I have several hound cross dogs. They were open on track for a long time. They are now more silent than open. This could simply be learned. Usually they will locate bark once or twice then silence. I like this because it does draw the other dogs to the track. With that said if a man wants a silent dog your chances fair better with a cur than a hound. Excitement gets them hounds telling the world about it.
Shotgun
Arkansas
Oh I feel ya on the excitement thing. I hunted a blue tick gyp for a couple months before realizing she had just too much mouth for me especially because I didn't have a gps at the time. She would open the second she caught even the slightest wind of them and then the pigs would take off running like some track stars. She couldn't seem to keep the pigs stopped at all. This had me running like an idiot through the woods every different direction chasing her bays that only lasted 30 seconds or so, and I never even got close to finding her until the pigs were gone for good. I loved her nose, as she would wind pigs that the curs never knew were there, but I wasn't sure how to build a pack around her so I sold her to a guy that had more of the running catch/ extremely rough help dogs. Still regret it to this day cause she was only about 2 and still green. I just didn't wanna be the one to ruin a good dog.
