I used to run my old dogo one out a bit (look through my old posts and you will see him), caught a lot of good boars with him by himself. He was about 70 lbs. Starting to run my new dogos on the ground also, but they are still young.
My advice. You better make sure your as legged up as the dog or are able to easily drive to you dog on whatever place you hunt. I had a few foot races with big boars trying to run off with my dog, running as fast as you can for 300 + yards then trying to handle a big boar by yourself is not as easy as it sounds. I would also let the dog work on handling hogs as much as you can, size is a big factor, but experience holding a hog for a good amount of time is probably the most important factor. Keep your dog in shape! If you do this one out thing, a time will come when your dog is having to hold a pig for a good while, sometimes close to an hour. God likes to play funny jokes and make the temperature rise about 10 degrees and he makes sure your dog is on a good size hog when you take him out and he hasn't been off a chain in three weeks, so keep him legged up.
If I was to give advice on a picking a pup/breed, go for more speed rather than more nose. To keep you and your dog safe, you want them striking and catching as close to you as possible... obviously.Nose can take a dog a long ways away, a lot faster than you can keep up, speed shortens the race if the hog gets on the move.
Dogos are a good breed for this due to their all around ability, but for your lack of experience, I would choose something with more speed and less nose. Some dogos have really good noses and their brains work alot differently than a cur or hound, at least from my experience. When they hit a trail, no matter how cold or hot it is, if they can pick up the scent that switch is on, they are full speed till they realize there is no hog, or they catch it. I have had them take off, go 1000 yards full blast and catch. I have had them take off, go 1000 yards full blast, lose the scent or quit the trail for whatever reason, and then trot back. Also, it can be a real pain finding a pup out of good hunting stock if you don't get in touch with the right people... not all dogos are hunting dogs and very few are attempting breeding dogos that are.
I would go with some sort of sight hound cross, stag, greyhound X dogo, ab, pit, dane. A bull X dane. Pit, dogo, ab X RR. Something along those lines. Like I said, shoot for more speed, less nose would be better. Hogs stink, any dog can smell them. If they smell them a long ways away, guess what, your going to be running a long ways away.
Get gear made for this style of hunting. There are a lot of options for this, Silverton Boar Dogs is a distributer of some real good stuff. Don't run a full vest, heat has a better chance at getting your dog more than the teeth do, especially running this style of dog.
Also, get two dogs, but still hunt one out. Dogs get hurt and two dogs means you can stay in the woods
