What makes a strike dog?

[cowboyup]

To all of y'all that have been hunting for a while. What makes y'all classify a dog as being a strike dog? And is it good to have one when hog hunting?

[Nannyslayer]

Strike dog to me is a dog that will go find and jump/run/bay a hog. Meaning you can stand in one spot and the dog will go find a hog.

I personally don't think it is completely necessary to have a dog that will do that if your style of hunting is to walk the dogs. I have a couple dogs if I walk them into fresh hog sign they will go from there and find a hog, but I wouldn't classify them as strike dogs.

[justincorbell]

A strike dog to me is a dog that you can drop and it will go hunt, find and bay hogs on a consistant basis.

[Cajun]

  The term strike dog originated in the coon dog world where whatever dog opened up on a track first was called a first strike dog & that carried over into the competion hunts. In nite hunts if a dog opened first the owner would say strike Sam & he would get 100 points for striking first. This of course is the short version.
  It carried over to bear hunting with dogs striking off the rig or leash when dogs smelled bear.  To me strike dogs simply mean dogs that open when they smell game. Of course there are a lot of good cur dogs & hounds that do not open when they smell hog sign but that does not mean they cannot go out & trail the hog up.

[cowboyup]

Thanks.

[justincorbell]

Makes sense to me cajun, didnt know that, never been into coon huntin.

[Reuben]

Find dog or strike dog...I prefer strike dog...

[t-dog]

For the way we use the term in hog hunting, a strike dog is a dog that will find a hog when there aren't many around to be found or conditions are less than favorable consistently. Sometimey dogs, started dogs or big pups can find the obvious hot sign hogs.

[KevinN]

strike–dog
noun
:the dog of a pack that customarily first closes with game —called also striker

To me it's the dog (in any pack) that finds the majority of hogs that are bayed/caught/killed.
Doesn't have to be a long range burn up the woods kinda dog....lots of different styles of hunting...if you've got one particular dog that starts (strikes) a majority of time, he's your strike dog, regardless, lol.

[The Old Man]

The old fashioned terminology would be "find dog"for Curs or still trailing dogs on cattle or hogs and "strike dog" for open trailing dogs or hounds on whatever. I had never heard of a Cur strike dog until I got to reading on these hog hunting forums, when I first started reading that I thought boy they must have a bunch of open trailing Cur dogs haha.

[BA-IV]

The old fashioned terminology would be "find dog"for Curs or still trailing dogs on cattle or hogs and "strike dog" for open trailing dogs or hounds on whatever. I had never heard of a Cur strike dog until I got to reading on these hog hunting forums, when I first started reading that I thought boy they must have a bunch of open trailing Cur dogs haha.

I always called em find dogs or hog dogs, but after reading this my open cur dogs must be strike dogs 

[jwdeltx]

To me a strike dog should hit the ground looking for hogs and be able to wind or track a hog and hold a bay till help arrives . I like a medium range dog 6 hundred yards max. then check in . I am fortunate at this time to have two ybm jips that fit this description . Having to do with out them wright now ,due to pups , Will be back on the hogs soon .

[Shotgun wg]

The dog that strikes the game of choice first the most often.

The way I learned the dog that starts the race is the strike dog. U may have several capable of striking the game of choice but there is always that one dog when it's down 9 out of 10 times is gonna strike first. That is ur main strike dog.


Shotgun
Arkansas

[Shotgun wg]

As to the second part of the question if I have to kick up every pig the dogs find I don't need dogs. So yess u need one unless u got new good boots. If that is the case u hope one of them pick it up soon.


Shotgun
Arkansas

[reatj81]

A dog worthy of eating feed, other than pups or bulldog. 


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[Georgia-Hawgs]

I agree with everbody else. Everytime i hear a man say he's my strike dog" or something similar that man is referring to his number one dog. The dog that he counts on the most. And is really confident that if theres hogs to be found the "strike dog " is going to find them. I have also heard that term reffered to in the coon hunting world. Especially competition hunts. For example alot of times when a man wants to sell a competition dog he MIGHT say this is a 1st strike 2nd tree dog. Or 2nd strike 1st tree dog and so on. 1st strike meaning he usually opens up on track before the rest of the pack. Therefore he gets the most strike points. Dog that strikes first gets more points than 2nd 3rd 4th and so on. Same goes with the tree. If i call my dog treed before your dog gets treed i get more points than you. But i believe the term is used in 2 different ways when comparing hog hunting and coon hunting. At least here in Georgia it is. I have been wrong before though. 

[Judge peel]

This term is just like finished dog or jam up or what ever else you want to call em. I just go with hog dog but I do use the term it's just the caliber of the dog very from person to person the term is miss leading. I told my buddy few days ago the spot that your hunting will determine how good the dog is. Few pigs the better the dog has to be the more hog you have will give a lesser dog a chance to strike over the better dog just becuz a dog has a better nose don't mean he will strike or start the track first to many thing come in to play. I have seen good dogs go thru a area and not get on any then 30 min later drop a differnt dog and him pick up and strike a hog if you take a dog to a place where there are hogs but not over ran and the dog strikes hogs on a regular basis then that is the term strike dog

[Jason Dunn]

To me a strike dog is a dog you take where you think there may be hogs and turn it loose if there are any that have been through the area within an few hours they locate and bay. I like my dogs to hunt out in no sign at least 500 yards if they smell something they will roll with it till they catch up to the hog my dogs I don't feel can take a track that's older than 3-4 hours depending on conditions both my dogs I consider strike dogs because they are searching for pork when on the ground my brother has a couple that will hunt a little but they are always listening for my dogs to open then they head to them I call those bay dogs and they don't hold as much value to me if any. I don't walk much either unless its to a bay.

[KevinN]

As Peel said...I also think definitions vary from person to person. The way I explained Strike Dog I could also just say Lead dog...because EVERY Lead dog is also a Strike dog, lol.

Though most peoples packs contain multiple dogs that can strike pigs...in MY vocabulary...the Strike dog and the LEAD dog are one and the same....everything else is a HELP dog