Hound vs cur

These days and times the places are getting smaller to hunt...more traffic and more folks building their homes where we hunt...finding places to hunt in my neck of the woods makes me want to give it up...

But the type of dogs I like to hunt has not changed...they are July or Trigg but I have high expectations...back throughout the 1990s and up to 2006 I had Mt curs that could run one most of the day if needed...if they weren’t in shape like hunting at least once or twice a week the potential was there that they would stroke out and die from the heat before they quit...it was rumored that “Manning’s Texas Smoke, a world champion coon and squirrel dog had walker blood in him even though he was a registered Mt cur but I sure liked that bloodline...the kemmer Mt cur probably had PLOTT in them and I liked those two lines crossed together...Joe Manning also used his dogs on bear...
I saw one stock bred dog that was as good of hog dog I ever seen...his name was Nugget...he didn’t look like the average BMC...he was a reddish gold colored dog with a decent ear to him...a striking machine that could keep one from breaking bay...