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[KevinN]

Stopping a runner that hasn't been bayed (on the current hunt) is one thing but a hog breaking bay is another. I don't think there's a physical reason a dog can't sit a hog down within a few yards of breaking if it's in the dogs character to do so. That's the kind of dog I want. 

[Mike]

T-Bob, I don't know the term you want to use, but I've seen many a hog go many miles at a very high rate of speed with some super fast dogs burning their ass up... and never check up.

I don't think they were trotting, maybe not a sprint... but,running their ass off.

[Reuben]

T-Bob, I don't know the term you want to use, but I've seen many a hog go many miles at a very high rate of speed with some super fast dogs burning their ass up... and never check up.

I don't think they were trotting, maybe not a sprint... but,running their ass off.

x2...a hog is fast and can take the heat better than dogs that hunt once a week (I am talking about the summer months)...the hog always runs towards the thick brush because that doesn't slow him down much...but the dogs slow down considerably in those thick briars and palmettos...dogs with lots of bottom and with the ability to stick with the track and those dogs that will get in a large briar patches after a hog will eventually bring that hog to bay...When the weeds are dead and down after January the dogs will take the heat better and they will also catch the hogs faster...usually in less than a mile with the old pack I used to keep...but when five dogs are running the hog and they overtake him in the open it is a stopped hog...open meaning that the dogs can hammer down on the hog and stay clear of the ivory...in the summertime these dogs don't do as well in the thick jungle...

[heavyhitter89]

It's all in the game .. some dogs never stop em and some start stopping them young ..  all depends on the dog and his confidence

[LionandBoarHunter]

Who gives a dam just go catch some  hogs the ones that get away catch them later

[LionandBoarHunter]

And if u cant stop one or every catch one get better dogs that bout sums it up

[Justified]

Ill take the Kemmer gyp....... Anyways, from what ive seen, experience seems to be the key to a dog doing anything in the woods, some just show sooner then others. Are you sure it's hogs their working? at times my young dogs coming back was the only way I knew they were trashing....it always seemed to be at the 10-15min mark.

[brandeek1]

Our dogs grab rear end and hold on til hog stops. Once it turns n faces them they keep its attention. They don't make a sound til hog is stopped and facing them. If they do get noisy on trail they move into someone else's kennel. We usually give our dogs until a year old. If they are not where we think they should be they move on. We have gotten rid of a lot of good dogs tht turned out great later but just wasn't fast enough for us. Got one now that gettin close to movin on.