I thought about trapping too and I'd go more that route my self. But big game hunting is a luxury of in the wild. You can't risk your dog on a pig, when he's all you've got. That's assuming you didn't bring antibiotics and stitching stuff. In which case a small cut could kill. If it were me I'd trap the big game and I'd scent and catch the small stuff. Though unless it were below freezing all the time I wouldn't catch much big game because you've only got a day or two to eat it before it goes bad anyway. A man and a dog can't eat a 150 lb boar in that time. Though maybe you could build a smoke house, and preserve it that way. That's why I think a 70 lb Cur would be about perfect. They have nose they catch, they are tough and they want to hunt. They don't eat much or need much maintenance. But that's also assuming I'm in the kind of environment I'm use to, the south eastern US. That's the environment Curs like Catahoulas were bred for a different dog might be better built for somewhere else though. I think the whole idea does call to some ancient male hunting instinct. Notice no ones talking about training the dog to scent out water or berries?