Just seeing what anybody has within a hour or two of Stephenville. Been here a few months, now it’s time to build the string back up. Close hunting, gritty stuff. No pits.

I think I’m going to end up with a couple GSP/AB x Catahoula pups I ended up finding. I think that will work well.

Yes sir. I’ll shoot you a message and we can figure something out.

Mike, maybe sometime we can link up. I’m just getting started out and would dig learning from someone close.

Mike, I’m probably not too far from you. Lol. Live in Spring for the time being. Once this jobs done, I’m gone to Stephenville area to get a start.

I figured I’d ask everyone what they are running and what type of terrain. I like to learn all I can especially dogs in general so I figure this might be a good post to kind of nerd out on and just listen to everyone’s background since I don’t know a damned person on here.

So a good cur with a little bulldog back in it, I can probably arrange that. Now to just track down good cur pups. When I was younger and we ran coons it was behind Stephens curs, so of course off that logic I’m learning towards trying to find some good Mt. Curs, I know they are smart as a whip, just figured they might be too rangy.

I was considering finding cur/bull crosses, just kind of hard to come get it seems. Gritty, shut them down type dogs. I feel like I’d almost be better just raising my own for the task. Good game bred pit, crossed over a gritty BMC instead of just running somebody else’s culls. Hogs are pretty dense, property is fresh. I’ve worked for the neighbors and the hate pigs just as much so I can get away with crossing on a chase if I have to.

Looking for 2 or 3 pups out of close hunting dogs. Anything but a lacy, not a bad dog, just not for me. 970-817-0635

That’s my issue, the only folks that run close that I know, run Lacy’s. I’m not a fan of them. Lol.

All I’ve really ran behind are Lacy’s. Most of them were a little rough and hunted fairly close, but they were just not my thing I guess.

I’m fairly new to running hog dogs, I’ve trained cattle dogs before so I am not worried about training them. My primary concern is finding dogs that will hunt close. The places I’ve already got permission to run on are  between 700-1230 acres. I don’t want rangy dogs of course. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on breeds to run on that size property. Pretty wooded, but not super brushy. Any and all advice is super appreciated. Thank y’all.