Without going into a page of detail, I run a mixed pack of open and silent dogs. Sometimes I feel that the barking pushes the pigs and sometimes it doesnt seem to, sometimes that cold hound nose picks up tracks in hog scarce places that the silent dogs cant take. It all seems to equal out in the end though.
There is a difference between a good hog hound and a barking babling idiot of a hound.
I dont think we need to confuse a silent dog with a hot nose dog! There are COLD NOSED hounds that are silent
