cut gear vs raw-dogging

After being hard headed for years and not running any protection and me loosing one of the best hog dogs I have ever seen are even heard of . I started putting vest on all my dogs find dog , bay dogs, catch dogs the whole nine yards and I got to say with out this protection I would have lost many more. I just wont run a dog with out protection unless it is one I just know will not even touch a hog and I dont have many like that. It does what it is suppose to do but then again good ole piggly wiggly is gonna get a lucky shot here and there .