I am not foolish enough to think my cur dog can outrun a good well bred running dog but it would take one to outrun him. I also know there's not a hog alive that can outrun him in the open. I also know that in chest deep water with brush, saw grass and all the stuff that grows in the swamp, the same running dog won't outrun my cur. If your going for the number you catch, the running dog man would have the advantage. His dogs would come out of there pretty quick and he could go back to the sitting ducks in the fields. The times I've been able to dump dogs on hogs in the open, it was like shooting fish in a barrel.
Even with my feeble brain, I figured out a long time ago, if your getting outrun on a regular basis, its not a hog problem, it's a dog problem .You fix it by getting better dogs in the style you like to hunt, but you still won't catch them all.
bigo I agree with the last part you said. The middle part about dogs in swamp type stuff well I gotta say that's a dog by dog basis and not a broad blanketed statement as you put it. Dogs with longer legs that can touch bottom or push off better are likely to outperform one that can't. A dogs willingness and desire to work in such areas is another thing that allows the dog to navigate well in such environments. I don't see how a cur is any better at it than say hairy holders dogs are who work the swamps of the delta on a very regular basis. We run a few littermates. I wouldn't expect mine to do as well as his in that environment because his are very used to that type of environmental conditions, mine are used to more hard woods instead of swamp. I've hunted with hairy holder in the exact stuff you just described. Couldn't belive some of the stuff he hunted. We caught two boars on that place, one going 446 pounds which was found and held by just one dog. Right in the soured mud that pulled your boots off, stagnant looking water, mosquito infested, tall weeds, hot summer night. Dry land was seeming impenetrable walls of grass woven tightly in briars with only narrow trails navigate through it in. Grass seemed to be woven together like a door mat and went 1/3 way up the trees that were also thick. Add in briar thickets with the grass and tree thickets and it's enough to humble most anybody. I believe out of all the land he has contracted to him for hog removal, that sorta stuff makes up aprox 5/8s of what he catches pigs on. May have that reversed though. I tell you all that because same dogs he uses to hunt that stuff I have here in my own pens and are my best dogs.
The fist part of your statement about your cur being able to outrun pigs in the open I don't see much to debate either. Many curs can match the speed of a fast pig or outrun them.
