Allow me to give example of what "annoys" a "typical" Florida hunter
.... invite a new person to hunt... supposed to have good dogs...
... allow person to drop dogs on good property and dogs take track and goes...... and goes........... and.... gooooooooes..........................
... for all you long range cur folk... imagine inviting somebody to hunt with you that runs a pack of cold ass slow trailing hounds lol... you can pretty much guarantee you gonna be chasin' dogs for the majority of the day... valuable time that might've been spent CATCHING hogs with faster, harder stopping, shorter ranged dogs...
Noah,
the dogs I had in the 1990's up to 2007 were good about stopping one pretty quick in the semi open country and from around Dec. to mid April when the weeds were down...usually in less than a mile...but in the hot summer and when it was very thick the dogs would loose some because it was too thick and they couldn't get close enough to the bad runners...they would over heat and get outran some times...but lots of times they would catch up in another ranch or 2 further in...so I would just have to wait them out or get close enough to call them out...
but this time around I will sacrifice a little on the nose and hunting style to get rough dogs that will need a running vest...right now I have a gritty mtn cur female bred to an extremely rough parker dog...I want to shorten the races some...the ranches are getting smaller and the neighborhoods are moving closer to these ranches...I don't need my dogs shot or stolen so I think that strike dogs that borderline on running catch dogs are going to become the type of dog sought after in the future...silent trailers and not much bark to them...my vision is to have these type of dogs but do not want quit in them...I want the dogs to give it a good try...but to stop the hog at the first opportune time...
