A friend and I were discussing this topic today. You guys say that a open mouth dog pushes hogs....Do hogs not know when silent dogs are trailing them after they have been jumped??? Hogs are going to run regardless most of the time. The ones that keep running have dogs that are chasing rather than biting and making the hog stop and fight. Open dogs DO NOT push hogs.....hogs that keep running have dogs that are not getting the job done!! Just my opinion
I agree with 1/2 this statement: if hogs are running once a dog has jumped them then you are right! the dogs are not getting the job done! but if you turn your dogs out and they strike a track that is an hour old those hogs are say 1000 yards away, the hogs familiar with dogs on them hear the dogs, they start running straitline. By the time the open mouth dogs cold trail 1000 yards those hogs have a huge headstart and you will never bay those hogs. This doesnt happen with silent dogs. JMO Ive hunting hounds a long time
