Long distance running

There are some places where the hogs run bad & the dogs do not always stay on the same hog but keep switching. There are others where you can see the hog cross numerous times & know you are on the same one. Most of the time when you stay on a good boar for a number of hours & you just know you going to bay him any minute & all of the sudden the dogs are all split up running different hogs. Hogs cannot run very long but in thick cover, they can trot all day & in a lot of places, the dogs just cannot open up & run. If you can relay them & keep the pressure on, sometimes you can break that hog down. Most of the hogs that we have run for 20 plus miles & we caught them, they died within 10 minutes of tying them up. Every hog we have run a long distance, has always been a good boar. I can tell you this, if a hog wants to run, you will be lucky if you stop him with the same set of dogs you started him with. I told a guy one time that the dog that starts it, is not always the dog that bays it. lol We relay a lot, mostly because I have these sorry Plotts.