Every thing you have stated is true waylon,but it is only relevant to the type of game the hounds were used on,cats coon and bear all species that will tree.....hence the use of loud,trail barking dogs. Its obvious through trial and error for many years that curs have proven to be the superior dog for hunting hogs,due to the ability to run a track SILENTLY! I think any dog man appreciates all working dogs and what they are bred to do SPECIFICALLY,but.........with this being a hog hunting forum,your always going to come up against th tunnel visioned handlers that only like a good hog dog. I myself love to watch a good rabbit dog work as much as i do a cow dog or coon dog etc etc. That being said,you know ive been a passionate yella dog man for years,mainly tolson dogs when i could get them,but just last week i went down the road and got me a bluetick hound puppy to mess with,im not biased and am up for the challenge,hes 8 weeks old and nose to the ground everywhere but i love him and he will get a chance on my yard,glad to see you posting up again waylon,hope all is well with you and the family.
Running walker foxhounds are now and will be forever the best breed for hogs, there is not enuff land to run them on as acres have have become small where only a hotter nosed dog like the cur is used, people want to strike a hog asap and bay it asap, they want to go catch another one and do it again and go home, they dont want a pack of dogs running off the small places they are forced to hunt and giving mouth to wake up everybody and cause problems. There has never been a cur dog strain that can cold trail, strike and drive like a running hound. When we first got hogs enuff to have a straight hog dog pack we shocked our wold pack off of yotes and started running foxhounds in the pack with a few curs, we regulary had 5 to 8 miles races and tons of full cry curs and foxhounds on track as we followed them with cb radios, this was in the 60's. Now that land has all been chained and whats regrowth is full of hogs and almost every hog dog pack is a blackmouth cur or catahoula with 2 or 3 bulldogs to have a short race and go home, the days on all night hog races and a pack of running walkers are almost all gone due to land to small and too many people. Running walkers forever, go hunting with a fox or hunter or just to a fox pen if there are any left in oklahoma and watch runnig walkers run 24 hours straight and see what it takes to win a feild trial, no cur can do it, apples and oranges, running walkers did not get any sorrier and curs did not get any better, the land where they got hunted changed and caused this, I still remeber back in the day......
