Hounds vs curs

[tnhillbilly]

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I currently have Catahoula's a red  curs and I have a Cat/BMC that I think has Plott in her but she is suppose to be Cat/BMC (Is a good dog either way) but I hunt with a guy that has a Red tick that is silent until he is looking at the hog and he teams up really well with my pack and is fun to hunt with. If it works it works if it doesn't then it doesn't. That's how I have always kind of looked at things.

[Mike]

Well, it's kinda like this...

If my curs can't hang in a race with the hounds and hound crosses I hunt with... they don't stay here very long.

If my hounds and crosses can't move a track and keep up with my curs in a hard race... they "won't" stay here very long. I say "won't" because my hound ownership only goes back the past year and a half... but I know what's to be expected out of this line of dogs. What the hounds do bring to the table is a colder nose... which I like.

Most all the hounds I've hunted with over the years have been super slow, nose in the dirt, bawling every step of the way...

[crj4926]

I have hunted with lots of hounds down here in Brazoria county and will say that the ones we have had and one other guys hounds would move a track fast and had really cold noses and tons of bottom. We ran plots and running walkers and really enjoyed hunting behind them. I lost a plott gyp this summer and she was really fast and had a good nose but she was grittier than most plotts that we have owned and that was what got her

[KevinN]

KevinN I assume you have lots of experience with hounds. What did you run?

As far as open dogs go, no, not lots of experience. Ive hunted behind silent Plotts and semi-open Walker Crosses and a Red Tick cross. The silent plotts and semi-open dogs would locate and then were silent until they saw the hog. They were all good dogs. As far as open dogs go I've had limited experience with Walkers and Red Bones/Crosses. I didn't enjoy the open dogs that much (but I don't think they were quality hounds).

I hope no one misinterprets what I'm trying to say. I may have not communicated my thoughts clearly. I was not in any way bashing hounds. I was simply stating that the "experience" of hunting behind open dogs is different than hunting behind silent dogs.

[Shotgun wg]

An open dog has to be fast. A closed mouth or semi open not as bad. All the walkers I grew up with were fast. Never kept a slow one cause they couldn't keep up. When our walkers ran they ran head straight out tail straight out and would flat out move. We ran what my dad called saddle back fan tail walkers. They opened every other time their feet hit the ground. Their is few sounds sweeter than a half dozen walkers stretched out singing a tune. If a man added all of them bayed with a good bawl and some chop mouth in their that would be unreal. I grew up hearing the races and I miss hearing those races and will probly get a set of dogs at some point just to hear the races with the old man. He thinks silent dogs are boreing.

[chestonmcdowell]

An open dog has to be fast. A closed mouth or semi open not as bad. All the walkers I grew up with were fast. Never kept a slow one cause they couldn't keep up. When our walkers ran they ran head straight out tail straight out and would flat out move. We ran what my dad called saddle back fan tail walkers. They opened every other time their feet hit the ground. Their is few sounds sweeter than a half dozen walkers stretched out singing a tune. If a man added all of them bayed with a good bawl and some chop mouth in their that would be unreal. I grew up hearing the races and I miss hearing those races and will probly get a set of dogs at some point just to hear the races with the old man. He thinks silent dogs are boreing.

i want some dogs like this. i love the sound of a good bawl echoin through the woods