Lead in catch dogs

For me, 200 yds is about max I would comfortably send.

It all depends on the situation and the terrain.

I can see ups and downs on all folks responses here so far...
Thread and the responses really got me thinking...

It's a hard question with lot of variables... For me

I'd love to walk em in close as I can...can't tell ya how long it's been since we got to actually see much less film a bulldog slam a hog.

That is what I would live to do but stuff got line up just right for most places we hunt....lot pressure on these hogs we run in some thick country.

Also good point is what dogs on ground. We got rough dogs and loose dogs, open or closed or semi make diference too when sending bulldog to me as well, in case it breaks.

How the bay is looking on GPS and sounding audibly is a definate factor.

I've spent an hour to crawl 600yfs to a bay and 20 mins for depending on terrian.

Every one is its own call.

Does depend on the help with ya...maybe good to send young experieced fella with cell phone that sont gone break bay ahead sometimes quietly to call back and give details to help decide. We have done this before...

If its silent then all of a sudden is blowin up and don't move on GPS I say send em if it a running bay here and there its just keep up and try and run em out gas and get closer for me.

Then another thing was mentioned was about do you want bulldog to join race if bay breaks before you get there...

I'm kinda split on this.

I've had bulldog that would come back if bay busted and was most times happy they did. Only because on some of same bays another had a bulldog that rolled out and went bfe and spent hours chasing bulldog in all dif directions while baydogs got out of pocket. Also sent bulldogs that rolled to Loose baying dogs over n over again and spent hours and hours all night chasing bulldogs instead of hunting.

That kinda brings it back to knowing what kinda find dogs you running at the time.

If the rough and silent unless the on ones with the will to stop it i wouldn't be opposed to sending a Rollin type cd to their bay even if it breaks but conversely if it a open loose type dog that if bay breaks I wouldn't wanna send a Rollin type bulldog to but one that would come on back.

Lot of variables..

What isn't a variable, with me personally is a leg catching dog, don'tind snout too aweful much, would rather ear for sure, but sometimes rough curs got the ears hemmed up. But a leg catcher is not even caught.

Lot of game dogs have tendency to do this. The catch first thing they come to and stay in that hold. It's all part of a genetic fighting tendency in some. But catching and controlling aint a fight. It's catching and controlling. Fighting is another thing.
Seen good rough and semi baydogs get shreaded because bulldog instinctually is wanting to fight a hog whike they understand its a game of subdue and catch instead of a war of attrition which some bulldogs programmed to play it like. Lets face it. It ain't a dog fight where you work the stifle until your opportunity to move to the top like some game dogs play it. Not that they are curs it's just a dif game. Those dogs are culls ti me

That's where it takes intelligence and a dog to know what the game is and be on the right page.

A dog like that, to me, is invaluable.

And of course they have to have the tools physically to make it happen from however how far they sent and the brains to know if they beat and it's better to let the trackers do it again for em, basically they know their job.

Last thing I want is a bulldog caught in summer a mile off in and impenetrable briar thicket getn itself and the bay dogs killed.

My way ain't right for all but that's how I look at it for myself.