LH - I use strike dogs (plot/cur and curs). These stag crosses can track and catch. In cooler weather I'll let them hunt more and have sent them into woods on hot tracks and they've done fine. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel with them, just got tired of watching hogs in the open run by. A good friend of mine has lots of open land to hunt and it's not uncommon at all to see them trying to sneak out across a pasture.
Do you know Teagarden? I hear the same terminology in you that he uses also, plus yalls hunt styles and dogs seem very similar.
