Safer or the same -- catching and shooting over a bay?

The problem with shooting over the dogs is, not always will you get a clear shot, and if you don't have a clear shot, don't take it. Depending on the terrain you are in you may only get a slight glimpse of a hog, and spend alot of time trying to get one to bay in a place that you have a view of a hog. You may have many good bays in a row and may be several times you are just "stuck" waiting on the situation to change, when you could have sent in a catch dog and caught the hog. I feel like shooting takes alot more patience and skill. I m not against it, but I know way to many folks that get overly excited when they get close to a bay, they scare me with a knife in their hands, No way will they be allowed to have a firearm around me or my dogs.

I know a guy that shoots over his dogs, usually just one dog sometimes two loose baying dogs, but as soon as the gun fires the dogs jump on the hog and that is the only time that his dog gets cut, on the last adreneline pumping breaths of the hog, and the the few that the shot was not fatal.