To me it depends on what kind of area I'm hunting if it's in the woods it's mostly day time. But once the corn fields up here are up tall and no air and HOT... I'll run a couple of sure enough rough shut down dogs and that's it . Depends on if there's water where I'm hunting to.

Good deal bud glad it worked out for you

I might have to try it myself. We are so dry up here it'd be nice to see a dog have to swim

It looks like it fits him alot better now. I'd just break it in on him. I've never been around one with floatation material in it. Does that make it stiffer ?

I've got a older 4r bay vest that has the collar attached it doesn't affect my dogs either way I run both attached and separate I haven't noticed a difference either way

Damn sure didn't throw a Dodge in there haa. Nor should there be

Mine ain't rough they just don't like havin to chase down a hog they've already bayed once. One of the guys that hunts with me has a catahoula damn sure don't hunt a lick but will catch any hog he sees I've never heard the dog bark not one time. And I've seen him on serval.

Once mine commit there ain't no back down on em no changing their mind they may get dragged a ways but they will be hooked up on the pig

If I run 2 dogs chances are they will bay as long as the hog is bein a good hog and staying put but if he breaks his nuts will in trouble from my lil mountain cur once she hits then my plott will be hanging off its head somewhere. That's the way it is with mine. The plott isn't gonna catch till the cur does. But they are both less then 2 years old seems they are gettin more and more catchy

Same here. Everyone I hunt with tries to clear the benches and bring everything they own. And then either you get a caught hog or its a screwd up mess with a bunch of trashin

To me on my dogs it depends on how many dogs I'm runnin on the ground it seems with one or two they will stand back and just bay more then 2 dogs it's usually a caught hog. It only takes one catchy dog and then all of mine are caught. 90 percent of the time I'm hearing squeels before my catch dog is loose or before she gets there.

I've got a lil 25 pound mountain cur I wouldn't necessarily call her rough. But a boar is usually barred by the time I get there. More then a few times she will be hangin off his nuts before the catch dog gets there. But I'd damn sure stop running if that was me

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I run mine just tight enough I can my hand under the strap to pick her up. It looked like you had plenty of room to loosen it up a lil. Also I had a guy attach my cut collar to my vest we used a old fire hose and sewed them together

Loosen up your front strap over his front shoulder. A dog has to breath. It'll take a lil to get used to it and for it to become not as stiff. I ran hard core on my catch dog

I stay away from and spinal cord or fluid on any animal wild or domestic for myself or my dogs

I'm a part time butcher I feed my dogs all the trimmings and bones off pork both tame or wild and beef. Anyway I can make my feed bill cheaper and it sure helps supplement the dog food. I've never had a problem feeding raw. And a dog that catches he's own groceries is cheaper to keep then one that doesn't

Hardcore on my catch dog. R and p on my bay dogs

So why can't we start say a national hog dog coalition