Mark A. Hauck
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Camden,NC
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John V.
My question to you is what makes you think that this has not been done before?? What have you tried to breed and add to your bloodline?? Maybe more breeders than you know have already tried different lines, introduced different blood and just maybe it did not click.
As John C. said many breeders breed for different things, some want dogs that can compete in the hunts only, some look for a more balanced hound, some try to straddle the fence and get both, but as a small breeder (if I can call myself that) many crosses have been tried and some with success and others that ended up with more culls than coon dogs.
To make the simple phrase that my Grandfather use to say;
"When you mix Water with Dirt, You end up with MUD".
Over the last several years there has been some Bluetick breeders who have choosen to breed for a lines name only who had the rescourses to get out there and introduce new blood. They choose not to, and others have tried mixing in new blood, and only they know the results, by my way of looking at it, if it had worked they would have kept on doing it, and we would be reading about them in the hunt results every month.
As Mr Carroll put it, some are breeding for the scorecard type dog, which is fine and others for what they think is classified as the pleasure hound. I have found a smart, easy to train, good mouth, trash free, smart...did I say that already coon dog that trees real live coon can on most nights win in a night hunt. Will we ever win the World hunt??? Who cares, I would hate to think what would happen if we did;
Can you imagin if we got a Blue dog let's say from just a general ole cross, no big names or anything like that, just a back yard cross, he might have been the only dog of the entire cross that made a half way coon dog, he gets a few lucky nights and WHAM!! He is the world champion......Do you realy want folks flooding the coon hound world with that blood???
Now, before you say it can't happen, just a few years ago we had a Bluetick from just such a cross, did very well in some capable hands and did very well in the Purina race, and to this day even though he was breed to several females (due to his winning in the Purina race) he did not produce a good percentage of coon dogs. To me that would be our (BLUETICK Breed) biggest fear. Yes it would be found out if he did not reproduce but not till a year or so later and how many litters would be out there flooding the market and having us taking a step backwards instead of forwards.............
This is just my opinion, one from a small time breeder who likes to coon hunt, show dogs and also compete in the hunts, give me a coon dog anytime and I'll be happy !! 
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GR NIte CH GR CH'PR' Dalton & Haucks BluRidge Lynn
GR Nite CH GR CH'PR' Southland's So Blue Queen
GR NIte Ch Rogers Blue Molly
Nite CH GR CH'PR' Daltons BluRidge Pat (Full liitermate brother to Smokey II)
Nite CH GR CH GR W CH'PR' Hauck's Carlolina Star
Nite CH GR CH'PR' Southland's Blue Queen II (Daughter of Queen)
GR CH'PR' Southland's Blue Nancy Ann
GR CH'PR' Southland's Blue Ebony (Daughter of Ann)
Nite CH'PR' Southland's Blue River Joe (4 wins to Grand & 15 cast wins !!)
Gr Nite CH CH'PR' Blue River Little Sue (Daughter of Lynn)
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