Bo Pugh I gotcha I let my cd go from much further out I would say 2 to 300 some times farther I have sent them from 600 my dogs a rough tho it send em to help not to catch a bayed hog now when I run loose dogs I try to get close as I can specially at the river seems to me that the catch dogs take a bigger beating with loose dogs
Rough or loose doesn't matter, a bulldog has too have brains. If it just bullies in there ya it's gonna get roughed up, if it positions himself In front of the hog while it's caught ya it's gonna get roughed up. Just like a smart bay dog won't take on nothing it can't handle alone. I've seen a couple bulldogs that have gone the longer way around a thicket too have a better angle rather then just go barreling in there and get whooped because of the positioning the hog has bayed up in.
The way I see it your only as good as your cd, someone said you can have a great hunt dogs bayed up, but what's it all worth if you can't have a dog too finish it out. JMO.
