In Florida I was priveleged to run dogs on ranches east of Okeechobee Lake where few people have run dogs on the hogs. The hogs were just standing in the pastures and would move off if your truck stopped in to what the cowboy with us called "brakes" (lines of brush, palmettos and cabbage palms). We ran our dogs on these poor suckers and had 17 tied and moved into a trailer before noon. The ranch owner hauled them to a sale barn in Miami. That got old fast, great for training pups, but work. I would rather go in where they have exhausted all other methods and there are only a few remnant hogs left and use trained dogs. My experience is that many of the last few are the big "coyote" boars. That is the real test of your knowledge and your dogs.
Buddy Goatcher
What ranch were you hunting on?
