Plotts?

Matt, 700-800 circles is ideal to me too. Actually the nose and bottom is whats needed most. Ive tried couple different brands of curs, and none of them would hunt out over 200 yrds max. And were hot nosed. You pretty much had to walk them over a hot track, which makes it tough up here in the mtn. Im not knocking curs, I'd still like to find some like I keep hearing about, but like i said before, they are heavily guarded and not available to the public, which I can kind of understand.
and what I meant by not catching 10 hogs a day, I didnt mean that the hounds couldn't do it, but after running couple miles in these mtns wrestling and tying a hog leading dogs and dragging hog, you wont feel like catching anymore, atleast I don't.
there ain't no roads where I hunt, its all on foot.
As far as bottom, I want them to stick til it bays or has a heart attack. If I turn loose at daylight, I want them to at least stay hooked til the sun goes down, and im talkin hog and bear both. Some of these guys have dogs that will stay all day and all night, and can go in the next day and track their dogs up and re-pack fresh dogs in. But those are few and far between.
Hounds just work better up here, just like curs work better down there, the terrain plays a big part. I wouldnt even consider hunting a silent dog up here before the Garmin came out. Since they screwed the hog hunting up, up here I now have to hunt down south, so ive got two bird dog pups, im hoping will give me the range and nose im looking for in a silent dog.