Runners

I hunt in Georgia and here there are alot of hog hunters. I have one spot where the hogs DON'T bay. In three years I've had two hogs that stood and bayed. Big boars. The rest run after one bark from my single dog. I have friends that hunt in farm country south of me and the hogs there run also. If you have lots of room you can run a dog with lots of bottom. Some properties are just too small for that.
I am gonna have "2" packs of dogs. One really catchy for smaller areas and one or two dogs that are looser baying and lotta bottom for really big areas with less hog density. I realize that rough dogs get hurt more but thats part of it. Ideally I want my rough dogs to hunt within sight of me and all to run together. I have several large RCD's that can hold any hog.
I was just thinking yesterday I could have caught double the number of hogs this year if my dogs were catchy. I know a fella who runs all catchy dogs. He don't have many that get away. His dogs all weigh around 45 lbs. The key I have noticed from talking with him and hunting with him is the dogs have to stick together. An independent dog is asking for trouble.
Running hogs are the future. Just ask the old timers in Hawaii, they can tell you about the hogs there and on different islands how the hogs have adapted to hunters.