Agteach........Hunts with Curs are shorter because they find the hogs faster and are capable of actualy baying a hog and doing it right so It don't take long to take care of business.
Now as for hounds well I wont go there, because there involves to much trail barking and long races. haha
Mike.....we all know that the best hog dogs were common curs, work a day dogs with no label and who knows what color
Let me say this. When my dad started hunting hogs close to 30 years ago, he had some hounds for coon hunting and Cur dogs for working cattle. He started to use them both on hogs and lets just say he does'nt have any hounds anymore and it did'nt take 25 years to figure it out either. He did have a few good hounds over the years.
Waylon
Hunts with curs are shorter because they can only catch the easy ones and they usually quit the hard ones and come back. You show me a cur with the heart to stay with a hound on the tough ones and I will buy him becasue somewhere in his pedigree lies a hound.
Buck
Hey there are lots of Curs out there that will do that. Just not gonna find them from people who breed for a pretty spotted coat or black mask. But they are'nt for sale very often and you gotta get in with the right crowd and show you understand and appreciate what a good cur dog can do. Then after that you will get a pup out of that kinda stock and get a start in some good dogs. Its just part of the culture around here
Ofcourse they will do that if need be, but more often than not the Curs take a hog that some hounds made look like a tough one and make him bay and look like the plain hog that he really is. Just face it Live stock is for stock dogs not track straddlers. As for catching the week hogs....well i believe in baying groups of hogs take a whole buch of hogs.... strong or weak it don't matter...... and bay them all together. I also dont beleive in shoat catching and any shoat catching cur dog is a cull in my eyes. If there are shaots around they should be bayed up right next to thier momma and daddy not streatched out while momma and daddy run off. Besides I don't catch hogs any way I bay them up and shoot them. Not saying my dogs are the best or better than anybody else because I know they are not just being an advocate for cur dogs. Show me a hound that will bay right and get the job done on hogs day in and day out and I will show you a Cur dog in his lineage
TNhillbilly........I don't just hog hunt either I would tree the poop out of a bear there just are'nt any bears around here anymore.
Not hard feelings
Waylon
