Walk hunting

Good and respectful questio Kevin. I start all my pups with an experienced and completely trash broke dog. By doing this I know anytime a pups gets out of sight he is just fixing to trash or is just screwing off so I bring them back with a light shock at first and soon they leaen to response to my call or the tone. I know this sounds crazy to some but its my way. My dogs will occasionally wind hogs but 95% of hogs I run are trailed up. My style is much like a dry gtound mt lion hunter covering countryin efforts to "cut a track" and I don't want three dogs 600-800 yds in different directions while I'm walking in my direction of choice. This is the way I like to do it and it sound unproductive to many and I completely undetstand why it would. It is a "trail dog" style and I like to train my young dogs to trail. I'm not bragging but many times I cross tracks during the day and when the dogs leave my sight I know whats up and whats fixing to happen. I used to hunt wild rangy deep casting cur crosses and rarely did they trail a hog over a mile but the I CONSISTENTLY seen these dogs trail (not run) over a mile before they find hogs that may have been bedded since daylight. The rangy deep casting dogs eorked well but I can honestly say after hunting that style for 12-13 yrs and this style for 5-6 that this clearly works better around my area.

I hate to be embassed by my dogs and I have been several times over the yrs but the two most embarrassing things that can happen IMO is when someones dog trails up and finds a hog that my dogs couldn't even smell. I'm not talking about being in the right place and finding a hog, I mean walking right away and my dog not even having a clue what the other dog is trailing. Now thats embarrassing. Lol. The other thing is when my dog quits and comes back. Whether is gets hurt or just don't have bottom. When one comes back I can't stand it so thats the two things I try to avoid with my dogd.

Sorry for the rambling.