I hear ya I hunt with Blakes tater and it can be very exhausting trying to catch up...especially if Blake's tater, jo's hound and my female are on the ground..they relay...it's when they start relaying that it really gets interesting.
My pack consist of loose bay, gritty and rough ..short range to relay dog...I like being able to adapt to whatever strangely we decide to use.
I prefer a short range dog so I dont have to walk so far from the truck. Also, I hood and road hunt, VERY SELDOM walk a dog more than 100 yards. If they wont hunt/wind farther than I am willing to walk them in, then they wont be fed by me.
My Tator was road hunted his entire life. I dont think it took any range out of him, but if it did, I call that a good thing.
I prefer to have a ground dog like Tator, Freak, Teejay, Joe's hound, Steve's pup (that will eventually be my pup once he has that new baby) etc grinding it out, and a smart hood dog like Yeller/Buck/TXCSteve's Sam/any of Monty's yellow dogs, on the hood. Sometimes that wind is just far enough off the ground that a hood dog will pick it up in the air when a ground dog is kicking so much dust up they run right by it.
[/quote] AMEN TO THAT BROTHER PREACH ON
