Here is a ? To the on going debate. How many of y'all would say longer range dogs find more than say a medium range dog. And far as big bottom north of ten miles 8 hrs where can you hunt those dogs
JudgePeel
I don't care for long range dogs but I want a dog that will have plenty of stick once it jumps the hog...a good medium range dog that circles to my left leaving out towards 11:30 and circling left and back and checking in from the 6:30 side and then looping to the right side, exactly the opposite from the left loop...and covering about 3 or 4 hundred yards to my left and the same to my right...keeps covering that way as long as I am moving at a moderate pace...these dogs hunt with me...if I stop they will hunt/loop further out and that is ok with me but is one reason I try not to stop...if I don't see them for a while they are either bayed somewhere or running a hog...
I can't see me giving up bottom to keep my dogs from going far...but I would rather breed catchier type dogs that will stop one at the first opportunity rather than keep running a hog...I don't care for loose bay dogs even if it were proven that they produce more pork...I like gritty dogs that are not afraid to put some teeth on a big boar...
I remember my stomach tightening up in knots and wondering if I would get my dogs back, get them run over on the road or shot because of their long bottom, get eaten by an alligator or stolen etc...etc...the range was right but once they winded one or picked up a colder track it was on...and that was the part that worried me...the distance they might travel...I still like that type of dog but with a little more stopping power...my dogs right know have some pitbull bred in...and the female pup I gave now for breeding if she makes the grade is 1/2 parker cur 1/2 APBT...
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