Well Kevin I guess I've never seen a real hog dog out of the hundreds and hundreds of dogs I've hunted behind.
I can promise you one thing... if a hog wants to run... he's damn sure gonna do it. And wreck everything trying to stop him.
I don't have a clue what you've seen or haven't seen.
Again...your wrong..."if a hog wants to run its gonna run"...think about it....EVERY hog WANTS to run. Most just get their minds changed by the dogs. The biggest, meanest and the ones with the ivory are the ones that usually succeed. If YOUR dogs can't stop a 250lb sow or 250lb boar with not much in the area of cutters...well...your dogs aren't for me. Don't make em bad dogs...HELL...I KNOW they're still better than what I have right now, lol. But...like you, I do have expectations and goals and in the end I DON'T WANT dogs like that.
As far as where these dogs are at...the dogs of my recollection are long gone and the gentleman that owned them...well...i talked to him not long ago. We discussed running hogs and whether they were as bad back in the late 90's as they are now. We both thought the same...it had more to do with the dogs than anything else. I asked him if he had any of that blood left and he said no...he had bred it out of them because he was tired of sewing them up. He also said he didn't realize what he had when he had it and he wishes he still had it. Sound familiar Jimmy
Anyway...i don't have any in my yard for sure...but there are some out there. The term "bay buster" comes to mind...I know that's what some of you would say...but I assure you...put two or three "bay busters" together and the bay don't hardly bust. Again...let me make it clear...I ain't talkin about catchy dogs...just gritty as hell bay dogs. Anyway...that's what I'm shootin for....that'll suite me fine.
Hogs have changed, if they didnt they'd be extinct. Every one hates these Russian influenced running hogs but if it weren't for them we'd have nothing to hunt. If hogs would bay up in big wads like they used to when I was a kid, there would not be any left because every Tom dick and Harry wants to kill them.
And yes I agree there are dogs that can stop hogs better than others, there are dogs that can keep hogs bayed that other dogs can't but a HOG DOG will do every thing in is power to get one stopped and bayed but if it can't do it, it will run the hog till it can't physically go any further and they wil be bayed when you get there.
