EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

I just spent 3 weeks of great training in Wisconsin. Compared to the 100 degree plus days we were having down here it was like heaven being in temp’s from 38 degrees to 60 degrees n the morning. For having soft dogs when I went up they did ok and were hard as rocks when I left.
   We treed 13 bear in Wisconsin and bayed two on the ground. We had some interference on 3 occasions. Dogs treed on private property and landowners caught the dogs and brought them to us telling us they didn’t appreciate the dogs on their property. Another occasion the dogs ran a bear across a farm and when they came out only a 150 yards behind the bear we packed to them. Within 20 minutes the bear made a loop and was headed back to his farm and the farmer was there reading us the riot act so we caught the dogs. Then a bear beat the dogs across the train tracks and that was scary as we were showing dogs treed right on the tracks but everything ended up ok.
   Got to go up to Mi. and hunt with my old buddy Joe Hudson and his friend Jameson Peschel. I knew Jameson but had never hunted with him before. He has two really nice trail dogs in Tonka and Mia. We treed one the first day and the 2nd day we got on one of Joe’s pet bears and he put holes in all our dogs. Joe and Jameson were great hosts and enjoyed every minute of it.

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It’s the dogs turn.

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Showgirl treed this one by herself
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Some mighty fine hounds in those pics!

We was rite there with u man.   Every time my son would talk to u while u was there. Lol.   Fine trip and fine hounds.  I bet they didn’t want to come back to this miserable heat either. 


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Sounds like a heck of a time good looking hounds

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Looks like good times, I just can't understand landowners getting butthurt over dogs crossing their land.

WOW I cant either. He has a creek that his property backs up to and those bears run up and down the creeks. Had another landowner begging us to kill all the bear. They were tearing the screens off his cabin. Go figure
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  Thanks for the kind words fellas. The temps ranged anywhere from 38-60 degrees in the morning to 70-80's in the afternoon. I was supposed to only stay 2 weeks but with the miserable weather down here I could see no reason to come home so I stayed a extra week. We wore those dogs to a frazzle. Most of them hunted every day except Oak. Every bear we bayed on the ground he got holes in him and I had to lay him up.

Sounds like a rough one that aint afraid to add some teeth.

Good pics and sounds like a good time. Enjoy them every year. Its a shame you used to be able to go to the big woods and get away from the crazy land owners in the city.....but they done moved in.

I hear you on the weather. its been miserable. But the end seems to be in sight. Hunted last night and it got cool riding on the buggy and actually got below 70 for the first time. Didnt help catch any hogs though! ;D

Those are awesome pictures and sounds like you got to see more good hounds besides the ones you’re feeding. Good company to boot makes for a heck of a time! I figured since you were training though that we would’ve seen at least one picture of you going up a tree with a switch to knock a bear out for a another race.

Unfortunately this country is getting over crowded and too many people that have never been out the big cities have bought “ranches” and don’t want anyone to even look across their fence. They don’t understand country life or what it means to be neighborly. It doesn’t help matters any that society as a whole as become so blatantly disrespectful. That only magnifies the paranoia of the transplants because all they’ve ever known to do is doubt people’s intentions.

I’m glad you got to enjoy the cool temps. I won’t lie, I’m jealous. My youngest son is the quarterback on his 8th grade football team. Up until school started, we would get some of his receivers and go run passing routes on the turf field during the heat of the day. It sure shows which ones took the time and which ones didn’t because they are still trying to acclimate.


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Looks like a heckuva good time Cajun! Jameson is a friend of mine and I’ve bear hunted with him a couple of times. He also had some cur dogs out of mine back when he lived in Oklahoma and hog hunted.

Looks like that was awesome good job


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  He won me over when he brought some steaks for dinner. He is a real nice guy.

  Again thanks everybody.