Trail barking!!!!

I hunted hogs with curs, not because they were silent, but because they got the job done to suit me. The old myth of dogs trail barking scaring all the hogs away is BS. Over the many years of hunting, I have hunted with many people with open dogs and I never felt it changed the outcome of a hunt. On a hunt in west Texas with a friend that hunted Plotts, we caught 28 hogs in two mornings on the same place. I caught 4 hogs one morning with an old hound running around opening but going nowhere and never got off 200 acres. The hound never made it to a bay. I could go on and on. If they are not getting the job done, open or silent, they are just not good enough.
The same thing go's for breaking bay. If nearly all the hogs you get on are breaking bay, your dogs are causing it. The last few years I hunted, the vast majority of hogs that broke, did so right before the catch dog got to them. The hog would meet the dog head on at full speed and steam roll them. That's like sending a pickup to catch an on coming freight train. The truck looses every time.
You young hunters that are not set in your ways, don't miss out on a good dog because he is open. If he's a good one, he will get the job done.