Y’all talk about drifting. The hogs we jack with are straight line runners. They’re gonna got a draw, or a branch, or creekline or something and leave. Not sure how a dog could drift that and it be more productive? I guess maybe if a hog is running circles it could work but I can count on about one hand how many hogs a year we get on that really change direction more than once and normally when they do it’s cause he’s got some leopard dogs screaming in his ear
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Have to see it and experience it to understand, it doesn't matter what direction a hog runs in its scent lingers in the air just the same, just the same as any other game animal, a track drifter will outrun a track straddler all day, I believe track drifting has as much to do with instinct and experience as it does genetics, it's usually seen in intelligent game smart dogs that have ran lots of game....
Break it down for me goose, if there is a more effective way to travel in a generally straight direction. I’d sure like to know about it. Wasn’t aware a hog was leaving a lingering scent trail as wide as a four lane highway for a dog to drift in. Sounds like a bunch of big time hog hunter bologna to me, or something you tell your buddies when your best dog can’t keep it pushing. I’ll take the dogs that can pick their head up and push a track 13-15 mile an hour in the post oak thickets and run him jump for jump. A lot of hogs make their last run just like that.
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