Bill Ziegler
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Shawn, Blaster was out of Yadkin River Champ and Shaw's Judy, which makes him a Yadkin River/ Sailor Jr. bred hound.
I don't know exactly who had him when, but he was owned at different times by James Meeks, Harvey French, Frank Giddings, James Merchant and Rick Rodermal, who we purchased him from.
Blaster himself was an extremly hard hunting, hard treeing hound with an exceptional mouth. His offspring tended to be real track driving, drifting type track dogs and hard, accurate tree dogs. He threw what I considered to be the best type of coondog for my type hunting out here in the west where a dog has to go find a track.
His PAD in April, 2000 shows 568 pups with 8 Gr Nt Ch, 22 Nt Ch, 4 Gr Sh Ch, and 9 Sh CH. When we moved him out to Wyoming he had a little over 200 pups on the ground. Once he ended up out here, they majority of his pups went to big game hunters which made for a lower percentage of titled pups.
I would also say that, in general his pups tended to be more "coondog" than "competition dog" in that they were more accurate than quick on the tree, and more honest than quick to open. Some didn't think they opened enough but I always felt that they were true drifting type track dogs and opened accordingly. I've got a feeling that if Blaster were put on the stud market today he would be a bigger success because of the number of people who are becoming frustrated with the many overcharged competition orriented, all- grand studs that are saturating the walker bloodlines at this point in time. In that way, I feel like he was an "old time hound", a kind of throwback.
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