Had Plotts for years and still love hunting with them. Most of the guys I hunt with from TN have Plotts,....they're all open on track but we kill a lot of hogs with them and the few cur dogs that a couple of the guys and I have. I truly believe that a Plott/cur cross will consistently make a super hog dog more so than any other.
That's why I mix something in there with them and you want get that open dog running all around in the woods letting the big old boars know to check out the dogs or coming................LOL!!!