EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Which do y'all prefer? I know we usually end up going at night and trying to catch the hogs bedded up but I think it makes it harder on both us and the dogs. The pigs use the creek bottoms and the thick cedar brush to hide very well in the dark and we have had some pretty good dogs get real confused. We have also ran into the issue of having several hogs come back on us but we couldn't see them hardly. The only problem is we are pretty sure that during the day the pigs cross to the neighbor's land so we can't get to them.

Hunting* stupid phone lol

I would rather hunt in the day so I can watch dogs better.  Only reason I hunt at night is due to heat.


Shotgun
Arkansas

Pigs are up feeding tonight. I'm a firm believe I'm certain properties hold hogs at night, some hold during day. At least small acreage wise which is all we have down here. Now them 4-5-6,000 places don't really matter when you hunt long as you've done your scouting and are in the right corner. I have a lot of places that hogs bed, but do not feed so morning hunts there and we catch hogs. I'm fixing to pull up to a new spot, I don't think the hogs are bedding on it but they are damn sure feeding there so hopefully tonight I'll catch em up on their feet and my dogs can spin a few long enough for me to slip them a bulldog


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Pigs are up feeding AT* night.  And that's just my two pennies worth


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Dogs find the pigs by two ways sight and smell. Dogs see pretty good at night. I have a Garmin and a flash light makes no difference to me


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Night time is for coon huntin' haha!

I hate hunting at night any more. Probably night hunted a half dozen times the past couple of years... and I used to hunt at night all the time.

Better class of dogs and you can sleep in alil...gotta leave that night time for them coon hunters for sure

Im fond of night Huntin, I cast Em out before supper, eat my grub, get 8 hours of shut eye, and if them mutts ain't bayin a hog when I check on Em at sun up they ain't worth feedin!!!


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Day night don't matter to me but I work a lot trying to feed all these kids so my free time is usually at night after the house has settled down.I have heard of dogs that aren't accustom to huntin at night and have troubles though.

...ain't ever heard of that approach...
Sounds bit crazy to me?!?
When we hunt nights we do it just like day here, keep close enough to pick em up on garmin and be johnny on spot when they bay. but me and my partners rarely hunt nights now days...guess we gern old but i hate hunting nights...I just wouldn't be able to sleep after turning dogs out Cept the occasional shut eye upright on the 4wheeler. Lol

I'm not 100% sure that dark vs light would matter much for the dogs, but it is so thick and the visibility is so limited anyway that it being dark couldn't really help things. These pigs are pretty smart and circle over and over again through the creek bottoms and then back into thick cedar just long enough to have the dogs confused. They don't seem to have any desire to stop and fight even with the rougher curs biting at them. Also they always come up on groups and while they try and figure out which one to focus on the bay almost always breaks. But I was just curious if people find it easier to hunt during the day and if they have noticed anything about the success rates of different times of day/night.

 hunt some in day time, but prefer nights in my country. Safer for the dogs, harder for the trigger happy gunslingers to see them if they happen to get off our properties.

I don't see how hunting at 9 am makes the dogs better class just means you woke up late lol. In general hogs bed in the morning and tend to stay put in my experience. So if a dog picks up a track they should run right to his bed. If the hogs are up and moving at night the dogs seem to cross paths more often so I don't see how it's a better class of dog that hunts at 9 am. That's why they bay easy in the day time lol


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Uhhh....catch em slipping...ill prepared...in their bed, resting on their laurels ...kinda like a home invader....would in ham terms.

Guess like baiv mentioned you first got have a dig to track em
There tho...

Yeah easier to bump em moving at night but they also already up in their toes.


Besides...I human and so are my kids and we diurnal and don't like to suffer much  lol

Want directed at you judge...we start right before sunrise most times

During typical winter months here in AR hogs move good in the day time. During summer months they move more at night. Don't be fooled to think they don't move in the day even during the hottest months. If you have enough water they will move just not as often or as far. I hunted more at night prior to my 4yr old starting to join me and we caught pigs. With her going day time is just more conducive to a good hunt all the way around. We still catch plenty in the winter and during summer it's kinda hit and mis. Either way what works for you works for you. Just have fun and let them dogs run.


Shotgun
Arkansas

Lol I hunt a lot in the am at day break but I like the night I guess cuz there is more suspense in the dark lol 


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Ya they got feet they can move at any time. Just as in general rule they move more at night


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Out here we catch more large boars at night, and in the summer you catch more hogs in general at night, but you can only hunt here legally at nite if you are depredating

Blastin44 whats that senate bill number again?

thanks, i need to print that out and have it in my hunting pack

Crazy left coast laws for sure...

But over here the biggest boar I've ever been in on catching were trailed in the day to their bed or just caught slipping round a wallow.

