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Post your most memorable hog!

Mine is last year i took my 2 year old son on his first ever hog hunt. We were in corsicana,tx and when the dogs started baying, Dylan(my son) starting yelling daddy daddy the dogs, I smiled. When we got to the hog it was a goodin and i remember him being so excited. We watch the dogs on hogs videos all the time and he loves them. ;D. Momma dont though ;). He has his two dogs at the house that he LETS me take hunting ;D.

If i had another it would be the one i took my dad on last year. It was his first hog hunt ever. We ended up with 5 hogs that day and he said at the end of the day. " I wish i was younger and in more shape to do this more often with you". He still talks about it to his friends to this day. We caught one that was over 300lb.

I tried to post a pic but is says the upload folder is full.

if you use photobucket there is no upload folder, it's just linked to the pic in your photobucket album. let me know how you're loading it and i'll try to help.
now on the topic, are we talking about my most memorable hog, or most memorable hunt? because for me those fall into two seperate categories, and i have stories for each ;D

Uh you got me sean. I would have to go with the most memorable hog. But with my dad it was hunt. So can we do both ;D. Good point though. I was just using the upload on the reply and i double click the folder then to the pic and it says that.

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oh yeah, you can't use that unless it's a very very small picture as it limits the size of the file greatly. it's more like for avatars i think.

Wow Richard, thats a tough one...I would have to go with one that me and Kevin caught one night in a corn patch two or three years ago. I had a new catch dog(had him for almost 24 hrs) and had hunted all night with ya'll down at Italy. Came back up here and hunted that morning, caught two with the new bulldog. Went home, slept a few hours, met up with Kevin and turned out after dark that day. Got the hog bayed, turned the bulldog loose, he had problems catching the hog so Kevin free tipped it, haha, thats what makes it stand out. Bulldog died, I think from internal damage, on the spot. Hog was 264# with big teeth.....I have pics of him, but none on the comp.



Richard, here is the big one we caught the day your dad was along...makes me think of Shadow...
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My most memorable hog is the one that made me realize that I needed a catch dog... not just a bunch of rough curr dogs!

Back when I got my own pack of dogs started, we'd run 6 or 8 dogs on the ground and would catch every hog they bayed... until one cold winter morning. I guess it's been about 5 years ago when we bayed this big boar hog out in the national forest. We got into a group of hogs and had dogs all over the place. My old Rebel dog and Cheyenne bayed this big boy up in a briar patch, right up against the trunk of a blown down tree. All the dogs started coming in and every time one would get close to catch, he'd throw them through the air. My buddy's Tuff dog, a pup of Blue's, ran in and the hog grabbed him around the chest, put him on the ground and went to work on him. We thought he was a goner until another dog spun the hog off of him.

Finally, after about 20 minutes of watching 7 dogs get whipped they were all backed up and baying. Then Blue finally comes rolling in and I hollered "catch him Blue"! Now for the first 2 to 3 years of his life, Blue thought he was a catch dog. He would bay right in a hogs face and when the hog would hook him, he'd latch onto the jowl.

Well, when Blue tried to catch, that ol' boar tossed him about ten feet through the air... now we had 8 dogs baying! Now my buddy Stephen and I were watching this whole thing from about twenty feet away... and of course, we didn't have a gun with us!

That boar finally had enough and he broke and went deeper into the thicket where we couldn't see anymore. A few minutes later, my Cheyenne gyp comes out covered in blood. He ripped her inside the arm, through the arm pit and down the rib cage. I finally got the bleeding stopped and all the the dogs were slowly coming back in. That big boar hog whipped 8 dogs and walked away laughing.

A couple of months later, I bought Clifford from Craig... he's been catching hogs for me ever since. ;D

Good story mike. There is some biguns in that forest :o. Thanks micheal man i still regret not letting yall take that hog to sale. or getting in mounted or something. Well live and learn. I didnt realize just how big that hog was untill now. We were on a good streak at that time and we were catching a lot of good hogs and we took it for granted. I was glad my dad went on that hunt it was awsome.

