EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Well we have had some recent posts about the rookies. Believe we have even had this one pop up before. I want to know what you total number of years experience you have had with (Hunting Hogs with Dogs)

This does not count for prior experience with any other type of hunting or dogging unless it was specifically Hog Dogging. 
If you had broken timeframes where you got out....sorry boyz...it don't count. Just your active timeframe.
Post your total number of years experience and if you wish.....what event or followed legacy that led you to this sport. 

I know we have alot of rookies....my curiosity is for how many old tush hogs we have lurking in the shadows that only post occasionally. 

This is only for fun fellers......so dont turn it into a measuring contest.

Enjoy. 

Well I hate to be the first one here Uncle Myles but I've been hunting my own dogs for about 13 years now. And by the way there yella.lol

27 years

9 years

16

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15 yrs

hogs for 11
but when i lived in new mexico before i came to tx we had plotts that we bear hunted , mntlion hunted then coons. iv had dogs my hole life, 40 yrs

Hog 7yrs total, 2yrs this go-a-round and 5yrs when I was kid with my Dad.
I've been hunting with dogs my whole life. Deer dogs, coon dogs, squirrel dogs, and now hog dogs.  I gave up my baby bottle to a Plott b!tch with 11 puppies cause I thought she need the help!  :D True story

14 yrs with my own pack plus 5yrs with my grandads dogs but for me this pic is about the time I started to soak in all the exiting info on doggin (http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/22/una4ajyb.jpg)

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I started in 2004, a guy I worked with (gander mountain) was a hog dogger, we didnt talk much due to being in different departments but i told him I had been tryin to get in the sport but really didnt know where to start...... but I had property to hunt. He said he had 2 litters on the ground and would trade me a puppy per hunt.......got 5 pups and over 1000 hunts from him, we ended up becoming dang good friends and huntin buddies, still hunt together to this day.

The first hunt we ever went on we bayed a 200+ lb barr in a stand of pines in a thick palmetto patch. I have been addicted ever since that cold january mornin. I dont think I will ever willingly quit, my other 1/2 enjoys it as much as I do and believe it or not, cleans kennels and feeds 7days a week with zero complaint. She's just may be a keeper.


And to answer the question lol, i have been hunting almost every chance I get since 2004. So a little over 9years.

3 yr. I'm still wet behind the ears!

10yrs

9 years

18 years.

Going on 8 years, I don't get to go often these days but I still love it and can't quite completely.  ;D

3 years...buddy took me out hog hunting when I got back from the service...my wallet has been lighter ever since !

32 years  not counting al the times iv woken up hoggin in my sleep

10 yrs

20 years with my pack

4 1/2 years.  About 3 1/2 with my own dog/dogs

35 yrs been hunting. Started going with my uncle when I was 4 and had dogs ever since

 i guess it was 1999 when the or when i noticed the hogs move in the back side of the farm and i started killing them . my first hog dog was born on 10-31-99  so with dogs i would say may of 2000 .  but killin hogs is easy they just another critter  lol .

roughly 4.5 year-5 was bow hunting them prior never got into other game stalk hunting been charged jumped in trees figured time for some more adrenaline so i started up with dogs went threw quite a few in the begining now staryed up some fine dogs in my opinion ive been runnin the past couple of years

Well...lapses don't count so....3 years

3

Caught my first hog with dogs about 10 years ago... Tried to get a pack together then but too many things kept me from sticking with it...

Have been back in it for close to 4 years, and still don't have a pack of dogs I'm proud of...  :D

But I go 2-3 times a week, sometimes more... Summertime and deer season.. 

I don't think I could stand myself to only hunt a couple times a month, February - April...  :laugh:

iv been hunting hogs with my own dogs for 12 years then got my dogs stolen then got a new pack started not my
blood line but its not leaving my yard lol

I've had my own dogs for 13 years... hunted with others a couple years prior to that.

11 yrs

I will roll over 24 yrs next month with these Yeller mutts.

I was raised in the foxhound and beagle circles from birth until I happened across a man with a Yeller dog tied at the backside of a string of foxhounds.

Was very inquisitive about the dog because I had never came across one. The old man that had him told me he was a hogdog. The old man saw the interested questions on my face and turned him loose. The cur dog ran to a nearby barn and began to bay four little black pineys with noses longer than their bodies, that were penned there. I just sat in amazement until my grandfather said we had to go. 

