Hello TFX. That was V. Jackson's main way of working his dogs. When he was much younger and lived in Beaufort S.C. He had miles and miles of long soft dirt roads back in the Paris Island Marine base. Wide enough to run two tanks or maybe three.

He was a Supply Staff Sargent and could get or have anything made he wanted. He had the marine mechanics take his old Ford or Chevy Truck and put a speed govern on it. That he could work inside the Truck. He got the Welding shop to make a long arm apparatus that fitted over the hood of the truck. Could be put on and taken off. The arm went far enough out to prevent the dog from getting run over. V.J. could sit in the truck watch the dog. Talk to it when it needed some praise or encouragement.

V.J. fixed a leash hook set up. Where he could release the dog to do 100 to 150 ft. wind sprints. This would occur when the dog saw the shining eyes of the possum in the head lights. A pit dog will sprint like a bat out of hell to get a possum. LOL Ease up along side of dog break dog off possum. Then a short walk to cool down. Right back to road work. The possums would vary from night to night. May have been thousands of possums in that swamp. Never run out of possums. LOL

Would build those dogs up depending on size to be able to lope non stop except for possum sprint stops and urinating stops. For up to 5 miles to 10 miles. Mileage would vary according to type of dog and it's size.

Bad weather days would take dog into Base during day. Had plenty of empty large hanger bay type buildings to access. Would get some of those young marines to hand walk them and jog them. Evening time used his slat mill which was under a small shed.

The rest was good feed. He did not win all his matches. Had a very good win loss record though. The dogs that lost did not lose due to poor conditioning. When he got back to Texas his whole world changed. He was a lot older and went from the humid South East to dry desert type weather in Texas. He had to learn a whole new bag of dog tricks. Like me his get up and go had got up and went. LOL

Many ways to skin a cat and many ways to work a dog. Lots of natural running/sprinting and trotting is hard to beat. It takes a pack of hounds awhile to catch a Wily Coyote. They stay in shape the natural way. LOL