T-dog I agree 100% I was just having this conversation with my buddy yesterday and I was telling him that I believe you can force a cur dog down a cold track and that I do it if that's what I have to work with I actually read on here along time ago how to do it and I believe it was BA-IV who was saying that he forced his curs to cold trail but I could be mistaking.Either way I will follow a track as far as I can see it which alot of times isn't very far where I hunt and then I stop I don't talk to my dogs other than sending them down it once or twice if they come back I just sit there sometimes I sit in one spot for a hr quietly and watch the dogs and the Garmin eventually they'll trail it because I am not giving them anything else to work with.Like T-dog said if they have the want to then they'll work it out you just have to give em time.I enjoy forcing them down a track they don't want to try but it takes alot of patience to just sit back open a cold drink and wait.
Yeah you’re right. I use to do it a bunch simply cuz the leases I hunted was thin hogs and we didn’t have much choice. Made some of the best dogs I’ve ever hunted behind like that BUT you can’t train a lot of dogs like that. It’s usually a one dog gig. Put anything else down and a lot of times it breaks em off the track no matter how independent they are. It’s a slow process and I just don’t hardly do it like that anymore simply because I don’t hunt nearly hard enough and when I do, I wanna get a few more dogs some exposure. There is a bunch of times I’ve wanted to kill everything I own because I find a big Barr track at 1-2 pm in the summer and nothing I own can move it, but that’s my fault. I haven’t trained em to or exposed em enough to do it with any regularity.
