Bluetick Coonhound

which means their breed is kind of big now.

And I don't mean this like I want to be unique in that sense.

But for me, it was like if I'm going to spend the money and contacts I have from my podcast, I might as well help a smaller population because I could probably get, without stepping on the plot breeders' toes, I could probably get a well-bred plot in Sweden and not spend the money to get it from the U.S., So that's kind of why I started to look at the Blueticks.

And then the kennel I decided to talk a lot with, I haven't mentioned them in any podcast because I don't know if they want to.

They've told me they want to join a podcast, then I'm going to come clean.

I...

So I had a Bluetick Hound, and that is just-

Oh.

Yes, the music.

It, it's gonna be very fun.

I don't remember if you mocked my Bluetick option before or after we pressed record, but it's gonna be, it's gonna be interesting to see how this Bluetick puppy that's sleeping and snoring next to me is gonna... moving in the woods, so yeah, it's gonna be fun.

Now, I will say this.

I can, I, I can mock her 'cause I do own one and I've hunted with Blueticks for, ah, 15-plus years with a couple of my buddies that... where she came from, so I'm not downing the breed completely.

[laughs] But I just, I mean-

You would, you would lo- you, Erik, would love one of the guys, uh, one of Erik's friends.

He runs a lot of Blueticks.

They were very nice dogs.

And so...

the dog that won in 2000 is a blue tick named Coon Buster.

Uh, Jerry Raines was the owner and handler.

I don't have the scores.

Um, any of that stuff.

Jerry Raines was the owner and handler there.

Um, I believe there's two or three blue ticks on this list from 2000 to today.

In 2001, it was Tricolor Jack.