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.
HAHA know thats right. one of the dogs we had with us, wont catch a shoat if her life depended on it. great wind dog but thats about it. We got into a sounder in a cypress head and my old mn had one, my buddy's dog outta my litter had one and she was bayin her foold head off. Needless to say that particular incident didnt end well for us. Dogs and hogs runnin every where and we didnt get none of them..