My most memorable cought hog would be this little guy.  Struck bayed and cought all within about the first thirty minutes of the hunt and not even a scratch on the dogs.  His head is in my freezer to be mounted.  Went 310 with perfectly matching 3" teeth.
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The next hog would take the cake on most memorable hunt because of the wreckage that he caused.  This photo was taken about a month after we got him and as you can see he is a little scared from the encounter also, no ears.  The story of the hunt is pretty long but in the end he killed my dogo and cost me over a grand at the vet on one of my cur dogs chest and turned Cliffords chest into swiss cheese.  We were able to walk right up on him in a creek while they were baying him but by that time the damage was already done and we had no gun.  Truly an impressive hog, tall, athletic and old with some really big teeth and on the same property as the one above, after comparing game cam pics this hog will be much larger then the 310# hog.  We'll bay him and shoot him one day, he is still around.
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looks like a ruff one. no ears no handles, only imagine how hard the dogs were tryin.

I have two that fall into my most memorable category and for different reasons.

The first one, was the largest hog we have ever caught.

We were roading the dogs in a corn field, this field has an asphalt road that runs through the center of it. Struck, bayed, and caught with 3 plottxcur dogs, no catchdogs. all within about 50' of the asphalt road.

Had some trouble getting him hobbled, then loading in the trailer was even harder.

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The other memorable one is this boar. He only went 180, but he was the first hog that Mandi and I ever caught with just our dogs. It became a downhill run after that. It let us know that we are capable of catching hogs with the dogs in our pack.

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Matt, that no eared SOB really makes my butt pucker up.  I remember when Sean showed us that picture at the lodge and I was a little took back.  Very mean looking to say the least.

Dang Circle C, how much did that first hog weigh?  That thing was fat!!

We say he was 440#   

He bottomed the 440# scale. Honestly have no idea the actual weight.  When we first got him hobbled and had a good look at him, we were thinking 335# or so. Needless to say, we were surprised.  We kept him alive, and dropped him off in some working pens, about 3 days later he died. That is when we got the scale weight.

dang that big ole' guy couldn't handle all the stress.

The first hog on Circle C's post went 440. Well, 440 is all the scale would read and the hog wasn't actually hanging when the scale pegged. I'm sure that means he'd go a little heavier but all we can account for was 440, so we will go with that number. This hog was shut down by two plotts (Lupe and Gus) a black and tan cur dog named Lizzie (who struck it), and one Cody Childs. The pit was green and didn't catch until the hog was legged and had a hobble on, and the running catch dog got there about the time the other hobble was on. It was a weird night to say the least.

The second hog was way cool. We hunt with other people so much that we never hunt just our dogs. We have the philosophy that hunting is better with buddies. This night, we took buddies, but they didn't own dogs so it was just ours. Lupe struck this hog in some woods, and when we heard Patches and Split baying hard and then just Split, we knew we had to get in there quick. Our Lupe dog thinks she's a pit, and will catch any hog. Obviously she needed help and Patches dove in right behind her. They shut him down in some thick rose hedges, and it was like razor vines! We kept trying to get in there with Meat Head, but couldn't get where we could see. We were all cut up badly by the rose hedges. Finally, Chris just cut Meaty loose when he heard one of the dogs get hit and yelp. We got to it and got it legged but decided it was going on the wall anyway so we just stuck it right there. You have never seen a happier bulldog. That was the first hog Meaty got to catch in the woods after his "life changing" surgery. The only dog that got a nick on him that night was Patches, our three legged dog. He is a great dog with lots of heart, and was back in the woods in less than a week. The boar has been hanging out in the barn freezer waiting on the go ahead from the taxidermist. He will be on our dining room wall.
Good times
M

Scott,

   The welding was done with 1/8   MG289  rod. running about 85 amps. We ran out of the MG 289 and finished off with some 1/8 6010, we did not plan it that way, but sometimes "it" happens!

I cannot claim the job as my own though. My neighbor did it for me. The dude can run a bead.

We caught this boar hog a while back. We had a bunch of rain the night before so every one was rained out of work. We grabbed 2 young Cur dogs and a Pit ad another guy was supposetly bringing two catch dogs.

