Message #576033

[Austesus]

There’s definitely a time and a place for different dogs. I just wrapped up a 3 day hunt with a buddy of mine, and he has some flat out jam up dogs. Some of the best I’ve hunted behind but they often get in some long races. His dogs are all crossed with bird dog and some hound, and they are open on track, but they are fast. We ran some of the pigs over 2 miles and caught them, where as I know that those same pigs would have been caught in under 1000 yards if we were only running my silent dogs. We also had a huge pack of dogs since there were probably 5-6 people with full packs of dogs in our group. This is a big annual hunt that has a huge turn out on state WMA land, pretty much an extermination hunt with half of the hogs getting killed by the dogs before we even got there.

A lot of bear hunters come down and they run their bear dogs and with all those hounds bawling there definitely is a difference in catching the pigs. With curs I catch plenty of hogs, usually pretty close, and I’m walk hunting. Those guys were mainly rigging and they would run a hog for 3-4 hours before catching it. I’m used to not having races, dogs roll out on a track and normally they’ve caught it within 15-20 minutes. My buddies dogs are rough like mine, so when his catch up to it they’re stopping it come hell or high water. Some of those bear dogs wouldn’t put teeth on one so they just kept pushing them for hours. Some guys like to hear the race and have the land for it. I personally like to hear nothing but the hog grunting or screaming once it’s caught. I also don’t have miles and miles of land with nice roads to drive around and keep up with those long range hounds.

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