All these guys that don't expect their dogs to run a hog if it runs have better spots than I do. I have decent spots but I have heard guys say "we can find another faster than we bay up a runner" lol its not that way around here. Also read stories about quitting dogs coming back and baying hogs close to the truck because it didn't stay with the original hog. That won't work either so I can see where high densities will make what some would cull acceptable to others.
oconee i dont have great spots to hunt their moslty all cut overs and so thick you have to get on your belly going in and crawl and slide or drive the forwheeler. i never hardly get to see a hog before i send the catch dog but i usually have seen his track a few times where he crossed a road. but when i do turn on a track in the road i have a high percentage of catching in withing the next couple hours somewhere, alot of times it will be way from where i started but if i fed quiters id be only catching 30,40,50. i have a place i can hunt by my house about 3000 acres i usually just take young dogs here and i dont even take a bulldog with me cause if i sent one to them bayed id have to go in there its terrible country, i usually just leave them bayed and go back home and check them on the tracker every so often to see if they moved and i dont count them hogs in my tally. but dogs quiting and just coming back to the fourwheeler and stumbling up on a hog is not very likely to happen over here, it might would if i had some " finders Grabbers" but i just have cur dogs. some people will except flaws in a dog because they like it as a pet instead of a hunting dog
I didn't read anything in there where your curs hunted any different or were any better or worse than my finder holders. Only difference in our game is when the pig first sees a finder holder it's caught. When a pig sees your curs, it leads the curs off deeper in the brush and your left trying to get a catch dog close enough to the bay once the bay is settled that you feel comfortable turning it loose. Bad thing about that is the pig is already furious and on the fight when your cd arrives plus he the pig is normally in a much better spot to protect itself against the assault than it was when the curs first made contact with it. That's the biggest difference in hunting with curs and finder holders. Good finder holders ain't no worse or better at finding pigs than a good cur. It's what happens when they find them that they differ
