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EWO
Good series of posts. In our neck of the woods the Mims Redboy dogs are a mainstay. His Redboy dogs are down from Redboy himself and then thru K. Marlowe. I was a young kid back then but the guy that turned me onto dogs bought dogs both straight off Red boy and then later thru K. Marlowe as well. He was a hard man to please and he was hard on his dogs, to the point if it was still there at two years old it had not only been to death's door, but stepped in to see how the other half lived. With that said...
He owned JR, which was straight off Redboy, littermate to Yellow John. He was the type of dog that got the myths and fallacies going. He would stay all night but had little to no mouth. It was said back then every hair on his body had to be killed individually to the tip of his tail and he would then make on more naked scratch.
Lots of people back then were far more impressed with wins than attributes or production records. Redboy dogs were staying all night, winning gamest in show, but seldom had enough left to come back out, or even live that night. Thus the crosses. Another thing (side note) that has always surprised me is when the Redboy and Jocko dogs were crossed the Jocko dogs were doing the winning and in the beginning they were Jocko-Redboy dogs not RBJ. In time the Redboy dogs were crossed into other dogs, several different strains of Redboy started and Redboy gained/led in the popularity polls. In time Jocko took a backseat. Unless one was running those dogs they were referred to as "dumb ol' Jocko-Redboy dogs.
Mr. Mims made a blend of the Redboy dogs to his Snooty dogs and the influx from Clemen's Midnite (littlermate to Bull Boy Bob). In time they were blended so well it was more a Mims dog rather than a Redboy-Snooty-Bolio dog. He knew his dogs and within the the Redboy family he had three very prominent stud dogs, who were all three 'straight/pure bred Redboy dogs, all three were different in style and produced very well when bred to the "Snooty/Bolio" or "Bolio/Snooty" bitches.
Of the Redboy strains I have always preferred what came from Mr. Mims., and especially those dogs bred to certain bitches he had (Lucky and Rainbow). Over the years we have tried many of the Redboy strains, straight and crossed, and always end up leaning back toward the Mims heavy Redboy dogs.
Granted, one or two dogs from a line can't be true indicators. That would be unfair. We had two Deacon dogs, one straight off Deacon and another off of Deacon Jr. to a daughter of Deacon. Both bit very hard, not just hard for a Redboy dog but bit very hard period, but neither had forty minutes in him. So we again leaned back to the Mims dogs. We tried dogs from D. Cottingham, a little more success with them, but the few we had lacked durability. Again, back to the Mims dogs.
This is just my opinion, but I think Redboy, like a lot of lines, fell victim to its own popularity. Go to any message board and type "Pure Redboy" then type in "Pure Buck", "Pure Poncho" "Pure Bolio", "Pure whatever" and watch the number of views. The redboy dogs will always win. Couple this with these dogs being sold for $$$ to any one with $$$ and the strain itself has to suffer. Another debate pops up along the same lines as Frosty pointed out, being Redboy is not as near as important as being whose Redboy. EWO
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