mine have never been real rangey in no sign, but ive changed my game a bit this year and it has worked well even on my grown dogs.
I keep them up in the wheeler and go to where I feel like dropping wether in sign or not. kill the wheeler, unclip the dogs and read a book or play a game on my phone. I don't talk to them much or mess with them, just leave them to it and they have started really getting a lot better about range.
one of my best ones has always been frustratingly short ranged, but after a month of doing him this way, he left out and stayed gone about 2 hours yesterday morning. never did wake up a boar hog, but hunted hard and I wasn't mad at him
T-bob, I walk hunt a lot, in the last month I've got tired of them being so short range so I Started casting them at feeders off a rig at night and just completely ignoring them. The last 2 night it's taken about 20-25 minutes for them to finally roll past 300 yards but they've struck at over a mile both nights. Haven't stopped the hog(i think it's the same one we ran both nights) but I'm happy as all get out that they are ranging!!!
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