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« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2019, 09:36:41 am » |
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I can say that I have bayed sounders very recently. We got to sit and watch the dogs work, 2 dogs two different times in the last 3 hunts. My Raylynn jyp was in on both. The other was Mojo once and this last one was lulu with her. They circled and stayed busy trying to contain. When we sent the catch dogs, what we didn't catch, never regrouped. They went every direction and we had to pick them off one at a time. When I was hunting Sally, she wasn't a pressure dog. She would stay back loser. Lulu is a tighter baying style. Not breathing the same air but close enough that if it's a single hog or a pair, she's close enough to grab (not pinch) one in the pride and joy. Raylynn isn't quite as tight but will also bay at the head of a single or double hog situation. Sally had the harder races because she wasn't as fast on track for one. Second, she wasn't able to grab one if it turned from as far back as she was baying. If it hit then woods or open field and she could ham it, she would. Stay all day and found a lot of hogs. Better than some ever own but not breed worthy by my standards. She was an outside blooded dog too. So I didn't want to step backwards instead of forward. I have seen Sally strike a track in the open field ( she barked some on a hot track) and when she got 75 yards in the woods the hogs were going out the exit door 200 yards further down the wood line. All headed the same direction but no 2 were together. They had no intention of taking a bay until we either got their air or got their butt. Their destination was 3/4 of a mile away. Track speed stops some, bite stops some, and some never stop lol. I can't say that I bred my dogs for a single most important trait. As said, different areas call for different approaches. When you breed for a single trait you lose valuable others. Hogs aren't prolific because one trait keeps them alive. They are alive because of multiple traits that it requires to make it. As long as they are hunted by every means possible, they will continue to evolve. The present form of everything on this earth is the result of evolution. It is what it is because it had to adapt to its environment or fade away. JMO
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