I literally just asked for one of you to articulate better. What your calling a “track drifter” I just call a dog from the explanation so far. It’s bad ones good ones and better ones. I make it a point to own better ones. You say you only learn as much as you allow yourself to. I say it’s only as easy as you make it. I pay attention, I knit pick, I’ll call my dogs off of hogs because they’re not baying like they know how. I beg the question because the only time I’ve heard of drifting on a track was from a coon hunter and it wasn’t a compliment to the dog. Every hog in the world could die tomorrow and mine will still go on cows. I quit claiming to be a hog hunter almost 2 years ago because of guys that get wound up like you are right now. You told me baying and shooting in your part of the world wasn’t doable and then not a few weeks later shot 2 bad hogs in a bad spot in the same hunt at night none the less. I’m not saying a dog can’t do what y’all are saying, I’m saying it resulting in the outcome you are claiming seems far fetched at best by the very generic explanation that’s been given. It’s not a faster way to travel straight than going straight and straddling a track and pushing one are 2 different things
Somethings can't be explained, they have to be witnessed to understand, and to have a better judgement of what's going on you'd be ahead of the curve to go fox or cat hunting to understand how much faster and efficient a dog that can run the scent funnel with his head in the air than a dog that puts its nose to the ground and makes every step the game makes, I promise you , you of all people aren't getting me"wound up", especially something being said on the Internet, but it does rub me the wrong way a little when someone who doesn't even know me and admits he doesn't know what we're talking about when we talk about a track drifter wants to jump in and call bullsh!t on something you say you know nothing about, to men who have been using that style of dogs for years, it's not something new, I don't have to far fetch or stretch anything, anytime I make a statement about me and mine I will gladly back it up, as far as baying and shooting hogs around here I'll still stand my ground on that, what happened to us was a fluke and one hog had 50lb dog hanging off his ear, and I'll probably never have that opportunity around here again, and again if you think it's as "easy" as you make then come on and come show us how easy it is, there's a difference in thinking one thing and actually knowing something, and actual experience trumps what you think or heard, maybe someone would have broken it down for you better if you wouldn't have said that those of us who actually know what a drifter is and own them and how efficient they are didn't know what we're talking about and that we're crazy if we think any different...
