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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This could be part of my problem too. On a typical hunt, I have to walk the dogs a mile or more to get to where I expect to find the sign. The pigs move around this land like livestock. The man that started me has pretty well figured out the pattern. So I hit a block, and then he will tell me where I will probably hit them next. So I try to keep the dogs nearby and rush them to where I think the pigs are instead of letting them range out in areas I know there are no pigs
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Y'all should look into hunting off horseback or mules, cover a lot more ground quicker and by doing so will probably produce more hogs...
