Good points on the pen etiquette.
Now gotta ask yourself if you can take that dog into the worst thicket you cannot crawl through with a hog that took 4 hours to bring to bay........can that same dog handle a rank woods hog in its own environment?
Helped friends shovel dirt on many that tried.
Gotta be the monkey wrench for sake of conversation. Lol
Are there some that can handle both adequately ......sure. But typically Jacks of all ......Masters of none. And one in a thousand that is Maverick all around.
Well...I first want to say.....I've been away from the game for a WHILE. So... I'm....well my observations have been limited over the past few years and I don't want to step on any toes. That being said... I personally have never seen a top notch woods dog be a top contender at Earls.