Yeah Lacy man there is a whole world of difference between letting a dog bay in a control environment and letting them go at it in the woods in real time . The dogs learn really noting much in a pen because there is noting in the way no brush , no briar's, no trees, no noting in the way no creeks no tanks noting . These young dogs need to learn its not all about barking and running round and round in circles with noting in their way. They need to learn they can get pin in the brush in the briar's and one are two ass kicking because of this in the real time in the real woods they don't forget it . All the bay pen is doing is teaching them how ruff they can get and bad habits , thats about it .
I don't even start my dogs in bay pens , I will drive my trailer back there with a hog are two in it and walk off and lettem bay till their hearts are content and let them learn what a hog is then maybe one time put them in with a rank little hog so they can see he ain't gonna put up with all there BS and let them know he will hurt them after that its all to the woods and everything they learn is in the woods in real time .
Yup I may let em see a pig outside the pig young, but other than that its all real time. One of my young dogs got reallll rough on a big hog and she learned for it the hard way. I ve actually trained my cd same way. I ve loaded him up since about 8 months and would turn loose when I could see what I was sendin him in on and last hunt was prob his 8 th or 10 th hog and he's almost a year and I let him loose at 80 yards out and he caught on ear and was budging on a little 70 lber. Best experience I think
