Open dog on runners

I agree with most of what has been said on the last four posts unless someone posts after peachcreek...

I do believe a hog knows when a dog is running a hog track but they will lay low and hope it is another hog that is being tracked...I have seen the dogs strike and run a hog and I am waiting to see which way they will take the hog...once some time passes I have seen hogs get up and slink away in the other direction...

in open woods the hogs get stopped and caught with good dogs...thick briars, brush, palmettoes. and it can be a long day...the dogs just can't catch up...

I have seen many a silent dog that didn't have the bottom or the nose but put a good dog in front of them and they become pretty good dogs...not saying there aren't good silent dogs just seem to be a higher percentage with these traits in the silent dogs...like Juan mentioned...let the silent dogs out and when they come out at the other end let the semi silent or open dogs out and in 15 minutes you will have a strike...seen it many times over the years...

I like the old style mt cur because they are fast to strike and don't take very old tracks but they have the knack to find game quickly...but nowadays too many are feisty looking such as very small with the short ears and too hot of a nose etc...etc...I do has some 1/2 mt cur with a little pitbull and am in the process of 1/2 plott in the oven now...I just didn't know who has the type of mt cur I wanted so had to go with the big game plott hound in the mix...I hope to keep a few pups that can wind one a good ways and to track a decent track and be mostly silent until it is a smoking hot track or the hog is jumped...

I do believe when hunting in the thick briars that one dog is best with 2 walk in catch dogs...the strike dog to be gritty and to stand back if the hog is facing him and grab the jewelry if the hog turns to run...it don't take long for a hog to figure out what type of bay dog he is facing...I have known this but I prefer to run more dogs...