
Originally Posted by
TFX
We never had anything from Chino out here, but my good friend bought his belly brother for some pretty good coin. He went for a while having his way the whole time and quit on top. The CH Comanche dogs did not work out so well, and my friend bought at least $20,000 worth of them bred every which way you can think of. PCK had some good stuff come through his Apache bitch who was a Comanche daughter, but her mother Gogo (2X) was an absolutely fantastic animal, so it is really no surprise. My same friend ended up buying Gogo later for $3,500 and we mated her with Homer II. Those were also some excellent dogs. PCK took that Apache blood to Eli and Redboy sires and got some good ones everytime. I think he also bred it back to the Comanche stuff, but I didn't see any of those, so I have no comment. We even tried breeding Homer II and Homer III to the Comanche daughters, and the results were less than satisfying overall, with very low percentages. The Sporty dog (1Xw 1XL-G) was the one exception I can think of. Homer II produced very well to almost everything else he was bred to. I hate to sound like a hater, but my firsthand experience with that stuff 15 years ago was beyond disappointing. Someone may have mined some gold out of it and worked it into a new package today, you just never know. As Stone City basically said, a case can be made for the good and bad attributes of almost any line. Those dozens and dozens of heavy Boyles dogs my friend bought just gave me the real world lesson that A) Spending big money on dogs still doesn't mean you will get good ones, and B) My old home bred dogs were light years better than all of that "popular" Boyles stuff. We were able to infuse the best segment of what he obtained from that bloodline, and thus the Red Johnny influence that is in my dogs still to this day.