streak do you have so many hogs on the places you hunt you can see hogs out in open fields every hunt ? do you run vests ?
I have about 3500 acres of crop land I hunt and 15 to 2000 of woods and brushy creeks. How I hunt the crops is the very similar to the top two winningest teams competing in the big pig tournaments. Since I have spoke to both about dogs or tactics and am still in communication with one of them, i will not divulge on here how I hunt the feilds. I owe no loyalty to either of these people but I doubt they would appreciate it if I revealed tactics they are using by telling you how I hunt. I have never even spoke to one team about another nor would I but they both do things the same way basically which is very similar to my style.
Yes I do run vest on my dogs. Won't hunt a dog without one, though the guy that got me started with this style of dogs often times only runs a cut collar and is pulling up great finds with good well equipped boars with no injuries over and over and over. The guy does this for a living, catches I'm assuming thousand or more pigs a year. Cut collar for them lots of times
I've got two sets of dogs, track dogs and sight dogs. The sight dogs I call "night vision dogs" and I'd be willing to bet your buddies hunt a lot like I do with my night vision dogs. I've got greyhound and pit crossed dogs that once I spot a hog with the night vision, I walk them downwind as close as I can to the hog before I send them. My "night vision dogs" wont take a track or run one in the woods very far if it does make it out of the field. That is how I want them to be though, if they get burnt by one hog we just load up and check more fields. That is how a lot of people are starting to hunt here in Ga. It is definitely a way to catch big numbers, but to me nothing beats walking my bulldog to a hog that my bay dogs trailed, ran, and stopped.
I hunt both ways so I understand why you hunt the way you do, but not everyone has those type places to hunt and have to have a dog that will wind, hunt out, or take a track to trail and find where they are laid up be it 100 yards or 3/4 of a mile. If you've got a dog that is straight catch and sticking with a hog that runs as far as some of the hogs around here do then you'll be out of dogs quick.
