IMHO,When it came to breeding crosses with the Tudor Dibo strain. The Lightner strain seemed to work the overall best. More so than the Colby crosses. The early Don Maloney crosses usually carried about a quarter of the Hemphill blood or the Heinzl cross.

One of the best crosses made to the Cotton's Bullet strain was the brindle/red nose blended variety of the Lightner dogs. Mr. Eagan Skinner and Dean Plemmons had about perfected that cross. But Mr. Skinner lost the majority of those dogs when he lived in N.C. His dogs got drowned by a flash flood.

When you get your dog's pedigrees on this site. You can better see what you have over all. For now all you need to add is the Stud and Dam's pedigrees on the pups. Cheers