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« Reply #20 on: February 05, 2014, 10:46:41 am » |
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Thanks Circle T, sounds like we are on the same page. The dogs we run now are fast and have lots of bottom, Walker/Cat crosses. This will sound ridiculous but we ourselves walked 11 miles on foot on a hunt at the end of this last summer. Fortunately I grew up around here and new who to call if we crossed a place that I didn't have permission to hunt it or could skirt the couple that were a problem. There wasn't a single place that didn't have fresh sign on it the whole way. We were getting brushed off on fresh group after fresh group about every 6-800 yards it seemed. These hogs usually let about 2 barks out and then the race is on. We caught one hog at the first of the hunt and another at the end. That was how we got the dogs caught but it took getting a dog to them that pulled up tighter and would sure enough bite If the hog wasn't faced up. That dogs style pulled the other two up closer so that they could work the hog if it decided it wanted to leave. They weren't trying to catch but letting it know it didn't have options. There's no telling how much ground the dogs covered if we went 11 miles ourselves. Needless to say the dogs were out for 4 or 5 days after that race. I feel like those kinds of races will make an old dog of a prime dog prematurely. It was the most miserable hunt I have been on in 20+ years of doing this.
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