Not to say I haven't seen good ones caught at night as well just not the biggest I've been on.

Been privy to seeing few cut down pretty bad at night as well and come up empty and spent many long nights listening to races too...

If I'm gonna listens to a race I'd rather it be daytime and I can watch me and my partners kids play and have fun and make memories any day over all us tryn stay up all night and screwing up the wknd sleeping next day away...my wknds too short for that. But that's just me and my preference. To each his own.

I would like to say though as well. If we get off the property (alot of times it happens, and even close to residences where other good property owners live. I'd rather run into them or knock on their doors during the day and meet em than keep em up at night dogs barking or bikes running back n fourth down roads or be caught slipping thru their land or on camera at night...just leaves a bad taste in their mouths for hog hunters in lot cases. Much worse than fathers with their young uns out having fun in broad daylight lookin to shake hands. Round here building a report with a bunch of land owners And putn smaller tracks together inti larger tracks is a real key to having good spots...

But every place ain't like that for sure and some we could get away with running all night rough shot and not bother a soul.

Funny you talk about races at night. Had my lady gyp go 1.01 mile and fall bayed on a whole sounder. Eased in to 500 yards and sent dozer and a 5 month old pup Pancho. Dozer takes his own track right off the fourwheeler and never goes to lady. Pancho goes to her and they hammer away. Get to 80 yards from them, send my bulldog and he runs in to a pig at 40 yards, catch dog got thrown and pigs scattered. All 3 dogs ran their own pig and all got outran after an hour. Lol usually during the day we get those runners to spin and bay up


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I feel like hogs don't run as hard during the day if u think about it if ur asleep and some one comes and screams in ur ear what u going to do jump up and whoop some ones ass


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Don't get your feathers ruffled it was a joke.

Different strokes for different folks. I like a hard hunting track dog deluxe, anything else is a help dog to me.

If your ranch holds hogs at night then you hunt at night. Otherwise you will never catch anything same for the day time if your ranch holds hogs during the day that's when you hunt. Over here everyone complains about hogs but won't let you hunt it's hard to get ground so we take what we can get. Personally I don't care day or night as long as I am running dogs and slaying hogs.

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I hunt both day and night but hunt completely different both ways. I have two packs of dogs. One pack is daylight only dogs and my other pack only goes at night. When I daylight hunt I go right at sunrise and look for the biggest track to turn out on. I do cast them on no sign sometimes but I try to put them on the track I want to catch most of the time. At night I run night vision and have a few Greyhound Pit Crosses that I use. I check peanut, wheat, cut corn fields, and pecan orchards with night vision and when I see a hog or group of hogs I’ll walk the dogs downwind within 40-75 yards depending on the conditions and then send them to the hog and usually have him caught before he makes it out of the field.

No feathers this way young man. It was a joke lol


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id 100-1 rather hunt in daylight, but to each man his own.

Went Solo last night, not the first time I've done it solo but first time I got in pigs at night solo. Not gonna lie I spent about 2 minutes after the bulldog hit trying to decided whether I wanted to climb a tree or walk in there and handle that hog. I nutted up. Walked in there and it was 120 lb 3 legged sow and I felt like a little girl lol if I'm going by myself, day time is better but I think I'll warm up to the night thing


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I personally much prefer to hunt during the day, just makes everything easier and more enjoyable (for me at least). This time of year I don't get in a hurry to get to the woods at the crack of dawn, I will load up dogs around 7 or 8 and ease out to the lease and hunt a few hours, then head home and I still have the afternoon to mess around the house and do whatever it is that needs to be done without being dead ass tired.

We hunt at night once things heat up and I don't mind it either BUT like others have said I also hate sleeping the day away on the weekend.....screws the whole weekend up.

I can't say that I have noticed a distinct difference in the size of hogs that we catch during the day vs during the night nor have I noticed a difference in the length of the race......... i'm a believer of the line of thinking that some hogs just flat out like to run and it doesn't matter if it is 2 in the a.m. or 2 in the p.m., if he wants to run he is gonna do everything he can to run and thats just part of the game we all love.

I hunt at night more of necessity than preference. I work 10-12 hr days 6 and 7 days a week so I only have time to hunt at night. I would prefer days but nights don't bother me at all.

I have heard guys say they never hunt at night.   Well they either don't hunt much or are on welfare.     If a working man wants to.keep his dogs in the woods then often times its night hunting.

I prefer the night but day time is nice. Ya oconee I don't see how a fell works 6 days a week which is bout the standard these days and not hunt at night 


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ive had all night races, ive had all day races. don't care, every time my wife gets distracted, ill hop the fence and catch some yonder.

Night or day you can still see the dogs work.


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