EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

 I didn't want to hijack Cwards thread about educated hogs but how often have you guys had your dogs stop a hog and have other hogs come in to help? This last hunt I went on my dog had a nice sow pinned and just as I got within eyesight I heard the trees snapping and out came another sow and she T-boned my dog right off the other sow! When I was younger I found an old feedlot that at night was packed with hogs, Figuring it was an easy hunt I let my dogs out on them one night and came home with more holes in my pack then I want to talk about and not one hog!

It seems like that would be against nature, but I have had it happen more than a few times.

 
We had it happen several years back when the hogs just kept coming, and coming from several different directions, the hogs rattling were louder than anything else in the woods, you could see the dogs mouths moving, but could not hear the barks coming out of their mouths, it looked a a cyclone growing bigger and bigger and everyone with us could not believe what we were seeing. It will make the hair on the nap of your neck stand on end. Never to this day have I ever seen that many hogs in one spot, one of those things I hope to see agin in my lifetime but doubt I will.

Had it happen to me 3 wks ago. Had a sow caugth and was going to tie her up when a boar hog came after us. The sow was really really raisen h!!!. If it was not for my buds male bmc Jake & my bmc Tess stopping him, Im sure he would have got to us.

have had it happen a few times over the years

The "RALLY"!!!!!!!!!

You got to love it.

had it happen a few months back one of my curs caught a shoat and i told my buddy to send his lil 6 mnth pit gyp to get sum practice and as soon as he released her hogs rallied big time wound up catching a 400lb sow biggest sow ive ever seen...heard the hogs rally like that and sent my cd got there and looked like they had a holstein caught...i actually at first glance thought it was one of the ranches recep cows who got out the pasture

I think hogs rallying is one of the best sounds ever.  I can think of a couple times where I have been hunting and like uglydog said you hear a bay and then you start hearing the chatter and then the chatter starts sounding like thunder with grunts and you cant hear a thing but hogs!  It is a neat feeling, one that you don't soon forget or get to hear often enough.

I had a rally in the field one time its was beutiful!! I busted the rally when I got to close the dogs lined a sow out and I caught her!!The dogs left on the roll out and had bayed while I was tie the sow a baor hog hit me right in the chest how he did not cut me I never will know!! Crystal was just getting there and had the catch dog when she seen it she sent the catch dog he caught the boar in the field and had about 2 " of teeth!!

We get lots of rally's I love them!!

We had it happen a bunch this year during late winter and early spring.  I seems like we had hogs rally on us almost every weekend for a couple months.  We started rolling with as many as 4 CD's and that fixed that.  If they want to keep coming in on us, we'll keep feeding them bulldogs. ;D  Nothing like 4 caught bulldogs and hogs running everywhere to get you excited in the morning.

Thanks for the responses guys, It's good to know we're not the only pack that the hogs are ganging up on!  :laugh:

I've only had them rally on me one time, I had no clue what in the hell that sound was once my CD got there.
It was a cool sight to see them bunched up, just a waiting for something to try them....

I got a cure for it !

It's called a 12 gauge Slug !

Works everytime !

We've had them rally on us a few times and like was already said it's a beautiful noise..  Had it happen one night in a huge cotton field. My dog had a shoat caught in the middle of the field and they starting coming to him. I don't know how many it was but it's the only thing you could hear for awhile. Finally the calvary arrived and they started scattering. There was hogs of all sizes darting in and out of the rows all over the top of me. A few smaller ones ran right into me.. When it was over we only ended up catching one hog. I think it was the same shoat the dog had caught at first..

