I will answer your question Judge. If the dog that bayed the 3 closer hogs couldn't have bayed the hog the others bayed then he's not in their class IMO because it stands to reason they could've bayed the 3 hogs themselves if they hadn't gotten unlucky and getting on the runner. JMO
That's one way to see it but who's to say that those two dogs that wound up miles away didn't start that pig miles sooner but stayed with it till they got it bayed up. If those dogs quit that pig and bayed one that give them less of a run for their money, you saying you would like that better? You want a dog that would quit a hard hog to shut down for an easier one? Is that a better dog? Unless you can actually analyze what really happened correctly, you just making stabs at assumptions and basing opinion and analysis of a dog off false interpretation. Lots of things happen for reasons we are not concious of. Untill you can understand what's really REALLY happening, you can't make an accurate analysis. That piece of crap dog that past them other 3pigs up might not be such a piece of crap.
Sorry, miss read the post. My response doesn't fit what i replied to.