rough dogs or not rough

[djhogdogger]

I couldn't vote because our best two dogs are polar oppisites. One is rough as a cobb and the other bays loose. They consistantly catch hogs and make a great team. Both will find and bay on their own but work much better together. They have been hunting as a team since we put our pack together. If we are in a situation where we don't want to use a rough dog, then we use the rough dog's sister instead because she bays loose also. She just doesn't have the drive of her brother.

[Pecos21]

I voted rough...but it comes with an *.......I have owned almost every type of hog and I do like one or two rough dogs, but I like to take a few younger not so rough dogs as well. I have a catch dog to catch with, but I like to know if I get a runner that it will be stopped pretty quick. Having said that......there is NOTHING I hate more than a dog that will let a hog drift and move for a long time to the point where we are a long way from the strike point or the hog slips them altogether.

I know opinions vary from person to person and pack to pack, but this is what I like. 

[Pecos21]

The video link is a gyp I have (Campbell Cur) whom I like a lot. She will bay hard (though in this video she seems a bit distracted a couple times...lol) but if the hog starts getting active they will get caught. I know this is a smaller hog, but she is that way with bigger hogs too...especially if Maver!ck has one of his Strike dogs with her......     In the video the "catchdog" was new and didn't catch....and the rest of the dogs were rookies except her.....so I was trying to get the young dogs roused up......it was a fun memorial day hunt with a mostly rookie crew..... 

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=58096013

[cetchdawg]

I like my dogs to catch.  I like to hunt 2-3 dogs at a time. Like Cetchdawg said these hogs run bad around here. I prefer to catch hogs not run them. This is what works for me 

   perfect .... short and sweet !!!!

The only time i feel other styles of hunting would work in our area is if you were huntin big ranches all the time  !! and dont have to worry about neighbors ?? most places we have to hunt are wmas.. water districts .. small few hundred acres ..
 places .. LMAO golf courses and airports J/K ?!!!! LOL    We do hunt bigger ranches sometimes but not as offen as i used to 
just too far....


fla cur is that pretty much the same for you !!! ?  or do yall have any lagre tracts to hunt???  When yall dropped of that deer you said you were hunting grant?? do u hog hunt there also???  i know my buddys are all in the same boat as me .....all the big ranches have had bad expeiriences and stop inviting random folks or people with catch dogs.... gotta know someone most places say no bull dogs / catchdogs cause some kids that said they had hog dogs came and found out they had dogs that would catch hogs and cows/calves !!!! ruins it for everyrone...

But now that i am in a better position at work (not as much oncall ) and my son is better (he was born with a few lung/ trachea problems) i am tryin to get some places built back up to hunt???  I have a couple decent spots but they are hit or miss....  kinda sux two years ago it was hard to decide which place to go for the night and now im wantin to get back into the game and dont have many choices..... 

SORRY ABOUT THE DERAIL 

[Florida Curdog]

I have been hunting Grant for the past 17 years. I also have been hunting a very large orange grove in Holopaw and a large ranch over there also with Gil.