He's a close to medium hunter by himself- about a 20 minute dog if he doesn't tree. Medium to wide hunter with company. Second to third strike dog. Savage uses his head. He will not open on a track unless he can tree it. First tree dog. Stay put under ALL pressure. Real hard tree dog. You can hunt anything with him- pups, old dogs- doesn't matter. He'd be a nice dog to teach Evey to stick to the tree. He won't go anywhere!

High pitched squal on track- chop some on a hot track. Real distinguishing yodel locate that you can tree him on followed up by a never ending ringing loud chop.

Runs no fast game. Never had a shock collar on him. Has treed a couple of possum in the last year but knows he's not suppose to.

He's an accurate stay put tree dog.

He's never bred a female to keep his head in the woods where it needs to be to become GRNITECH. This is the same thing we did with Razor and all of our hunting males.

He's a consistent cast winner. If he doesn't win the cast, he'll be up there knocking on the door of the dog that won.

He should've won National Redbone Days this year. The first night he was winning the cast and the property owner went and pulled him off of the tree. 2nd night, he was the only dog in the cast to tree a coon but only 1 guy in the cast would see the coon until the shine time was out- then they ALL saw it. The 3rd night, he did have the cast won-- every other dog was minused out, he treed the only coon in the cast- had 200 + going into the last drop. The 8 got them on the last drop- all took minus- which minused out the other 3 dogs. Savage was sitting with 125+ with 2 minutes left in the hunt and the handler treed him stationary in a brush pile and the 2 minutes got him because he wasn't treed up a tree. He didn't have to tree him at all- he had the cast won!

Savage will usually locate a brush pile and go on. He's not suppose to tree in the ground- I don't like to walk to a hole in the ground.

He's an easy keeper, doesn't bark in the kennel- all muscled up. About 60 lbs.

As for show-- he isn't a dog that you'll be able to compete with at the big ones. We docked the tip of his tail when he was a pup because his mama broke it. I (Rob) showed him myself to Champion. Kat never had to. Usually I need her to put a BIS on my hunting dogs but Savage was easy to finish because he's built really nice for a hunting dog. Easy handler or I couldn't do it myself.