open mouth dogs

This topic has been beat to death on here a thousand times, THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG, it's all in what you enjoy, for instance, where I live the majority of the terrain in semi hilly planted pine timber company land, big blocks of land with hardwood swamps along the creeks or rivers, thick as hair on a rabbits back I used to be a dead silent dog kinda guy, over the years I owned a hound or two and it was always the slow track working babble all day and not go anywhere type of dog, it wasn't until I got the privilege to start tagging along with veterans of the sport in my region and they all ran dogs that opened on track, and guess what, they tied just as many if not more hogs than people who were so consumed in silent dogs that they couldn't see past their rose cored glasses, I started paying attention to how their dogs worked and how they hunted, I still own several silent dogs and will continue this breeding project I have with my curs, I'm currently adding the right hounds into the mix, I like to hunt for big hogs so a track minded dog is more in demand than a silent casting cur, if your a numbers Hunter then I would say go with rough as cob catch on sight dogs, that style of dog won't last around here especially in the summer months when it's in the 90's by daybreak with a humidity of 85%, plus side to a good open dog is the way some hogs like to run its so much harder trying to pack fresh dogs to a silent dog to get up under the hog and pump the air out of him. How were successful most of the time is if we get on a big hog that wants to run, we try to catch as many crossings as we can and keep rotation fresh dogs in and out and wear him down. Each type of dog has their own advantages they bring to the table.