Answering long range

Why wait on a "new" system to come out? Do you not have one now? If you dont have one now what is wrong with the ones on the market already?

Are they hunting out that mile to start one or do they start one and it takes them a mile to stop it. I ask this because there is a difference between "range and drive". And many hog hunters now days dont understand the difference.

Range has nothing to do with how far a dog takes a hog or stays on a hog or how long a dog works a trail. Range has only to do with how far out does a dog hunt from you the handler trying to find a trail.

Drive is what kicks in after the dog picks up a trail, he has ranged out and found a trail. Now the drive kicks in this is what determines how long a dog will stay with a hog. You have a dog with high drive and high grit then you will catch hogs, you have a dog with high drive and med grit then you will stop and bay hogs, you have a dog with high drive and low grit then you will have long races more like old time hound races.

Then mixed in with Range and Drive is if the dog is a cold nosed dog or a hot nosed along with that does he wind or trail or do both? (I wont go into that right now that is a how diff can of worms)

I said all that to say this, I am not sure range is your problem as you seem to think, it sounds like they have the drive but not the grit of your old pack.

Sounds to me like you either need more stop in your pack or more bark.