Not to derail this thread, but I've talked with a guy that has a very over grown 10 acre high fenced pen that he keeps a couple hogs in and a bay pen attached to it. He likes to let a cur dog go in the 10 acre pen to find a hog and he uses a catch dog to catch it. He then ties the hog, takes it to the bay pen and lets his pups get some work in. On occassion he will let a pup run with an older cur to strike the hog in the pen to simulate a real hunt in a semi-controlled enviroment. Seems like a heck of a good set up to train all stages of his dogs when he can't get to the woods.
Any thoughts on a set up like this?
mr.mason has this type of set up, but it is a 6acre pen. he keeps many hogs in it though. that's how he trains them. when i took my dog to him, first thing he did was take him straight to the pen to see what he would do. he put another dog in there with him and my boy found him a pig. we let work it a little then we took him out. wasn't a good 10min. after that mr.mason didn't take him back to the pen again. it was straight to the woods. this man has started many dogs and fine tuned many dogs, so figure that is a dang good way of working your dogs.
realdogs i like your idea too. from jump it's all about FINDING the hog, never SHOWING them a hog.
