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...
I understand what you are saying! Point taken, but in that scenario, it is possible they may not strike the hog! I have seen on many ocassions a coon cross the road you stop turn the dogs out and they never strike it! Im talking about FINISHED dogs! I dont know why? its just happens sometimes. But you are right, what do you keep? You keep the ones that are doing the best. There are so many opinions among hunters on this site, that other catch dog opinion thread has just gotten so rediculous. I just cant read it anymore. I believe in culling dogs but honestly if we followed some of the standards some claim here dogs would be on the endangered species list.
