How to get a solid team of dogs without paying an arm and a leg

I had good luck with getting pups out of a proven line and a couple older dogs from people to get the pups going but unless you are really good friends with someone who has a lot of good dogs you're going to be paying for a good dog to train pups in my neck of the woods.I feel that you can only teach a pup so much but a seasoned dog can teach it much more. As far as hounds go I can't comment but if you're wanting silent dogs don't try to find one that hasn't been bred to be just find silent curs you also said your tracts of land are smaller another reason to consider Curs rather than hounds.By no means am I an authority on the subject but I managed to build a decent set of dogs on my own like this also Judge was correct in that you need a quality catch dog as well. Good luck.