Closed Mouth Curs vs Open Mouth Hounds

There are hounds out there that babble & I am talking about dogs that are barking & they have no track. These are culls. Any dog that is open should not be barking, unless they are running a track.
I have hunted curs with hounds for thirty years. Up until the last seven years & since then I have gone all plotts. I have said it before & this is my experience, running curs with hounds will not make them open on track anymore then making my plotts shut up, running with silent cur dogs. Gentics, whether curs or hounds is what dictates if a dog is open or not.
The plotts seem to make curs run longer & especially when the track is heated up, they run better. There are a lot of curs that just do not have the nose hounds do & that is why they are not interested in colder tracks. To me, these are culls. All the curs I had in the past had really good noses & they were silent. JMO