By request

yes...I can see your style is being a great and fun way to hunt...

I grew up hunting with dogs...slingshot, bb gun, spear, then a 22...and of course deer rifles etc as I got older...I also learned the way of the wildlife by hunting dry conditions and very wet conditions...I could and would be soaking wet but I knew exactly where to go to find deer or any kind of game...We didn't have hogs back then where I grew up...My dogs ate what we caught...I learned to stalk and sneak and my dogs would operate off of my signals and a few little hisses here and there if I wanted their attention...if we were stalking and wanted to give a signal I hissed just loud enough to get their attention...I knew when they were running deer or jack rabbit...rabbit...or having a big snapping turtle or big snake bayed...or coon or feral cat treed...you run the dogs enough and you will learn quite a bit about dogs...when I stepped off in the brush alone with my dogs I became a predator...the pack leader...

I speared lots of rabbits the dogs didn't catch that made it to the rose hedges before the dogs had a chance to catch them...
also shot many in the head with the slingshot...when I got a little older about 12 or so I started shooting them ahead of the dogs while on the run with the 22 auto...

one day I was at deer camp deep in South Texas and this ole boy about my age was telling how him and his 2 friends would leave all day into the woods and only take some salt, matches and a knife and come back late in the evening...he switched gears before my eyes as he was showing me how they stalked around...once I saw him I told him he didn't need to say no more...because I then knew what he was...

when I hunted alone with my dogs was not how I hunted when I had another person hunting with me...more because they would not understand...a kid can do way more with a dog than a man can...

a good pack of dogs can look great with the right handling...