EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/07/11/ae-network-presents-new-original-real-life-series-american-hoggers/97624/

Hope its better than the last...

Does anyone know this Campbell family?

Yeah I went to school with robert and krystal.  Aught to be interesting to say the least.  After seeing the last few vehicles they have had I can only admagine what this one will be like we used to see one and say well there goes the campbellmobille lol.

LOL, it says in the article they are legendary.........that right there scares me!!! ;)

Why is America obsessed with us rednecks?

Can you describe the campbellmobile for us please?

Lmao uh well ones past well can't find words for them just vary custom

Picture hogs dogs and a mule all in the back of a truck plus icechests and a place to set and a tool box

Ok, now I really wonder what this custom off-road jeep looks like. If you went to school with both of them, I am assuming, since there is five years difference between the two that you were between the two in age or was the older one a little slow8

Anyone else on here know if they still have any dogs that go back to their old nelle dog?

Are you talking a kawasaki mule or an animal mule? It kinda changes the picture, but I can imagine both. Lol

Animal

I see, I can only imagine what people are gonna be saying about Texas after this show airs! Did they at least catch pigs and have decent dogs?

I am going to have to say no comment have to wait and see.  Back then they had some decent cat dogs and so maybe so. 

Where are they from ? I live in Belton. Heart of Texas? Waco? Where did you go to school Purebreedcolt?

Kinda ashamed but early high school.  Lol true heart of texas is brady lol

WHY are so many of the hog hunting women named Crystal/Krystal ?


Why if they are legendary has no one in the hog hunting community heard of them?

  Isn't bare foot bob a running buddy of theirs? A guy that is a contractor for a customer knows them well.

There are several on here that know them cwhite does think jp does and some others most through cat hunting though.  His famous stuff comes when he tried to be a movie star and was also in some hunting shows way back when. I aint sticking up or down gradeing them just saying I know them and spent some time out there.  Robert and jerry are good guys krystal is a handfull lol.  robert was a hoot back in high school though.

Well Colt,......are we gonna laugh at them...or roll our eyes and say...."Good Lord where do they find these people?"

Know them very well...Jerry and my dad were running hounds since back in the 80's. Say want you want about him but in my opion when you talk about great old school houndsmen in Tx he is in the mix with the bob ramseys, bare foot bobs, Captin Bob Snow, Phil lynes, roy hynes, doug masons..etc. Ran Walkers off horseback alot back then. Was def the good ol days. Is very old school and full of bs sometimes in a funny way. This show is going to be a 360 I think. There will be some corny stuff but thats holleywood. Runs cat dogs as well. Also crystal is not one who sits back. She is down to catch and tie some pigs. You can see her write ups in Bayed solid Mag.... Should be funny to watch.

I think it will be entertaining and it should be relatively real it will be hard for me to judge since I know them I their dogs aught to be more to yalls liking that is for sure.

I hunted with Jerry some when I was around 14 or so.He came up here and hunted the Sloan ranch,where I was working.He had running hounds and a little black wire haired terrier,that would flat go find one.We had lots of fun,and drank lots of Lone Star. ;D

I have a OLD VHS tape where a guy goes and shoots a hog with his bow over Jerrys dogs.  The host of the show flies in to Brownwood and then goes and meets up with Jerry.  They up with a nice hog, hunt off of horse back, and it has some nice hound footage.  Jerry was a grizzly adams looking man with a deep gruff voice and a big beard to match.  He told a story/poem about the devil coming to Texas if I remember correctly and hes drinking a lone star beer while telling that poem.  I look forward to seeing the show.

there sure seems to be a lot of interest in hog doggin lately..I hope this turns out good and not a slap in the face of all hog doggers..not just this show but all the recent shows coming on the boob tube..

well good, I hope that it is a good show and I guess they have been heard of and I retract my statement with appologies.
They must be real hunters and not legendary in the internet circles where I do all my hunting ;)


Hope This Crystal does better than that Krystle on Discovery channel.

Lol she is pretty cute and if she is still as firary as she used to be aught to be interesting

I was roommates with robert a couple years ago in college and he is a good guy. But I have never hunted with him or behind his dogs so can't say nothing about that aspect of it.

Jerry had a website for a while. Primarily focused on cat hunting as I remember. I believe that he hunted in West Texas and NM. Think he was tied in for a while with Joe Bramond from the South Texas ranching family. The Bramond family has a lot of land and is noted for having dogs for just about any kind of hunting you can think of. They used to have a large number of hog dogs. Don't know much about their breeding. Know a few guys that have dealt with them and said they had some good dogs. I was told that they culled hard. Campbell's hog dogs could be tied to theirs. The photos I have seen of Jerry kind of made me think of old Cowboy Williams and he was a character!

Hopefully it will be a better show than the last one. I've got family in Louisiana. Gonna take some Great Danes over there and catch gators. Gonna call the show Swamp People Meets Hogs Gone Wild! Will train the dogs to only catch the BIG gators.

