EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

My view is 50 yards hunting couple hundred loops as close.  Now my question is for west texas close range dogs are a lot farther out than that?

I never have hunted West Texas but there are plenty of dogs that naturally adjust their range in different country. I have seen short range dogs hightail it across a plowed fields half a mile wide to get to timber or a drainage on the other side and viseversa.

Y I posted this is a guy called me about me wanting a find dog and he said she is pretty close range 800 900 yards but for me that is a pretty rangy dog or what I would consider her.  Just wandering if the part of the state had any influence on what range is?

  Totally agree!!! The area where you hunt will make a difference in the range of "close" range dogs.  But i consider 800 yards out without hog sign ,,,a long range dog not short.. JMO

One of my dogs was originally hunted out in West Texas/ Davis Mountains. My buddy would turn her out on a 40k acre ranch and often times he would end up on the neighbors place bayed.  That same dog can be hunted in the Houston area on a thousand acres with no problem. Take her out to Flatonia and she is often out several miles....  I would not know how to define her "range" other than to say, she might get a little rangy depending on the area you are hunting... If I told someone she was long range, she would be at my feet ;)

Thickness of the woods will most certainly affect a dogs range (which I define as the distance a dog will travel LOOKING for a track).  Even in the same areas, my dogs will hunt significantly deeper in the winter when everythings not as grown up as they will on the same properties mid summer.

what bryant  said

Yall are missing my question is range more region specific in yall opinion.  Not saying anyone is wrong just asking 

Too many variables to define range. These days with the garmin, just ask how far out the dog hunts and decide if that is short, medium, or long, to you....   As you have already found out range in a dog changed with terrain....why wouldn't the definition of range change between regions?

That is my thinking exactly just did not put it into words

X2 IMO,
I think it all depends on the size and terrain of the land you are hunting and your hunting style. A dog hunting out 700 yards would be worthless to me because I hunt a lot of smaller properties, and alot of times its on foot. It would be almost impossible for me to keep up with the dog and keep it on the property i have permission to hunt. Especially if we got on a runner.  rolleyes So i would conisder that a long ranged dog.

But the dog may also be worthless to someone hunting a big, open ranch in West Texas, because they dont think the dog is  covering enough ground, therefore being considered a short or medium range dog.

So like Chris said, Too many variables.  ;)

I think it has to do with the region AND what the dog is bred for, they go hand in hand. I hunted all last year in Freer, Texas (deep south) (smallest ranch 7,000 acres, biggest over a 100,000) and it was common for my friend's dog to be a few miles out on the Garmin (out over 6 miles before).  I bought that dog and hunting up here closer to San Antonio on areas around 1,000 acres he'll go out about 900 yards (still far but not as far as he used to). Last week we went down towards Corpus on 18,000 acres of grain and he seemed to open up more (went out about a mile and a half) Maybe he hasn't opened up so much here near San Antonio because we've been catching hogs at about 500-800 yards, maybe it's all the net fence, hot fences, etc. around the grain up here.
It is somewhat hard to hunt with him because my other dogs will only follow him out a few hundred yards if he's not baying.