Young Guns

I don’t get to hunt like I use to for a variety of reasons. That’s why having a good circle of like minded friends is so valuable to me. I don’t have to keep so many dogs to keep the family going. Yu know ike i know, some dogs just don’t reproduce well. Some matings no matter the quality of the pair being bred, just don’t niche. If you get too much of one thing and it doesn’t niche or doesn’t reproduce well, then you’re in a bind. I love my older dogs, they are what has continued to keep it fun for me, but I also love to watch the progression of the young dogs. I try to leave the oder dogs in the box as much as I can once I think the younger dogs make me think they can do it. Once they are really doing it on their own I will cast old and young both. It usually pushes both to be better because they all seem to want to be top dog and they hustle harder. They may all leave out headed south, but by the time they are 3-400 yards out, they covering a swath 2-300 yards wide (usually). I love that because it usually gets a hog found in shorter order and I feel like fewer hogs get missed. Now and then though, we will get a young dog that seems to always be out of place and misses being at bays more than they are there. What I think I figured out is that they are suer independent and competitive. If the cast goes south then they go north. Once they are get out far enough then they can’t hear the bay that is equally as far the opposite direction from us. What started doing with those dogs is casting them first in the direction I want them to go and let them get bayed or settled into hunting good and then casting the other dogs. That usually fixes it after a few times. It’s kinda like that dog that’s excitable and hot footed that hits the ground barking and sprinting to nowhere out of excitement. Cast them
first and solo a few times and it usually corrects itself. Hunting them more held too but that isn’t always an option. That’s our approach.

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