One thing is terrain. We bay lot hogs in thickets wher u have to get on your hands an knees to a caught hog. Its hard for a dog to stop one in that stuff unless it catches. Another thing is if a hog wants to run its goin too. Them hogs run every day and my dogs only run when i let them out. And these days pigs hit the ground runnin when they are born. My dogs aint the best but catch lot hogs with em but i hunted with one best dogs in my area couple dsys ago and got out ran. Hog just didnt want to stop and he wasnt goin too for long
X2 It seems to me that our problem isn't speed its the thick terrain. A month ago we got the chance to see our pack stop a runner (bout 80lber. flying low) out in the open. That hog was stretched out and gettin it! He took off right when we put the dogs on the ground and he had a hundred yard head start but the curs caught him. So that tells me that our dogs are fast enough.
When we get outrun, it usually plays out like this..... the dogs are out in the woods and we hear a dog strike. We may hear a few barks afterwards. Looking at the garmin, all of the dogs head that way. Soon after, they will split up and go in different dirctions. Every now and then a dog may stop and bay up but then it goes quiet and the dog or dogs is still in the same place for about 3 to 5 minutes and and then they take off again.
At the same time, a dog or two will be a mile away still running.
We go in to see what the dogs who quit barking are doing and they will usually come meet us and then we will find a piglet or small choat. So we will load those dogs up and then have to go pick up the other dogs because by then they are getting on someone elses property.
This scenario is very common this time of the year. It seems like there are lots of sows with young ones that split the dogs up and we wind up with nothing caught and very tired dogs by the end of the night.
