EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

how many of you guys have full blood hounds that are silent and how hard are they to come by?

 I got one that is supposed to be 1/2plott 1/2cat but I think she is full plott, dont see any catahoula in her at all. She is silent until looking at a hog but if the hog breaks and she can still see him she opens. The odds for a full hound being silent are probily 1 in 500 or 1 in 1,000.
 Heres a pic of lucy
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My cousin has a Bluetick coondog that is silent till treed. Been thinking about breeding some dogs to him and see if we can get some silent 1/2 hound hog dogs.

lucy, defenitly shows catahoula, i have or have had both, and the crosses. the markins over the eyes is a dead giveaway.
 I have owned hounds for over 15 yrs, finding a totally silent full hound is very hard, some strains have more mouth than others, and of course each dog and every dog has its own personality. i have had a few of my hound / cur crosses start out opening, but learn on their own that they wont have to run them as far if they dont advertise that they are coming.  and i have some hounds that think that more barking slows the game down so they can catch it, lol :D.
They are out there (silent hounds) but you might have more luck finding a 6 leaf clover.


 

I have a half Plott, half Catahoula female that is totally silent on the track. I had a male Plott a few years ago that was 100% pure Plott from my buddy's strain going back 25 years, he was totally silent on track, but having hunted with hounds for 40 something years I've only seen maybe 3 pure hounds that were totally silent on track, they just aren't very common I reckon. Like an old man I heard say once..."Even where there's a lot of 'em, there's not many of 'em."

i have a walker/plott for sale that is silent  till looking at one

how much and how old

all details are on the dogs for sale

only silent hounds ive seen were crockett plotts that a bear hunter had in north carolina, they would run with other plotts that would be open and they would stay silent till the got to the bear. now crockett plotts arent your normal plotts of today, they are old line plotts that show the cur side of how the plott used to be. very gritty and not all of them are silent by no means but i never hunted with one that would just be open brawl they mgiht be open but it was a chop and not a brawl.

if you can ever find a crockett plott, get it becasue they are hard to find.

Few and Far Between!

koyote, who has those crocket plotts, i would like to get my hands on a full crocket dog, i have one that is mostly crocket, but has some weems in there too. I used to have mostly crocket dogs years ago, but ended up getting rid of them all, i used to have one that was totaly silent on track and gritty as they come. i have been tryin a different strain over the past couple years but have decided to go back to the crocket line, they worked really well for me.

I would have to say silent hounds are pretty rare. I have only heard of silent hounds but have never personally seen one.

well i lived in north carolina for about seven yrs and hogs were few and far between and just so happened that my three best buds who were all brothers hunted bears. turns out everyone in thier family had plotts and all thier friends had plotts....from tnn,nc, and va. so i got in with them and a few of the family had crocketts. and i really liked them over all the plotts. but they were gettin up in age, they said i could have some pups but all the breedings were failed attemps. so i never got one. turns out that my buddies cousin was realted to the founder of houston valley plotts and those were some good plotts and when i first moved to carolina i lived right down the road from john jackson and  i didnt even know it. lol now im back in ga and they come down and dog hogs and i go up there and dog bear. it was a fun time and i met alot of great plott men and just hunters and general. its funny how all the bear hunters worried about hogs cutting down dogs and all the hog hunters worried about bears killing curs lol.

was just up there this past wknd, but my schedule got overloaded and i couldnt meet with some guys i wanted to about gettin a crockett....im also searching for one.

you need to talk to country mikes........hes got some females.....i think hes trying to breed her one last time...


i cant even find a true 100% weems plott! and the only crocketts i can find are only a certain percentage true crockett.  why did you get rid of your crocketts?

im gonna stick with curs as they suit me....but i sure would love to throw a crockett in my pack i dont care if hes silent or not. always heard that they had a little bulldog in them which would explain alot but who really knows.

i have a full blood english hound that is slient on track until he bays thats running a broke bay or trailing in cold sign.have seen him run n trail a hog that broke bay for 5miles never said a word till he bayed.he just turned out like that just luck. looked up some people who raised some dogs out of his line none were silent.he will open a little on track with other hounds on a bear but not a hog.

