Cast Hunting

You can't train a dog to want to hunt and find game, that part has to be bred into them, but you can train the distance and the way they hunt. I've done it for 50 years, so you can't tell me it can't be done. I've taken dogs that hunt too deep and shorten them up and dogs that wanted to make short rounds and check back in, hunt out further and not check in. If the dogs I bred and trained came back after 45 minutes to an hour, I was sure that whole area I was in held no hogs. I could also send them into an area I wanted to check out instead of having to walk in there. I have pulled up to a creek and send dogs up the creek and dogs down the creek and catch hogs with both sets. You just have to stay on your toes and correct things before they become habit and never stop training.