blackflagginit
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Location: burnt district MO/KS border
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Originally posted by Jason Baldwin
I think there are good dogs in all breeds. I truly do. But what were trying to determine here is do the blueticks have the natural ability in the gene pool to win the world hunt. At least one person has said yes. But what if its like this. If you randomly select any 500 dogs from each and every breed that are competition hunted at all and look at it like that, how many are even capable at all to do it ? Out of 500 random competition hunted blueticks are there 10 that are even truly capable of winning it all ? Another aspect of it that I expect to be met with likely a hailstorm of replys is what if a HUGE factor in the whole thing is handling ? What if its very very much like Nascar ? I don't know. Im defenitly not an expert by any means. Im basically a beginner. Only entered maybe 15 competition hunts total. I'm just saying what if it boils down to who is driving the car and who has the right kind of money to pay the right kind of handler to push the dog in the world hunt ? Maybe some folks with some world hunt experience can comment on it.
if you look at 500 of ANY breed. ANY one of them. you would be pressed to find even 5 who were even in the category of "special" let alone the rare world ch prospect.
2) for the most part walkers are bred to compete. period. bred to fit a scorecard. not a .22 rifle.
walker breeders and hunters are fine with searching through 100 or 500 pups to find that 1 winner. that would NEVER fly in the other breeds, where a cross had better produce 50% or 75% of dogs who are capable of treeing there own coon and winning at least casts at the local level.
that is a big difference, as most of the other breeds are bred to fit a .22 rifle first and THEN if they can win hunts at the bigger levels so be it. of course with the $$$ tossed around hunts these days, there will always be SOME who try to breed "off color" dogs to fit a scorecard too.....but not the majority.
3) I have yet to see a world ch who could produce worth a tinkers ****. I have been around several.
4) most coon hunters THINK they want a world champ, but the truth is most are not capable of keeping up with one. Coffie shop coon dogs and Saturday night specials don't win world hunts.
another way of saying that is most THINK they want to ride a Kentucky Derby winner, but the truth is they can barely stay on the pony at the merry -go- round.
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04-15-2015 12:18 AM
Then the same dang slick treeing summer time walker just won 15k in a northern state with the leaves off. Wow!!!
