Who do you blame when hogs get away?

I blame the young guys hunting with me for not doing their part..............thats why its always good to have a young person there with some young dogs, you always have a scape goat....................joking.

Honestly after 35 yrs I gave up on pointing blame. Trying to figure out if you did something wrong is Ok but to lay blame is making excuses for you and your dogs. The ones that get away dont bother me, its the one that kills a dog that keeps me up at night thinking "what could I have done different".
The other one that makes me think hard is why didnt we start anything at all, not even a bark or an interest, on one of my best places.

I have run many sored boars over the years that were sored long before I got to them. I had one we ran about 12xs, we would start him in the same place everytime, and he would run the same direction everytime. Everytime I came at him we tried something different with the same end result. The night we got him I said "dont care lets just run him get it over with so we can move on to something else", 4 bay dogs caught him like he was a pig, 100 yrds after the first bark, he weighed 312 lbs. Nothing was done any different, the same dogs were used, no thought was given just dumped em out so we could get it over with, you just never know.

There is nothing more unpredicable than a hog. I do agree with wnwendler that there are lots of things to consider and even take respondsibility for but there is even more that is way out of our control.