Open Hounds...

Heck for the first couple years I hog hunted we didn't have any type of tracking system, we had Amos, my big loud mouthed walker dog. He wasn't wide open barkin every step but he would let out a few bawls every couple hundred yards and you could hear him bayed up LONG before you could hear the dogs. There's no telling how many hogs that we bayed that had it not been for amos we would have never found or heard the bay. Lost amos to damn snakes and haven't kept another hound around for long since, not that I don't like em at all but i must have went through 3-4 before I realized I wouldn't find another amos, he was one cool dog, he had that way about him that made everyone like him.