Critter Catcher, sure there is... I have several larger than that. We've hunted to piss out of them for many years... done our job and made the landowners happy. Now the hogs are few and far between. The type of dogs that produce hogs on these places, when there are hogs, are my kind of dog... dogs that hunt it, not dogs that I have to take to the hogs.
I've owned lot's of short range dogs over the years, and they do very well when hog populations are high.
How would those short range dogs do in a 2,000 acre block of woods with 1 boar hog in it? Like I said, when hogs are plentiful, they'll all shine like a diamond.
This is the biggest problems we have... i think we may have one place to hunt that is anywhere close to 2,000 acres...
Most are a few hundred and those few are usually 2,3, sometimes 4 different properties put together....
So yeah we kind of have to push the dogs around on the bigger places, but when we do find em, they are not a mile away when they strike .... another big reason i dont use long range dogs is because if that dog strikes a runner ( like more and more hogs are getting to be these days ) a mile off, where will they be by the time you get anywhere close to them? I know it all depends on terrain and all that, but long range dogs just wont work on our places.....
Looks like short and long range dogs are fixin to be like comparing curs vs hounds, dogo vs pit, open vs silent, and so on and so on!!!
