A top find dog to me, will get deep if necessary but not pass up the close ones to do so. A goog find dog will have a good nose, brains enough to use it and to know where to look for hogs. The conditions we have right now will tell you if you have a find dog or not. If one will hunt hard and find hogs quick in these hot dry conditions and do it on a regular basis, he is a pretty good find dog. I never pass final jugment on a dog untill they are hunted hard or used hard on cattle for a summer.
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I like a dog that circles around me as long as I am moving, loops from 100 to 500 yards. The dog should be cold nosed but is inclined to take a semi hot track, usually the hog should be found in 1 to 1.5 miles and bayed or caught. If I am moving along and I don't see a dog in 10 minutes I stop and check the location of all the dogs. If they are together then I won't move and will recheck in a couple of minutes to see if they are bayed or moving. Not talking about garmin...
These dogs will have a good winding nose and these are not bush beaters. There are dogs out there that stay busy but don't find many pigs and then we have the dogs that run far in a straight line that might find a hog or maybe not.
If I stop too long these dogs will keep moving on, however, I like hunting with my dogs and not hunting for my dogs unless they are on a runner. I do not like a strike dog that quits a track or quits because the thicket got too thick.
I like a strike dog that will never look bad no matter what set of dogs he/they are hunting with.
If there is a hog in the woods being hunted the dog/dogs should find it.
