What dogman had the biggest impact on the game as a breeder?

[CYJ]

Mr. Egan Skinner who knew most of the older foundation breeders. Told me one day while we were talking dogs. That he felt Maurice Carver has had the greatest impact on the up coming dog blood lines of the 70's etc. Would probably go down as the greatest breeder of our times since Colby, Corvino, Lightner, and Tudor. Some of the best La Cream of the crop M. Carver dogs were those bred in the early 70's-80's.

Over time I too felt the same. At the end of my dog breeding plans. I was working on a Carver Bullyson-Art's Missy blend. I had let V.J. run with what we had bred over the past years. My cross to this Bully Son-Art's Missy line was hopefully going to be to a good Bolio line, but preferably to a Tudor's Red Bill bloodline.

Jim Usleton knew the value of this Tudor's bloodline for crossing to other good bloodlines. He offered to help Clayton with trying to save the Sampson dog after the bout with Hooten's Butcher Boy dog. Sadly he accidently got shot and crippled in one leg for his troubles from a bad misunderstanding with Clayton.

When I was getting into the dog game in the early 70's. I got to see some of the first M. Carver dogs that hit the N.C. and S.C. dog scene. The M. Carver dogs fast became popular in Florida and Georgia along with J. Carver's bloodlines. The total dog game started making a radical change in the Southeast. These Carver dogs showed up with mouth and the tensile strength of a Bear. The conditioning-feed methods was different and the older methods of matching dried out dogs on bottom weight would not work against these dogs.

Lester Hughes thought L. Pratt had lost his mind when he opened up a jar of beef broth and fed it to Vindicator around the 12 or 6 hour mark before the Bo bout. He asked what Lonzo was doing. Lonzo replied I am feeding my dog. Dried out dogs will not fair too well today in hard pulling competition

For those that have manage to keep some straight bred M.Carver or tight Bolio bloodlines. You have some of the best breeding stock available today. But still have to apply good selection and common sense culling. If they key back to a heavy Tudor's Dibo- Tudor's Minnie- Boudreaux-Blind Billy influence better give them a least 2 1/2 years to be fully matured in the mind.

Just some of my thoughts and there were other great breeders like Hernandez, E. Crenshaw that bred dogs along with M. Carver. M. Carver had the talent to take good dogs off their yards and blend them to his own. From what Pete Sparks/H. Teal /E. Skinner told. M. Carver even introduced some of Peggy Harper's Tacoma-Doyle bred staffs into his line.

Was told when she got one that was too fight crazy. Would give her down the road neighbor Maurice a call. He would take the dog and check out it's oil. Passed the test to M. Carver's satisfaction. Would breed them. Being this was a told thing and did not see personally. Could be true or not. My Chuck dog that was Carver-Creel breeding, Brewer's Snooty, Davis's Boomerang some of Sorrells dogs looked good enough to show.