMER DOGS....YES JET COMES FROM HAMMER BUT THE JET DOGS HAVE ADVANCED MORE FROM MORE SELECTIVE BREEDIN RATHER THAN HAVIN ENUFF PUPS TO SUPPLY THE DEMAND...........
DAN CAHOY.

AND DONT GET ME WRONG THERE HAS BEEN SOME TOP HAMMER DOGS BUT JUST NOT AT THE SAME PERCENTAGE AS THE JET DOGS

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Ed no doubt has done a great job with his breeding program, and the results show what great planning he has done to keep up with todays night hunt hounds of all breeds. He has the knowledge of how to breed to get what he wants, and to produce a dog for the nite hunts.........

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John that is a true reply, but I have one question. Rambo Dogs ??? Are they mostly not Uchtman Bred, and were do they get the go in them, and the willingness to stay treed with a rough dog, and the Uchtman line won't stay hooked with a rough hound.

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john could you go thru the walkers like that ..... ???? .... pete

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Pete, you really do want a guy to go where angels fear to tread.

Seriously, if I were hunting walker dogs, I would want Finley River stock. I liked the Crowding Billy blood too, but I doubt if there is much of that around anymore.

I'm not a fan of House bred dogs, at least after Clint. (Hint hint...I don't care for Lipper dogs as a rule.)

I've hunted with a couple of Sackett Jr. dogs I was impressed by.

Another dog that produced some of the kind of dogs I like was Yadkin Tar Rattle Shaker. Those dogs had good mouths and good noses, and moved their tracks.

The reason I'm not fond of the more recent House dogs is that I used to hunt a lot with a buddy of Joe House's when I was a kid. He had dogs out of Clint, Lipper, Lawyer, etc. Several were titled dogs. Most of them were trashy, wild, looked great on a running coon but would skip out and hunt for another track if they had to work much on a coon. They blew through the country opening here and there looking for something red hot to slam dunk.

They were loud and had a lot of go, but not my kind of dogs. I didn't like their disposition either.

Lipper produced some great hounds, but mainly when crossed on something a little more cold-blooded, in my opinion. If you got one out of Lipper that had that go and track speed coupled with a brain that came from somewhere else, you had a ringer.

Again, just my opinions, and I am no exper on anything, much less Walkers.

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Rance, you are lucky as i am. in my opinion (not to get no one upset). the two best stud dogs are right here around you. pm me and we will talk. or give me a call 770-387-2720. hey you can go hunting with these two and see what they do..gary woods

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Pete, you really do want a guy to go where angels fear to tread.

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HEY JOHN

you gotta go bring up the fox incident dont you.LAUGHS. The dogs name was Bull...he was hand picked out of the litter that produced rambo. Larry Platner gave me this pup as his stud fee pick. I hunted with the sally dog alot and she was just a good steady coondog. I never got to see how she would act around a rough dog but the way she treed leads Me to believe she would stay. I would have bought her when she was sold if I had had the money. Mash was not one that would leave a tree. Never knew him to start trouble but I did see him stay treed with some very rough stuff. Mash could tree a lay up or work out an old rough track as easily as he put the treee on a good running track. He had a good mouth and a great locate. He would stay treed til you got there and most generaly he didnt care what else was going on. His one fault (passed down to the daughter I own) was he chewed. If you left him there a long time most likely the tree would be barkless for several feet off the ground.

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Well after reading these posts, I would have to concer with John on his comments on the Ranger line, Hammer and Jet lines. Can only comment on what I've seen with these weak old eyes of mine LOL....

Now I'll put in my 2 cents on blood you seldom see anymore.. Bragg/Vaughn... Pleasure style hunting/ medium to close.. big mouthed... good track speed, open according to track.. I've seen some Bragg blood that was slower on track but that has been bred away from...so you don't see it much anymore, if at all... Tree dogs that stay... At times you will get pups that start later than other more popular lines today but not excessive... Do OK in competition hunts but are known for being tree checkers before the sit down to stay so will get beat out on tree points.. Great for when the leaves are off in Competition though... Biggest plus to me is they are easy to trash break and many will only run on what you train them on and never trash,, hard to believe but true....

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Marty, I didn't tell who you were,LOL.


I don't like my dogs to run fast game, but if they are going to run, I want them to try to catch it. I can't stand one boo-hooing around after trash.

Pete, you mentioned the cross of Lipper x Tabitha...I think her and her sister Mandy produced the best pups out of Lipper. Lipper sure added some worthwhile qualities to the Walker breed, but I like him better a ways back in the pedigree. A lot of the stuff I hunted with was directly out of him, and other House bred females. Not enough nose and not enough brains for me.

But a little Lipper bred into a line with nose and brains will sure turbo-charge them.

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i like gathering as much info on a subject as possible, espeically since im new to all this.

gary, pretty soon i hope we will have 3 dual grand blueticks in our area. are you going to lagrange friday? the ole female caught one on the ground last night, hoepefully it did her a little good.

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I will agree with the Utchman dogs not staying around for trouble. My dog will leave the scene if trouble starts. He is a good dog other than that.

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Actually, since I am not a competition hunter really, I kind of like the not staying around for trouble. I know some dogs can back up and keep treeing, and that is the best thing they can do.

But as for me, and this is just me, and I know many who don't feel this way, I'd rather my dog leave than fight.

Too many dogs start out just defending themselves, and move on up the ladder of aggression later. I don't want my hound in a dog fght.

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Moving up the aggression ladder... Seen many a fine hound ruined by it..........

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John

funny thing is he never did it again and never ran a deer. Other than that one night he was a very trash free hound. Also the female I am hunting now has never touched anything fast and has only treed one possum that I know of.

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Hunted with alot of Rambo dogs and they like it fast fast fast.You just got to breakum.

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John

funny thing is he never did it again and never ran a deer. Other than that one night he was a very trash free hound. Also the female I am hunting now has never touched anything fast and has only treed one possum that I know of.

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Rance, thanks for hopeing that we will have three dual grands soon. i hope so too. axe just turned 16 months old and he is cranking it up a notch or two. he only likes just a little bit to be dual grand. then i will start to stud him out. i will be going to jasper its a lot closer for me. gary woods

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well, well, well, this is surely a deep subject!!!!!! I like about 50% of the blueticks I have been with and they were from all types of bloodlines. As far as walcurs go, I have hunted with about 20 of them some ( more than one or two hunts) and I have liked about 2 of them. The rest were MEAN, TRASHY, MEAN, TRASHY, SLICK TREEING, OH AND DID I MENTION MEAN AND TRASHY, SLICK TREEING, RABBIT RUNNING, DEER CHASING, FOX RUNNING, TREE JACKING, NO NOSE, NO TRACK SENSE, TREE 200 BARKS A MINUTE UP A STOP SIGN AND GUARD IT LIKE FORT KNOX AND LEAVE 30 FOOT OFF JUST TO WHUP THE STEW OUT OF ANOTHER DOG FOR COMING AROUND. The main walcur I like was straight out of HOUSES LIPPER AND MCKISSICK CREEK TABITHA. The other good one was a direct son of this dog and a lipper bred female. The rest were all pretty similar............ worthless as a screendoor on a submarine.

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with Mr. Carroll....I would rather a dog leave a tree than fight, my male will back off tree and keep treein , but my female will leave.....I am mainly a pleasure hunter, hit a comp once in a while, but I would rather have a hickey than a scratch....jmo...

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