One other thing that gets me about these contest. Everybody thinks if you win these things it means you have better dogs than the next guy that could be the furtherst from the truth for the most part . Most the time 99.9% of the time all it means is you have better places to hunt than most are the next guy other than that it is just being in the right place at the right time with the right dogs. There is nobody on here that can tell me some people dont load these places with hogs just for these contest . Lieing and cheating has been a part of competetion since the day it was invented its sad but its true . You can either live with it are try to change it good luck with both .
I agree you must have good places to win contests. You must also be smart enough to hunt certain areas or particular places in a particular manner in order to place yourself in a position to win. However...the few teams that win or compete from tournament to tournamnet...year to year do have better dogs than most and probably have a yard full of better dogs than most.
The McVeays, Ward, Van Dorn, Elfrez and a whole list of other I dont know are probably in the 2% of real hog dogs better than the 98% out there. I dont know many others but see cutter& collars, J&K hoghunters that do well in tournaments and probably fall in the same cateogry as well. There are a whole mess of people with just as good of dogs that do not hunt these tournamnets or do not know how to win these tournaments....but they are in the few minority.
