Ok, Ryan, you just touched on what I was just meaning. People often act like rough dogs stop em where they strike em and they don't have many runners.
Or... They get em stopped sure, but I don't wanna be stitching dogs all the time...
These are the attitudes I hear alot from either young folks, or people here on the net.
When it comes to the belief some folks have "we have rough dogs and we don't have many runners!" maybe, your rough dogs just;
A. Struck a group of hogs and cuaght whichever was the closest/ the one who didn't run quickly
B. Dont have enough bottom to even make you realize they are getting on runners and just letting them run off without putting in any effort.
C. You hunt spots with large populations of hogs and the ol "blind squirrel finds a nut" theory applies.
There's a group of hunters Ive gotten to go with recently who have fairly gritty-rough dogs in my opinion BUT their dogs are the real freaking deal and they can hang for miles upon miles with running hogs! What I'm getting at is dogs like those can do everything that some folks say they want in short ranged rough dogs, PLUS they can Hual ass, stick to runners, go super deep to find sign and basically everything you'd want.
TShelly describes various dogs as peewee, little league, high school, college, minors and major leaguers and I think that's the most accurate way it can be described.
When you get to hunt with minor an major league hog dogs, it becomes clear that rough loose, open silent, long range, close hunting don't make a freaking difference in the world, a bad ass is a recognizable bad ass and will make everything else around look silly no matter what his lil traits.
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