EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Just want to see everyones opinion on this ? trying to get a good dog but dont know what i should get

 Silent  :-X

SILENT!!! that way when they bark i know they lookin at it

x2 and the reason is I like to know when I hear barking they are looking at the hog or hot on his heals......

open 2 or 3 times when they locate a hot track and then shut up and go...this lets me know they are fixing to bay...and the 2 or 3 barks brings in the rest of the pack...

I prefer silent but if they will catch hogs regularly i dont care if they run thru the woods singin lil wayne lol


"the sun is shining somewhere in texas" -Jason Boland

Just hunt with some dogs, and buy the one that produces hogs consistently, open or silent.

If I had a choice Though, silent all the way.

 Check the search thread, there are some heated arguments/opinions on other silent vs. open threads.

If a dog has it in him/her to find and bay hogs then it will produce hogs for you. It's hard to find goood dogs. One mans trash is another mans treasure and to each his own. But I don't care if they are wide open every 5 seconds if I know they are gonna bay a hog at the end of that track. JMO

x2 if they produce hogs at the end of the day who cares ive seen open dogs produce just the same or better than silent dogs its all your opinion but dont pass up a good dog that produces because people say has to be silent to produce because that is 100% false

Open dogs scare the hogs, makes them run further faster >:D

Is there a "stir the pot" smiley?

I agree with what others have said, I have hunted behind some really good open dogs, but prefer silent.

When I started hunting with friends we had no tracking units so an open dog helped.

Lol Justin! I prefer silent also but my best dog yips on a hot track so to each there own!

If it finds hogs for me i don't care

 Silent. I don't like to hunt dog's all night. JMO. 

don't matter one bit to me . long as it hunts hard and catches up to what it;s huntin .  whooweee listen to ol blue , he's hammerin away on that track fixin to bayem up .

Thx guys you helped out alot

Silent but more power to the guys that can listen to an open dog drives me up a wall

 rolleyes

I was always a silent dog guy til I got a plot puppy. Now he's 18 mos old. I am liking the open mouth a little. He opens when he strikes then just locates every so often then when he looking he sounds like he's got his balls hung on barbed wire fence. It's the longest bawl I've ever heard with a little chop between. Its easy for other dogs to locate him. Long as they don't just babble every breath on track and are quiet in the box I'm good with it.

 ;)

loud and proud for me. that hog has two choices fight or flight

OPEN!!

You find one good open rough dog (which can be hard), you wont want anyhting else.  To me, the silent guys have not owned a good opne dog.  If they did, they wouldn't be so against an open dog.  JMO

cause we are used to hearing the dog bark only once when it is bayed up

I don't believe the voice make a difference. I think I just need smarter dogs. I can't count the number off times I walked through an area the dogs struck in and heard, seen, or dodged the ONES (notice the plural) that sunk down to hide instead of running........my stupid dogs always pick the first hog that moves, heres your sign!, that's the runner.

All in all.....speaking for my dogs only.....I catch the same amount with silent or open dogs on the ground. The open dogs sometimes make for longer race, they can get away with that, they have the nose and bottom where as my silent dogs will not, or can not maybe, stay with a runner as long....they need the element of surprise.

Now if it was just personal pleasure, I have come to enjoy hearing a good race. Bawl strike,  chop track, nothin lost it, bawl recovery, streaming bawl locate, fast chop w/ streaming bawl dodge in there..send the bull dog

I just like to eat pork. As long as the freezers full it doesn't matter to me. The hogs run for ever around here I have owned plenty of both and it doesn't seem to make a difference. Main thing is that they hunt, find, and run it to the end.

i am a hound man and always will be, i love open dogs, i run plotts. i also have no problem with a silent dog, but i prefer open all day.

i soon make a dog silent that trail barks

i hunt with both and we catch hogs either way

Well I have both I catch hogs with both I hunt them by there self or together if your open dogs run to catch and not just run to run there's a differance most people I've hunted with wouldn't know a good hog dog if it bit them I guess you could say I like a sure nuf good hog dog and we have good ones both open and silent

Everyone has thier periforiance me personally like the beautiful music. Remember when had no electronics and have caughtt many hogs with open mouth dog. Like one that strikes moves couple hundred yards and opens again. Dont like ababbling dog but one that moves the track and gets one stopped. I do agree that it may make other hogs move around which maybe a good thing when you turn back loose. Again to each his own that is why we are different breed of people. Hunting with dogs is a art all to its self. God bless

The 2 main reasons I prefer a silent dog are
1. Most of the landowners around here dont like to hear a bunch of hounds running through the woods barking, They think it runs their deer off.
2. Silent dogs catch more hogs around here. There are more and more people Hog hunting every year and there is more and more pressure on hogs every year. I have hunted with lots of hounds and some good ones, not the ones that just run around in the woods barking and get credit for it. But they just don't produce hogs like a silent dog. I have some buddies that used to hunt a lot of hounds but they hunt silent dogs now because they just catch more hogs with them.

i prefer a silent dog