I think I understand why you feel that everything that ain't the lead dog is a help dog now Kevin. When you hunt, you put all the dogs you brought with on the ground and start moving/hunting don't you?
This won't lead to one of my famous smartass one liners, I'm just taking a guess at how you hunt, am I right or wrong?
Yessir....id say over the past few months I've done about equal parts walk hunting/ roading. I never leave a dog in the box walk hunting. When its me by myself I hunt 2 and a CD usually. Me with one man (with dogs) 2 to 3 depending. When I hunt with a group I bring just Jasper. Sometimes he's help sometimes he's lead....just depends on what dogs are there. I don't like leaving dogs in the box walk hunting...no sense in it to me. Roading/hood hunting....different story.