How far you wanna go?????

[curdogs3006]

Just running my puppies ( BMC) , and wondering what make a dog range longer???

Any tips for teaching them b a long range dog ? Or that is just a genetic deal.

Let's see how to handle that an make a Better and rangy dog for hog hunting.

[djhogdogger]

 We usually run one pup with the older, longer ranged dogs. Sometimes a pup will come back after about 4 or 500 yards but once they hit a hog and figure out what they are there for, they will usually stick with the older dogs and have the same or close to the same range as they do. I have also come to realize that in some dogs, they will range out further as they mature. Hope this helps. Genetics also plays a huge part in it.

[T-Bob Parker]

I believe it will come with genetics and time, that being said, we as hunters tend to believe the hogs are always a long ways off. I have seen soooo many times my red dog take out hunting and be thumping brush 600-1200 yards away having ran right thru a block of woods and I get irritated at my others for not being out there hunting. Then all the sudden a gyp will just calmly and quietly disappear and we will catch 4or 5 hogs out of that block. Also have been leaving the hound at home mostly lately and catching plenty of good hogs with dogs that you might well think are short ranged

Every bodies got their own druthers and I hate to see a young man get all worried and cull or sell off a decent young dog who turns out to be cracker jack simply on range.

[Bryant]

Range has nothing to do with how good or bad a dog is.  If a dog covers a lot of ground while hunting out, but misses hogs along the way....well rangy or not that's just not a very good dog in my own opinion.

I like and try to breed up dogs with a ton of go to them because that's my personal preferred style of hunting.  I cast my dogs and expect them to get gone and cover some area.  To answer your question, I'm convinced it's 98% genetic, 1% hunting them how they're bred and 1% not screwing them up along the way.