EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Jake Reed made another hunt with me.  We had a really nice hunt catching 3 boars.  2 black and white boars that we tied and 1 grey boar that we dispatched and carried out.    The 2 black and whites we caught off casts and the grey was tracked and trailed through a brushy flood plain thats now dry do to the months of no rain fall.   Did a little refresher course with a pit × english mastiff before sending him off to his new home in San Angelo soon.  I believe he needs no further refreshing lol.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220112/ee3b381d0b6ef7687fc710c2e6e582c0.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220112/65cae8103ea6024cea20b9de9f11d0cf.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220112/cc6e8cc52bcb9597e57eb8ce64b2b37e.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220112/0042ae09be4e632096996606e8fb3b4e.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220112/2d294c1840b20e485f7d605d765daa87.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220112/7f06b16bc7ee9aea370dde0cbaefb55f.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220112/78d523011a44e00e245a2cc78e878bbc.jpg)

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Awesome dogs, looks like a great hunt. How is that hairy dog bred? I like the looks of him.

His Daddy is the other red dog which is my main dog.   The hairy dog is pretty young and not a lead dog yet.  Will be another hundred pigs before he is good enough to be a lead dog.  He has probably already been on a hundred head since I started taking him.     He is primarily a wolfhound based dog.   A little pit cane corso and stag in him also

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He is nice for sure, both good looking dogs. In your opinion is there a difference in the stag based vs wolfhound based crosses?

Looking good Dean!

 Looks like a mighty good hunt!

   Thanks.   Yes there is is a huge difference between a wolfhound based dog and a stag based dog.       The only thing a stag has on a wolfhound is speed but a wolfhound is certainly no slouch when it comes to speed beating most dogs of the world.     If your breeding for nose, stamina, size, power, hardness, durability, and a mind to hunt like a finder holder or want the stamina and mind in a dog to role out and catch 2 or 3 or 4 pigs out of a mob after the initial catch then you need to forget about the stag and  go with wolfhound.                A stag cant control or even hold a 300 pound boar.  Few would even try such a beast.   A wolfhound gonna make a 300 pound boar look like easy  and gonna rely off him and go catch his buddy he was running with while your tying the first beast.            A wolfhound can do everything a stag can do when it comes to pigs but the stag can only do a fraction of what a wolfhound can do.           Most of the time an F1 stag based bull lurcher is a disappointment in the size structuere and finding department.     Rarely will a wolfhound based bull lurcher be disappointing in size, hardness, and universal hunting abilities.      Both have great spead and great eyesight but only one has size, power, stamina, nose, and a can be usee to hunt anyway you please.          Its kinda like the difference between a single cab 2 wheel drive gas powered pickup vs a 4 door 4 wheel drive diesel  pickup.    One can do what the other can but the other can do things that the other just can't  and does them in a daily basis and with ease and holds up to the work the other cant even do.       
      I have stag blood in my dogs.    I crossed a wolfhound to a stag once and made pretty nice dogs.  What I did was make a better stag but i didnt make a better wolfhound.     The stag genes still plague and hurt me in my dogs today.     I've been trying to breed away from the stag genes through stuff like genetic drift for 3 generations  and always adding crap in to try to move further away from it in favor of a more wolfhound type dog.   Looks like I'm about to really make a huge gain in leaving the hindrance of the stag behind me going foward with the dogs i have now and will have on the ground in late winter early spring.