This was a good thread on dogs. I know its almost a year old, but just signed up on the page and was using the search and it popped up..
I think the original post was asking about pocahantas plotts.
I only owned 1. He was a night champion coon dog and needed if my memory serves me right, 1 more win and would be a grand night champion coon dog.
I had been on a coon dog message board I think it was at coon hound central. Keep in mind, I never was much count as a coon hunter, just wasnt exciting enough for me. But, I found a nitch. Them coon and bear hunters are bad to pull out the 22 remington if a sure nuff coon hound does two things 1. is on a hunt and runs across a hog track and likes hogs more than coons if suppose to be a coon dog or 2. if they ran quiet. A coon hunter has to hear his dog to make a call on a coon contest... no bark, no call, no points....and bear hunters, they love to hear that dogs voice. No voice, no likey..
I got several dogs over the years from the above when one of the two happened.. The coon hunters would usually give you the dog, but, without papers just to save the bullet... the bear hunters, they didnt have many give me's, but would sell'm quick and cheap compared to what they had paid for the dog in the first place.
Well, this is how I got the pocohontas male dog I had. Talked to the fella on a message board the night he came in from the hunt.. He was mad as a hornet at the dog.... got on a hog and wouldnt get off, had to follow his dang tracking collar all night and was imbarrased as heck infront of the other coon hunters....
I had to drive all the way from Danbury Texas to Bentonville arkansas that weekend to get him, but, other than gas and food along the way, He didnt cost me a dime.
Took him hog hunting the following weekend, he never barked a time until he was looking at the hog. Never once ran a coon when I owned him... A gator finally got him as he was after a hog in a slew... He was a natural hog dog and ran quite for me on hogs, but, I ran him mostly by himself or another dog that ran quiet also. I wasnt much for turning a mess of dogs loose at one time.. But, some folks like that type of huntin. Theres no right or wrong way if a hog is at the end of the bark...
A hound will run game naturally if he's/she's got any heart at all, you just have to find the game he wants to run the most... If its a hog, man, hold on to that dog... but if it likes coons more, let a coon hunter have it and find you another..
Just my opinon,
Hog