Had groups rally on us quite a few times... always wondered how far they would really go if we all just sat still and held the dogs...  can be un-nerving seeing a tidal wave of swine rolling down on you! ;D

Now a boarhog is a different story... I hear a single hog breaking brush towards us... I start lookin' for a tree!! ;D

This has nothing to do with hogs rallying but this past hunt I went on my older dogs had gone out and so it was just me and my 8 month old pup in some waist high fern. There were alot of trails going through this fern so I had a feeling there could be pigs bedded down close when I saw a down tree I jumped up on it and as I did a nice boar came out about 5 feet in front of me from under the tree! I had to check my underwear before continueing on and when the older dogs got back I tried to put him on it but we never did find him. Could've been a barr but all I know was he was big and had some dental work, I tried to get my pup to go after him but I think it ended up better for her training that she didn't as that would have been her first attempt at stopping her own hog and only the 5th pig she's seen! I'm not one to climb trees when the boars come a running but I am happy he didn't come at me as the only tree around was the one he was under.

I have hogs rally up many times. It has happened 8-10 times this year alone. Most of those situations were on the same ranch. Richard and Joseph have been with me on 2 or 3 of those hunts.

I dont know if it is my midget dogs, the area, or the hogs.....but I have never had them turn back on us. Soon as the catch dogs hit...they move on.

I had some rally in the corn night before last. If I find a group of hogs on my place they usually rally. The hogs here havent been dogged that much though. The first rally I ever had, I turned my cd loose and he ran in and immediately came right back out with 3 big sows eating his butt up. All I ended up catching was a shoat.

Go up a tree???? I thought I just read recently that you are scared of no man or animal? ;D

Brother..... there's a big difference in bein brave and just bein' plain out stupid....  Had it happen to me enough to know when you're tying a squealing pig up and you hear brush breakin'.... best get out the way till the dust clears... ;)

One time this year we bayed a rally up in a thicket and sent the catchdog in he hit a 120lb boar and all the hogs went to whooping on him  finally they ran off and we caught the hog, while the baydogs rolled on and caught a sow... while we were cutting the boar a sow came from no where and ran us smooth over and knocked us off of the boar, we ended up catching the boar and finished the cutting and the sow that knocked us off... pretty wild experience...

we also get alot of rallies... one time we bayed about 25 head a few hundred yards off of a major highway out in a pasture and you could hear them rallying over the traffic...here is some pics of some rallies

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Good pics Clint




I know that for sure....Just messin with ya

I have been sitting on a few in my time when a hog has came to rally. My most memorable experience happens to involve a big boar that almost got me while I was tying a good sow one morning. A puppy we had with us stayed with me and continued to bay while I tied the sow. I heard something coming through the woods behind me and figured it was a dog. I waited till it was closer and turned around to start scolding when I seen this big boar practically on top of me! I dove off of the sow and scrambled to a tree. That pup must have saved my bacon because he never touched me even though he was right on top of me when I dove! The pup left with the boar and the sow with my tie rope hanging off of her leg. We caught her later that morning tie rope and all, but never caught the boar.
I have seen all sizes come to rally when the dogs were bayed. I watched shoalt no more than 50 lbs knock my cousin off his feet one morning coming to rally. He will tell you it weighed 150 if you ask him though! 
You can bet that I look over my shoulder now a days when Im by myself tying a hog!

When I am tying or dragging a live hog I always try to keep a dog nearby.

I caught a good boar hog about 125# 's on a pond island one night. After he was caught the guys with me put all the dogs on a lead and walked them back to the truck. I thought with all the commotion every hog around was gone. We start to drag the hog back to the truck and get about 100 yds. and his MUCH bigger buddy comes blowing and crashing through the sawgrass to help his buddy out. Luckily after his few bluffs and me yelling many curse words. He decided he did not want to go mano e mano with us ;D

We went one night to a spot we had never been , they said noone had ever hunted it with dogs. The dogs caught a shoat in the middle of a little thick spot, I got to them and was tying the shoat and it was squealing the whole time. I heard something come crashing through the woods right in front of me and figured it was a dog, well it was about a 250lb sow and she ran right through me. Knocked me off the shoat and she was highly mad, about the time I got back to my feet and was looking for a good tree, the dogs got back over there and caught her..

Have seen several rallies. Ya'll are right it is nothing like it. A big group will send some pretty good dogs back to your feet. I think it is becoming a thing of the past though with the hogs getting wilder. Heck I can't hardly even get one hog to bay up longer than a few minutes anymore.