Would someone explain to me how barking on trail scares hogs so bad they leave the country and baying does not seem to bother them.
I thought you to be a past cowman judging by your status on here and your obvious hands on knowledge about stock bred cur dogs. No disrespect intended, but have you ever "hunted" truly wild, rank, haredick woods cattle that have been hunted before. I have never seen one or a bunch that would not start to leave out the minute they heard or smelt dogs, or even us for that matter, coming to them. I believe hogs to actually be smarter than "leather bags of steaks"
and find it hard to believe that they would not be doing the same if bad pressured. I have nothing against those that hunt open dogs, as I know they can often produce large hauls of pork. Us Florida Cowman have always prided ourselves on quiet(silent and violent) cur cow dogs. Just a regional thing I guess. Let me clarify that I speak of South/Central Florida Cowman, as those families in the Northern part of the state breed entirely different.
I could be wrong but what I think Bigo was saying is if opening on a track scares everything in the whole area away that wouldn't a bay do the same thing? Meaning all the barking they do baying up a hog would scare everything the same as opening on a track would. Just the way I took it.
