I like them too. I have tried other types of curs but these suit me better than any others I have seen. My dogs are closer ranging dogs than some guys like, but when they smell a hog they are gone. I usually hunt one dog at a time, or one old dog and a young dog at most. If I put more than one old dog on the ground they are pretty much going to catch or get wrecked trying. I like hunting one dog, as you can tell what they are doing and if they are going to make the grade or not. If they can't find, stop and keep a hog bayed or caught until I get there, by themselves with no other dogs out, they don't stay here long. I like a dog to bay tight, but not too tight. Very fine line down here, as many of these hogs have been run by deer hounds for years. Most you will have to put teeth on to stop.
Here is my Partin bred Monkey dog and a good young boar caught by him and a 9 month old pup. We caught the hog alive, but had to kill him as the place we were hunting makes you kill all the hogs.
