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Texashogboys
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Alright I will post pics videos soon and a lot of people always talk about there plott bein open but I've never had that problem! They where breed to not be open on track?
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t.wilbanks
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a lot of people always talk about there plott bein open but I've never had that problem! They where breed to not be open on track?
How many Plotts have you owned?? Like most hounds, the majority are going to be open... Heck I cant hardly get a 1/2 plott thats silent on track!!!  |
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Texashogboys
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I have a full blooded plott and a half plott half cat
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Ive owned plotts for 20 yrs, ain't had a total silent one yet. Some are real tight mouthed but not total silent. But when bear hunting, more mouth the better.
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Texashogboys
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Yeah both of mine are silent but maybe because they have always been around dogs that are silent on track
And goo luck with that plott you are picking up
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firemedic
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Firemedic I agree with you even thou I don't own any plott dog as of today.
Need to talk to hillbilly in Tn and have him find me a good well bred puppy for this coming fall.
I truly believe that a Plott/cur cross will consistently make a super hog dog more so than any other.
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Had Plotts for years and still love hunting with them. Most of the guys I hunt with from TN have Plotts,....they're all open on track but we kill a lot of hogs with them and the few cur dogs that a couple of the guys and I have. I truly believe that a Plott/cur cross will consistently make a super hog dog more so than any other.
I agree with both TNHILLBILLY and Firemedic that they all have some openess to them. They all have great personalities and are wanting to please thier owners. Research the lines of the plotts though as some have different tendencies. |
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johnf
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i have 3 full plotts and 2 plot bmc mixes and expecting a litter of plott bmc around the first.
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Woodsnwetlands08
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Since this is a plott thread, maybe one of you plott guys could help me out. I've been looking for a full blood plott for a while. If someone has a young dog they are wanting to get rid of let me know. send me a message on here. All my dogs are half plott but I want a full blood plott to breed to soon.
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firemedic
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Some years ago I had a Plott male that I got as a pup from my closest friend in TN that was totally silent,.....not a sound on track. He was an extremely intelligent dog that I had high hopes for. First hunt out he found a deer track and left out, of course I had no idea that he was running anything since this was before Garmin and I didn't have a regular radio collar on him....didn't own but one and it was on another grown dog. He ran the deer no telling how far and got lost, we looked for wuite awhile for him but no luck. I left my shirt where we started the hunt and we came back the next morning to hunt again, I hoped that he would find us this hunt,.....no luck. I find out that he's been seen off down the road at a guy's house, we head down there and no dog but he was there just awhile ago. I called and called but he never showed up which was not like him at all. We head out down the road and I see a dog in the bushes by the edge of a hay field and instantly know it's my dog, but he moves back into the brush as he drive up, unlike him again. I get out and finally get him to move out a bit, he finally realizes that it's me and slowly comes out to me, limpng on all for feet, if such a thing is possible. His feet are raw....this dog has been on a tour and is absolutely scared to death. He healed up but never got over being lost for a day and night. I truly believe that he was so fearful of being lost again that he wouldn't run anything very far. I hunted him for awhile and finally gave up. He was about 2 by then and I gave him to a guy that hunted with us at the time, but he never got any better......he finally did away with him.....sad sad tale, this dog could have been a super dog but just couldn't get over that fear I reckon. He is, I think, the only Plott that I've hunted with that was totally silent on track.
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It's easy to judge the character of a man,....by how he treats those that can do nothing for him.
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SCHitemHard
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i had a plott cross that we figured was 3/4 plott, 1/4 lab and was silent till he was lookin at a pig, coon, bobcat, plastic ballon in a cemetery...
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Had Plotts for years and still love hunting with them. Most of the guys I hunt with from TN have Plotts,....they're all open on track but we kill a lot of hogs with them and the few cur dogs that a couple of the guys and I have. I truly believe that a Plott/cur cross will consistently make a super hog dog more so than any other.
That's why I mix something in there with them and you want get that open dog running all around in the woods letting the big old boars know to check out the dogs or coming................LOL!!! |
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hoghunter71409
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Just my thinking but.....when you have good plotts, it doesnt make a difference if the old boar knows they are coming or not. Fully open or almost silent...hunted properly, you can use a couple of good plotts to leapfrog...the old boar wont run forever.
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a good nosed dog with the brains to use it and figure out thier movements could follow any game. Its the difference between chess players and checker players
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a good nosed dog with the brains to use it and figure out thier movements could follow any game. Its the difference between chess players and checker players
x2...I test the pups for brains at a young age...a dog that cuts and slashes or drifts on a track and knows how to line out a track quickly is a dog with brains...it is genetics that makes the dog this way...it is not taught... I had a very good mtn cur that could find a hog pretty quick and it could take him 5 minutes to line out a feeding track and in those five minutes he would open...At that time I also had a mtn cur pup that was a natural and smart and he was the smartest dog I ever raised. he could line out a track at least twice as fast as the 2 year old...sometimes he would be bayed by time the other dog lined out the track... a hound I can not tolerate is one that takes and old track and runs it for a few hours before heating up the track...and he is bawling on the track every step of the way... |
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Training dogs is not about quantity, it's more about timing, the right situations, and proper guidance...After that it's up to the dog...
A hunting dog is born not made...
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a good nosed dog with the brains to use it and figure out thier movements could follow any game. Its the difference between chess players and checker players
a hound I can not tolerate is one that takes and old track and runs it for a few hours before heating up the track...and he is bawling on the track every step of the way... Depending on the conditions that the track is layed in I understand where you are coming from. I hunt really dry conditions so sometimes the dogs take a while to line it out but if I put several dogs on one track and only one or two can smell it. I figure if that is the case the track is cold and I dont have too much time to wait it out, I will pull them all off and start somewhere else further down the road. |
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Do any of yall hunt the White Deer Joe Plott lines? I have several that are hog machines and they took to all of it completely naturally. Joe Burkett has them listed on his website as being born hard wired for hogs. I have had such success with those bloodlines and simply wondered if any of yall have hunted them. I know most of the White Deer breeding goes back to the weems lines, Dollins Hicks. Anyway, just thought I'd see what yall thought.
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Reuben
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Do any of yall hunt the White Deer Joe Plott lines? I have several that are hog machines and they took to all of it completely naturally. Joe Burkett has them listed on his website as being born hard wired for hogs. I have had such success with those bloodlines and simply wondered if any of yall have hunted them. I know most of the White Deer breeding goes back to the weems lines, Dollins Hicks. Anyway, just thought I'd see what yall thought.
I have never hunted behind one but I have heard some good things about them...Joe Burkett must have that natural eye for a good hog dog and it shows because of all the positive comments from people like you who have nothing but good things to say about his line of dogs... |
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Training dogs is not about quantity, it's more about timing, the right situations, and proper guidance...After that it's up to the dog...
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My Amira is off him. The Joe to Raven cross was the only cross I liked.
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