How many times/year do your dogs get to hunt?

Here's my input on the deal.

My rule would be put a well bred pup (6-9 months) in fresh sign 6-8 times a month, be careful not to burn the pup out. I'd hunt the pup alone more than with well started/finished dogs. Do that for a few months to see how the pup ranges out and hunts to figure what style the pup has. If there is no range and the pup looks at you all the time like "where are we goin?" Then get a new pup!

A well started/finished=high dollar hog dog would get you on the right track-if you can find one that suits your style. That puts you into another deal you must figure.

Do you have enough land that has hogs to justify owning that proven dog? Can you find the time to hunt that dog that does justice the dog deserves? Just a couple honest questions we all should ask ourselves.

Side note:
I also live in central OK. There's a good hog population scattered if you look hard enough. We are not as loaded as TX....so you have to have:

1) access to hunt private land (which is almost impossible without somebody already doing what we want to do) That makes for friends or enemies depending on character.

2) good to great dogs that have great noses and bottom to stick with the runners (unless you like gritty dogs that can stop em-in theory)