Plotts?

Waylon, here is the answer I got from the well respected yellow dog man I was talking about, if you dont know who Im talking about just pm me and Ill let ya know.

Well number one, I just never could bring myself to break a set of Curs off cattle since that is their primary job here, next most places here I absolutely cannot hog hunt a dog that will bay cattle, and finally I do really like to know who struck the track, who ran the front end, who made the pick if there is a break in the race, and how did they get from point a to point b. It has absolutely nothing to do with the terrain or that I think a good Plott works better than a good Cur.
I do think (that on the average) it is easier to get a better nose and more bottom with a Plott than a Cur and it is easier to get a better bay dog with a Cur, by that I mean a Cur dog is more apt to have a better inherent instinct to know what it takes to keep a hog bayed that really doesn't want to. Handling hogs or cattle "is" and always will be all about pressure and position when, how much, sometimes more and then less pressure 10 seconds apart etc.
Lets use the little gyp that Derek bought for an example, she is a nice young dog but no superdog at this point in time, her first trip to the woods after having seen a hog in a pen twice she made the whole trip and ran up with my other 2 dogs on a boar hog 7 hours, her daddy and her aunt made a 5 hour race with 2 different bays in the deal their first trip to the woods at 8 months old, but I had turned them 2 hogs loose prior to that, their grandpa made an 8 hour race on the baddest boar I have ever found in the woods at 8 months his 3rd time to the woods and was cut up the first time they bayed him at about 45 minutes, after having said all that I firmly beileve you will catch more numbers of hogs with good Cur dogs especially where there are more hogs, and I know full well there are Cur dogs with the same sort of nose and stick as I just mentioned with the Plotts but it is harder to come by.
I have dedicated 2 males that are full brothers but younger, to your Owen dog to hogs, I am going to solid break them off cattle and just hog hunt them, the reason I chose them to do this to is that I am still breeding primarily for cow dogs but I have 7 of them here that are full brother and sisters so I can see all the cow work I need to from the other 5.
Well that is my opinion and reasoning, I don't mind you asking at all nor do I think it was a dumb question. Tell ever body Hi.