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« Reply #40 on: August 19, 2011, 02:43:18 pm »

I have looked at lots of dogs on peoples yards over the years and the ones they would stop in front of and brag on the most, were always find dogs.

I would cull the rest....  If a dog is not a FIND dog then I don't consider it a HOGDOG...
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« Reply #41 on: August 19, 2011, 03:44:32 pm »

A top find dog to me, will get deep if necessary but not pass up the close ones to do so. A goog find dog will have a good nose, brains enough to use it and to know where to look for hogs. The conditions we have right now will tell you if you have a find dog or not. If one will hunt hard and find hogs quick in these hot dry conditions and do it on a regular basis, he is a pretty good find dog. I never pass final jugment on a dog untill they are hunted hard or used hard on cattle for a summer.

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I like a dog that circles around me as long as I am moving, loops from 100 to 500 yards. The dog should be cold nosed but is inclined to take a semi hot track, usually the hog should be found in 1 to 1.5 miles and bayed or caught. If I am moving along and I don't see a dog in 10 minutes I stop and check the location of all the dogs. If they are together then I won't move and will recheck in a couple of minutes to see if they are bayed or moving. Not talking about garmin...

These dogs will have a good winding nose and these are not bush beaters. There are dogs out there that stay busy but don't find many pigs and then we have the dogs that run far in a straight line that might find a hog or maybe not.

If I stop too long these dogs will keep moving on, however, I like hunting with my dogs and not hunting for my dogs unless they are on a runner. I do not like a strike dog that quits a track or quits because the thicket got too thick.

I like a strike dog that will never look bad no matter what set of dogs he/they are hunting with.

If there is a hog in the woods being hunted the dog/dogs should find it.
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« Reply #42 on: August 19, 2011, 04:54:21 pm »

A top find dog to me, will get deep if necessary but not pass up the close ones to do so.

Bigo, that's exactly the type of dog I was trying to explain.


I agree.... I want a dog to start huntin where I turn it loose and range out away from only as far as it takes to get on the closest hog, Not run a 1/2 mile before it starts hunting.. I know of a lot of dogs that have been  given credit for hunting just because they ran a mile ..
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« Reply #43 on: August 19, 2011, 05:01:39 pm »

yeah we hunt a 17,ooo acre peice, so i'd rather drop dogs.....or use my wind dog.  If i'm huntin just started dogs i'll drop em where i think they might get on some, If no luck load up and go again
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« Reply #44 on: August 19, 2011, 05:36:27 pm »

  If i'm huntin just started dogs i'll drop em where i think they might get on some, If no luck load up and go again

x2...setting the dogs up for success is part of it. Sometimes it is the little things, that over time, are what make the good hunting dogs great.
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« Reply #45 on: August 19, 2011, 09:56:31 pm »

yeah we hunt a 17,ooo acre peice, so i'd rather drop dogs.....or use my wind dog.  If i'm huntin just started dogs i'll drop em where i think they might get on some, If no luck load up and go again

This is pretty much the norm here in florida...

I don't think I have ever really seen a dog that hunts out far like you texas guys are talking about
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