 He used to Write a Full Cry article every month in the 80's.  Thinking he was on a big ranch full of bobcat and russian hogs in Brownwood guiding, lost track of him for a while, good to hear he is doing something with a mule too, wonder what kind of dogs they are using nowdays???  There used to lots of people with hog hunting mules down here at one time but I have not seen one in ages in the back of a truck being hauled with the dogs.  What was that hound hog dogger that used to be guiding on that big game ranch at Kerrville??  I cant think of the name, it went broke and got some of it sold off, was that the Y.O.????  Seemed like that guy and Jerry were hunting together at one time. 

I know these campbells I live here in brownwood tx where they are from! They are some real characters mule dogs all kinds of stuff in the bed of the truck and an American flag painted S10 pickup! Real characters folks!

If they open up a dog box and a pack of plotts falls out. Well it just wont get much better for me.
1 Girl fiesty and good looking
2 Dad likes Lonestar beer
3 Boys hunt hogs
4 Hunt with Bare Foot Bob
5 Its hog hunting heaven


Cant wait till it airs.

Can't think of the name to save my life, but there's a hog hunting DVD by some outdoor channel host from several years back where he likes to line em up and shoot 2 &3 at a time and he had one little doggin section in south Texas with some texicans and one east Texas hunt with some big ole fella and his kids. All I remember is a couple b&t cats and a dog named smoke. Anybody know what im talking about? Seems I remember their name being Campbell .

Also announced was Boar Hunters, in which patriarch Jerry Campbell, "level-headed" son Robert and "firecracker" daughter Krystal help farmers and others who have problems with feral hogs. The Campbells run Campbell's Homeplace Ranch, which is based in Brownwood and has a clientele that has included Sam Elliott and President George H.W. Bush. And Krystal Campbell is a former Miss Brownwood. 


Found they still ofering lion hunts in west texas and new mexico on bayed solid magazine, i searched and searched fro the old dvd tape but cant find it.  I cant wait to see if he goes hunting with President Obamalol

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Found they still ofering lion hunts in west texas and new mexico on bayed solid magazine, i searched and searched fro the old dvd tape but cant find it.  I cant wait to see if he goes hunting with President Obamalol


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   lol , if they do , i hope their dogs trash BAD and get REEAAL  catchy  O0

I'm looking forward to the show. I just got into hog hunting and a buddy gave me two Lacy dogs.  Cool thing is the guy who gave me my dogs is the cowboy in the black hat and the Lacys you (briefly) see in the show trailer are my dogs!!

My dog got torn up pretty good while filming the show, I wonder if they'll show it.

I hope its good.. :/ Because im kinda tired of these "hog hunting" shows...its making people think they know all about hog doggin and stuff... Its getting stupid especially when I have had people call me because they hear I hog dog and they want to sell me their "bay dog" when I ask what breed they say they just told me..the breed is "bay dog" lmao i hope ill actually enjoy this show and not get annoyed with it like the others....

I hope they dont show dogs getting torn up...then a whooole different issue is going to come up :/

Yea the last one didn't do any justice to the sport. I hate it when ill be talking to people at work bout hunting hogs when someone walks up and ask me if I know them people from Texas on that one show bout the hog hunting. I'm like uh no then they make out like idk what I'm talking bout cause I ain't on TV. Man I hate that I offer to take em hunting to show them how it really goes down but they just say I can watch it on tv

Exactly :/ EVERYONE thinks they know about it now when the tv shows are a bunch of bs..

It drives me crazy.

I looked it up and even searched for it on tv, but it said it wont premiere Aug. 16 it says the date is tbd because of the drought.

Haha I bet they back out. Someone probably showed them the forum posts bout the last ones and how tough the professional hog dogging critics on here are and they don't want to be just another show to make fun of lol

x2...I thought the same thing....

You obviously have not read the entire thread lol...

yeah, but I still never heard of them  ??? To me legendary means they're known pretty much statewide(at least by folks whove been around awhile)not just locally...I dont care one way or the other, I know hollywood has to do what they do to make it sound interesting. Hope its better than the last hog doggin show!

Talked to the former owner of my dogs who took the cast/crew out.  He said they didn't know jack about pigs.  They didn't hustle in after the dogs caught and that's why one of mine got roughed up.

The outlook for the show does not look good :/

 



I dont get it,  your dogs are going to be on the series about hog dogging and the film crew is not knowledgeable about hog filming or are you saying Jerry is not knowledgeable about hog hunting and slow to the bay???  Who is the new owner of your old dogs, Campbell or somebody else??  Sounds like the show is not all about the Campbells???

How long have you had dOgs, they ain't been filming but about two months.

I haven't had the dogs long, probably 2 months.  If you watch the trailer, the cowboy in the black hat is my buddy's dad.  The dogs were his and he wasn't hunting them as much as he would like and gave them to me.  From what I understand they filmed several months ago.

