If you get to always dropping them in hot sign or walking them into sign it will knock the hunt out of lots of them, they get to where they depend on you to find them hogs. Sort of like too much baypen will do a lot of them. If you want one to hunt cast them don't walk them or "road" them.
I have figured this out in the few years I have been hunting. We hunt them in front of 4-wheelers and I have noticed that it will change the way a dog hunts in a dozen or two trips in my opinion. Done this to a dog I got last year after my lead strike dog got killed. He was hunting out real good and would roll off, he done got used to hunting in front of that wheeler so I am trying to sit still a lot more and let him go find the hogs instead of me putting him in hot sign. Seems to be getting better.
I really don't think that's the issue in my case. I am a firm believer that if I have to hunt for sign or ride all over then I really don't need dogs. Not that there is anything wrong with people doing it. That is just not what I want on my feed bill.
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