Message #496256

[hatchet10]

I pack train all my dogs just like wild dogs. I also walk. When I work my dogs, I am the pack leader, I am at the rear of the pack just like a wild dog who is leading a pack would be. In  a wild pack the leader stays in the rear to control/push the pack in a direction. Depending on sign/scent my older dogs range from 100 yards out to 900 yards off of me. When my older dogs range far, my younger dogs range far and vise versa. Which ever, team finds a hog first will chop and grab. Then all my dogs fall into the kill zone. Just like coyotes. You always hear a lone coyote first, then the rest of the pack starts howling and converges on the one by itself. They also do it to link back up. I kill the hog if its still alive when I get there and skin it out keep a little bit of it and pile the rest up for my dogs to eat. That's the way I hunt and will always hunt. I got the majority of my dogs from pounds when they were starving to death, maybe that has something to do with it. I have never worked any of them on a tied/hobbled hog nor a drag. I just take them hunting. When I get a new dog, I throw him in there with them and the older dogs teach it. I just break it from chasing everything else but hogs. I have a lot of big hogs that get away from me because I hunt in some pretty thick brush. They normally scrape my dogs off against trees. But, 200 lbs and below, they'll kill them. I guess everyone has there way of doing things, that's what works for me