EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Had an interesting experience night before last, about 2:30 am the dogs outside start barking. A few seconds later the two dogs in the house go ballistic. There is a car coming up the driveway with full light bar on the roof turned on. I am yelling at the dogs to stop barking when I open the door a sheriff deputy is standing there.  He tells me a hog hunter lost his six year old stepson on the ranch they are leasing next to me. Couldn't tell me whose ranch or how long the kid was lost for. I am pretty familiar with all the people around me and don't know of anyone leasing hunting land to hog hunter around me. I have been pretty successful at locking up most of the places around me, I have done a lot of free ranch work, welding and equipment repairs to get access to these ranches.

Now I am interested to see what is going on. So I crank up and follow the police car to a ranch down the road. The owners of this ranch have died a few years ago,  I know the guy that leases this place for his cattle, it's about 3,500 acres. To make a long story short, we get there and there are two fellow with about 20 hound dogs. So I start talking to them. They aren't hog hunting, they are coon hunting. They tell me were they started at, that's like 8 to 10 miles from were we are at and three or four place over. They were busy keeping up with the dogs and forgot about the kid. They have no idea were there at or when the last time they saw the kid. They have had a few cold ones to many. They have two ATVs at a fence line somewhere. The dogs crossed over so they left the ATVs there to catch the dogs. Can't tell you were anything is, first time they hunted here. Never came out in the daylight to look the place over. They were just drinking some cold ones and decided to go hunting. No sitter so they just bring the kid with them in the middle of the night.  Get a hold of about 20 locals send out 5 people at each ranch, about 45 minutes later one group finds the kid. He is asleep on one of the ATVs. The kid tells them his stepfather told him to stay there while they catch the dogs. Old step-daddy doesn't remember that. The kid has been asleep 2 or 3 hours and doesn't no he is lost. The ATVs are about fifty yards from an unlocked gate to a gravel county road.  So the next morning I stop by the coffee shop and the story ends up with 5 sheriff deputies,30 or so people at three in the morning looking for a kid, lost by his drunk hog doggin stepfather. You wonder were we get a bad reputation from!!!! And still don't know if they had permission to be there in the first place.

Ya know that's pretty sad that someone could be so irresponsable.  Glad you and your friends were there to help out.  And to leave a 6 year old kid alone at night, one of those guys couldve went to the dogs and the other couldve stayed with the kid!  But I guess they were to drunk to think of that.

That's sad in a lot of ways... i'm glad the kid is OK, but who still has to raise him!

ive got one thats 6 .... i would have lost my temper with stepdaddy .

   I thought I read that they were coon hunting, not hog dogging? Bad deal anyway you cut it.

SOME PEOPLE JUST DONT HAVE NO SENCE rolleyes THAT IS HORRIBLE HOW AND THE HECK CAN SOMEONE LEAVE THERE OWN KID IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS ALONE THATS JUST PURE STUPIDITY ???. THAT REALLY MAKES ME MAD  >:DIM GLAD HE IS OK

great ya'll found him and safe but I know where paw paw's foot would be if he was my grandson, and it wouldn't come out til the earth stood still!!! They should tie them to a tree when their sober and let the mosquitoes and ants chew on their sorry a----

Thats horrible, and someones wife isnt gonna be too happy

UPDATE! Step Daddy has a new address,restraining order and trespassing summons.. The boys uncle stop by and thanked us and filled us in at the coffee shop this morning. I have made sure everyone that asks about it knows they were not hog hunters, they were want to be coon hunters.

glad to hear everything worked out well, maybe ol' unc stomped hell stepdaddy

Thats why I don't drink!  Good story glad you shared it with us...

Its best to leave the drinking alchohol and hunting separated if you ask me.  Sounds like the step dad was lost and the kid knew exactly where he was.

Waylon

That is rediculous! Some people are so stupid! Poor kid was probably scared to death.

Boy, the lack of common sense can be a helluva thing  :o

     sounds like the step father wins this months ""heres your sign"" award,,,  just to prove theres one born every minute,,,

 now i like to drink my beer while i hunt from time to time this time of year is my 5 gallon igloo with iced water,,
   
    i aint never lost a truck,4 wheeler and damn  sure never lost one of my boys,

   and i have had one guy try to tell me the way back to the truck,,, i kept telling him ""your 180 out , your 180 out""  he went his way and we went out and about 30 minutes later while we sat at the truck ,,,, the game of marco polo started to get him back rolleyes
 some here know this story lmaoooooooooooooooo
   Dexter

Gotcha, after reading it again ;)  Might need to touch up on my reading comprehension 8)