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Our second deer season with dogs opens back up Tuesday. Ready to put some hounds on the ground and chase a buck. Got 9 dogs standing behind the wire waiting on go.

Colby , mate we are in Australia

I'm in you tell me a good week to be down and I ll make arrangements lol you more than welcome to come here and chase some piney woods boar hogs with us

We run beagles and what ever else will chase deer but they all do it a little different.
The beagles we use to push thick brush that looks like it's a good place for deer to be bedded. Find a bowl or a smaller draw and turn the dogs loose down into it. Ideally you'll have shooters surround the draw at different vantage points that would ultimately have someone at every escape point or able to see and shoot those spots. Then just wait. As said the deer don't run really most of the time they just kinda power walk away from the beagles. As far as open mouthed or not you will learn to tell the difference in the bays. I can tell the min he switches from running hoping he can get it to he can see it and he wants it. When it sounds like they are in pain they have it jumped and are on it.

My little Jack doesn't range out like the beagles but if I still hunt/slow push he's pretty good for that. He jumped the 3X4 I shot 2013 season. He doesn't open at all oddly or at least haven't been lately. He barks when he's in a situation where he can't chase them. They go nuts about the deer in our back yard (they can see and smell them but an 8' retaining wall is stoping them from getting them)

a couple of our partners have other dogs they hunt. Cow dog that my buddy's got pretty well trained that if he really wants to out the sneak on something he can get her to stay back about 40yds or so behind him using hand signals other wise she kinda circles around him and will chase if she sees or smells something, she doesn't open on stuff either but she used to. She's kinda mean though so I think she's being quiet so she can get ahold of what ever she's after.

Another jack, he's a little older now but he'll still chase anything he can get his nose on. I wounded a buck a few years back and this guy managed to get this buck into a depression in the creek bed at the bottom if the canyon and keep him bated down there tell I could get down there and take care if things. The low spot was perfect that the dog was right at mid body height in the buck so if it tried to go forward he'd bite its tail if it tried to go back he'd bite it ears. Now had he not jumped it while I was sneaking up to finish him it would have been a 20yd recovery to the road not a 300yd up hill drag but its a good story.

It depends how your dogs hunt. If they keep a perimeter around you and check in push areas where you could walk right past something and not even see it. If you can cast them turn them into an area you can put good coverage on and watch. Even after its all said and done sit some more and watch. You catch them sneaking back in sometimes.

Also Ca only allows 1 Dog per hunter so make sure you have enough dogs to hunters or deer dogs will be the next ban.