Another assessment of catch dog style....

raider54 you are referring to me and i take no disrespect to your statement as i have hog hunt long enough to know that just because i see it doesn't mean that we will catch it...i'm not that naive. you obviously didn't read the sentences previous to that...i stated that the dogs hauled butt down the road and never FOUND a hog. i'm sorry maybe i'm expecting to much of my dogs, but if i see a hog my dogs should be able to wind the hog and at least run the track to that hog. the hog may break and run and my dogs may not be able to stop it i understand that...so when you go on a traing hunt with some of your well started dogs..say the hog is like i said 30yds from the truck, do you keep the dogs that can straight to that hog and get to baying or do you keep the ones that are running 100yds down the road "searching" for a hog? i think we would all keep those dogs that went straight to the hog and went to hammering away...again i didn't say to catch that hog i said the dog never found the hog nor tracked the hog...THAT is what i said...

and yes i am one of those people that will try to manuever my cd or the bay so that it is easier for the cd to get there. to me depending on the type of cd you have depends on how you release them to the bay. if it is an older experienced cd that does as we all said we like then i don't mind releasing further out as i know this dog will take the right track to catch the hog. if i have a younger cd or a bline cd i want to see the bay then move the cd into a position to where they can be successful in catching the hog...