Deer July hound for hogs

Just about every dog I own has walker/July in them, like has been mentioned already, it’s not about the breed of a dog in general or even a line within a breed, it’s more to do with the individual itself, especially when dealing with running dogs, you have to take into consideration that your taking a dog to do a job that’s it’s not necessarily genetically wired to do, I have a gyp that I use to put into a jumped race because she doesn’t have to nose to push a cold track fast, I don’t need her for a jump dog, he reason for being in my pack is because of her trackspeed on a hot track, and the fact that she will bay all day long like a cur dog, even if the hog settles and lays down she’s stays with it, she’s bred for the speed and drive trials so trailing abilities aren’t bred for, I called a very good friend of mine that has an eye for dogs that I trust and told him what I was wanting and it took him about 2 years to find what I wanted, a guy that was getting into hunting and going with me, went to the mans yard that bred my female up and got a pile of nieces and nephews off my females brother an sister and they will not bay a lick, will run the hide off something all day but as soon as it stops they lose interest, same breeding as my female who bays better than a lot of curs but totally different type of dogs, don’t be disappointed or discouraged if your first few don’t pan out, tracking running is going to come natural with running walker/July dogs, focus on the dogs baying ability when selecting this type of dog, if it’s pups your getting to raise up try to find someone who raises gritty salty run to catch walkers, if your looking to get dogs reasonably local I’d suggest finding someone who bobcats hunts with running walkers, you’ll put yourself way ahead in a faster time than trying to go through a pile of dogs that don’t have it, now a days the majority of dogs bred in the south east are pen bred and don’t have the tools to make hog dogs, there’s always exceptions in everything but looking at averages the numbers aren’t good, if you don’t mind traveling I’d suggest finding some guys who have running walker coyote hounds from the northern states, these dogs are bred and developed to run down and catch coyotes in the wild and have the necessary tools in one package, to track, trail, run and bay big game...

A good friend of mine has an outstanding established line of running walkers that were bred for bobcat hunting, I crossed that blood over two cur gyps and the results have been way above my expectations...

If your not stuck on having full running walker/July’s then I’d suggest finding a good running walker and crossing over a good baying cur and weed through the whole litter to find what you want...