Message #299750

[crackerc]

Big Chris, I have owned and hunted Plotts in the past. The ones I had were semi-silent but that was 25 years ago. These days there are way more hog hunters and way more educated hogs. Before you could bay a hog with about any dog. Now they all want to run and you need either a dog with bite to stop them, or a dog with a lot of bottom to run one for hours to stop him.

With hunting places getting smaller and smaller, I don't have the places to run one for 5-6 hours and still be where I am legally supposed to be. So I tried to breed out some of the catch in my dogs, but keep enough bite to whoa one up. My old dogs (15-20 years ago) would bark 1-2 times then catch about any hog. Put 2-3 dogs on the ground and it was caught no matter how big it was, and lots of times the dogs paid the price for that. So I tried to breed a dog with emough bite to stop a hog, then back up and bay. My old Dixie dog was about as perfect a dog for me, as I have ever seen. Problem was, she got old on me......and due to cancer, I never got a pup from her.

But my dogs are cow bred and they just don't get out more than about 250-300 yards when hunting. Thats fine on a small place, but I hunt one place thats 24,000 during deer season and thats a LOT of walking in 300 yard loops........plus, the dogs are wore out by the time you get on a hog.


So I am looking for a dog with a little more range and a little more lung capacity. Not like a hound that will run for days, but more than what I currently have. Real fine line there between enough and too much lung capacity, bottom or whatever you want to call it. At least for me.