SWOSUMike

There's honestly no way to answer the question of what is the best coondog. It depends on every little thing. If you want a dog that hunts with its nose and goes and goes and goes (out of the country if it has to) in order to find and tree a coon, and one that won't come back to its master all the time because it's too busy hunting, then a hound is likely your "best" bet. Some guys like that. Other guys hate that and prefer a dog that hunts a circle or a strip with a mixture of nose, eyes, ears and brains and comes back to check in now and then. For these guys, there are the mountain cur strains and feist dogs. For these guys, curs and feists are the best and they wouldn't hunt a hound if they had to. Other guys would only hunt a hound and wouldn't hunt with a cur if they had to. So the "best" coondog is a title that will always be up for grabs and never really claimed by any one breed, thoughsome guys will always say and act like their breed of choice is the best. It's like trying to decide if a Labrador ora Chessie makes a better duck blind dog or if an English pointer is better on quail than an English Setter or Brittany.Or whether a SiberianHusky is a better sleddog than an Alaskan Malamute. None of the breeds bred for a specificare better. Just different for different variation of the same task. Now, any treedog breed is going to be better in general at treeing game than a retriever breed, but there are probably exceptions in both groups.

Now if you breed your dogs, you could give them away if you want, but your chances will be all the better if the parents are good hunters. Good luck to you!