OK, I'll play along...
There are "easy groves" and then there are "hard groves" in my experience...
The latter get hunted hard and often, the edges of which, are also often bad thick... making necessary a dog with "stopping ability" to shut the hog down before he can hit the fence.
Excellent testing ground to test for this trait in a dog, a trait that many do not truly understand.
Sounds like a good hunt
I agree with Noah. Not all groves are a walk in the park. There's a big grove I hunt with Gil that's got a couple of big swamps in it that ain't fit for man or beast. You got to have dogs that know the program & shut em down where they stand. They usually head for those swamps or the ranches that border it. There was some guys trying to hunt it with their ( bay dogs ) that they used on ranches & always come out empty handed & then ask us how we were catching all them hogs in there.
