Style of dog?

[Big T]

Just curious, what are y'alls views on the style of dogs you hunt based on the terrain you hunt in? Would you run the same dogs you use in the woods if you started to hunt the flat lands of west Texas? I just moved to west Texas (north of midland) from east Texas (Tyler area).  I'm trying to get a pack together and figured I'd pick yalls brains a bit. So, what would your preference be? Gritty? Loose? Open? Closed? Close range or long range?

[Miller Lite]

If i hunted west texas i'd breed a lot of leg into my dogs ... i had a dog named big jake that came from west texas sucker was HUGE an would find a hog here an there but couldn't get through these piney woods like my curs

[cujo72]

From my exp. hunting alot in West Texas with several good dogs and Houndsmen. Long Range Hound, Hound crosses, and Curs are the only way to go Short to med. range dogs struggle. The hogs seem to travel lots of miles a day out west. my .02

[Silverton Boar Dogs]

Catahoula Plott crosses work the best for me. We need to cover big chunks of land so a long range dog really helps. Its so dry out here that the Plott nose really helps when the ground is bone dry (90% of the time) and the humidity is 10%. Speed is also a factor raw speed and track speed. These hogs out here travel long distances to feed and water every day. When you jump one he is headed home and that might be 5 or more miles away, its takes a good nose and speed to get in the game.

My Plott cross dogs are gritty but not catchy, so I use long range holding dogs that are fast with a lot of wind and clean holders. The combination works very well.

I use my shorter range rougher Catahoulas to work tighter cover and I turn them in a race as stop dogs when needed.

[KevinN]

X2. A winding type dog sure helps out there.

[Big T]

Thanks for y'alls input! Gives me some things to think about.

[Reuben]

if you don't mind some dogs in the pack to be open and...if you don't mind waiting all night on the dogs or going far to catch that hog...and the dogs are fairly cold nosed with a super winding nose....and these dogs are medium range hunters but will go and go... then the mtn cur is for you...

[BarrNinja]

One ole maverick boar in a whole mountain range or herds of hogs on a prarrie stacked up like the buffalo use too, Id use the same East Texas bred cur dogs I do now to hunt any place in this world.

[Mike]

One ole maverick boar in a whole mountain range or herds of hogs on a prarrie stacked up like the buffalo use too, Id use the same East Texas bred cur dogs I do now to hunt any place in this world.

X2... a good hog dog will get it done no matter where you drop them.

[Big T]

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One ole maverick boar in a whole mountain range or herds of hogs on a prarrie stacked up like the buffalo use too, Id use the same East Texas bred cur dogs I do now to hunt any place in this world.

Ninja, would you change the tactics you use to hunt or would you run em the same way you do in the piney woods?

[M Bennet]

i would get cur cross hounds and hood hunt it . to open and to much land to cover. i hunt vernon and childress and my dogs did fine hood hunting at night

[Reuben]

One ole maverick boar in a whole mountain range or herds of hogs on a prarrie stacked up like the buffalo use too, Id use the same East Texas bred cur dogs I do now to hunt any place in this world.

X2... a good hog dog will get it done no matter where you drop them.

10-4 on that...