Solution To This Retardedness

I happen to be one of the people with "retardedness". I moved to Texas, went out hunting a couple of times, fell in love and decided i had to have dogs of my own. I just happened to get lucky, a guy I had hunted with few times was having family troubles and had to sell his dogs. I bought him out and had a good set of dogs that consitiently found and caught hogs no matter who they hunted for. I became even more hooked now that i was catching hogs and my lead dog disappeaared in the middle of a hunt and i was back to square one with no real good dog to speak of. I didn't know anything about training dogs, nor did I know anyone from Texas to learn from so I bought some pups and decided to try and figure it out. The more I worked with the pups the more I wanted a good finished dog to run them with for them to learn from, so I decided to buy a few "finished dogs" of the internet. Lost about $2000 on junk dogs from a couple places, I ended up keeping my pups and working them with the other dog I still had that would find pigs inconsiteiently. I got lucky and had a good pup in the group, he found his own pig at 8 months old. I started pening my pups and the other dog together at 6 months and started taking them to woods everythime I went at 6.5 months. I am still looking for a great lead dog, I am still not where I would like to be with pups, but am still catching hogs. If i had to do it again I would still try to start with a good dog and build my pack off him and around him, using him as a teaching tool and still giving me the joy of catching hogs.