If I carry one of my curs to the woods to hunt hogs, it will be expected to wind, find, stop, and attempt to catch and hold, any hog, with the exception of shoats(pigs). Mine are close range. I am only interested in hogs that are within 600 to 800 yards of where I am standing. If the dog gets beat bad, I want it back to me. I'm a good enough woodsman to get them close enough to work in any terrain
I will admit, these SE Tennessee mountains are rough country and make it extremely difficult most of the time., but I still manage to keep my freezer full of pork. Being from South/Central Florida, this has always been our exspectations of a hog dog. It's been my experience that no matter how good your dog or dogs are and no matter how fast you think you are getting to them, one bad hog can and will cause a bad wreck from time to time.
