T-Bob, I don't know the term you want to use, but I've seen many a hog go many miles at a very high rate of speed with some super fast dogs burning their ass up... and never check up.
I don't think they were trotting, maybe not a sprint... but,running their ass off.
x2...a hog is fast and can take the heat better than dogs that hunt once a week (I am talking about the summer months)...the hog always runs towards the thick brush because that doesn't slow him down much...but the dogs slow down considerably in those thick briars and palmettos...dogs with lots of bottom and with the ability to stick with the track and those dogs that will get in a large briar patches after a hog will eventually bring that hog to bay...When the weeds are dead and down after January the dogs will take the heat better and they will also catch the hogs faster...usually in less than a mile with the old pack I used to keep...but when five dogs are running the hog and they overtake him in the open it is a stopped hog...open meaning that the dogs can hammer down on the hog and stay clear of the ivory...in the summertime these dogs don't do as well in the thick jungle...
