EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

im wanting to add a bluetick to my pack       but only problem is i don't want dog thats open on track.   any of yall run em?

blueticks are known for ALOT of mouth, tho i have heard of very rare silent one or two.

and old timer once told me  that if u got one thats big block headed and short ears that with is experience      they were silent for most part ??     that was a old coon hunt  but still coon or hog   its all same if the dog is trained to hunt it

an old coonhunter told me that only chearleaders hunt blueticks on hogs ... just saying  O0

we have had a bunch of blueticks and not one was quiet and even the quietest one would be considered a babbler.....hence why we no longer even try this breed

arrowbar  thanks    i have heard more bad than good on them    i just for some damn reason like them haha   guess i'll stick with these ole catahoulas   hard to beat them

I knew I liked you for some reason!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!  ;D

haha   so noah  you a catahoula man

I'm a "get it done" dog man!!! Don't care what it is as long as it puts lots of hogs on the ground without takin' me into the next county!!!!  ;D

Right now I hunt a modge-podge of Florida cur x bird cross dogs and they do real good for me!

My buddy has a cur X bluetick cross and its a little open but well worth it cause it produces on every hunt. So are you worried about being quiet or catching pigs.

hogdog78   u have good point    noah  guy i hunt with just had a litter of pups that are  bird dog/bull dog/bluetick/catahoula  i am anxious to see how they turn     they about 3 weeks old

That bird sure adds some hustle, that's a fact!!

hope so   i actually have a full bird dog thats coming on good    he is just so damn fast    i think he runs by hogs if therfe layed up    but he just needs lots of hours and pigs tied in front of him!!

That is a good point, we sometimes see dogs that, as you said, "overrun" scent because they got too much hustle.... better too much than not enuff for me though  ;)

yeah i hate a  anckle biter

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Lol. Yeah but he catches hogs with them sometimes.  ;)

He is a wealth of information on them that's for sure.

A good friend of mine who introduced me to hog hunting told me that if you had a slow babbling bluetick to run them when you had a runner as the hog would slow down when it got out hearing range of the bluetick that the other dogs would hit the hog like a freight train. Dont get me wrong we kept a few of these blues around until they were 16 months and they had drive and handle but in the end the barking was too much for me but the people we gave them to love them.

i dont mind opening a littlt    i have a 9 year old catahoula  that is silent unless they break    then he will open every now and then    not a problem at all tho     but guy that i hunt with also has a plott she opens everytime her feet touch the ground    that gets old   that why i am worried about with the blue

jdt  so u must not be a bluetick fan??

Lol. jdt, it's a line we are all standing in! ;D

JDT,

I like your style.  NEVER FORGET THE ONES YOU OWE!!!!!!!!   ;D

Dane,

I think the majority of bluetick hog hunters hunt them because they are open.  That is the purpose of a hound.  The hounds that run silent are generally culled by "real" hound hunters.  Generally, they make a great track dog for the average cur dog man.  Hogs get caught everyday by many different breeds of dogs.  Find what fits your style, and feed it tracks.  Blueticks fit my style.    ;)

I had a bluetick male dog that was as silent as any catahoula tell bayed and he'd shut one down in a heart beat. A buddy of mine has a redtick gyp thats the same way. Iv also got some crossed with a catahoula and a redtick there  silent to

For a bald guy, you are good to keep around yourself.   O0

I went a few days ago to a buddy's 20 acre pen and run some pups. A guy came over that had 3 blueticks, 2 grown dogs and one that was a year old.. The 2 grown dogs were scared of a hog and wouldn't run or bay. But the little 1 year old dog was all about it, that little joker bayed his heart out even though it was from about 30 yards back lol..  He couldn't keep up with the cur dogs runnin but that didn't stop him he was runnin behind them bawling every breath and goin just as fast as he could trying to catch up.. I would never own a dog that barks that much but I did get a kick out of watching him run around with them big ears flopping around all over the place.. You just gotta like any dog that has the want to that little fella had..

Never trained in a woods pen.  I always used the woods.  Staged hunts are fine for 6 month old pups, but after about 2 of those, they are as real as they get.  A good prospect does not have their prey behind a fence.   ;)

I figure a pen is the best shot a bluetick has at baying a hog..   ;)

ill listen to hound run one all day.at least they will try most,i said most of them chicken number 2 curs want stay with a runner bout half a mile.know there r sum good curs out there but not very many.

big dog thats pretty big statement you made? so curs dont get it done? i have nothing against a loud mouth hound if you have a 15000 ac. lease with 1 or 2 hogs on it that only cross the road at night every now and then and you really need that cold nose but heck even then you just gonna run the dang thing all day and maybe catch one if your lucky??? get you some good cur dogs and find places that actually have hogs and catch 5 to 10 in a day how bout that??

We all have dogs that we prefer, curs, hounds, crosses, but what we need to remember is it dont matter if they bark alot or not it is the results you get. We are all in it to catch hogs. So all in all, hunt what you like.