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Title: Silent mouth question Post by: Cajun on May 14, 2013, 06:50:50 pm If I run my young plotts with a silent cur, will it make them shut up on track.lol
Title: Re: Silent mouth question Post by: BA-IV on May 14, 2013, 07:14:53 pm I was just waiting for this one ;D
Title: Re: Silent mouth question Post by: Reuben on May 14, 2013, 07:19:13 pm If I run my young plotts with a silent cur, will it make them shut up on track.lol it will shut em up...but you will lose a little bottom, hunt, and nose... ??? :) Title: Re: Silent mouth question Post by: circleb54 on May 14, 2013, 07:45:01 pm If I run my young plotts with a silent cur, will it make them shut up on track.lol it will shut em up...but you will lose a little bottom, hunt, and nose... ??? :) :P Title: Re: Silent mouth question Post by: TexasHogDogs on May 14, 2013, 10:11:07 pm LOL it will probably make your cur open mouth LOL
Title: Re: Silent mouth question Post by: Cajun on May 14, 2013, 10:29:42 pm This is too funny.
But for some open discussion on dogs that open on track & some dont & this is just my personal experience & what I have observed over the years. No right or wrong answers, just everybodies observations. I have had some curs that were run with my hounds & they were dead silent, never opened until the hog was stopped & looking at them. I have seen curs that were semi open to wide open on a jumped track, that were never run with hounds. I have had two plotts over the years that were silent. From their genetics, they should have been open but after they were hunted until they were a year & 1/2 to two years old, they both went silent. While both were what I call intelligent dogs, I dont know if it was brains or they just learned if they shut up, they might get up on the hog. But bringing up the silent dogs, I have seen hogs still run 4 or 5 hour with a silent dog on them. Some hogs are just going to run & some are not & some will run to their thickest cover to bay up in. On the dogs side & this I really believe, whether open or silent, some dogs just have the touch. They bay hogs consistently. I also think where you hunt can also dictate what dogs you use. Hogs that are heavily hunted are just going to run more because you are hunting the survivors & it does not matter whether a dog is open or not. Title: Re: Silent mouth question Post by: hillbilly on May 15, 2013, 08:01:47 am This is too funny. i use to run fox hounds and had lots of them that would shut up while running and get up closer to the game be it fox, coyote, or deer. You would hear them open up again several hundred yards ahead of the pack. These was always the better dogs of the pack also. But for some open discussion on dogs that open on track & some dont & this is just my personal experience & what I have observed over the years. No right or wrong answers, just everybodies observations. I have had some curs that were run with my hounds & they were dead silent, never opened until the hog was stopped & looking at them. I have seen curs that were semi open to wide open on a jumped track, that were never run with hounds. I have had two plotts over the years that were silent. From their genetics, they should have been open but after they were hunted until they were a year & 1/2 to two years old, they both went silent. While both were what I call intelligent dogs, I dont know if it was brains or they just learned if they shut up, they might get up on the hog. But bringing up the silent dogs, I have seen hogs still run 4 or 5 hour with a silent dog on them. Some hogs are just going to run & some are not & some will run to their thickest cover to bay up in. On the dogs side & this I really believe, whether open or silent, some dogs just have the touch. They bay hogs consistently. I also think where you hunt can also dictate what dogs you use. Hogs that are heavily hunted are just going to run more because you are hunting the survivors & it does not matter whether a dog is open or not. Title: Re: Silent mouth question Post by: Lacy man on May 15, 2013, 08:06:24 am This is too funny. But for some open discussion on dogs that open on track & some dont & this is just my personal experience & what I have observed over the years. No right or wrong answers, just everybodies observations. I have had some curs that were run with my hounds & they were dead silent, never opened until the hog was stopped & looking at them. I have seen curs that were semi open to wide open on a jumped track, that were never run with hounds. I have had two plotts over the years that were silent. From their genetics, they should have been open but after they were hunted until they were a year & 1/2 to two years old, they both went silent. While both were what I call intelligent dogs, I dont know if it was brains or they just learned if they shut up, they might get up on the hog. But bringing up the silent dogs, I have seen hogs still run 4 or 5 hour with a silent dog on them. Some hogs are just going to run & some are not & some will run to their thickest cover to bay up in. On the dogs side & this I really believe, whether open or silent, some dogs just have the touch. They bay hogs consistently. I also think where you hunt can also dictate what dogs you use. Hogs that are heavily hunted are just going to run more because you are hunting the survivors & it does not matter whether a dog is open or not. Yup I think your on to something. Hog gunna run if he wants to run. Title: Re: Silent mouth question Post by: SwampHunter on May 15, 2013, 10:15:39 am I got good question , I can turn my stag out on group of hogs in Feild sometimes they run an some times they don't ?? Why is that ? He doesn't bark he all catch ,
I think it's because some hogs are gonna run an some gonna wanna stop an fight Same with open dog an silent , some gonna run an some not going to Title: Re: Silent mouth question Post by: RyanTBH on May 15, 2013, 12:39:20 pm Swamp, it's called fight or flight. That's a natural instinct that all animals have... They will either choose to sit and fight, or turn and haul a$$ (flight). Plus, I think hogs are smarter than people give them credit for... They are not that far down the line from us humans.
Title: Re: Re: Silent mouth question Post by: BigCutters4 on May 15, 2013, 02:24:08 pm Just like dogs u got some that will run all day and some that will only run a hr or so
Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk 2 Title: Re: Silent mouth question Post by: SwampHunter on May 15, 2013, 02:33:55 pm Swamp, it's called fight or flight. That's a natural instinct that all animals have... They will either choose to sit and fight, or turn and haul a$$ (flight). Plus, I think hogs are smarter than people give them credit for... They are not that far down the line from us humans. I know I was just messing around , I just laugh when people try to convince me that my open dog gonna make hog run .... When I know better Title: Re: Silent mouth question Post by: RyanTBH on May 15, 2013, 03:14:36 pm Lol yeah... Some will make em run, but the ones that are open that move with a purpose normally can get the job done. It's all the barking for no reason that kills me. I just mainly prefer silent dogs, and haven't had any problems running em with semi open dogs either so long as all dogs involved are out there hunting and doing what they are supposed to do.
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