BAY DOG - STRIKE DOG?

All this new age terminology cracks me up. I was with a buddy one day that has been running dogs for a couple years now and I introduced him to a real good friend of mine who has been running dogs for i guess about 30+ years now. The younger age friend was looking around at the older age friend's dogs (must have been around 20 or more head). The younger age friend notices that there were no bulldogs. After taking a look at the dogs he asks the older friend which of these are your strike dogs? The older friends pauses and I could hear what he was thinking, he didnt have to say a word. After he paused for a second he says....everyone of them dogs.

What I am getting to is, back in the day there wasnt all these different terms that were associated with dogs. Everydog that was being fed was a hogdog and they had better find a hog and bay it or they didnt last long (I mean being fed). There have always been some dogs that were colder nosed and maybe used to start a track, but every other dog had better be hunting and trying to start the track.

If you ask me or observe my dogs, everyone of them (besides the bulldog) better get out and hunt and find thier own hog. Each dog better bay and stay with a runner and they must have a certain amount of grit want want to when it comes to trying to catch.

So to get to the answer, i would say they are one in the same, but if they are not, I aint going to feed a dog that will just bay.