I hunt, I guess you could say regularly, in all different types of terrain with all different types of dogs. I seen real rough to real loose and everything in between stop hogs. I'm a student and don't have much money, therefore I can't have a bunch of dogs. I am slowly building my pack around close baying, not rough except on the rear end of a runner (once stopped to at, back up and bay), with a lot of bottom that don't help catch big toothy boars. Then cd with enough bottom and hunt and lung to stop a runner if needed and a little size so they don't need cur dog help. For example, I can only remember my lacy dog having to take off one day in the past year and that was mostly cuz she had already put in 40 mi in the 48 hours before, but she did have a small cut on her cheek.
The reason I am building my pack this way is because I don't really feel like you can get the best out of a bay dog when they are geared up like a cd and if I get a dog cut down with only four dogs (one being a pup so really only 3), I'm out of hunting till they are healed up. If I had the space and money, I would have a few rougher dogs in the lineup as well though. I like hunting with rough dogs and seeing everything biting onto something when we get the the catch
