...black streak you got the best ...that should help matter's ....
.... each hog is different and the same hog can be different on any given day ...what works today may fall a little short tomorrow .... .... caught a big male hog one time he just set down and squealed like a sow ....we cut him bayed him another time he damn near killed everything we had ....you just never know .....one thing is for sure tell somebody how good your dogs are and your sure to look like a fool later ....
Well I didn't say they were the best, you did so i better not get ginksed.
When I used to do the bay dog deal, I'd have ups and downs. Catch 3 big rank boars back to back in a night and not a scratch. Then about get whipped out by one 200 pounder a week later. Or get out ran twice in a night after having started one. I'd say my dogs probably were not as good as yours are but at that time, I was hunting behind the best strike dog I or anyone else I've ever known of had ever had the privilege of hunting behind. Dog did and still does belong to my pig dogging buddy I had then.
Since swapping styles and getting the style of dogs I have now, things are much more consistent, predictable, convenient and has opened up new land and hunting opportunities since I can take landowners with me, send the dogs to pigs in a feild, let them watch the chase and the catch and let them see the speed and the efficiency and effectiveness of dogs like these without ever getting out of the feild and when the landowners are with me, they like to sight hunt. We never get out of the truck, just watch the dogs in the warmth of the truck through the windshield while they enjoy a cold one. The drive them out to the catch and let them stick it or let them watch me tie it. If I was to send a bay dog to the same groups of pigs, the landowner would look at me and and say what you gonna do now that the dogs are over on so and so's place. Most of the land owners have been pig dogging once and won't let you pig dog on them around here cause of the bay that happens on the neighbor. Landowner seen between the lines and new the pig dogger would be crossing property lines in order to get to bay. Permission denied. Permission granted when you show them the efficiency and effectiveness of rcd's hard enough and fast enough to catch in the feild, not just once but almost every time. They really like it that you just hunt with 2 dogs too instead of a pack. Then they are really impressed when you tell your dogs to let go and they let go and then ride loose in the back of the truck with a tied pig without bothering it. They tend to want to go again and tell you to catch as many pigs as you want, just don't go when it's wet and tear the feilds up. Sight hunting is done primarily when the landowners go cause its fun for them. I rarely have an injury to a dog that gets it laid up for a hunt.
As long as the dog can consistently run down and catch pigs in the open, things should be more consistent on hunts because it's in the dogs hands for a better percentage of the time than if you didn't. I know you don't give two shakes about hunting in the open, I'm just saying if a dog has this ability, the dog can and will stop a runner given a fair chance. If it can't do this consistently, no matter where the pig is, open country or brushy, the pig dictates the situation most of the time, not the dog. Referring to runners
