Nose has never been an issue for us. One we have a large population but even in the droughts it can pretty hard to smell anything. I guess I’ve been lucky enough to breed to good noses all along and maybe those were the dogs I chose because they had the nose required to get it done the way I wanted. Now bite, to me that is a big challenge. Too much and too little is relative to each situation I think. It’s a really fine line.
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I agree…
Better nose makes a dog….if you like baying sounders you’ll need very little bite…
Like T-dog said, there’s a fine line between not enough bite or too much bite…not enough bite and many times busted bays…I like to error towards too much bite…it definitely shortens the race…
I won’t own a BMC but one of the best dogs I hunted behind was a cow dog cull on account he was too gritty for working cattle…he had the best chop mouth I ever heard…when striking on a good track he would bark three times in about the first 100 yards and he would be moving the track quickly…next time you heard him it was a bayed hog…the hog would be backed up to a tree or anything that would take the heat off his rear…the dog would be baying in his face…Nugget was a beautiful reddish gold dog with lots of black on his face and ears…he had plenty of ear for a BMC…I could of bought him for $325…that was many years ago…
