You can't "make" a dog hunt or "train" a dog to hunt... the hunting drive is either in them or it isn't. All we can do is expose them and refine their skills.
This is the bottom line in my book and something I learned as a kid hunting beagles. If a dog wont hunt I cant be bothered with it because I have never been able to make a dog hunt.
I agree that handle is what you train. Not hunt. Handle has to be trained for control if nothing else. Especially in some of the places we have to hunt our dogs these days.
A good bread dog that can find a hog as good as any out there can sure make a hunt suck for a whole lot of reasons if you cant control it.
