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
Good post...your hambone has brains and bottom...I haven’t used the Garmin to the full potential...I haven’t seen my dogs run to the other side and gain ground in this way...but it is great that your dog is doing that...as you know there is no way a dog can keep up with a hog running through the thickest of thickets whether it is cane or palmettos...
The only thing I can say about running to the other end is what I see in my back yard...I usually will have 3 or 4 pups in the kennels and every afternoon I turn them out to run and play...they will roughhouse and play chase and roll each other pretty regular...they are good about taking shortcuts on each other when they chase each other around the kennels... I don’t put much thought into this because they can see each other...but when they are chasing each other around the shed the one doing the chasing will lots of times cut around to the other side and catch them as they come around...other times the one going around will stop and double back fooling the dog that is chasing...it’s all fun and games for me as well...I am learning how the pups think and operate...and the pups are gaining experience on running and stopping a pig...
Again...sounds like ole hambone is making a really good dog...
