what size if at all?

[sandbank slayer]

What size of pig if at all do y'all want your strike to catch? Do you prefer to send a bulldog to a choate? Jw?

[sandbank slayer]

I can't be the only 1 that gets tired of walkin CD to pig that should already be caught, or am I?

[Purebreedcolt]

I want my strike to catch and hols any pig it comes to. I dont lead a dog

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[sandbank slayer]

Shoulda worded it Alittle better I guess, so for those that do lead a CD, do you want your strike dog to catch at all or just bay a pig don't matter what size.

I want my strike to catch and hols any pig it comes to. I dont lead a dog

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we would have to sell out and start over if I decide that's what's best for me.

[Hunt the Grunt]

I want my dogs to catch anything under 100 lbs. I would rather them go ahead and shut down anything smaller than have them bay and it break and run a country mile spending all morning running a 50-75lb pig. The birddogs I run now catch by themselves anything 100lbs and less and sometimes catch up to 150lbs if it doesn't put up much of a fight. Everyone is different but I like walking to a bay and sending the bulldog to a good hog.

[sandbank slayer]

I want my dogs to catch anything under 100 lbs. I would rather them go ahead and shut down anything smaller than have them bay and it break and run a country mile spending all morning running a 50-75lb pig. The birddogs I run now catch by themselves anything 100lbs and less and sometimes catch up to 150lbs if it doesn't put up much of a fight. Everyone is different but I like walking to a bay and sending the bulldog to a good hog.

 I'm right there with you, you have bird dogs doin this? My partner got some gsp but I'm lookin for something of this very nature. I traded for a gyp the other day and really hope this is how she is. If not I'll be lookin again, it's aggravating to chase a choate a mile. Not mad there on pigs just wish they'd let me know it was small

[Hunt the Grunt]

 
 I'm right there with you, you have bird dogs doin this? My partner got some gsp but I'm lookin for something of this very nature. I traded for a gyp the other day and really hope this is how she is. If not I'll be lookin again, it's aggravating to chase a choate a mile. Not mad there on pigs just wish they'd let me know it was small
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Yea, mine are English pointers though. They are pretty gritty as far as stopping a hog. They absolutely hate for a hog to run, any size. They will catch on his nuts and hold on till he stops and then bay. I really like their style, but the hunt and stamina is a plus as well.

[hillbilly]

I want mine to bay pigs but they don't do it.

[Kid7]

I want mine to bay any size

[Bo Pugh]

I want mine to bay if it's big enough to walk. I don't like them catching any hog but they will. I would like mine to get out of the way when the bulldogs catch so they don't get cut or crippled. And it's way easier to handle a hog with just one or two bulldogs on it versus 5 currs and 2 bulldogs

[bob]

I would rather mine just bay , I love it when I show up and my dogs been baying for a hour and the hog is only 10 pounds , I have CDs to catch and prefer a loose baying pack and for them to roll out as soon as I show up with the CDs

[halfbreed]

   lol   if I crawl and push my way through who know's what to a bay , it had better be a big hog !!!!  the day any of my dogs bay a shoat i'll be looking to remove more than hogs .

[sandbank slayer]

   lol   if I crawl and push my way through who know's what to a bay , it had better be a big hog !!!!  the day any of my dogs bay a shoat i'll be looking to remove more than hogs .

More and more I'm really starting to think I may be headed in this direction, I'm happy to catch a pig(big/small) don't matter to me as long as it "oinks".  But crawling through the stickers with a cd to see a dog hammered down on something my lil boy kicks around the back yard gets tiring to say the least.

[TazD]

I want my strike dogs to catch what they can handle without getting killed. It's more where they are catching them. Out in the open or a place where my dogs can move they will catch any good size hog (175-225ibs). In the thick briar laced palmettos a 125-150 with 1 1/2" cutters wi. Make them bay because they cannot effectively move in for a solid catch without taking damage. Have 2dogs on the ground like that hunting together and they will suck up anything!
Now that being said, I am looking at my Gator dog with 15 staples in his armpit up to his shoulder, just recovered from 2 thumb wide pokes that went up each side of his neck 5" under the skin, and 3 hunts before then 52 staples!! I guess he has not figured out the catch what he can handle thing I want from my strike dogs! 

[Judge peel]

All my dogs catch on dang ner any size if they don't it had better be a monster and that usely don't stop them ether but there pretty smart to if there alone they will bay if two are there more than likely it's a caught hog


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[Stanton]

It'd be fine with me if the bulldog never got unsnapped. I like em really rough. I go to catch hogs not listen to the dogs bark. But a bay in open woods is a pretty sight!


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[hillbilly]

If I went just to catch hogs I would run about 6 curs on the ground and have one good knife instead of bulldogs. I like to hear dogs bay hogs

[kerreydw]

   lol   if I crawl and push my way through who know's what to a bay , it had better be a big hog !!!!  the day any of my dogs bay a shoat i'll be looking to remove more than hogs .

I'm with you if they don't catch little pigs under 100 lbs they gonna be so loose baying that they don't have enough grit to shut down a big hog ? Mite be a long race