This is too funny.
But for some open discussion on dogs that open on track & some dont & this is just my personal experience & what I have observed over the years. No right or wrong answers, just everybodies observations.
I have had some curs that were run with my hounds & they were dead silent, never opened until the hog was stopped & looking at them.
I have seen curs that were semi open to wide open on a jumped track, that were never run with hounds.
I have had two plotts over the years that were silent. From their genetics, they should have been open but after they were hunted until they were a year & 1/2 to two years old, they both went silent. While both were what I call intelligent dogs, I dont know if it was brains or they just learned if they shut up, they might get up on the hog.
But bringing up the silent dogs, I have seen hogs still run 4 or 5 hour with a silent dog on them.
Some hogs are just going to run & some are not & some will run to their thickest cover to bay up in.
On the dogs side & this I really believe, whether open or silent, some dogs just have the touch. They bay hogs consistently.
I also think where you hunt can also dictate what dogs you use. Hogs that are heavily hunted are just going to run more because you are hunting the survivors & it does not matter whether a dog is open or not.
i use to run fox hounds and had lots of them that would shut up while running and get up closer to the game be it fox, coyote, or deer. You would hear them open up again several hundred yards ahead of the pack. These was always the better dogs of the pack also.
