EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

In stead of jacking another thread about hueing the line.  I have heard stories about older dogs that have been cut down pretty bad target boars to the point of by passing sows

I have had a dog that seemed to do that and hunted with some buddys of mine who had a dog that just hunted boars. As that is all we cought with him. The dog I had would let you know when he found a big boar. He would always yelp once when he hit the track and then went silent till bayed. He never did that with sows. Which we rarely cought behind him.

never had one but hunted behind one it was a ring neck cur never went to a bay with anything other than a boar there watched him run through a pack of Sow and never even look at him he always did it from when he was young so i believe some dogs just are that way

I hunted with a cowboy out of Weimar TX. that had a plott hound  he claimed ran nothing but boars. Every hog that dog struck that weekend was a good boar.

One of the very best strike dogs I ever hunted behind was a hunting buddys Plott hound. It just seemed like that he always bayed boards.

He was smart and only got cut halfway bad once. After that they had to air mail them.

One of the dogs I got right now from my uncle  is going through a very confusing time. My uncle trained him to only go on big boars and he got cut down a month before I got him which broke his "Tracking spirit" but he will stop any boar that my other dog will find. My other dog is still learning and is trained by my standards (100+) so it is kinda cool to hear them 2 hit and stop a hog and when I get there if it is a sow or under 100 lbs the dog will sulk and give me that "He started it look" and expect me to get on him. I am working on this along with building his confidence back up to tracking his own pig again but I ain't complaining if he still wants to go for just the big boys.
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So then would yall agree the dog is more or less hue the line on a big hog

I'm not sure what Hue the line means but my dogs are trained to target certain sized pigs and also not related.

I mean hit a track and stick with that one track this being a boar

As far as my dogs go, I would say yes they know the scent diference between a boar and a sow. I have also seen the dog I mentioned earlier hear a shoat walking in a gulch below us and not want to be pushed on it and just stand there with a blank look on his face.

when you're bouncing off the roof of your truck or tractor where the hogs have been in to till up your pastures , you don't care if your dogs run boars ,sows ,pigs ,or shoats. You just want them suckers dead . Not sexed or barred or nothing but dead. I kill all I can and I cull any dogs I own that don't want to join me in the finding of wild swine.

years ago my brother and I mostly caught sows and shoats. We didn't have a training pen so we staked out shoats and sows  or turned them loose for training our pups and dogs.

Meanwhile a friend of ours kept catching mostly big boars. He had a training pen and always used a boar for training.

One day my brother and I built a big training pen and used a big boar for training. We went from catching mainly sows and shoats to catching mainly boars.

My brother and I theorized that it had to do with training with a boar. Some hog hunters say that the boars smell is stronger, and that is why the dogs will naturally trail the stronger scent. I do not think it has much to do with the stronger scent in most cases.

you guys got some boardogs  ;)

preacher1 I agree with u 100 precent my dogs could care less what it is so long as it is a hog I just wanted to see if the masses have seen or had dogs that had a prefferance

I totaly shot my Dr Pepper out my nose, you have a real passion and hate for the hogs I see  ;D

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I used to have a dog that preferred boar hogs. He would run one longer and just liked the challenge I think. He would sometimes catch a shoat and hold it for a little while and then just kinda play with it and eventually get bored and walk away. He would also turn one loose and go on hunting if he saw you coming..  But a big hog that would fight back he would stay on it all day . I think some dogs just like a challenge. If you loved to fight MMA but could only fight teenagers that were half your size after awhile you would get bored..
That dog was the best dog I've ever owned and I caught a lot of big hogs with him..