EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

 Had another catch dog get killed last night by the same boar that killed my cur and dogo a few weeks ago. Here is a picture of the dog killing daddy didn't marry mommy. I have a bunch more but I am tring to write up a story and down load some more pics. Any one want to geuss how much he weighed?
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I am sorry another catch dog had to be planted because of that hog but I am glad you got him out of the woods.  That hog looks to be greay/silver in color, would make a nice mount!  Lets see some pics of his grill.  I am going to guess....324 on the hoof.
MG

sory about your dogs. but thats a good hog. im gonna guess 300 on hoof

Sorry about the dog, but you got him and that is more than I can say about my dog butcher.  Good Job!

Joey

dang cantex, i feel for you, and i am glad you got that hog,, did you ever find Fatboy?? and ill go with the  325-350 range
         Dexter

holy crap... that's a big hog.   sorry to hear another catchdog got cut down.   BUT ya got that dog killin SOB takin care of.  congrats, that's gotta feel good.  hope to hell you get it mounted.  that's a nice'n and i'm gonna say in the 360' ish  range.

Nice hog, gald you got him, just sorry it was at the expense of some dogs.

dang, dude, I'm sorry to hear that.  was it sandy?  I'm sorry for your loss.

Nice catch Savoy!  After hearin the first story about that hog I new his days were numbered.  Must feel nice takin care of some unfinished business for ole Dirty and Suzy.  Cant wait to hear the story

Nice hog Mike!  I may go hunting with you now that you got that one out of the woods. 

Dexter-  Yes, he got Fatboy back.  Guy called him Friday saying he had wandered up to his house.  Way the crow flies and according to Google Earth fatboy traveled right at 35 miles in his seven day adventure.  I told Mike from the beginning he might be a little long range for his taste, but he said he wanted a dog that would go hunt!  Dog was a little cut down also.  Looked like he found a few hogs during his travels.  I told his the other day to go where the closest hogs were to his house and look there. 

    A few weeks ago while hunting with Chris and Zach, my young cur had his first and last strike.  My catchdog Suzie was let out of the box for her last time. Chris and I both saw the hog. We knew it was fixing to get bad. I buried Suzie and Dirty that night.
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    A few days later some friends from Troy came down to go hunt hoping we could catch up the hog that killed my dogs. We ended up with a boar that went around 280 and one that was 250. Both were good sized but no the one we were looking for.
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    After those hunts I was on the misson to replace dogs and get my pack back up and going. I bought a dog out  of a good line from a friend of friend. Fatboy. Had him for a few days before he busted out of my kennels. The day he busted out of the kennels I picked up a new bulldog named Sandy. My luck was not going good at this point. I gave up looking for Fatbpy and picked up a saddleback named Turbo from the Waco area. With him came another bulldog in the package named Sally. I named her Sally 2 due to the fact that I already have a Sally(bmcxplott).  
   Fastfoward to yesterday(Friday). Got a call from a guy 30 miles to the NE from me saying he had my dog. Fatboy was found. Not sure how he got way up there but didn’t really care. I went and  picked him up. Alittle worn down and a few cuts and messed up pads. Called up Chris to see if he wanted to join Amanda and I for a little hunt. We dropped dogs alittle after dark. Huntted one place and didn’t have much action. Dogs took a few tracks but nothing panned out. As we are making our way back towards the front gate, Chris sees a set of eyes and a huge black body take off across the creek. Sally takes a track a few 100 yards but comes back. We go next door to a small place where Suzie and Dirty were killed. Chris and I were showing Amanda where it happen and how we kind of had an uneasy feeling pulling back into the same place. We were making a loop around a small coastal patch when we hear Sally open up. Turbo,saddleback, wasn’t too far behind her. Solid bay. We stoped and unloaded bulldogs. Chris had Sandy and I had Sally2. Chris noticed he didn’t have his pistol so he handed Sandy over to Amanda. We made our way towards the bay which was in a THICK little thicket. Chris joined up a few min. later. We were 30 or so yards from the bay when Sandy slipped her lead. I saw her take off past me and unclipped Sally2 and watched them close the distance to the bay. They made it a few feet from the hog when he broke bay and took off. It was silent. No sound. A few min later we heard them bay. Almost 900 yards per the gps………… Bulldogs were there…..not good. We took off towards them.
   The dogs were back on the first place up by a creek. We got there the fastest we could on foot. As we got closer we could tall the baydogs were backed off a little bit. Up to this point we had no idea what size pig we had. When we got withen 50 or so yards to the bay we came up to the creek. Sandy was on the bank. She was not doing good. Sally2 came walking up to us. I wont go into detail but Sandy died on the banks of the creek and Sally2 took staples and wont be back for a month or so(I hope). Amanda sat with Sally2 and talked to Sandy while rubbing her head. Chris and I jumped the banks to see what we had.
   We could see the dogs but not the hog. We were b/t a rock and a hard place for a while. We figured out the best place to get a good look down into the creek. We saw him. Sally and Turbo had a big oar hemmed up. Dogs were 6-8 foot off his head baying like crazy. Chris took two shots from his .357. Pig didn’t miss a beat. He ran down the bank alittle ways before Sally could shut him down again. We crept up above him and Chris had a perfect downward shot to him. It was a hit, the hog took off grunting like crazy. He came up the bank not too far from us and headed across a small opening. Sally and Turbo were done. After the 900 yard race and baying for 30mins they didn’t have anything left. We heard the hog run in some woods not far. We made the call to round up dogs and see what the damage to Sally2 was.
    Chris and Amanda satied with Sally2 while I walked to get the truck. Sally followed. I got the truck and drove to where they were waiting. Sally2 took some medical attention. Gotta thank Chris and Amanda for all the help. We headed to the house a dog short and a dog injuryed. Sally and Turbo were fine, no cuts. Chris said that he wanted to head out in the morning and look for that hog. We both thought that he should be dead.
    Alittle before 8 this morning(sat.) I called Chris to see if he was still game. He came over we loaded up a few dogs,Sally and Turbo. This time we had a 30/30 and a 7x57 to use as bulldogs. We dropped dogs at the gate and drove around the creek to where we last heard him the night before. We were walked along a dry creek bed when Sally opened up not more then 30-40 yards behind us. We had just walked next to the boar that was bedded up in a brushpile. Turbo joined in. We made our way to them. You could smell him. I saw black but couldn’t tell butt from head. About the time I made out eyes he took off, running over Turbo in the process. Sally was hot on his heels. They had him stopped 100 or so yards down the creek. Chris peeked over the brush and saw him. We poped out on top of the bluff not 30 yards from the bay. Boom.7x57.Boom.30/30. Hog rolls into the creek. We higfive and make our way down to him.
  We then had to figure out a way to get out of the creek. We used my truck along with a few ropes to drag him out. When we got him to the top of the bank we still had to get in my truck.
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 Got him loaded and headed to the house.
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   I just wantted the head. So what do you do with rest of a hog??