Bigdog, better hold on to him and get as many like him as u can!!!!!

What is his Blood line. I run the Swamp rooster and wouldnt call them totally silent but over all are real tight mouthed till bayed. I have heared of the swamprooster blood to be silent thats why i was curious.

if you know of any I want one

I would like to have a Treein walker, finished, trash broke, long range, cast or put on a track from the road, silent on track even after the hog breaks gritty but not catchy, roll out after I put my hands on the hog, not dog aggresssive, dont bark in the box, And while I am wishin in a well, i want a recount of the OBAMA election.....!!!!!!

 rolleyes :o ;D You and me both :)

     Count me in on that one as well.

Highwater thats funny right there

hahahahah  ill take two...of all of it

I have a full blood walker hound thats silent on track

 So if a hound is silent on track, but opens if the hog breaks is it still called silent??

I guess I lucked out. The best strike dog I ever hunted with was a cross Plot and cur and he was silent on track. He would open when he was looking at the hog.

I always wanted a brindle Plot like that dog. Anyway, this Plot came up to work and they were going to haul him to the pound and I took him home. So far he is just what I wanted. I cannot complain about this dog at all. He is smart and easy to keep also.

tieemuporleavem.sorry i been away 4 a few days. my hound is out of pr rockas northridge tazz. dam is schneiders true blue carolina.called the guys that raised this bloodline they said the slient on track was just a freak thing.he has been mostly slient since he was a puppy.but since he got older he never barks on a hog ne more.but its odd if i hunt him at nite he opens on something but i dont no what it is mabey a coon,armadillo.but n the day he never opens on a hog.i can run him on bear with my other open hounds n he will open on track very little untill they tree or bay the bear.had him on hogs with open dogs he didnt open.i really like this dog but it just luck nothing i did.i wish i new how to make a silent hound but im not that smart.i would like to cross him on a slient hound or hound cross if ne body has a good 1.he is a nice looking dog.call me if ne1 is intrested.9184130793.

no slient hounds to breed to.

would like to hear opinions on this,ive had dogs i would consider silent but if the hog breaks there may be some barking as long as the dog was close in on the runner but if the runner got out on him he would go back to silent till found or closed in again

my hound is slient till hes looking at the hog,if he can see the hog running in the woods or across a opening he opens till he loses sight.when he loses sight he dont open again till hes bayed or looking at the hog.if they open after the hog breaks till its bayed maby u call that semi open.jmo.who cares as long as u get the meat.

I just got this bluetick female out of Arkansas and have taken her out two times and she found and bayed a couple shotes both times. I would consider her pretty tight mouthed. First trip never herd a bark for a good hour then had a bay. She'll open a little if it runs. All by her self also.
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I have a young Plott maybe 18 months old and so far she is pretty dang quiet.  She don't have anymore mouth than a cur.  Every now and then when the hog is running she'll bark a little, but nothing bad at all.  My buddy has a BMC gyp that is way more open than her.

My Lucy dog in the first page of post is silent, and coming on finished pretty good. But she wont come in heat for another 5 months.

I have a 3/4 plott 1/4 july male if he barks you can cut the catch dog loose ;)
I got several that are real tight mouth.

I'm no hound man but have a black n tan that is 18mons and silent but was started with curs and all are silent. Whats yalls opinion, thinks its luck or does starting them with silent dogs help?

IMO runnin them with silent dogs help, but the mouth is still in the blood. I think alot of it is how much you allow them to bark when they are young other than hunting has alot to do with it. I hunt mostly hounds and I dont let them babble at the house or in the box. they bark when i feed them , when someone pulls up, or on a hog. It does help, But there are some hardheaded ones as any any breed. JMO

I have a full blood plot