I think the main reason cur dogs seem to bay faster is because alot of times when a curdog takes a track or winds a hog the hog isnt far away and they haven't trailed it 2 miles to jump it so they haven't yet got fatigued when they find the hog . However you are doing more driving to get these dogs near enough to a hog to smell it. Most people will probably disagree but that was the case in most instances where I hunt. But you dump a good hound right on a hogs tail and I net he bays just as fast as the curdogs. If he has any grit that is. Lol
I agree with the penned hog theory I see no point once the dog starts baying a hog fine to continue to put him in a square pen to bay a penned hog.
When I mentioned puppy pen that is a 100 acre pen that has roughly 5 hogs all 80 to 100 pounds that run like crazy and rarely bay. We use that pen to train puppies to run hogs and we will pull in the pen drive around to a good fresh looking spot and dump the pups if they can't get something going we send a veteran dog in there and help them out. This is usually done only in the off season . Once huntin season gets here they go huntin only.
