My line breed pups

[Circle C]

Craig,
 

     I think I must have hunted with some of that man's kin folks in Evadale, TX.   They take their dogs out, and listen to them bay, break, bay, break...all night long. They don't take catch dogs, and have no intention of actually catching a hog. They just like to hear them work. My first and last hunt at that place. It was flooded timber, full of cottonmouths, and running hogs.  Heck, I can hunt in those conditions at home.

[craig]

Chris
 yeh thats the place you took me to. no just kidding..

  i was amazed when he told me he never went to them. he might have some good dogs?

[skoalbandett]

I cant place that fellow... I havent hung around there much the las 30 years or so.. It just got to be a dog traders alley, full of BS and problems and to tell the truth I really dont like those things or many of those people.. Some of the old timers were great, but that was a different day in time...

I tell ya about those open trail dogs in my opinion.... Our cur dogs are silent and I basically like that about them, but once in a while one will come along that will open just a little bit on a hog that breaks or if he can see him while running him. But, I dont mind a dog or hound that opens if he can sure smoke a track and get something done.. If he can't, I litterly hate a open mouth dog draggin his butt on a track or straddling a track.

I think if you had 2 dogs to totally equal ability, one silent and one open, the silent dog will probably catch more hogs. But if you have a open dog that can and will smoke a track, I dont mind hunting with em. Now days, after the first bay everything in the woods knows ya there anyway and most of em in t his country sure try to run.

[craig]

yeh up here after the first bay , you had just as well go to another spot..  cause your done there.