Lets get familiar

I hunt hogs with my dogs because it's more fun and more rewarding than any other type of hunting I've ever done and I've hunted critters of some sort since I could get outside on my own,....built a trap and caught an English Sparrow when I was around 5 I think. Up until about 5 or 6 years ago I was a hound man,....hunted coons for years when I was a teenager in high school. Then my buddy that had cur dogs for years gave me one and I liked the way he hunted and acted. Right now I have 2 dogs, a cur/fiest cross and a Plott/cat cross, both are silent on track but the fiest cross will yip if she jumps a hog that wants to run. We hunt on foot most of the time, I hunt with some guys from TN most of the time and they have hounds that are open. We use some standers to head off the hogs if they want to run. I've hunted hogs and bear with dogs since the mid-70s, don't hunt bear much anymore. I have had several dogs at one time over the years but I prefer to keep only 2 or 3 now, I hate to leave a dog in the pen when I go hunting,.....don't know why that is really, but I always have. I bred and trained dogs for a lot of years, just never had many at one time. We usually run about 5 or 6 dogs together at one time, I run my curs right with their hounds and they do fine, they just don't bark on the trail. I do enjoy a good race with the hounds though,....it's just the hound man left in me I reckon. We don't have any 'catch' dogs.....our dogs will catch if they think they can handle it and sometimes if they don't! I hunt locally with a buddy that has only curs and we sometimes take an AB as a catch dogs, but the curs can handle just about anything but the biggest and meanest. I love it and intend to do it 'til my dying day if the Good Lord sees fit to let me.