Title: 4-25-15 Good hunt, bad ending. Post by: Cajun on April 27, 2015, 03:46:56 pm Larry Smith invited me over to hunt his lease. We turned out on some good tracks & Bosco & Red Gal trailed out & jumped the hog. Larry & friends packed to them & we had a good bay. I knew it was a big hog because I could hear Bosco baying. Got in there & turned the catchdogs loose & caught a 200-225# boar.Red Gal took a shot to the shoulder & one of Jordans dogs took a bad shot to the flank. One of the Dogos had a K 9 tooth knocked out.
(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii207/lacauley/IMG_1545_zps5ymw2gxr.jpg) (http://s265.photobucket.com/user/lacauley/media/IMG_1545_zps5ymw2gxr.jpg.html) (http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii207/lacauley/IMG_1547_zps9vwrpakg.jpg) (http://s265.photobucket.com/user/lacauley/media/IMG_1547_zps9vwrpakg.jpg.html) Went down a piece & turned out again. Dogs jumped but we ended up pulling them as they were headed off the lease & it was still turkey season. At 11:30 we found a good track & put Spud & Red Gal out on it. They left trailing but not opening. They were paralleling the road and we stayed up with them. They went 930 yards & jumped the hog. They ran him about a mile & I dumped Bosco & a pup in & Larry dumped some cur dogs in also. The pup never made it to them but Bosco did. They went about a mile & bayed in a beaver pond. We got within 30 yards & turned the catchdogs loose. We waded in and this hog was big. A Dogo on one ear, Bosco on the other ear and Red Gal had him by the back leg. We did not see the other Dogo until we were up close & the hog had him down under water. We got to the hog, flipped him & got him tied but the whole time I was worried because I did not see Spud but I had heard him baying the whole time we were walking in. We got the hog to a little island & found Spud about 20 yards away. He was already going into shock. The hog had tore out half his throat & he had already bled out. Red Gal took a shot to the back end & both catchdog had cuts on them. We headed straight out but he died by the time we got back to the camp. Larrys dogs were showing bayed & when we got there they were both cut down. Spud was one of those special dogs that was just a pleasure to hunt. He was just as good on bear as he was hogs & actually preferred bear. Andy & I had nicknamed him the closure. There were dogs that could stay with him for 3 or 4 hours but after that he would be out front. He could stay glued to a hog or bear no matter how far it ran. R.I.P. Spud & thanks for 4 years of good hunting. Thank you Chris Leyden for giving me this dog. This hog was 300-325# (http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii207/lacauley/IMG_1552_zpsvrb8hz0b.jpg) (http://s265.photobucket.com/user/lacauley/media/IMG_1552_zpsvrb8hz0b.jpg.html) Title: Re: 4-25-15 Good hunt, bad ending. Post by: halfbreed on April 27, 2015, 04:01:26 pm damn that sucks Cajun them good dogs are hard to replace these days .
Title: Re: 4-25-15 Good hunt, bad ending. Post by: TazD on April 27, 2015, 04:44:28 pm Good hogs, and hunts Mike.
I hate hearing about Spud! Like alot of your dogs, he sounds like he was a Top Bear and Hog dog!! Rip Spud!! Title: Re: 4-25-15 Good hunt, bad ending. Post by: l.h.cracker on April 27, 2015, 04:47:33 pm Sorry to hear that about your dog Cajun I am always impressed with your stories and the caliber of your dogs.
Title: Re: Post by: swine dogger on April 27, 2015, 05:41:11 pm That stinks sorry to hear about your dogs...
Title: Re: 4-25-15 Good hunt, bad ending. Post by: Mike on April 27, 2015, 07:19:36 pm Dang, sure sorry to hear about Spud... RIP.
Title: Re: Post by: spazhogdog on April 27, 2015, 09:30:03 pm Sorry to hear about your dog. RIP Spud
Title: Re: 4-25-15 Good hunt, bad ending. Post by: RockingMH) on April 28, 2015, 04:55:05 am Hate to hear that , RIP
Title: Re: 4-25-15 Good hunt, bad ending. Post by: TShelly on April 28, 2015, 05:42:33 am Sounded like a sure enough dog. I know he'll be hard to replace. RIP spud
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: 4-25-15 Good hunt, bad ending. Post by: BA-IV on April 28, 2015, 09:53:11 am RIP Spud.
Speed bays hogs! What lines was he out of Mike? Title: Re: 4-25-15 Good hunt, bad ending. Post by: colecross on April 28, 2015, 11:23:19 am Rip.sorry bout spud.
Title: Re: 4-25-15 Good hunt, bad ending. Post by: Cajun on April 28, 2015, 02:38:39 pm Thanks everybody. It always sucks to lose a good one.
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