EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

I've had this scenario in my head for a while and want to know others openion on it.
Lets say you have a person call you up with a hog problem. They have a 1000 acre place with scatterd oak motts and open pasture and a serious hog problem. So there are plenty hogs to be caught.

There is no right or wrong answer, just wondering how other folks think about it.

Now here is my question.
What kind or style of dogs do you think will produce the most caught hogs at the end of the day. Loose, rough, catch on sight, ect......

Hog dogs. ;)

Id say two or three loose dogs that roll out and a gun. That way they wont catch a hog or single one out of a group and you can go tear into the group with some lead. Wont get your dogs cut up where you have to quit early either. And if they get on one hog shoot and go to the next. Everybody is going to say something different but thats what i would do

Bay and shoot? Didn't see that one coming but if that's what works for you go for it. When you say roll out how far do you mean? Are you talking 1/2 mile or a dog that will roll out of sight burning up the woods around you?

some good leggy dogs that roll and a pair of cd's.  with all that open country maybe even a stag...

Out of sight around you.

I like that don't want em too far out but want em to be busy. I have no experience with baying and shooting but it sounds good if you can make it work.

X2......hunt what you got and bring plenty of cartridges.

It don't take but just a minute to get off 1000acres with dogs that roll, especially if alot of the ranch is open.  I don't have em but i would like to hunt a place like that with short ranged dogs.  Still wouldn't want rough dogs.  Hunt em around the oak motts.  Short ranged, hot nosed dogs.  You either get on pigs or you don't, so load em up and go hunt somewhere else. My best guess is that the pigs aren't really staying on a place like that, just travel trough it. Just what i'd like to do on a place like that.

1000 acres sure isn't a lot... I'd bring a couple gritty crews that aren't scared to sit em down, and couple CDs that get the job done. Turn and tie! ;D they ain't worth chit dead!!! Lol!

Take some short range burn the woods up roughest dogs you can find and a bad to the bone RCD and a lead in and stop some hogs.
 " I like catching hogs not chasing them." dblackwell   The style we hunt will work great on this hypothetical spot.  And 1000 acres is a big spot in our neck of the woods.

if the owner wants lots of hogs off real quick then I would take 1 or 2 loose baying strike dogs and go in with a gun and shoot as many as I could...if the hogs are bad runners then a pack of 4 or 5 gritty dogs that catch smaller hogs and sows and that same pack should keep a big boar bayed/stopped...these dogs tire out quicker than loose baying dogs because they are catching and fighting hogs...sometimes these type of dogs get banged up and have to be put in the dog box or can even end the hunt for the day because of it...but having said all that that is the kind of hog dog I like...  :)