Shy versus skittish Cur

She sounds skittish to me if you can't catch her most of the time after 7 months, but if you like her give her a chance in the woods. Then make your decision based on her performance. If you don't really like her, life is too short to feed dogs you don't really like. One thing a Mentor of mine told me once that really stuck with me he said "son it costs the same to feed a good dog as it does a cull".

If you do like her one training method I use for skittish dogs depending on how food motivated they are, is I hand feed them for a bit every night when I feed. Don't put any food in her bowl at first just some in your hand and call her by name and feed her some out of your hand and pet her up and talk to her. This works great for some dogs and some skittish dogs would rather starve than eat out of your hand depending on their level of skittishness. Good luck and let us know.