The dogs had the boar caught, the crew was filming and the hunters (I guess the campbells - whoever the old man, guy, and girl are on the show) were hesitant to go in and get the hog.  One of the dogs was getting torn up pretty good so my buddy's dad went it and finished the job.  He seemed to think they were a joke as far as hog dogging goes.  He was surprised to see his face on TV as well.

it looks like the show is abt the Campbells but they go with other guys who know something about  hog hunting.

Yeahh..shows dont get aired for maybe 6 months to 8 months later...maybe the last episode was filmed a few months ago? but not the whole thing.. and if the show is how your explaining then YAY another stupid show! :)   >:(

Live in the same town as him and you'll see'em loaded up and leavin town quite often. 3 horse trailers, the campbell mobile, camper, 2 or 3 trucks, and one with a pig trap in the back. It's a caravan to every hunt. It should be interistin know doubt. Don't know anything bout his dogs but know that he's used some peoples dogs to hunt behind. They'll bring the true redneck out in Texas, guarranted!

two things...1) whats the trap for. I personally dont take a trap on a hunting trip. I guess thats just in case the dogs dont produce?
                 2) what exactly is the "true redneck" in Texas. I live in Texas and personally im tired of people having the misconception that we(hog doggers in Texas) are just abunch of ignorant rednecks. So if the outcome of this show is to display the "true Redneck" of a Texan. Keep it off the air in my opinion.

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I hope its a very entertaining and informative show, and does some good for our sport. As far as all this speculative banter about the Campbells, I dint know them from Adam and I like to cross a bridge before I burn it. So, best of luck to you Campbell family.

well said T-bob. I dont know them and had never herd of them before this show came up. I hope it is well put together and TRUTHFUL. but, in all honesty, i dont think they could do any worse than whats already been done..lol

Idk bout the hog trap.  
"true redneck" it's a figure of speech. It don't matter what we do in Texas, everybody from the big cities thinks the same of us. I went to New York a year back and they all still think we ride horses every where out of the big cities down here and didn't believe me when I said otherwise.  It's somethin that has been stuck to us and prolly won't ever change.

I am on a lease between Brady and Brownswood and it is DRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A man i knows mother went to school with mr cambell, David told me he has known him for going on 40 years and what you see is what u get, that it might look hoky or put on, but thats just him camera no camera it don't matter.   I look forward to the show.  October 16 i think is the new air date, but it looked like  a and e was going to air shows while they were g
Still filming the season that's why it's delayed.

two things...1) whats the trap for. I personally dont take a trap on a hunting trip. I guess thats just in case the dogs dont produce?
                 
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I do know that they are not just using dogs to catch pigs. They are trapping and shooting as well. I think they even bring in a heli at some point in the show. They just finished filming a few days ago.

It was real hard on them with the heat and drought. I think it will be somewhat corney to us as hog hunters but has to be for hollywood or people on the outside looking in. Hopefully it wont be too over the top.

I hope it's good and I don't see any way could be as bad as the last one.

I just think all these shows are making to many people "know everything" about hog hunting...people that dont even know what a hog looks like..around here we even get people calling animal control to "report some farmers hogs out loose" lmao

They first started filming mid June

hmm weird. Thats not the normal for hollywood shows liek everyone is talking about. Maybe it will be different then.. for editing to be done it takes months.

Maybe so, Hogs gone wild finished filming only a few weeks before it aired also. I think they edit as the shows are playing, that would be my guess. I dont know as much about hollywood as everyone on here though.

Thats VERY weird. It at least takes three for everything..even if they are editing while filming...unless its low budget.

i wonder if theyre going to make theyre baby ride "the great riddick"

Chelsea do u work I'n production?

  not on these hog shows but yeah in the industry why?

U seemed very knowledgable like you were speaking from experience or out your ass, just thought i would ask.  Film and production is right up there with pig hunting for me, what do you work on? I guess if this is hijacking the thread you could just om me. 

yupp been in it for awhile. i dont talk out of my a$$ :) but i messaged you so ill just talk that way.

lmao ur in for it now zach.youv barked up the wrong tree

Yeah sorry that came across rude sometimes i forget to turn my filter on and thought the forum automatically removed cursing, it doesn't by the way

sure dont.trust me i got booted off her cuz i said chit

It wasn't cause you said chit it was the chit you said  ;)

Now we get deleted for just saying something?? not cussing?

That was a joke somewhat....it was in reference to when he got all goofy and threatening every one....take it easy... ;)

easy? lol it was easy

so did anyone watch this? it says it aired last night...i missed it

The date was changed from summer to fall

NEW YORK (AP) — The Texas heat is forcing the A&E television network to call "time out" on a new series about hunting hogs.

The network's "American Hoggers" series was set to premiere Aug. 16, focusing on the Campbell family of central Texas. They hunt wild boar seen as a scourge by some residents and ranchers.

A&E said Wednesday that producers have cut back on the filming schedule due to high heat. The series will instead premiere sometime in fall, at a date to be determined.

David McKillop, executive vice president of programming at A&E, says that "in this record-breaking heat, even the hogs can use a break."