Ideal traits of big game hound

[pig snatcher]

Some times less is more.

[pig snatcher]

Here is a little plott dog I raised that is doing good. She is my only full hound at this time though every thing else I have is at least half plott.  My good buddy has some good walkers but I dont have any pictures of them on the puter.

[Wmwendler]

Some times less is more.

Thats as true as it gets.  If you had 8 hounds and were being sucessfull you could probly get rid of all but the three best and still do just as good.  The rest were just allong for the ride anyway.   Even if all 8 of them were super dogs you would end up doing more harm than good with that many dogs IMO.  Not to mention if a man is having to relay the dogs then he  needs some different dogs.

In my opinion having more than four dogs at a bay at one time is over kill and more often than not does more harm than good.  I like three experienced dogs at one time.  To me that is the magic number where its plenty of dogs but not too many to booger the hog(s) up, or any other animal for that matter.  Throw in one young dog, if you've got one that needs some work, and the other dogs can make up for any harm that dog does.  Some people say one dog is all it takes and thats true, but I like to have atleast three dogs so that one can pick up the slack if the others are out of shape at a bay or get hung up in the brush and get behind when a hog breaks.

There are allot of junky hounds out there and it takes some fishing to finds good ones.  But i really don't prefer the way a typical hound hunts considering where I hunt.  They waste too much time on old scent and dont show any consideration for which direction you need hunt in.  They just hunt in which ever direction they want too.  Fact is that where most of us hunt there are lots of hogs and not a too teribly many acres to cover, so hounds dont typically work that well.  For one a person does'nt usually need a dog with that cold a nose, and two it might get you into trouble on small places.  Now hounds do have thier place out west where there is more land and less hogs or which ever animal u are after.

Waylon

[txboardog]

If three dogs whether it be hounds, curs, jagds, or poodles for that matter cant bay him up I would say you dont need three more dogs you just need three better dogs.

[armyCOMBATmedic]

Just throwing this out there but has anyone heard of using Great Danes, I just got a 12 week old female And before i bought her i researched her breed some more and i found out they were created about 400 years ago in Germany, they were a cross between I believe An English mastiff and some hound dog breed, But there original use was as a boar hunter, And from the sounds of it european boars are no joke in size.

If you read about ww2 era you will find that Hitler had some Great Danes that he hunted big game with and I guess he hunted boars quite often.

I found a clip from an old movie where it takes place in a jungle and they send 2 danes on a bengal tiger and these dogs were absolutely vicious on this tiger.

Im just curious, Im pondering taking the dog out with me, think it would be cool to see what she would do with a piglet, I got a stuffed animal pig that she loves to tear up, wonder if it would work on the real thing.

[Noah]

One way to find out    It's hard to find a Dane that's athletic enough to hunt, but I'd love to try one.

[aussiedogger]

I watched that clip and it was out of an old movie.... surely they wouldn’t sick two great Danes on a wild tiger for a movie scene... it'd have to be fake.... over here half the pig dog population has some Dane in it but no one uses them pure.... there’s a really known breeder of mastiff/Danes called O’halloran hounds. Their a beautiful line. http://www.boardogs.com/O'Halloran_Hounds.htm