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Author Topic: Different Hunting Styles and terrain  (Read 4349 times)
t-dog
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« on: May 05, 2019, 09:43:44 pm »

Honestly I haven't done much roading. I really don't have an opinion about it because of that. Since the day I started we have cast hunted and walk hunted with a little rigging. One thing I learned about walk hunting was to move and set a while then move a distance and set a while. I realized, because I was hunting young dogs, that their range was getting shorter and shorter. What I figured out was I was moving to fast and not giving them time to hunt an area out. So because I was constantly moving and they weren't exactly sure of themselves yet, they were always wondering where I was headed and what I wanted. In a sense, they were watching me hunt lol. When I started sitting and letting them do the hunting their rate of progression increased. I thought I was smarter too. Sometimes they would be trying to leave in a certain direction but I thought the hogs were another, so I would call them in to go my way. Then after not finding anything and a 100 mile march, we would circle back around and they would bay hogs where they originally wanted to go if I had just let them. It thought me to trust my dogs. That in turn helped me rig better. Rigging isn't bad during grain season. I think you can save your dogs a little heat trauma that way. Those crops are usually hundreds of acres and by the time a dog has got to the opposite side of it, they can be pretty warm in this Texas heat and humidity. Just my way of doing things.

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