How do you hunt?

Ellis,
I should of put this in the first post. I have two pups right now. I will start working with them in a few months. The gyp is out of a long range dog, I havent seen the sire/dam hunt but from what I have been told by a few people is that they sometimes hate to hunt with the dam, she just gets out there. I have only roaded most dogs, I like the idea of dropping at a feeder or sign and sitting back letting th dogs do the work. But I also like walking and letting teh dogs work that way as well. Is there a happy med. where I can have alittle of both worlds? Meaning, drop dogs and take off walking. Or if I dont feel like walking put them out and wait?
Also, by roading a dog am I going to shorten its range? The one I am worried about is a young dog,10 or so months. He showed a crap load of hunt while training. He has been on a real hunt one time, a few nights ago.