Reuben
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Registered: Nov 2011
Location: Freeport,TX
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More than likely if someone offered me a BMC puppy I would politely turn it down...
But one of the best dogs I hunted behind was a Black mouth cur...he was a beautiful red gold color and his name fit him perfectly (Nugget), he didn't look like the average black mouth cur...he just looked really good...when hunting if the track was cold he didn't bark on it and if it was a hot track he chopped three times over the first 150 yards and he was fast on track...when he got there he was chopping every breath once he singled a hog out and you could hear him a mile away...his chop was about as good as I ever heard...when you got to the Nugget he had the hog stopped and the hog would be backed up to a tree or anything that protected his hind end...Nugget would be baying less the a foot from his face...
When we showed up with a catch dog those two dogs would catch the hog...and if you were ready to go home someone would need to be catching nugget because his mission was to catch all the hogs in that herd...some call it relaying others call it turning over...
Nugget came from some cowboys deeper in South Texas where you have big ranches, lots of black widows, scorpions, rattle snakes and thorns...
Nugget was one of their culls on account he had too much grit...I could have bought him for 325 and he wasn't even 2 years old just yet...
loose baying dogs usually bay the whole pack of hogs unless the pigs are dog smart...
some gritty dogs just bust up the bay and scatter hogs everywhere and then takes a while to catch one if it can be caught...
A dog like Nugget will bust up the herd but he had a unique way of applying enough pressure to keep one stopped...but even Nugget won't stop every hog because it also depends on environmental conditions...
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Training dogs is not so much about quantity, it's more about timing, and the right situations...After that it's up to the dog....A hunting dog is born...
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