open dogs

[BaynSlay]

When do you know a open dog is bayed?

[TexasHogDogs]

LOL!  I wanna hear the anwser to this one myself .  Only thing I can think of is the different tone are bawl in their voices .  LOL

[jon]

U can tell the difference in my mt curr different tone

[Mike]

The ones I've been around usually sit down and chop when bayed.

[KevinN]

Your Garmin reads 2.5 miles 

[BA-IV]

The ones I've been around usually sit down and chop when bayed.

That's it.

[cantexduck]

Your Garmin reads 2.5 miles 

   Have you hunted with open dogs before?


    None of my dogs are open on track but have hunted with a few. It is easy to tell when they are bayed. Chop more then a bawl.

[Reuben]

U can tell the difference in my mt curr different tone

easy enough to tell most of the time with the mt cur...usually a long locating bawl and then swap over to a chop...but the tone is different when running and baying...

[KevinN]

Your Garmin reads 2.5 miles 

   Have you hunted with open dogs before?


    None of my dogs are open on track but have hunted with a few. It is easy to tell when they are bayed. Chop more then a bawl.

Yeah...man...we've covered this before...but it was simply a joke...hence the devil 

[BA-IV]

U can tell the difference in my mt curr different tone

easy enough to tell most of the time with the mt cur...usually a long locating bawl and then swap over to a chop...but the tone is different when running and baying...

That's most Cur dogs, not just Mt Cur's.

Most dogs are gonna let out a booger bark when they first locate, I don't know about the whole long hound bawl.

[halfbreed]

when you have been around hounds long enough you can tell the whole story of the hunt just by the hounds voices . wich dog is in the front , when they overrun a track and check back in , how old the track is and when they get it heated up to tthe point where they are looking at it , if they are crossing water . like i said the whole proccess of the hunt is told by the hounds . this is what we did before folks started relying on a screen to know what the dogs were doing . you know when your house dogs are just booger barking or if thay are actually looking at an intruder by their barks hounds and baying no differant  .

[Reuben]

when you have been around hounds long enough you can tell the whole story of the hunt just by the hounds voices . wich dog is in the front , when they overrun a track and check back in , how old the track is and when they get it heated up to tthe point where they are looking at it , if they are crossing water . like i said the whole proccess of the hunt is told by the hounds . this is what we did before folks started relying on a screen to know what the dogs were doing . you know when your house dogs are just booger barking or if thay are actually looking at an intruder by their barks hounds and baying no differant  .

I like...

When I was a kid I hunted mostly mutts...just dogs that got thrown away out in the country...didn't have any neighbors close by so I had a good supply of dogs most of the time... 

but I hunted them most every day and sometimes twice in one day...and, I could tell what they jumped or bayed just by the tone of the bark...a deer and a jack rabbit sounded the same...a large snapping turtle and a large cotton mouth sounded the same, a coon and feral cat the same...a cotton tail had a different bark...I could usually tell by the tone and bark as to what they were running or had treed or bayed...

[jimco]

I hunted with some friends this weekend that had Plott and Plott crosses. It was the first time I hunted hogs with hounds. It didn't take me long to figure out what them hounds were doing. It was just a change in excitement in their voices. More chop when bayed. My curs
hunted really well with them hounds and vise versa.  Can't wait to hook up again. I enjoyed hearing that "locomotive" barreling through the
woods.

[BaynSlay]

So they mostly just chop when bayed and bawl on trail?

[Irondog87]

when you have been around hounds long enough you can tell the whole story of the hunt just by the hounds voices . wich dog is in the front , when they overrun a track and check back in , how old the track is and when they get it heated up to tthe point where they are looking at it , if they are crossing water . like i said the whole proccess of the hunt is told by the hounds . this is what we did before folks started relying on a screen to know what the dogs were doing . you know when your house dogs are just booger barking or if thay are actually looking at an intruder by their barks hounds and baying no differant  .

very well said!! My redtick will tell a story as well sometimes it will sound like he's in a hell of a fight but he's jus closing in and the trail is so hot he can taste em. When he has em in sight most of the time it's about to get caught by him or my buddys plottxbmc gyp. When they get together it isn't long before u hear a short squeal or load snort then it's all over but the crying!

[jagdtank]

I recently gave an open dog to a friend just getting started. She was top notch track dog. If she had been started as a coon dog she would have been way above average in my opinion. tracks fast,real fast.Shes the only dog I ever hunted with i couldn't tell when a hog was in front of her. Only way i knew was if she showed treed on garmin or just barked in the same spot for along time. she just bawled every 30 to 40 seconds same as on track! I've thought dogs were bayed when they werent before but when their sure enough bayed solid. It's pretty unmistakable. same as knowing when a coon dogs treed. intense choppy bark.

[Logan-99]

I have no problem with open dogs, my coon dogs will shorter bark on hot trail and long deep howls when treed. You will be able to tell the difference. A lot of people say that open dogs won't catch as many pigs as silent dogs, but my coon dogs have chased a coon through a open field full of pigs howling away and the pigs kept on rooting. After your around the dog for a few days and hunt him once or twice you can easily tell wether it is a hot trail or bayed. And another thing people think that open dogs just stare at trees and the ground and howl, all the open dogs I've hunted behind only howl on very hot tracks or chasing. I do know one thing I had one redtick hog dog and every hot track she struck ended up with a hog at the end. You will rarely have any lost tracks or hogs breaking and not being found again. Not saying they won't ever let one slip but its not as much as the curs and cats I've had. It won't hurt to try. Everybody has they're own likes and dislikes so get what you like to hunt

[yelladog0300]

Your Garmin reads 2.5 miles 

or ?... and you hear that bawl that keeps gettin farther and farther and farther lol

[halfbreed]

  heck all hounds bay differant some chop some bawl  . my old walker gyp will bawl her head off at a hog but it is differant than her trail bawl . you just learn your hounds after a bit and can tell the differance . basically if they are bawling or chopping in the same spot , you might want to ease on in thar and catch a hog  lol .

[firemedic]

The best way I know how to tell you when open mouthed hounds are bayed is this way: If you had an adjustment knob for the 'intensity' of their bark when they're trailing a hog.....turn it up several notches and that's what they sound like bayed. It's not hard to tell at all. As halfbreed said.....some bawl on track, some bawl when bayed, some chop when trailing and some chop when bayed. The guy I hunt most with has a young male Plott that sounds like he's looking at the devil when he's baying.....he sounds just like most dogs do when they're 'booger barking',......thus his name is Booger. If you wish to here a truly sweet hound bay.....go to this link.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBs7T_3Hx_k....it doesn't get any better than this if you're a hound man.