Runnin hogs or time to raise the bar?

Well dog work is dog work and I am a fan of good dogs regardless of their jobtitle.

That being said, to me PERSONALLY, Im not looking for folks to leave a hunt that I hosted and say " yeah, but did you see his catchdog!?!?!!!!"
I want my curs to hold the hog at bay. That won't always be possible but that's what I'm shooting for. I was hunting with some folks once and had my youngest gyp take a track nice and quiet and calm and slip off 1.4 miles and bay a good boar. I told the other folks about it and we headed off that way. It took a long time, probably close to an hour to get over there and by then most the other dogs had joined the bay. This hog was bayed solid. We got to I believe 700 yards and one of the fellas let loose the bulldog. By the time we got there the boar was on deaths doorstep and not really worth taking pictures with as he was in bad shape.

I'm no longer worried over it and MAYBE it was the right call, who am I to say, but I would have rather gotten to walk in and make eye contact with her and then catch it. She did well and I feel like I owed her more than what she got.