I had my dad take me the next week to buy a Ybmc that was advertised in the local trader paper. I had $50 and my dad loaned me $25 more to buy the lil gyp.  Took her home and put her in the pen with eight foxhounds and five beagles. And been hog hunting ever since.

Still owe my ole man for $25.  Haha.   Hoping he has forgotten by now.

Started with an old timer when i was 10 on hogs catching and releasing then got my first dog when i was 16.  So 14 years with my own dogs and 6 more years with the old man i watched and learned from.  Still learning new stuff everyday!

4 years, started out baying and shooting pigs then met a guy on here and I really got the bug

20 years.  Went on my first hunt with my uncle when I was 10 or 11.  Been feeding my own pack ever since.

Well I'm forty and I started hog hunting with dogs with my daddy when I was about five. So I guess about thirty five years.

2.5 years, old rookie!

14yrs

Good stuff boyz.  Gonna start a periodic tally of high and low ends.
As of the current posts we have

35 yrs being the longest
2.5 being the newest.

Perty good range so far.

Im 64 years old & started hog hunting with my dad when I was old enough to enough to ride behind his saddle & not fall off.Maybe 58-60 years.

Well I be 31 next month and I can still remember riding on daddy's back chasing yella dog through the woods @ 4 years of age like it was yesterday. I have had a cur dog on a chain every since so id say around 27 years.

13 years

Fix to be the big 40 started going with my uncle at 8 only main reason I got to go is he wanted to take my pup he was around a yr old. The only one that made it out if that litter, was trying to figure out if wanted to try that breeding again.  Have hunted somewhat regular since then.   Always having at least 1 dog.   Often that is all it took to bay and shoot the last 13-14 yrs been using catch dogs mostly.

23 yrs and still amazed how hogs can swim like fish run like deer and be so smart.

First time i went i was 12 years old and was hooked. But i been huntin hard bout the last 10yrs

Starting when i was in highschool i would go maybe 2 or 3 times a year.  Picked up my first two pups around this time last year. 

Justed turned 70 and started working dogs for people in 1968 so working out side dogs for over 45 years.

12 years

24 yrs with my own dogs and well before that we didn't have hogs in our area so we went with relatives around Uvalde, Batesville and Premont for 6 yrs prior to that. They are the ones who got us hooked. My wife is pretty pissed at those guys, lol. :laugh:

Around 3yrs Marvin Garrett with ladogos dogs ran some hogs behind my parents property where I deer hunt I asked if I could help catch the dogs and show em a easy way to get to em been hooked ever since. Got my first mutt about a month later

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16yrs for me with my own dogs hunted 2yrs with a group of friends thatgot me hooked after first hunt

43 yrs hunted javalinas before wasnt many hogs in south texas back then

my dad took me with a fellow when i was 13 0r 14 and i been hooked ever since and now am 25 and going through my 3rd string of dogs dont get to hunt as much as i used to and would like because of growing up and becoming an adult and all rolleyes ive had a hunting dog ever since i was born my moms dad was a beagler dads dad was a foxhunter my dad had both and my soon to be wifes dad has a had beagles cowdogs and hogdogs his entire life as well....never once in 25 years has there never been some sort of hunting dog on my yard

Boy, I am glad I am not the oldest guy on here.lol  39 years & had deer & coon dogs before that.

Well we are still setting at

2.5 yrs to 48yrs experience range.  Keep em comming to both ends. 

Finally got some of these 30 + yr guys to hit a key.

Good stuff gentlemen.

Here is a question to pose for guys hunting hogs in sixties and seventies.
Share what you have observed that has drastically changed and stayed the exactly the same to our modern day methods.

  BE GOOD TO GET SOME GEOGRAPHICS IN AS WELL CAUSE I KNOW WE DIDN'T EVEN HERE OF WILD PIGS IN NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL TEXAS TILL AS OF LATE  LAST 12 or 13  YEARS OR SO . dang caps lol  back in the 70's did get to go on a hog hunt down in jasper county in like 71 or 72  i think it was, they still free ranged a bunch back then . all we had around here was coon and squirrel and bobcats and yotes .

hunted with dogs for 22 yrs.  only 6 on hogs. bear,bobcat,coon and pheasants in the past.

Got my first dog in 1988, so 25 years this year.  I'm 40 this year.  Slowed down when we moved to the coast for a couple of years but always had a dog or two.  No hunters in the family except a grandfather who trapped rabbits for survival. Its funny my wife was grumbling about dogs one day and mum piped in with "not much point trying to get him to give it up now its just Troy". 

