Well I can tell you this:
1-You are not gonna take a pack of mutts and let them find hogs for you on a consistent basis unless you are over run with hogs. Put them dogs down with a track dog and that one dog will make that pack loom like an idiot.
2-You're not going to CONSISTENTLY get a mutt from a pound that can produce a hog by itself on a regular basis. Just ain't happening.
3-I hunt pretty hard in the summer and I don't run vests so saying people who don't run gear don't like their dogs not true. And if you're consistently catching big hogs, you will get a dog killed sooner or later. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. If you wanna play, sooner or later you'll pay the piper
that why I keep up with my dogs and I scout the areas so I know what hogs im hunting and hunt the dogs that I know can handle the hogs im after, I have been doing this for some 15 years now and have listened to hog hunters that have hunted 30 and 40 years. Its a matter of learning and I learn something every time I go out. I have never claimed to know everything but I do know that to catch the number of hogs I do and the size I do and not loose a dog i must be doing something right and must have learned everything that has been taught to me and must be training my dogs right as well.
