Went back to the Baseball players place today. Just me. Tim’s day didn’t work out, mine did. Hunting some hogs in a 150 acre netwire pasture on some freshly flatbroke and planted ground.
Take King, Spoon, Tracker, and Lizzo. Supposed to be 2 sows and a handful of shoats. He shot one good sow the following night after we were there last time. He also said he saw a boar hog. That matters in a minute.

Today I went to cast dogs from same spot as first time. South end of the little spring creek that’s the only real brush in there. Maybe 30 acres total of it.  South wind blowing they all immediately went to trying to get across fence same as dogs did last time where we ended up. I cussed them and sent them north. They crossed the road that cuts the drainage in half and kept going.

150 yards or so across they come out run a loop around the far end and tuck back in. Struck. I get to truck and drive that way. Catch the other sow and about 6 shoats cutting across open. Lizzo never sees them but I cast her to the lake they were headed to and go to the dogs bayed. They’re in a big pool in the creek under a long jam. Bust her, dogs roll. I come out of the creek lizzo had a shoat caught back across by the lake in the middle. I hoof it over there, kill it. Get back to truck and cur dogs got hogs on the fence on south end. Go catch that shoat. Tie it in hopes to start some bulldog yearlings.

Dogs hang around some, land owner calls. I’m talking with him telling him yeah I’m in them. I’m the middle of that 5 minute conversation I watch spoon shove his nose in the dirt and go to trailing going north away from me along the fence. I hang up and look down and I’m standing on a big track. It’s days old after the rains but I take a video of the track and laugh that I hadn’t seen that hog leaving that track yet and lizzo was with my cur dogs. I walk around to truck, grab Garmin and they are all treed on the very north end in the creek.

Get around there and as I get all in to them I hit a 20 ft bank over a wash out. They’re in a log jam underneath me caught. I go to them with rifle and a tie rope. It’s pretty tame as I’m getting down to them and I don’t realize hog is as big as he is. I get flat footed in the washout with them and he’s coming to me with dogs all over him. I managed to knock a hip out with my rifle as he went to the back of the washout. He turned 180 and took a few steps back with dogs caught on him again and I dropped in and caught a leg.  I was in a pretty good bind at the point so with some doing I got him worked towards my rifle enough to grab it with him still legged and send one through his shoulders with dogs caught. Dead hog.

250-260 with 3” on both sides. Somehow spoon ended up with a busted lip and that was it. Lizzo wears a WildBoar USA Aussie style plate. It was in pretty good shape this morning. She needs a new one now. He was almost all the way through it in about 4 spots. Got pretty dang lucky, but big shout out to wild boar. Their stuff is awesome and dirty tough.

Landowner comes and meets me, we get the hog out and shoot the breeze for an hour about hunting and dogs and Ranching and call it a day after. Went to the rodeo tonight to watch him and my buddies dad team rope.









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All the pictures and dogs I ever saw were all big framed dogs but athletes. 60-75 lb dogs. The tracker dog in my opinion from what I heard and the little I saw of those dogs, tracker is the closest thing to that I know of these days as far as look and way.
This was the Bridgette dog. Mind you the belonged to my old boss and at one time uncle by marriage. His uncle was named Tim Exner. Tim Johnny and Jamie were all big buddies.


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And Jamie talked about the dummy dog multiple times. We’ve talked about this some on here before. It’s not on this thread, it’s on the one about the very first litter I ever had which was victors litter. Idk how to find it.


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Levi’s mom was summer. Summers mom was Bridgette. Bridgette was a legendary dog by 3 peoples account. Bridgette went back to one of those 3 stooge dogs or a direct offspring.


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There’s the 4 pups we kept out of that first cross. Victor is dark brindle pup.


This was their daddy Levi. He was a Leo Tx Leopard dog.


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The Tracker dogs daddy was Sketch to one of the Woodard’s dogs?


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Trackers dad was that cross. Trackers dad was victor. Victors dad was Levi. Levi was a 14 year old cow dog out of that family of dogs.


