Quote Originally Posted by EWO View Post
http://www.thepitbullbible.com/forum...p?dog_id=95353

We had dogs bred like this for just about twenty years. We won a lot of shows with straight Mims dogs.

When we bred Mims to Mims we could never get the same dogs as we were trying to replicate/duplicate the work of arguably the greatest breeder of game dogs ever.

If the dogs we bred were with him he would probably breed them a different way. Similarly related, but we were making breeding decisions on what we saw in those two dogs. He was making decisions on what those dogs had done for the previous 50-60 years.

Where we found success for a long period of time was outcrossing his dogs. His three way bred dogs from Red Boy-Snooty-Bolio bred to another family looked as scatter bred as all get out. When we bred those dogs back to a Mims dog we got high percentage game litters with a lot of show dogs. So we sort of stumbled into the pattern of Mims to an out-back to a Mims-then out and then in. It created a lot of good dogs for us over the years.

As Carl so eloquently spoke. "I don't know why you want to mix chicken shit with chicken salad", and that is where he explained once we made the breeding it was no longer a Mims dog but it was 'our' dog.

Basically you can't own a couple dogs and know what a guy knows that had those dogs for 6-8-10-12 generations or 20-25 years tied to one family.

I'm not saying take credit for the other guy's work. I am saying at some point there is a line drawn in the sand and on the other side of that lawn belongs to the next guy.

EWO
Well spoken.