Semmes said a mouthful......When I hunted hard and had alot of dogs, I would have a lot of people call and tell me that they wanted a dog that would get gone, find a hog no matter what it took, run him for 1/2 the day and into the night, and be bayed when you got to him. I got to where my patent answer was ....."dogs like that are way more fun to talk about and brag about than they are to unsnap in the woods" Just food for thought.
I like those kind of dogs and you are right...these dogs will run most of the day and part of the night...the best thing has been the Garmin alpha when hunting this type of dog...
As some have said...you can tone them in but you can't make them hunt...hunting those high powered dogs can be very stressful because of all the properties they cross and not to mention when you get them back...but the alpha really has made hunting these type of dogs pleasurable...
Open dogs...I have seen where the dogs will jump and run a hog and me standing there in the area listening to the dogs until out of hearing...and only then I have seen hogs that were laying low get up and slink away silently...seen it more than a few times...hogs will react differently in different areas as well...some is genetics and terrain...and dog education has a lot to do with it...
