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1)Is it possible to hunt (boar, deer, bear, moose) with a single scent hound, for example, with only one american foxhound or a bloodhound alone? Or every hunt with a scent hound involve a pack with dozens of dogs? I only see videos of people hunting with a lot of them.
2) What is the best scent hound for hunting big game?
3) Are there good books or dvds about training scent hounds for hunting?
4) Are they really necessary? For example, I know you can't train a non-pointing breed to point, but can you train a lab or a gsd to trail the game the same way you can train a scent hound?
5) I don't know about scent hound field trials. How do I know that the parents were bred to work?

Thanks.