Maybe my post came across incorrectly. I agree with you Mike in that I would not expect an un-seasoned dog to know how to catch or how to hold, but I would expect the dogs prey-drive to kick in and for it to do something other than:
All of us were just standing there watching the bay and the pitt would just stand there and look at the hog while the bay was going on.
My point was simply that if the dog had shown aggressiveness towards a hog in a baypen environment, then it should have gotten "gamey" in the woods as well, but your right in that to what extent did he show promise in the pen.
