a dog with bottom

Well gritty,...I see it this way,....if a hog doesn't want to stop, it's not going to....period. Now there's a bit of difference in dogs running a hog that has been bayed and broke on them and running one that lit out before they got close to it, which is what happens when you hunt with hounds like we do most of the time. My dogs are silent and I hunt them right along with my buddy's hounds which are open on track and it hasn't had one bit of effect on whether they open or not. Most of the places that I hunt, and for dang sure where we hunt in south GA, it's as thick as it can get,...a hog can run in this stuff and stay in front of your dogs just about as long as it wants to, therefore if a dog can't get close enough to this hog to touch it, why should it stop unless it's tired or just decides to stop and fight? Makes little difference if a dog has a ton of grit or little of it....if they can't catch up to the hog there's little they can do but chase it until it decides to stop or gets in a thick enough place that it can't make progress and they catch up to it before it gets too far in this stuff. There's a big difference in running a hog in thinner cover and in this tanglement that grows in the SE where I hunt. This is my observation after doing this for a long time, yours may be different.

I'm with you Mike,....if anyone offers let me know, I may come out to TX just to see that.