Message #72806

[TrueBlueLacys]

Well, I think the way I want to approach it, completely for the benefit of people who don't know us or know about hog hunting, is to explain the various ways of hunting with dogs. I am a firm believer that education is the best medicine, and that merely offering an intelligent explanation of hunting style is enough. So this is where you guys can really help me. Here is a very basic outline, as I see it, of hunting styles with dogs in America. If you guys have insight on the Australian way to do it, awesome, cause I have no clue! I'd obviously expand on this, but anything you can add to the styles and the types of dogs used for each would be very helpful. I'll then build it out into an article for our blog.

1.) Bay and Catch - Using curs or hounds to bay up a hog, then the hunter releases a catch dog who holds the hog so it can be tied or stabbed
2.) Bay and Shoot - Using curs or hounds to bay up a hog, then the hunter gets as close as possible and wait for a clear shot
3.) Running Catch Dogs - These dogs find, track and then catch the hog, there is no baying
4.) Sight Hounds - Mandi could probably clarify this, but from what I understand this style is similar to other types of coursing in that the dogs makes a visual ID then runs to catch the hog, I'm assuming with back up on it's way