Cast type dogs genetics or trained

I also believe casting is genetics…how they cast and range also has to do with how they are handled just as what age of tracks they will take…

The want too, to want to range out and hunt has to be there…for longer range casting turn the dogs out and let them range out…when they check in send them out again and they will get deeper…move the atv slowly and stop now and then…this will encourage casting out further…

For closer ranging and for taking hotter tracks move around quicker with the atv and don’t wait on dogs on colder tracks…this type of hunting keeps the dogs closer and they learn to only take the hotter tracks…i know this because I have a friend who hunts his dogs this way…

Personally I like to do all I can to get the best out of my dogs…

Genetic selection for natural ability…
Get a shoat and put an 8 week old pit bull pup on the ear and it latches on…that would be a pup to put up and keep because he will catch if trained and worked right…

A 4 month old cur pup gets turned loose in the woods and casts out and checks in and recasts out on its own in a different direction…well this pup is a keeper, and if the training is right…and if the breeding is right this pup will have the potential to reproduce early starting dogs that cast well…