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I"m over here in Afghanistan and will be home in May. I live in Alberta, Canada and need another dog. My bluetick Blake passed on a year and a half ago. I wanna run him on bears and lions. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Take a look at these.

http://www.crazycascadeblueticks.com/

http://www.highlonesomeblueticks.com/

Jims dogs are Cameron bred and he lives pretty close to the border.

i have heard nothing but good reports regarding cameron blueticks. i purchased a cameron/uchtman bluetick here a few months back and she is making a helluva little dog. was baying the cats up at 9 weeks old. no joke. i'm not sure if they have any pups right now, but john and liz price of damascus oregon seem to know what they are doing when it comes to breeding them. pretty good line breeding in their hounds. crazy cascades is pretty good i hear...never bought a pup from em' though. the only thing that i would try to watch out for is those people that will jump to sell you a pup claiming they are gonna strike you a deal of a lifetime. look at the pedigrees and ask if they have what you're looking for. one of my biggest things to watch out for is the hounds with hammer blood in them, or menacing valley breeding. thats just my opinion. i have seen some and heard about them...and am not impressed. once again, thats just my opinion. well my friend, i hope this has helped in some way...and that you will eventually find you another hound one way or another. take care and happy hunting!

oh...almost forgot. the sire to my pup is a bear eatin' bluetick( his name is blues gonna boom it, "boomer". he is cameron bred. he is at that kennel in damascus oregon. it is called mounthood bluetick kennels. they seem like good people there. i'm sure that they would help you if they could.

I have been raising and breeding blues for 10 plus years now and you won't go wrong with a Cameron or a Minisink Valley bred hound! I have several that carry both bloodlines and I know of several Minisink and Cameron crossed hounds and they are as good as they get. Just do your homework on the breeder before you purchase a pup. If you are looking for someone close to BC and want to try different blood there are a couple guys out that way that have some dang good blues from some different blood. A good friend of mine has some Upson bred hounds that are top notch and his male is one of the best around. He is in northern Montana. There is another man in BC that has some Upson, Sebastian, Smokey River bred hounds that catch a lot of game.

I think you're right 12-Guage. I also think Minisink was Towaco Valley, which is a big part of the Cameron stock and as I was the one who bred the Boomer dog, I know the Mom, Jersey Girl, had a lot of Hammer blood in her.

That's what I was thinking too Cobalt.I thought Tom Lewis who owned Darter(Molly)(Jersey Girls dam) told me that she was a Hammer dog.Is that right ?

I don't have the papers in front of me, but I know there was hammer dogs throughout. The thing about the Hammer dogs and the damning of them is if you do, you're damning the Jet dogs, the Hurricane dogs the Uchtman dogs, the Junkyard dogs and many many more accomplished lines of blueticks. I think the current Hammer dogs fit a certain type of hunter and not all people are patriotic to them, but to generalize that they are worthless is ignorant.

In regards to the Cascade Crazy Blueticks, I recently bought a male pup from Steve and he is everthing I could have ever hoped for ro wanted in a young dog. He is now 6 months old and is starting to strike off the rig and can tree a hot one by himself. He also made it almost 5 hours on a tough bobcat race through some rough country before getting hung up. I plan on running him on bears and am positive he will do a fine job. This is the most money I ever spent on a puppy but is also the best money I have ever spent. This pup exemplifies evrything I have heard about the Cameron line of Blueticks and then some. Hope this helps on your decision making and good luck. May all your adventure end at the tree.

no where in my comment did i slam any breed of dog, i simply said that something that i watch out for is those two lines. i made it very clear that all of that was my opinion...not fact. i said that i watch out for dogs with that in them, meaning...that i do not like the way that they(some hammer bred dogs) look. to me they are not proportioned right, their colors are not my style, and alot(not all) are the kind of dogs that will false tree,and babble alot. those are all things that i don't like. i also have a question on how long i have to hunt before i can publically slam a dog or line of dogs? it seems like you must have been hunting that long, seeings as you slammed my dogs. you know...the crossbreeds. i would invite you out to oregon to hunt with some cross breeds, but i guess your above hunting with those types of hounds. by the way...im sure that alot of people have cross breeds that would hold their own, and even blow alot of the pure dogs outta the water. but i couldn't talk to you about that in a civil way due to the fact that im not a bluetick authority. come on now man. you need to lighten up and realize that a guy can have an opinion. whether you wanna pay any attention to it or not. who knows though? anyways, thats all i have to say. happy hunting my friend!

by the way, the thing about exceptions in life is right. i have a pup right now that has hammer blood in her. doing great too. you really got to be shittin' me if you think i was slammin' that breeding. slammin that breeding would be slamming my dog, and i would never slam a dog that i poured money and time into unless it was a cull. by the way...she ain't a half breed in case you were wondering.

I don't want to mess outdoors82's thread up more than it is. Therefore, I have sent you a PM Shelton. I have provided my # above if you have anything that you would like to take up with me.

Outdoors 82,

Are you in the 82nd airborne? How is your search for a new pup coming?

Regards,
Josh

I'm looking for a Cameron gyp. I talked with Del Cameron and "maybe" in August..if not, then it looks like a year wait...I'm in New Mexico and kinda out of pocket.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you.