Yeah Jimmy....Preacher was just getting going good when I layed him off for about 4 1/2 months. He was uh....fond of Bambi

when he was younger so to make sure we got started off on the right foot his first hunt back I didn't turn him out till we got a bark (I heard the sounder rallying) and I knew it was a pig. His second hunt that week was an area where there aren't any deer so I just let him run and he fell right back into it. He was working hard that nite and impressed me. I'll be getting him back out again as soon as I
Get back from vacation.
Turning him out to a bark has worked REAL well for me the few times I've done it. That was always a plan of mine if he was open....or I couldn't break him off deer