The dogs bailed off the top and bayed we kicked out and you could hear a loud squeel. I still remember running up and seeing the Pit going over the top a big bush getting flung back and forth, but never let go. Looked like he was doing the windmill. The other guys two catch dogs never made it to the bay. :-X

My Cur gyp was caught on the testi-s and we found the other Cur gyp close. She had taken a shot to the lung. She has comletley recovered now.

Hog went right at #400 and was caught at about 10am.

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Nice brute. Hey brute do them dogs ride on top of the kubota and bail off from there? Does it give them a better way to wind? I just got a rhino and thinkin of training a couple to wind off of it.

Nice Hog Brute, I like the look of the hair on the back.  How come that mans face is blacked out? 

I don't have his permission to post his face on the e-net. He probably wouldn't care... but you never know.

Where did the good pics go Brute, I remember when you posted these when you cought the hog and they were real clear.  The clear pics really showed how big that hog was, great catch!!

Matt

Ya, they do ride. Not sure if it helps them wind or not. They do like to ride up there. I like it too because I hate loading dogs up, like that they just load and unload themselves. :)

I have a rack on top my MULE for them also. THat works good because it ply woods. The plastic tops are hard for the dogs to hold on to.

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I am getting lazy and have pics scattered every where, even diff. computers. I need to go through and organize and delete the repeats. :-[

Awsome! thanks for that idea of the wood on top. Did you mount with U bolts. A lot cheaper than buying one! I saw one with a rack on front one time and i have been thinkin of that too. I am just excited about my new toy and look foward to doing some inventions. ;D

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This I caught a few years ago and would have to be my most memorable hunt it was my pups 1st hog found one her own ,but did require the assistence of her elders to get him shut down.
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nice cutters!

I've had many memorable hunts but this one kinda stands out. I was hunting a ranch near Pledger Texas, and I was training 3 pit/ cur crosses as catch dogs. These were some big dogs and I've had them on about 10 good hogs in the woods with a finished catchdog . These 3 dogs was at least 100 lbs each and buddy they would tear a hog up. On this hunt I felt it was time to leave the finished catch dog at home and let the young dogs do it on thier own, they were 16 months old. Ya might know the dogs struck and bayed and I could here Clenton booger barking. As we got closer you could smell boar hog in the air. I had 5 cur dogs baying this hog. So I drove the truck up with-in about 50 yrd of the bay and I told Victor (my son-in law) that when I called him on the radio to turn the 3 young catch dogs loose. I eased into that big briar patch on a little cow trail and there was a big area of mashed down brairs where the boar hog was and he was a monster(350#). I pulled my little radio out and whispered Victer , turn-um loose. I could here them bulldogs coming and all 3 bulldogs ran in there and joined the bay.I was pissed. So i told victor ,,NO PROBALEM,, I've had to catch hogs like this all my life,,, NOTHING TO IT. I TOLD VICTOR TO HOLD THE LITE AND BLIND THE HOG WHILE I SLIP UP AND GRAB HIS LEG. I started easing toward the hog and bout that time Victor took the lite off the hog and shined the lite on me.All hell broke loose,,, Here came the hog and I jumped to the side and he kelp coming after me , Victor took off running with the light and I froze still not being able to see where the hog was . Finally I begged victor to come back and shine the light. Then I had to resort to plan # 2. The dogs were still baying but would not try to catch. so,,, i said,, Victor , go to the truck and get that roll of blk duct tape and bring it here. I cut me a small limb bout 5 ft long. I taped my sticken knife to the limb and I slipped up to that hog again. The hog was about 25 yards from me when I noticed all the dogs kinda was clear of the hog so I reared back and throwed the home made spear (TARZON STYLE) and hit that hog perfect in the heart.I could'nt do that again in a 100 trys. That hog kinda gave a long groan and them catch dogs caught, when the hog fell. The hog broke my spear when he fell on it and I saved the knife and stick and it now hangs on my wall.Victor got grounded from hoghunting for a while & I GOT RID OF THEM HALF BREEDS AND HAV'NT OWNED ONE SENCE.

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LMAO, Dang Now I got to change my boots  ;D

Catchdog, that hog is the one from the Walker right.

