Pual......640 acres is allot
....big loops for big country.
Cantex......I hunt daytime off 4-wheeler and walk hunt Curs only. I like 4 dogs on the ground at a time. I can cover more ground faster on the 4-wheeler which works good during grain season I can go around the fields and find where the hogs are hitting them quicker. But I do most of the hunting while walking. When I walk hunt the dogs make bigger loops, and stay gone longer. I like to read sign and do some hunting my self so I dont prefer a dog that hunts without me. They might make 10-15 min loops and If they are gone longer than that with out checking in I know they are working something hot. Some of my dogs you have to pay attention in thick stuff they will check in but you might not see them so you have to listen for them as they go by. Allot of times, If the sign tells me there are not any hogs around and the dogs are making bigger loops than they need and are slowing me down I can wistle at them and they will hunt in closer or If I change my direction of travel in a big set of woods I will wistle them in so they will hunt out in the direction I go. To me this is the most effecient way of hunting, the dogs dont have to hunt out places where there is no sign we just scoot right on through. It also requires me to read the dogs and read the sign, which is part of the fun for me. I can easily cover a couple thousand acres of 50/50 mixed woods and pasture in a morning and I will know there was not any hogs there If I don'f find any.
Waylon