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 Oh yeah, Almost forgot.

 He weighed 365lbs.
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im glad you found  Fatboy and glad you got the dog killin sombeach,,  lol Bryant it sounds like Fatboy is a lil rangy,
  thanks for the good story and pictures, sounds like your luck has made a turn for the best
                  Dexter

sry bout the dogs good pigs

Good pics and good story.  Could yall tell where the 357 shots had hit him the night before?  That hog took a lot of lead before he finally died.  That is a really nice hog, I like his color too, think I would have had to mount him.  Although the pics of that hog going in the trunk of that taurus are pretty priceless  8)

Matt

Heck of a story! Great pictures also!

I to am curious of were the hog was shot. That rascal took a lot of lead! I was expecting to read that you found him dead the next day but it sounds like you just took up were you left off the night before! With a couple of different catch dogs of coarse.

Sorry to hear about your dogs cantexduck.

that is ole big there sorry about the dogs

Helluva a story and helluva hog!

I'm sorry you lost some dogs, but i'm glad y'all finally got him.

Thats a good hog,, sorry to hear about your dogs. Glad you got the hog though!

Mike,
Sorry about your dog but that was a great story and pictures.
You might never have that kind of time again but you now have pictures and memorys.
Glad you went back and got him.  Never know when you turn out what your going to get on.

man what a wreck.
sorry about your dogs but im glad to see you got the hog killed.
thats one for the trophy room for shure.
ive got a dog killer like that in my neck of the woods, his day will come.

Mike

Its a good thing you had a name collar on that dog that busted out of the kennels .  He showed up outside of Cameron  at my brothers house of all things  , all the way from Georgetown hard to believe, my brothers neighbors was fixing to shoot him when he called me to come take a look .  When I called the number and you said Georgetown that was hard to believe the dog travled that far.  I wonder if he didnt hitch a ride part of the way.

Good Luck

TexasHogDogs - Jim

Sorry to hear about your loss. Great story and pictures.

 Jim, Thanks for calling. Gonna feed the heck out of fatboy for a few weeks and see what he can do.

 Matt- I was wantting to mount the head but I cut the head off to do a skull mount instead. We broke on wetter out while dragging it up the bank.


  I am just really glad we got that sucker. Now, I hope the place fills up with 120lb sows. ;D
 Cost me three dogs and one that is cut down pretty good. My Sally dog has relly proved to be a good dog for me. Short range but solid.

Mike,

I'm really glad you got him.  Good job sticking with it until the job was done.  It may seem hard to realize now, but I have to believe in some ways you may have become a better hog dogger from the experience. 

And to top it off, you sent that sucker packing directly to dirty and suzy.....and they are licking their chops to give him some kind of hellacious beatdown.   >:D  That's gotta make you smile.

good hog man glad u finally got him

Sorry to hear about your dogs, must have been one mean hog that one! Glad to see him down!

Where did you get your dogo from?

If you ever are interested in a new dogo, drop us a email.

B

Sorry but your dogs know how it feels lost my main catch dog to a boar we never got glad you got yours.

Nice pictures and story Mike. He was a bad dude!

Glad you got him Mike...sorry about your dog though. Matt told me last night that when you called him you were hyperventilated! I would be too after killin a hoss like that.

Cody

Dern good hogs.  Congrats on finally getting that big one...

Mike,

Sorry to hear about you losing another one. Glad you got that dog killer out of the woods.

good to know you got him off that creek ! kinda wish i could have been there though. my little dogs wanted some of that bigboy !!! call me so we can hunt sometime...

tight work fellas!!!!!!!!  ;D