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« on: June 12, 2010, 07:39:15 am » |
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I used to run a pack of foxhounds on hogs when we still had huge places to hunt and nobody cared about crossing fences, this of course was in the early 70's when the screwworms had been knocked out and the explosion of hogs and whitetail deer had just begun. we actually used the same Hudspeth hounds along with some Birdsongs and Goodmans on bobcat and lion during the winter. All one had to do is find an old cowboy with a javelina dog and they would honor his bay if held back in the box and sicced on the race. Lots of people never figure out the difference between the way a foxhound starts a track and runs it heads up vs the tree hounds nose down type of trailing. I was just wondering if anybody had a straight all foxhound pack of hogdogs on here??? I like to hear about any Foxhound that was doing its headups like the good ol days, are there any wolf hunters on this board?? If so what kind of dogs are you running??
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scdogman
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« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2010, 07:45:44 am » |
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Most cur dogs run with their head up and the competition coon dawgs are speed demons that runs with their head up.
Nose might be missing from the new age coon dogs, but speed is not a problem.
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waylon-N.E. OK
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« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2010, 12:21:12 pm » |
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I'm not a wolf hunter but was for years, I knew a fella who had some young wolf dogs fall off a yote track and bay some hogs we were after once and they relly did a fine job of shutting down hard running hogs. He had 10 or 11 running walkers that night and his dogs bayed ( with the help of ours ) 4 hogs. I Love the speed and bottom of a July or running walker and if I could find a silent one close to home i'd own it . I think the could do it with out any curs if you worked them on hogs only
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treeingratterrier
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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2010, 11:30:31 pm » |
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I keep seeing posts like i want a silent hound on this site a lot and i dont get it, a silent foxhound would have to almost be injured to be silent, is the deal is these newer breed of cur dogs dont have enuff nose to trail anything over 30 minutes or what is the deal?? Or is it they want a silent hound thinking it wont run off hogs when it opens or what is it??? If somebody had a good silent foxhound it be worthless, if it rolled out 1 mile and found a hog and then worked up the track for 30 minutes and went in the oppiste direction away from the hunter and other dogs how could any dog honor its open or even the hunter ever find the dog if it was not giving mouth??? I must be missing something??? Do they mean silent until jumped or do they mean silent until bayed??
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