Track dogs VS Cast dogs

I prefer cast dogs but I hunt track dogs. For me, it’s about aligning your dogs with the places you have to hunt and the time you have to hunt. North Texas is undergoing a population boom and our places to hunt are drying up and getting smaller. I have to hunt smaller tracts of land. Work & Family responsibilities relegate me to hunting the occasional weekday evening and weekends. It’s better for me to have dogs that I can drop in sign that get bayed relatively soon.

I used to have hard going cast dogs and it got to where I was out hunting the places I had and crossing roads all the time. Whiteknuckles, puckered you know what chasing dogs on the Garmin hoping they didn’t get ran over wasn’t much fun.

I’ve come to appreciate the ability to just go hunt for an hour or two and be able to bay/catch a hog or two, catch em up & come home. There are times when sign is thin that I miss cast dogs. If I had more country & time to hunt, I would have cast dogs first sure.

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