running bulls breaking off the hog

[clint]

Come on now, nobody said it was wrong.... you seem so eager to jump on somebody. i was just simply stating that the dogs are acting like every other dog (other than a catch dog) i have ever seen catch a hog....

now, first off i dont run around chasing my dogs.... i let them out and they go 800-900 hundred yards and usally bay but sometimes futher or sometimes closer... if they dont get on something they will come back and we will go somewhere else and do it again. And that is how i like my dogs to hunt,,, and it sure does seem to work... my dogs bay lots of hogs by hunting this way.

and to your comment about me cross breeding and looking for hunting styles.... PLEASE show me where i have been looking to cross breed? you might want to check before you state something like that....

[hog428]

Your wright I don't know your style    I miss spoke  we need to hunt together to know for sure  Iv just take allot of number 2 and you with out knowing judge my my dogs and style and you know on more about it than I of you   don't get wrong I admire you guys   WE all have are days
ALOHA

[clint]

No problem man,,, glad we could work it out... sorry for speaking out about your style

[hog428]

Ill be coming in oct   I would be horned if we could get a hunt in I will be bringing 4 to 5 dogs it depends on how many I can get past quarantine I would love the opportunity to show you my dogs work drop me a pm and I will contact you and we will test my style
Aloha

[clint]

Sounds good bud 

[TX HOG]

yall should hunt moscow

[ole shep]

Yea for each his own.your style is fine with me even though it's nothing like the way I hunt. I got loose baying hounds that don't get through crapping for 100 yrds . Mile or two ain't nothin for us. Seen plenty of times I would like to have that bunch when it's time to go home.

[SCHitemHard]

how did i miss this post?

i used to run RCDs and cut collars and the only vest was either on a young pup or my bull dog, the only comment i have is i dont like the moving around on the hog that can be careless but if it catches swine who cares its one down 4.5 million to go

[Maver!ck]

I'm not looking for a fight here, just simply stating my opinion as others have...

I am sorry, but you can't train your dogs to rotate off the head and let the others take the place, that is far reaching.
What you have done is eliminated any 'true' catch dog from your pack.  By doing so, you have a dog that can't or won't lock onto the ear or head area for very long.  By hunting too many gritty dogs in your pack, the non-locking dogs lose their grip and the aligators chomping their way to the head (which is where they would be catching grabbing if there was room) simply see space in the direction they want to go and attempt to get there.  There is no training to this method, rather it is a method of culling.  You cull any real catch dog out, as well as any dog that is not gritty enough to attempt to catch grab.  Your dogs aren't controlling the hog either, they are simply along for the ride.  By releasing from the head, you give the hog back the ability to make a move, repeatedly(as you state has been trained into your dogs), thus, by pure deduction, he still is allowed some control.
Furthermore, hunting with no protection for your dogs will get more dogs hurt/cut/killed if you ever did get on a hog big enough to have teeth, that is a fact.   I don't see your point in saying you have worse terrain?  that makes it easier to stop a hog if he can't run?  I also don't follow your arguement for using a tracking system when your dogs aren't hunting as far as dogs hunt here?  You are exactly right, if my dogs hunt only a couple hundred yards max, and they catch grab as soon as they get there or stop the hog within 100 yds, then i wouldn't own a tracking system or see the need for one.  It is a different style of hunting, but it's also somewhat adaptive to your terrain.  I can understand having different styles for different hunters and different terrain.  I can't understand NOT using protective gear for your dogs.  I can't believe at this point you are able to train dogs to rotate off the head and/or up the body to the head and then off again. 

My 2 pennies,
Maver!ck

PS - I do hope you get to experience a hunt here in Texas with your dogs and i hope to be able to hunt there one day as well! 

[bddhoggdogin]

Nice handle