I'm not in disagreement about the hounds having more bottom as a whole than the curs. Yes she could do it multiple days in a row as could many of my dogs. You can't lay hands on a dog in my kennel that doesn't have hound in it. I had a friend that works cattle everyday that took a pup. I mean hunt'em up cattle too, not sight cattle. At a year old she was his lead dog. Said she would wear out a couple of good sets of dogs in a day and he used her 4 to 5 days a week. When he would send them to water the other dogs would fall out in it and she would hit a couple of laps as she ran through it and straight back to work. I could give example after example of different bottom in these dogs. I know this example is different than a bear hunt, but a dog without true bottom doesn't have the ability to do this. I'm by no means saying my dogs are all that, just using them as an example because they are mine. What I was disagreeing with was hogs not testing true bottom. I have seen more than one hound out of some good gene pools holler "no mas", not because their heart was tested but because their physical ability was. Don't misunderstand, I know bear hunting is tough I'm not making lite of it. I'm just respectfully disagreeing that you can definitely test true bottom hog hunting.
I have seen curs of all kinds with good noses and hunt, etc. To me the biggest difference in the hounds and curs is self preservation. The curs, as a whole, have a stronger self preservation instinct than the hounds. Many hounds will literally kill themselves to catch/tree/bay their quarry. When it gets hot, many curs don't hunt nearly as hard or deep as when the weather is more favorable. I have hunted with several cur dogs that were top dogs in the fall and winter but when it got hot they were duds. If they hunted it was minimal compared to what they did in the cooler weather and would quit a race they would typically finish. Again, there are curs that aren't like this. I'll bet if you look far enough back though, there is a hound influence somewhere.
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On a cowdog...these cowboys came down trying to sell purebred weatherford Ben dogs and they also had a redbone x BMC and they went on and on about what a cowdog he was...the owner said he wouldn’t take 5 grand for him...he was an all day find a cow deep in the woods cowdog that could work a big herd of cows as well...
