good so far now i'll be the first one to say i've had some dogs QUIT a hog [i prefer to call them back via a horn or by hollerin ] . but i want to know how they could loose a red hot big boar hogs scent . when they can find it in high wind, too much scent ? dry cond. to begin with . i'm not tryin to hurt no ones feelings just an old man tryin to learn something new
This is a good topic halfbreed.
I will tell you how I've seen it happen. They didn't loose a hog with their nose or lack of bottom. It was all in their mind in my opinion.
Simply getting distracted after overrunning a track or a hog that loops back and runs right through the middle of the hunting party or something like that. I think it's easy for some young and inexperienced dogs to miss or overrun a track and then get distracted and confused.
The times I was sure it happened, it was almost always my fault because I came between them and the hog they were running.
Old dogs are hard to fool and get off task though.