The hog in Catchdog's picture and the #400 hog we caught are off two ranches that back up to each other that we hunt. They are BYOCB invite ONLY! (bring your own cut bag)

Had to put that rule after " THE BOYS FROM DEWITT COUNTY" wanted to run with us. :D

Hipockets,
            You could make some money selling stories like that. Too funny. I enjoyed that.--John

when i started hog hunting, i read every thing i could find on dogs and hunting with dogs. one the great dog hunters i read about was sasha siemel. sasha was a jaugar hunter from south america. he hunted with a pack of dogs and a spear. sasha killed over 300 cats. (30 with a spear)

kind of reminds me of that great spear hunter sasha hipockets.

the story is better sitting around a camp fire drinking. you will laugh till you cry. and you now something, what makes it better iS, IT IS A TRUE STORY.

in the early 80's, i had just started hunting with dogs. i met an old hog hunter, who took me under his wing and taught me a few tricks of the trade.
at the time i was hunting cur dogs and pit catch dogs. i asked him to take me down south around refugio and to hunt big hogs. his words to me were. son you are going to get your dogs killed.
we set up a hunt for the end of november on a full moon night. the air was cool and the dogs were running good.
well we had a second trick up our sleeve. we had a ranch hand taking us hunting and he was the horse wrangler. so all he did all day was ride the ranch braking the young horses. he new were every hog on the ranch hung out.
we pulled in the gate, and pulled up into the pasture. the wrangler told us a big hog was staying in the area.
we dropped the tail gate and the fight was on. the dogs ran about a 100 yards and struck the hog.
the hog backed into a bush and started cutting dogs. i walked up to the tree and observed the dog with one bull dog on his ear. i pulled my knife and walked in for the kill.
the hog came around and laid the bull dog out. here i am standing under a tree with one mad boar hog and no dog on him.
i pulled my 41 mag and put one round in his head and the fight was over.
as if stood under the tree looking at my hog. i felt something on the back of my neck.
i felt and found blood on my neck and clothes. i could not find were the blood was coming from.
i looked into the top of the tree and got blood on my face. the boar hog was pitching the dogs into the top of the tree and the blood was dripping down from the top of the tree.
we had seven dogs, all were cut up and the bull dog had made his last hunt.
this hunt turned me into a hog hunting junky. i think about this hunt often. it changed the way i hunted, i never used a pit catch dog again.
the hog was only around 250 pounds with good ivory and a very bad attituded.

What is the reason for not using a pit? What ranch was it... if you don't mind.

to be honest. i got every one of the pits i used in that country killed. i got tired of sewing dogs and the vet bills. so i stopped hunting catch dogs and went to dogs that would bay a big hog.
also, and not to start a fight, because every one hunts different. i found i caught and killed bigger hogs with bay dogs.
at the time all i wanted to do was kill trophy hogs.  one bigger than any one of my friends  hunting had killed.
we were hunting a ranch next to the aransas wild life refuge.

How do you kill hogs with only bay dogs? Bay and shoot?

i always shot the bayed hogs. but a good cur dog will catch. if the hog could be caught, i would use a knife. if not a 44 or 41 mag.
i hunted with one old man, who used a 30 carbine and two cur dogs. he killed some good ones.
two of the biggest hogs i killed were with one catahoula bay dog. (thats may next story)
just as soon as i find out how to scan my pictures in this thing.

I have been debating doing that. With the price of every thing, not having as much time to hunt, and other obligations. It would seem easier to just have 2 Curr dogs for close and 2 hound crosses for distance. No catch dogs. Get out of the whole hunting like a job and go more for the sport.  :(

I use to hunt alot with a guy who hunted like that... 2 hound x cur and a gun. Killed alot of good hogs like that. Same thing... some times they would grab when we got there if they could.  :)

that just dont seem as fun to me i like seeing the catch and getin in there with them and putin hands on em

In my opinion, its a different kind of fun. If you have never tried it... try it... atleast once.

There is some thing about kind of sneaking up in there on a bayed hog, not caught, and positioning yourself for a good shot. I have had more close call hunting like that than with catch dogs. :) Also, if the hog is in no hurry, you can post up and watch the dogs work.

