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Maver!ck
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I'm not looking for a fight here, just simply stating my opinion as others have...
I am sorry, but you can't train your dogs to rotate off the head and let the others take the place, that is far reaching.
What you have done is eliminated any 'true' catch dog from your pack. By doing so, you have a dog that can't or won't lock onto the ear or head area for very long. By hunting too many gritty dogs in your pack, the non-locking dogs lose their grip and the aligators chomping their way to the head (which is where they would be catching grabbing if there was room) simply see space in the direction they want to go and attempt to get there. There is no training to this method, rather it is a method of culling. You cull any real catch dog out, as well as any dog that is not gritty enough to attempt to catch grab. Your dogs aren't controlling the hog either, they are simply along for the ride. By releasing from the head, you give the hog back the ability to make a move, repeatedly(as you state has been trained into your dogs), thus, by pure deduction, he still is allowed some control.
Furthermore, hunting with no protection for your dogs will get more dogs hurt/cut/killed if you ever did get on a hog big enough to have teeth, that is a fact. I don't see your point in saying you have worse terrain? that makes it easier to stop a hog if he can't run? I also don't follow your arguement for using a tracking system when your dogs aren't hunting as far as dogs hunt here? You are exactly right, if my dogs hunt only a couple hundred yards max, and they catch grab as soon as they get there or stop the hog within 100 yds, then i wouldn't own a tracking system or see the need for one. It is a different style of hunting, but it's also somewhat adaptive to your terrain. I can understand having different styles for different hunters and different terrain. I can't understand NOT using protective gear for your dogs. I can't believe at this point you are able to train dogs to rotate off the head and/or up the body to the head and then off again.
My 2 pennies,
Maver!ck
PS - I do hope you get to experience a hunt here in Texas with your dogs and i hope to be able to hunt there one day as well!
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"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." That means wild hogs too  |
