I like a cur dog that works out from my feet outwards. The. Deep hunting dogs that get gone in a blink of an eye makes a body proud when you turn em loose til you catch three or four hogs going to him bayed a mile out. They tend to miss running like that. Not saying that's the case for your dogs, but I've been around a bunch of em and they tend to miss the close hogs quite often.
BA-IV...I like the same...I have seen some walkers get way out there quickly and then see the curs strike right where the hound just crossed...I like a cur that circles out and then gets deeper as needed...I don't like a dog that hunts a straight line...
back in the 70's-80's the big talk was the hunters bad mouthing field trialers of all sorts...the lab folks were saying the field trials created dogs that were hard to manage, too high strung, the English pointer folks were saying the trials were making dogs that hunted too deep and for themselves...the hound folks were saying the trialers were ruining the hounds by breeding dogs that hunted for themselves and would pass up good track to find a smoking hot track and went too deep...I like dogs that don miss if there is one there to be found...
