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You and I are definitely on same page Waylon and Rueben you are correct. I went through the mid 90's on a few unproductive hunts and all the folks I was with could talk about was hounds being a key to getting a jump at all. Same way when I started back around 99-00. Few and far between but when we got in them anything was a victory except the old man who usually led the hunts he had catahoulas and he had worked hogs all his life and he didn't like it all if they grabbed a piglet. (That man is Odis Weems and shortly after taking me on several hunts he quit the woods all together and went to the bay pen strictly because pseudorabies wiped his old woods dog stock out and we were bringing ABs, Curs x with hounds, hounds, Pit x Curs, etc. and he refused to hunt with them dogs on his hogs) Later I started hunting with some good yellow blood ( probably not 100% but they look like BMCs and hunt like they are on fire. They are all fairly rough when it comes to a single hog but they get into a sounder they will bunch them up, circle and bay like a stock dog should. They are smart and the blood with worked well on both cattle and hogs. They seem to have the instinct to only get as rough as needed to get the job done, but of course that comes only with experience in most cases. There are some that are flat out just rough or not at all, but the consistent medium is definitely there and like I say the only complaint I have heard on their hunting is they have too much range, too much bottom and are hard to catch of they are not ready to go, which the last part can be fixed If they wanted too.
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"You lose a lot of money chasing hogs and women, but never lose women chasing money."
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