No matter what kind of dog you run, RCD or loose baying, you will never catch them all. RCD's are great but if the hog gets a jump in thick cover, he will never get his mouth on a hog. Same with a loose baying dog, if it breaks it is gone & that is where you need speed & bottom Most of my dogs are on the catchy side but I try to pair them up where they will bay a big hog & I can turn a catchdog loose to catch the hog but all to often, especially if I have friends along, we will have 3 or 4 dogs out & they will catch anything. Everybody knows there is that fine line, that when a dog first locates a hog, the hog can break as soon as the dog finds it or it will bay. If catch dogs cant get a mouth flu it is off to the races & the same with loose baying dogs.
Even with speed & bottom, you will never catch them all. So until we breed up the perfect dog, we will still have runners that will get away.jmo
x2...exactly my feelings and experiences...
I very seldom bayed sounders because my dogs were too gritty and would bust that up...this time of year in the right terrain and it was not that hard to catch hogs...once late April rolled around and the weeds were back up and it was not that easy again...dogs can't compete with a hog in the thick brush/weeds...also have to take into consideration that the high humidity and higher temperatures the dogs tend to over heat and will get out ran lots of times...now if I ran my dogs 3 times a week that wouldn't be as bad a problem...breed the perfect dog for one terrain and he won't be so perfect for another area...
