Different Hunting Styles and terrain

I was just thinking about creating a similar thread.... personally, I walk hunt. Not by choice, but by necessity. We have around 180k acres that we hunt, that for the most part is all properties connecting together. These properties have very little vehicle access. You can get a side by side or a 4 wheeler in the very beginning of the properties, or maybe right at the property line, but after that you can’t even ride a four wheeler through the property. It’s all thick stuff, or multiple water crossings, briar beds, swamp, etc..

I think this has negatively affected my dogs to an extent. The challenge for us is finding the hogs. They move across so much land that we have to cover a lot of ground to find them. So in a sense we walk the dogs to fresh sign. I think this leads to the dogs not hunting hard. My dogs stay very close until we hit a hot track. If they’re more than 250yds they’re running something. I wish that they would range out and hunt for sign harder, that’s my main complaint with my dogs. I would love to cast dogs, but I really can’t on any of my land. So I would like my walk hunting dogs to range further while looking for a track.

Normally we are hunting near the river, or if we have a farmer saying he’s seen pigs in a certain area we go there

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