Great words of advice Judge. I know a lot of people that do things different from each other. Many have great dogs for them, a lot of the dogs wouldn’t be great for people that hunt a different style. For example walk hunting vs casting. The guy that helped me get started only walk hunts, and MUCH faster than most. I walk hunt as well but I prefer to take my time and give the dogs time to work a track. When he hunts he knows where he wants to go (may be 6 miles deep in the swamp) and he gets there quick fast and in a hurry to get the dogs to where he thinks the pigs should be. Different from just people but his dogs are good. He actually trains dogs for people for a monthly fee, normally keeping them for 6 months to a year. I’ve seen flat out amazing dogs come from him, but that was their style. Most of them expected you to be moving with them. I saw that in my own dogs. If I’m moving they hunt, if I stop (and they’re not already trying to work out a track) they will stop to wait on me. Something I want to change with new dogs to have the opportunity to cast if I’m on land that I can do that.
It also goes back to training vs natural ability, I think almost any dog can be trained to a certain extent. The guy I’m talking about did not usually have extremely well bred dogs. He has before, and has made some nice crosses... but most dogs he ran were just average bred dogs as far as he seen. But his knowledge and him running dogs for 12+ hours a day and 6 days a week made them awesome dogs that could hunt with the best of them.
There’s always more than one way to skin a cat, I like learning about all the ways. I’m a book nerd. I like to read and research on any and everything! Lol
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Never lose that love of knowing, the more we know about the world around us the better we can understand the complexities of things and it makes life more enjoyable, I’m a huge book worm and wear the title of nerd with pride and will be the first to tell anyone that I’m weird and am very comfortable with it, funny I read this this morning, boy who I’ve known since he was knee high on a grasshopper and more like the little brother I never had left this morning headed back to the rig, I had some of my old H&P Drilling FRCs in a storage unit and went to get them out for him yesterday evening and ended up leaving with two huge boxes of books, 98% dog related, that were in there as well, I don’t watch TV I read every night before falling asleep and whenever something pops into my head that intrigues me I research as much as I can find until my thirst of knowing is quenched, knowledge is power in this world once we learn how to embrace it...
