We bayed a group once and caught one out of it. I was sitting out in the open pasture and watched a boar cross it and saw where he entered the next set of woods. When clyde rolled over, that was the hog he left on. He was an easy 25 to 30 yards to the down wind side of where the boar crossed. He was running it as hard as he could go. Another 150 yards into the next set of woods he put up bayed again on that boar. I think a hog lays a wider track than we realize sometimes, depending on the conditions of course. Scent is gonna carry in breezy or light wind. It's gonna scatter in high wind. It also is easier to scent when the moisture is right. Too much or too little and it has no way of clinging to anything or gets washed out. Obviously it isn't going to spread out as much in the brush and even less when its green and vegetation is thicker. Lol I've seen dogs like that gyp your talking about Tony. They sure can aggravate you.
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Tdog most of the hog hunters who think they have it figured out don't know squat other than the sound of a bay and what a hog track looks like, they couldn't tell you a thing about scenting conditions and environmental conditions and how to hunt them accordingly or track style in a dog, most only know a dog has a nose and can smell a hog track and that's about all they can tell you, the rest is just a guess and shot in the dark as to why something happened the way it did instead of breaking down the reasons why and understanding how certain things work, that's to complicated, it's easier to tell somebody they're full of it and don't know what they're talking about, that's about on the same lines as me telling a mechanic how to rebuild and engine because I changed the oil and put air in the tire once....
I see why there's very few folks that are actively commenting regularly on here, I know several VERY knowledgable men who no longer participate in conversations on here anymore and now I see why.....
