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I enjoy walk hunting how bout y'all

You learn more walking through the woods looking for sign,grandad would say why walk when,you could ride a horse.we dont walk much any more,but sometimes go 1/2 mile on foot to get to a bay.in the winter we hunt off horse,summer wheelers.most places we hunt are big.my hat is off to the folks that do it.it would just be hard to do it here,we my start in one place,and hunt ten straight miles.i know you could walk it.big hogs are hard to get out,from way out.growing up as a kid when we go to the camp ,and mark and cut,we walk hunted with dogs,drug out barrs to eat.seems like we caught more then.

When i started back up in 08, it was by foot, except by boat to get to the places to hunt. I agree, u can pick up more sign by walking, especially getting in the areas off trail of a wheeler. I got off an old logging road n was following mud rubs down a critter trail n come across a 20x20ish wollow. Then it branched off to many different trails going everywhere. But again like cole said, its had dragging hogs out a long distance. The longest iv drug them, was a mile. Im glad all 3 were under 100lbs that day.

I like it, but dragging Em out isn't the funniest thing to do.


Sonny

I enjoy walk hunting more than wheelers or road hunting. It's peace and quiet mainly....waiting for the dogs to yip....that's a great feeling to me.

I have gotten spoiled riding wheelers and hood huntin with the guys who have the land access. But  There's still something about walking with the CD's 6-10 miles and the curs roaming 12-20 miles.....that wins my vote. Rather  than lots of miles roaming from ranch to farm loadin and unloadin dogs from the bed back to the hood for long hunts - I'd prefer to park the truck-walk as long and far as it takes to get to the bay and sneak in on it.

it does feel good being full of energy and getting to a bay 10 times faster than on foot,,,,that's a good setup for handling any situation a bay may have in store. Adrenaline gets me pumped up and my  heart pounding and out of breath doesn't help handle a bay as easy, but thats part of the excitement!

Now that I think about it, my last hunt the dogs split and bayed 3 miles apart, there's no way we would have got there within time on foot than on wheelers to get em caught quickly-so I may have a change of heart after this season is up.....those wheelers helped the success which is rewarding to us AND the dogs.

I walk hunt because the property I spend most of my time hunting on, it's the only option. You definetley learn more about the woods using that style of hunting. The only down fall I see hunting this way is the miles you put in!

  walk hunted all my days and is my preferred method no matter the miles traveled , but it is heck on the body after so many years . I am at the point now that I need some transport due to worn out body parts that I'm not ready to rebuild yet  lol .  but i'll opt for the four legged kind in a good mini mule . still close enough to the ground to see sign and dodge the brush . but quiet and can cross fences as well .  it's hell getting old boys , chasing hounds and working hard will break a man down  lol .

I love every thing about walk hunts except the walk back to the truck. Especially if you get skunked.

Kindred spirits you and I. I love hunting horseback, I just don't like horses  :D  if I had a good sturdy and short mule I believe that's how id always go!

Good comments guys I have always walk hunted since a kid with pepaw I will keep doing it long as I can ain't nothing wrong with riding when ya can saves your feet for the next hunt lol

If I was a horseman I believe I would really enjoy that type hunt. I am not tho. I don't know many folks that would like hunting large tracts of farm land on foot hitting a strip of woods here then a mile or 2 that way then another couple miles the other. I use a wheeler and it works not the best method but it works for me.


Shotgun
Arkansas

He'll no. Walk hunting for lazy people. Oh wait mayb I'm lazy cuz I spend to much time on the ranger. Lol

Lol well at least ya get off and go to the bay

I never had a wheeler and never been around these gaters, mules, Polaris"s until recently, only to work out of on a friends ranch and it was the cats meow for that but not sure how it would be hunting. Ive always walked or rode mules. Ive had my mule up for the last week and a young man ride the fresh off her the last few days. I rode her around my pasture yesterday and I noticed that it seems its a lot further to the ground than it did last year! Ima thinking that above all, walking still just may be my favorite way to hunt! :)

I walk sometimes just depends what dogs r on the ground. Sometimes them dogs get a little to far for my feet.

I would quit hunting if I had to walk hunt. It would be a waste of time here. You would be out of the loop and walked down for no reason when you get back to the truck. I turned two pups out this morning at daylight and didn't see them until about 4 hours later and we had another set of dogs in the other direction just as far and that's about a normal hunt for us if you was walking you would still be trying to get around to one set of dogs

It really depends on wear you hunt. Places around here do not allow you to walk hunt to much, except the marsh, and you have to be in great shape to walk it. I enjoy walk hunting with some rough dogs...use to catch ALOT of hogs that way. Dont get to do that much no more unless we go to TX. We mainly have to cast hunt now.  It has its own perks...seperated the dogs quality some more, but dont allways catch as many hogs.  Sometime we do get more graditude out of catching the uncatchable hog every now and then when the dogs work him hard and long.

We could walk down here I reckon but with a replaced knee a recently broken hip and a spare tire im totin I think I will stick to my buggies lol. If I had it my way I would hunt of horseback 100% of the time, a good buddy of mine and myself used to do it quite a bit a few years ago back before we had wives/children but nowdays a buggy is so much more convient all the way around and we hunt pineywoods and farm/crop land so the buggies work pretty good for us......always helps to have a good 4wheeler in tow as well for retrieval  ;D

    yep that's all them buggy's and wheelers are good for , letting the old , fat , broken down hunters gain access to the honey holes    >:D   lol  j/k maybe  ;D

Love to walk hunt ! 

That's all we do is walk hunt but most of the time we are hunting the marsh. It' s a lot of work but it's rewarding getting to see the dogs work and everything else you would pass up if you were on a buggy or 4 wheeler.

Hahaha, it is what it is I reckon! ;)


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  Justin you said you had your knee rebuilt ?  I've got a couple I need to change the bushings in .  is it worth the trouble ?  I've seen some folks get around better and some folks seem worse off .

Use to walk hunt only but to hell with that. Wheelers and rangers are the way to go for me. I still walk around a little when the dogs are out , mainly just looking for sheds and what not though. I am not in the best shape but far from out of shape. I just really prefer not to have to walk very far, makes for long days.

I love walk hunting. Good work out for sure. Like was said before you miss a lot driving around on bikes.... We've put down 12 miles on foot before. That was rough. But most times it's about a 3 mile average and I can deal with that. It feels like it lets the dogs know you're still with em... No matter how far they get out hunting or chasing they seem to always know where we are and I like that too. We don't carry out any hogs unless they're trophies cause they all die up here. Just what the landowners want though so to keep hunting we have to kill.

I walk hunt almost every time and i just wait around while they work on a hog and wait for a good solid bay.   Riding while hunting is a vacation to me!!  Most of the spot's i have are creeks and more creeks and bayous so half the work is swimming..lol  And i don't like leaving meat behind so i quart all four legs and strap the loin off with out dealing with guts.  I did carry allot out on my back like Hawaii style but doc said my back won't last in the long run!   

It was worth it for me but i didn't have too much choice. Somedays it feels great others its stiff but not too bad overall.


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I walk hunt, road the dogs not very much and the 4 wheelers were a hassle but we usually do a quarter of what the dogs do and i lose 4-5 lbs every time.

Walk hunting is fun when your just walking down a creek bed and hear your dogs open up then before you get there the hog breaks and runs 5 miles and when you get there and catch a 200 pounder and hobble him up then look around and see its you and your wife then you realize I'm along way from the truck and as your dragging your catch out you here your wife say how much longer I'm tired lol good times