Had one growing up, best hunting dog ever. Tried to kill everything including some dumb people. No one will be getting in your house if you have one from that line. Like stated above, they like to kill stuff: cats, coons, other dogs, deer. They used to need good training, which we as kids and my absent father never provided, but boy did we shoot allot of stuff. The breed is supposed to be much nicer now than 40 years ago. My wife doesn't know it, but we are getting one in a couple of years when I am fully retired, har har.
The breeders have bred out for the most part the desire to kill everything like a DD ( nothing wrong with that if that's what you want) if you locate a good established breeder. Decent watch dogs and will alert on movements, strange sounds and people approaching their area. but based on my experience won't attack people. Just an alert bark and then some sniffing and tale wagging.
Like all breeds socialization, training are required
