Florida Hunt

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Looks like a good hunt. Nice hogs as usual.

[Noah]

Good hunt Chain!!!  That's some rough lookin' stuff yall were in, I've never been in anything like it myself.   Must be some of that tidal stuff on the gulf coast I've heard about?

Also brings me to a question I've been meanin' ta ask you... I know you like your dogs rough, but with rough dog with as much bottom as yours seem to have, how do you keep them healthy??

I can only imagine what yall went through tryin' to get to your dogs based on them pictures!   

Like you said, when I pair rough with rangy.. I usually end up with cut down/whooped dogs at the end of a long march with no hog to show for it 

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Well to answer your first question, You Don't, The rough ones stay banged up a lot. A perfect example is One of the hogs that got away from us on this trip.. Tiny and my buddies dog Bud trailed a good one off and jumped him about 500 yards from us but he went straight away from us until we lost them on the garmin and the only way to get there was to go way around and then walk about 3/4 of a mile. We picked them back up when we got within 1/2 a mile of them and it showed them treed but we were still a good 20 - 30 minutes from getting to them, and well you know the rest. We got there and both dogs were cut down and exhausted and the hog was gone. Tiny still can't walk.
We try our best to get to them as quick as we can but sometimes it's just impossible to stay on top of them.. We also try to pair them up in a way that they will stand back and bay if it's a big hog. One thing though that throws our dogs off in FL is that some of the 150lb little boar hogs will have 2 inch teeth and the dogs don't take that into consideration , they just see a 150 lb hog and say hey we can take him lol..
I do like rough dogs and will always have some, this line throws some in just about every litter but we also get some straight BAY dogs and I like them too just as much.. Different people like different types of dogs but when it comes down to it whether rough or loose some dogs just consistently produce hogs and some don't , There is no ONE thing that makes them like that , Except WANT TO..