EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Well i have heard from alot of ol timers that the barometer has alot to do with tracking. Everyone around here that hunts has been goin thru kind of a dry spell. Well what i was wondering is the barometric pressure high or low for good tracking?

A buddy of mine that is quite well known as a hog hunter only hunts when the barometric pressure is around 30. I think, unless he's been pulling my leg. Idk, nothing about it.

When I was bird hunting all the time I kept a log of all the weather conditions. Barometric pressure, temp, wind, direction, humidity, ect..  I did this for an entire season and I was running and training lots of dogs back then so it was not just a dog or two.

Here is what I found. Dogs cannot scent as well on a south wind, east is next worst, and north and west are the best. I don't know why but I know it is true.

When I was helping out at a hunting camp we were working about 35 dogs per day. I have seen dogs that did not smell birds well in perfect conditions. I have also seen them smell in the absolute worst conditions. I have seen conditions change in a couple of hours dramatically. Don't ask me what changed because I don't know. All I do know is that 4 dang good bird dogs did not do well early one morning in a particular pasture. The brids were there because we had several stop to flushes. We put 4 more dogs in the same pasture and they did great. Then we put the first 4 dogs back down and they were simply outstanding.

I guess that is what makes dogs so neat.

How about this one: a dog cant smell or work a track when the wind is directly out of the East.

I have heard a few things from "old timers" that seemed very doubtful and I always wondered if they were blowing a little smoke and having some fun with me.

I cant say for sure but most of us have caught hogs in just about every kind of weather condition.

There may be something to this one though because I have seen 1st hand many a time how the barometric pressure can effect the fishing and deer movement.

This should be an interesting thread.

 well from what iv read so far with the preassure. hogs must be similar to deer then, when i was hunting in kansas, i would wait till the barometer was 31ish but nothing less than 30 and nothing more the 35. dont know why but i was told similar things that the preassure makes a differnce. it must bc i would see more deer activity with higher preassure and just before a big cold front.

my dad said that the best scenting conditon is when the air is changing tempatures from warm to cool like when a cold front is blowing in. there could be a connection their cold front affect the atmospheric pressure.

I know when the weather is about to change that my aches and pains flair up. My Grandfather always told me the same thing back in the 1960's.

I bought a casio fishing watch and took it back and exchanged it for a hunting watch because the feeding periods are the same but the hunting watch looked better.

If barometric pressure triggers feeding for fish and game then I suspect it includes pigs and hunting hog dogs. I think it is possible for the dogs to hunt at a higher level during the best feeding times.

Me, I like to hunt best when it is cold and the weeds are down. Also, on a full moon night with the same conditions. Seems we always catch more hogs during these times.

I know that for every ten degree drop we need to increase the dogs caloric intake by a certain percentage to maintain weight so the deer also move around more to feed and my success ratio goes up. If the hogs move around more then the dogs have a better chance to strike a track.

well thanks for all yalls input i appreciate it! I dont know what was different last night other then it wasnt as humid but our dry spell pretty much ended. between us and my family we caught 6 last night, but the one we caught did a pretty good number on our dogs the three bay dogs were all cut and we got a pretty good vet bill on our bulldog but they r all still movin and eatin so theyll live to catch another one. thanks again everyone