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1bigbear wrote:No battle,,Want to catch game have walkers in your box.....There I started it!!!

bay'emup wrote:Cross your blue dog with a holstein hound and then we'll talk about good dogs

David_Heimann wrote:Fords and chevys, stihls and huskys, blueticks and walkers: whatever works for you

Personally, we have caught WAY more game with the cold nosed Blue ticks than when we ran the warm nosed walkers and plotts.

I think Blue ticks are great because they are a cold nosed and really gritty breed (compared to the cold nosed red bone that isn't so gritty), a good combo for bears and any big game really.

I prefer the personality of a blue tick over walkers, and like to watch them work a trail and get something going, and they are great around my family/kids, good people dogs.

Some folks like the speed of a Walker over a Blue tick, for me this has never been a issue. If the bear is just that dang fast he is gonna run and run and run, and run, I have ran blueticks and the "faster" walker side by side on a fast little bear, after 6 hours of running it, neither of them caught it. A good cold nosed gritty dog will catch you more game and get more game started and find the tree, it just will, and like I said, speaking from experience here, we ran walkers and plotts for years. Just my worthless two cents, but hey, you asked our opinions, and that is what mine is.

David_Heimann wrote:No problem. What part of Idaho are you in? My brother has a bluetick walker cross that seems to do real good for him, she is short and fast, that is for sure.