Man how many barrels y'all use up on those 22 rifles lol. This help dog stuff I don't get so will a help dog not find a hog and only bay if if a strike dog is there ? If your running coons and a dog goes treed and a second dog trees is he helping or treeing ? I understand the term just makes no since that would be a bay dog not a strike dog. Just curious on what y'all think. If you have a dog that always strikes but when you hunt with your buddy his strike over yours does that mean on those hunts he is a help dog and needs to be culled ?
Well Judge I'll debate with you once again. LOL If I took my dogs hunting with a buddy and his dogs ALWAYS struck and bayed in front of mine I would without a doubt cull mine and get some like my friend. Also, my interpretation of a "help dog" is a dog that basically won't do it on his own. I mean yea he may find an easy hog every once in a while and bay it but what I would consider a "help dog" to be a dog that won't run a hog very far alone or stay bayed very long alone. IMO it don't think it takes much of a dog to run and bay with another a dog and the thing that separates good dogs from "help dogs" is the desire to get it done and not look back for help. After a dog has proven this desire it all comes down to natural ability to determine just how good he can be. Overall I guess what I'm trying to say is, my definition of a "help dog" would be a dog that requires "help" himself. I am not knocking anyone's hunting style or their dogs, I just simply backed Rueben's statement with a little of my own feelings on the subject.
