Instinctive

I believe that an exceptional wind dog is the best at track drifting.I own the best wind dog I've been around to date Hambone regularly winds hogs up to a half mile.When he barks and I cut him he makes a straight line to the hogs he also uses this ability in running the track after jumped.Last night he winded some hogs at 675 we caught 6 out of the group and he lined the boar out the terrain was marsh with oak hammocks and a lot of switchgrass ponds it looks like the moon on google earth from all the ponds the hogs use these switchgrass ponds to loose the dogs they are extremely thick and nothing but hog tunnels the hogs will enter make a few laps and exit to the next a lot of dogs dive headlong in and get hung up on trying to find the exit by the time they do the hog generally has a big lead and by the third of fourth time its as good as gone well Hambone and my cypress dog will run around the edge and wind the exit and actually make up ground where most make a loss.They have figured out how to counter this play from experience and intelligence.I watched Hambone do this over and over on the garmin last night for a couple miles until he realed him in and got bayed.A straight trail dog struggles in this situation without winding first off you'd never strike the hogs and running step for step they get hung up in the hog mazes in the switchgrass ponds