my son is a dyed in the wool plott man. I have plotts too, but they are for special hunts, most the time I use silent curs and terriers. He would rather run one hog 3-4 hours then catch it and let it go, rather than catch 5 hogs in the same time period with silent dogs. He is not alone in that regards and catches some quality boars.
I have found most of the hounds (my experience is mainly with plotts, and one walker, and one bluetick) chase hogs too far when they are under 3 years old because they are not fast enough on processing a track. When they get older, things get much better, because they are faster. I shorten my hound chases by tossing in jagdterriers, but even then a 2 mile to 7 mile race and a 2 hour plus bay is not unusual. I have been in trouble a few times because of those dogs!
My philosophy is (even though I love hounds) the only reason anyone runs anything else is because there are not enough good curs to go around.
