Pressured hogs

I for sure have dealt with it. Our hogs are pretty wild. Everybody is shooting in daylight, night time thermals, traps, trying to run over them, helicopters, snares, and dogs. I probably missed a couple of methods too. My dogs use to be pretty loose baying. Over the years I have concentrated on brains, smart dogs figure out ways to win. Another must is track driving speed, the less recovery time a hog gets and the harder he has to run the sooner it bays up or makes a mistake. Then there is the bite. I don’t want stupid rough but I do want the stock sense. I want them to know when to apply pressure and when to back off and how to size a hog up. Bay to the head and BITE to the rear not pinch.

In my opinion, I believe breeding a good consistent line of hog dogs is one of the hardest tasks out there. There aren’t many other disciplines that breed for as many traits as a hog dog.

My dogs evolved by selecting the dogs that were stronger where I thought I needed change. I also made an outcross to a really good line that was very similar to my dogs except that line was overly gritty but the tracking speed, brains, and build were very similar.

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