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.
I hunt my dogs by having them wind pigs, my stags will wind them and go to them good, stags and finder holders alike. I run one with another, Finder holders will generally pull up and leave first but they hunt so well together that if one smells a pig the other dog can tell it in the other. I don't put any of my dogs on tracks, they ain't hounds, they winding dogs like a strike dog rigged on a truck. I share dogs with Josh and Paul, Josh mainly. My hunt style and his are similar but not the same but we have the same dogs. His dogs reflect his style, mine reflect mine eventhough they are littermates etc. Now breed these finder holders differently for and you could take the differences even farther
