She was a cool color. Burrrrrp.
My buddy has a closed mouth female....that dog drops it into gear sometimes. She had a little of pups and hasn't really wanted to hunt since though. He's getting sorta frustrated with her.
I never understood why somebody would want a closed mouthed hound. It takes away from the breed and what they were bred to do. A hound should have a bawl or chop on track,curs are silent dogs.Vaughn Plott spent a lot of years developing this breed to do what they do.They do make great hog dogs,I've also shot a few of them.Most treeing breeds of hounds like treeing walkers,black-tans,blue ticks make good hog dogs. Problem anymore is people get one that sucks and they keep on hunting it or trying to hunt it and never have any luck. Then they breed them,then you get a market flooded with shitty dogs.Was a time if a dog didn't hunt,it didn't get fed very long. I still follow that rule.Somehow about 12 years ago I got into the plott breed and love them. They are some gritty,hard headed dogs,but they will stop a hog. I can't tell you how many I have had caught and couldn't get in quick enough before they killed the hog.I've had a pack kill a 200# sow before.
I agree with you on a hound, if it can smell the scent/track I want to hear the dog opening on it. I love a cold trailing hound that can drive a track/trail and wouldn't have it any other way. If not, they aren't staying around my kennels for long.
The style of hunting most of the guys I know do doesn't allow for a dog to run a hog a mile or more....nor do they wanna chase it that far into the swamp. They want a hog bayed, caught, and tied/stuck within about 500 yards from the truck/atv. Their theory is hogs that've been run by dogs before (most of the land they get to hunt) head for the next county when they hear the dogs open up....then they gotta call the dogs off, etc. I'm fairly new to all of this, as there ain't no hogs where I'm from. Just going off what the guys who I've met and have been gracious enough to take me with them have to say about running the dogs. There is about as much conflicting opinion in hunting as there is Ford vs Chevy vs Dodge lol
Also, this dog has found a bunch of hogs that the curs normally wouldn't, so it's not that she won't hunt. She's just been weird since this recent litter. My buddies are the type that if a dog is open on track, it ain't gonna stay around long.
What I always heard is that quiet dogs were used for poaching private property in the begining,then they just got more popular thru the years.I personally love hearing a good race with a big pack of hounds. My barking hounds have 0 problem in stopping,baying,catching,and sometimes eating a hog.Don't get me wrong though,I enjoy slipping aroung with a curdog late in the day.You put a barking dog on posted property chances are you will get caught. My main point was about hounds,hounds were bred and are supposed to bark on track. They should not be bred to be silent,and they should have a different bark for different things like cold trailing,striking,baying.
I understand what you're saying, just figured I'd put their side into it. We don't run the dogs to poach, it's just that we don't have 20k acres to let them get gone on. You know how people are, everyone has their preference and I don't have enough experience to have an opinion yet.
I've listened to the sound of some beagles and walkers run deer, and I agree, listening to them sing that song is a beautiful thing.