I have two boys 4 and 2 and I hope that they want to continue it if not then I'll support them in whatever they want to do, right now they love it.  Really enjoying having the BMC's, needed to do something to keep it interesting for me.  I reckon I've learnt more about dogs in the past 2 years than the previous 10. 

Troy

i have been hunting my own dogs 17 years hunted with my dad n grandpa before that

4 yrs

  Two things that have changed hog hunting since the early days are cutovers & Russian hogs. We used to bay herds of hogs in wide open woods. Only once in a while did we have a runner. In the 70's we had a importation of Russian boar. We still caught them but we had way more runners. I still kept curs but got into Plotts because of the runners.
  We hunted on foot alot & horseback. forgot the year but I thought I was in high cotton when I got a Honda Big red 185cc & started using that to hoghunt on. Got my first telemetry system in 1980 & we caught more hogs because we knew where the dogs were. we used to hunt more for the dogs then we actually hunted them if u know what I mean. Now with gps collars, tritronics & the internet it is alot easier finding good dogs & traing them. Just some rambling thoughts.

Good stuff Cajun.
Thanks for your rambling thoughts.   :D

We are plagued here also with the clear cutting methods that produce the wallhanger cannot crawl through thickets.

Started coon hunting on my dads hip but he got out of it when the divorce came around. But as I got old enough to get my own dogs I started jus training catch dogs and I have to say I was pretty good at it. Did tht for about 3 years straight in high school. And got out of it cuz I worked constant on the road. Now I've had my own pack going on 5 years and never been happier!

i caught the first hog in 1969 near artesia wells a man called and said he had hogs rooting his milo field so me and my cousin headed downthere from three rivers thinking more javalinas.we got there in the afternoon about 3:00  started roading dogs down a sendero about quarter of amile  the dogs went into a whitebrush thicket we heard them bay it didnt sound right usually they will catch 1 javalina by itself we headed in and heard hogs gruntin we headed in and saw 2 big hogs all we had were 22magnum rifles so we shot 1 inthe ear the other one moved about 10 yard and bayed again we shot him  when we got them out they both weighed 150 to175 we thought we were in hog heaven turns out we were caught alot of hogs down there after that from that time we started looking and talking to everybody about hog sign and damage at the time i didnt know anyone that had killed hogs with dogs from then word got around that we could find and catch hogs with dogs so we got messages sent to us from diffrent friends i think we killed about 10 or 12 hogs that first year till now i catch from 200 /400 hogs ayear ( i dont mean catch i mean kill) most people i hunt for want the hog dead

9 years

Started around 1992 for me....so about 21 years almost.  Mainly walk hunting, bay and shoot with only a dog or two for many years.  Only been using bulldogs, and straight casting type dogs for around ten years.  Got hold of a line of dogs I really liked, and have done my best to keep them just as I found them.

Some years I've hunted a lot, and some not quite so much.  Finding less and less time since my boys are getting older with birthdays, sports, school events, etc., etc., etc.  Around 2004 when I sold my place in Rockport and my boat and quit chasing redfish almost every weekend I hunted a LOT for a few years straight.

Started cat huntin in 1980 down in south texas with two of the best men that a young guy could ever meet. They not only taught me about dogs but about life in general. Hunted hard till my oldest son was born in 1987. Tried to stay with it but my second son was born in 1989 so had to slow down and ended up selling all my dogs. Started going hog hunting with my neighbor in 2001. Got my first real hog dog in 2002 so i guess about 11 years. Been raising my own bloodlines for 6 years now. Dont plan on stopping. Watching your young dogs growing up and doing good  is like watching your kids grow up. Makes you proud.

Been hungting for 13yrs. Went on my first hunt when I was 13yrs old with a buddy. Got a bulldog a month or two after. Just turned 26 on Wednesday. ;D I keep a couple Curr dogs to bay and shoot at my honey hole or tag along with friends.

10 years still love a dog that leaves your feet on the run and doesn't stop running or come back until a hog is bayed.

42 years if my math is right. Went on my first hog hunt with dogs in TN in 1971......been going ever since. I still love it to this day just as much as I ever did.

12 years and at least 20 to go

5 years with my own dogs. hunted for about a year with a buddy before i managed to get my own

Since Moby Dick was a sardine ;D

6 years with my own pack of dogs.

25 years  now

started going with my buddys brother 17yrs ago not even a yr later he gave me my first catahoula been going ever since