Cameron VS Plott in gritt

[houndlover]

I was wondering can anyone give opinion on a Cameron's aggression/ grit compared to a plott.

[larry]

nuff said

[shawn cole]

they all very in grit but i have seen some sallys in all breeds so it depends on the strain you choose

[David_Heimann]

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[houndlover]

I do understand that there are many variables( owner, the dog, etc.) I was asking as the strain of Camerons Bluetick compared to Plotts in the two breeds as a whole.

[ferjr]

Both of my Camerons have more grit than my two Plotts. I have another bluetick that is a Smokey River/Utchman/Vaughn that is grittier than all of them, only problem is for the last two years he has spent more time at the house rather than hunting because he has to much grit and is always getting tore up.

[Smiley]

The Cameron dogs I have hunted with looked real good with a bear climbing or a dead one but when it was a bear that would single a dog out they were no help at all . That can be said for most dogs no matter what breed . I have found it easier from more lines to find the right amount of grit in plotts.

[lifreediver]

first dogs has to get there i am more interested in camerons as a start dog first ya gotta start something i think the tuffest dogs are always a small female contrary to everyone thinking ya need big males to make a bear climb grit is the least amount needed i think how many bears climb before the dogs get there and if a 500 pounder dont want to climb he wont period
i like a baying machine one that gets close so close it looks bad but never gets a scratch on it those dogs are great
my freind had a female walker that caught over 50 bears by her self thats i just dont know why she never threw pupus as good as her thats also the reason im interested in camerons to many great walkers that throw culls or ok pups looking for higher percentages
me startdog than the ability to stick to that track and run it with speed then bay or grit plotts seem to have the highest vet bills if that means anything but the few i have seen i beat to the tree i want speed not vet bills i will spend alot of time this year looking at the camerons july is coming

[Smiley]

I have ran an all plott pack for several years and know plenty of others that do also. No one seems to have a hard time rigging starting tracks ect. In fact this past fall I was rigging and starting tracks behind several others and these guys were catching plenty of bears

There are bears that will not tree that is a fact but bears will stop if they are getting pounded in their back side every time they try to get out and go .

[ferjr]

[Smiley]

Fejr I will not discount what you personally or anyone else personally has experienced .

My personal experience on average is this that the average of plotts are not as cold nosed but there will be very few times that you will not get a old track going with that other dogs can get going . Still speaking in averages here but I feel that plotts tend to work a track a little slower till jumped than a walker and often a little slower after but a very marginal difference at that . So to me those are the differences I have had experiences with.

That being said the roughest track dog I have ever hunted with was a plott my roughest track dog was a bluetick but the times he could start a track that my plotts could not was so far distant it was nothing to be needed .

I have one very hot nosed plott right now but my experience is that the hot nose is a rarity just like the cold nose or rough track dog that i like to describe that everybody claims to have but in reality these type of track dogs are few and far between Top shelf is top shelf and there is an average and just like average explains most dogs will fall into the average category.

With that I will add to the Cammeron question . My experience has been that the camerons did what they should but a couple were extremely slow one was better than average speed but none had anything more than a average nose , all of them were great on soft bears but none had it with a rough bear but my experience is that few dogs have the brains and grit and mental toughness to stick tight on these bears .Mental toughness culminated with intelligence and grit to me is what the plotts bring to the table in greater amounts on average than other breeds .