That is my all time favorite hunting... bay dogs, gun, early morning, grain season. :)

We roll without catchdogs over here.  Not sure I would want to belly crawl into a thicket with loose baying dogs on large hog at night.

I hunted for over ten years with a single bay/strike dog and a rifle and killed no telling how many hogs.  Both have their advantages, but once I was introduced to using a catch dog I haven't gone back.  Two of my main reasons I started hunting a catch dog other than the thrill were night hunting and grain fields.  Both are next to impossible to position yourself for a good shot.  I also used to break a lot more bays trying to get myself positioned than I do now.

I guess I hunted that way for so long that I still can't seem to make myself like hunting a bunch of dogs on the ground at one time like some people do.  I usually only hunt around 3 dogs at a time, but thats a whole other topic.  I was witness to many years of getting the job done with a single dog, and know that it can be done effectively.

what was this post about? different ways to hunt hogs, oh no-most memorable hog. well, here's one of mine. Mike and i were hunting one of our "city" properties when blue and cheyenne opened up on a hog close to us in the woods along the bayou. we started making our way to them and realized that this bad boy was moving and fighting them at the same time. the closer we got the more he kept moving them. they never could get him fully stopped, so when we finally got close, mike let clifford loose. then we heard nothing, silence! when we got to them they were all caught on him, and he wasn't so much as grunting. the whole area was covered in blood, the boar had cut every dog and was still giving them hell. just out of instinct i had my camera out, but mike said "drop the camera man we gotta get this one down!" mike finally managed to leg it and i stuck it. luckily none of the dogs were cut too seriously. the boar went about 200-225, nice cutters and a really bad attitude!  :o :o :o
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I have two hogs that are the most memorable for me. I didn't get them on a dog hunt. But, the hunt is still vivid in my mind. I was on a hunt in West Texas with a friend of mine. We were hunting Aoudad sheep. As we stood at the cross section of two sendero's I spotted movement about 500yrds away, down one of the sendero's. It was a large group of hogs feeding in the sendero. It was my turn for a stalk. So, me and my partner made a plan. I began the stalk and it was slow going. I was still wearing long bulky braces on my legs because of my accident. They sure made it difficult to move without being detected. But, I went slow and kept to the side of the sendero. Several times I had to just sit and rest on my butt to keep from being detected. I finally got within about 100yrds of them. I had a few catctus spines in me for the effort, but I was close enough finally for a shot. I picked out the biggest hog and dropped her in her tracks. All the other hogs ran into the brush. As I was walking toward the hog I had shot I heard a commotion and grunting in the brush to the left of the sendero. All of a sudden a large hog came charging out of the brush towards me. She was about 30yrds out when she began the charge. I threw the rifle up and shot once. She turned to my right and was now quartering to me. She didn't stop though. So, I jacked another round in and hit her again. She came to a sliding halt right at the right edge of the sendero, about ten yrds in front of where I was standing. So, I now had two good sized hogs down in the sendero. My buddy joined me and said he loved the ringside seat to the show. We gutted both hogs right there and skinned them under an old oak tree by one of the ponds on the ranch. Sure made for a memorable hunt, especially as we admired the hogs as the sun set on the West Texas landscape.

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I would have to say my most memorable hog was the first one i caught by myself. It was about a 150 pound boar hog, and i didnt even bring my lead strike dog(lettin the younger ones work a little bit more by themselfs). another good thing it was my first and my catchdogs first.  I was in some nasty briars and my dad told me to go ahead. i had a pistol just incase it was ol big, that we knew lived in that area(around a 400 pound boar hog)
Well when i saw it wasnt i legged and knifed him. ever since then there isnt anyone that could stop me from goin on a hog hunt, that just about comes first in my book especially when its with my dad and brothers or any family.

mley1, great story,  you had me thinking how can to hogs be the most memorable but after reading makes sense.  Being charged like that certainly gets the adrenaline going. 

i would have to say every hog i ever caught with a dog, was special and the most memorable.
i just love to watch the puppies work.