Bmc/Bluetick??

[waylon-N.E. OK]

knightstockterrier - What I meant was when running track, not sight chasing game, to be honest if there sight chasing game the race better not be long enough to matter or I'll get some new dogs  

 But if you have spent the amount of time behind hounds as I suspect you have, then you have seen them types that bark every step just to be barking ( I have seen it in curs to ) makes you wonder when the draw in a breath cause the exhale some many. I call one a good hound, be it open or not if he barks enough to let me know where he is when trailing and treed or bayed, I don't mind him going into a " cold trail Bawl " if he sure nuff looses the track, in fact i want him to, that's how i know he might need help or the game jumped high into a tree and he can't locate yet ( seen that before with Bobcats )

I won't give any opinions on having 4 different types of dogs in a single pack to do the job cause I ain't hunted your country and would be talking out my rear.

Dang all this Hound talk is making miss them ol Tri-color dogs  :'( :'(  I might show up there in South Texas with a truck load of'em before it's over

[treeingratterrier]

On curs its what you like, but dont get tangled up in the cliche that open mouth dogs cant catch hogs, a slow babbler or a slow silent dog of any breed is going to catch less than a fast barks every breath cur or hound, actually a hound that is silent even it is  fast in a a hound pack is susposed to be scracthed in a feild trial, so that makes a running hound that does not give mouth a dq and a cull by defintion, why is that is the question???  A cur dog that yips or barks right when he smells and takes off silent until he is bayed is what i liked, if it yiped a bit when the hog broke and went silent again that was fine by me, we used to like the silent dogs for slipping in and getting out without everybody and everyhog in the country knowing we were hunting,,,,, I think so many hogs are dog and atv smart nowdays they blast off as soon as they hear the alarm,,

[treeingratterrier]

knightstockterrier - What I meant was when running track, not sight chasing game, to be honest if there sight chasing game the race better not be long enough to matter or I'll get some new dogs  

 But if you have spent the amount of time behind hounds as I suspect you have, then you have seen them types that bark every step just to be barking ( I have seen it in curs to ) makes you wonder when the draw in a breath cause the exhale some many. I call one a good hound, be it open or not if he barks enough to let me know where he is when trailing and treed or bayed, I don't mind him going into a " cold trail Bawl " if he sure nuff looses the track, in fact i want him to, that's how i know he might need help or the game jumped high into a tree and he can't locate yet ( seen that before with Bobcats )

I won't give any opinions on having 4 different types of dogs in a single pack to do the job cause I ain't hunted your country and would be talking out my rear. 

A hound is susposed to give mouth when he has the scent or the game in sight, there is no inbetween??  If you mean a dog that is barking when he does not have the scent constantly then i agree, they cause the pack to leave a lose and wreck the whole race everytime until they learn he is a liarlol

We ran 10 to 15 dogs in the thickets down here and everything had to be perfect or you would never catch a cat or fox but just lope them around for hours, its very hard running, I even dumped in terriers in white brush thickets or 20 acre cactus patches to shorten the race and catch more bobcats, they would cut the scent funnel if they saw the cat and cheat as they locked up on it due to small size when the cat would be dodgeing and ducking and backtracking when his wind was broken by the hound pack and there were no trees to climb, sometimes the cat would be running back and forth in a 1/2 acre thicket for 10 minutes right in front of us if we were lucky and we could see who was in front etc etc, those were the good ol days of big ranches, no locks, neighbors who worked with eachother and were farm or ranch raised and no deer fences or city boy deer hunters claiming dogs killed a trophy buck i was wachinglol  Lots of guys never caught the amount of cats we used to and there was a reason, I think the hardest dog pack in the world is a southtexas dog pack for bobcat only that can hunt in a drought and still catch cats every night or least have a jump, there might be 2 packs left down here if that many, lots claim they catch cats but they just run at them or catch 100 brush coons and 1 cat and say they are bobcat hunters, i sure miss hound hunting with pack of running walkers smoking ol stump tail until he climbs or goes into a cactus pile to escape!!!!

Dang all this Hound talk is making miss them ol Tri-color dogs  :'( :'(  I show up there in South Texas with a truck load of'em before it's over

[waylon-N.E. OK]

To sum it up for me and what I think knightstockterrier, The type of hound I'd like to own would depend on what I was after and where I was after the critter. then I would decide how much mouth i wanted needed, how cold nosed, ect. ect. But my favorite dogs were always Finley river bred Walkers and didn't mind about 1/4 to an 1/8 running Walker dog in them for cats & Fox. But anymore than that seemed to hurt there locate ability

[Reuben]

I think so many hogs are dog and atv smart nowdays they blast off as soon as they hear the alarm,,

x2...and the chain and lock rattling on the galvanized gate...

[UNDERDOG]

I think so many hogs are dog and atv smart nowdays they blast off as soon as they hear the alarm,,

x2...and the chain and lock rattling on the galvanized gate...

I don't think so.....I been to a spot were they run like hell and un loaded all the bikes,made all that noise etc and rolled up to watch a hog rooting just a few 100 yds from were we unloaded ....they are either gonna run or not.

[tnhillbilly]

  I agree

[LTHogDogger]

Well the Bluetick im talkin bout dont bark just to bark she barks when she is lookin at a pig or when she is real close to one..

[John S]

I have 2 live that male & female ( blue tick & BMK) , they are 6 Mo. old . Looks like  are going to be good dogs. I'm working them on coon. They will tree and trail fare good. I don't know about hogs, but they dogs are tough  as a boot. I like them.

[M.Gunta]

Little houng in a cur dog never hurt nothin!