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Trip south on Saturday was a mess but a few hours and thousand acres later Nate’s Tracker dog rigged a boar. Ended up with 7 or 8 cur dogs coming back together on him and while we were watching the bay the curs caught him. Tracker ended up coming home with me. He’s a 6 year old out of sketch. This weekend was first time I’ve gotten to see him go due to injuries every other time I’ve been down. But Nate knows a dog and says he is one. Hes a pretty bad dude off the rig, Or on a track as that is how they hunt down there. We were between Kenedy and goliad and wow it was dry, even compared to what we have been at home. Thankfully just got 5 inches here in Swiss alp this weekend.

Our dogs hunted okay but could never get a track going. About 1 am I knew it was going to take tracker getting a good rig, and sure enough he did. Brought tracker home to try to cover misty but I believe we missed her. I put king over her early last week and I reckon she may have taken. This opportunity arose and we figured we’d see if we could split the litter but I don’t believe they tied.

If Misty took to king I will be plenty excited and we can try tracker again. King x Misty is a good cross by my math on paper so we shall see.


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Went and caught 2 yesterday in the pouring rain yesterday evening with Tim, Rhett, and an Ex MLB Pitcher by the name of Homer Bailey. Soon as we casted dogs here it come. Rained 1.1 inch in about an hour on us.

It was supposed to be a handful of hogs trapped in a netwire pasture. The struck, it started pouring. And goose directly run them out of there into the neighbors and the other dogs were trying to get to him. Once we figured out what was happening we opened a gate and let help go to goose. They bounced the group around for a little till the twisted sisters Lulu and Theresa put them back up in front of us. Caught a young boar.

Dogs rolled and after a little race put a good sow up in a spring against the fence the crawled out of and we got to watch 6 cur dogs flat give her the business. We called it after that but Mr.Bailey left us an open invite to return when weather is better. He said to bring the cavalry cause he’s got the hogs. Look forward to making the trip in the future.

In other news we’re headed south this afternoon to go hunt with Nathan and take flip and flop back to him. He ended up in a bind for some young dogs after a hog crippled 2 of his a while back. 

I’m also carrying a gyp of mine down there to try to get covered by his Tracker dog. Tracker is out of sketch by an own son of hers. And he is puro hog dog. I’ve already got the gyp covered by one of my studs but we’re going to see if we can split the litter. Hopefully more to share after tonight.





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Spoon man making one take a bay Monday with Maverick.

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Video of the group bayed with Maverick


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Video from boar I killed the afternoon sketch passed.

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video of the hog we put in barn a few weeks ago.

That’s a lot pork y’all looked at in a couple of hunts. Rallies like that big one can be intimidating to some dogs. That’s a lot of loud all one time. Glad to hear Amber is doing good sounds like.


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I am president of the Amber fan club. She is a nice young dog. Lots of hustle.


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Finally got the whole crew together for a hunt at a one of ours(Tim’s) good spots today. Feed bunk country with about 300 acres of sorghum planted in the middle. Most folks have probably never been in hog country like this, there’s some jumbos, but it’s the sheer numbers. This is old hog farm country that a when the hog market tanked, folks turned out what ever they had. They couldn’t afford to feed them.

We spent most the afternoon on north end of HQ. Caught 8 hogs over 150 in maybe a 100 acre block of woods. Caught 2 with just bulldogs. I caught a 150lb sow that the dogs had bayed, freehanded. Oh and I flat bald faced missed a chip shot on a hog breaking right at my feet. He put a hell of a juke on me and I put a round straight in the dirt. Tim got it all on video.

Rhett and a buddy Lane left and me and Tim went south of the sorghum. Usually this is where the jumbos are. We bayed a group 100 yards into the neighbors. When we walked into the first rally it sounded like we were at Sturgis for Bike week. We bayed close to 200 head together. Now 100+ were under 20 lbs. but there was a pile of grown/big hogs. We broke the bay about 4 times and every time we’d watch 10-20 hogs leave and when we finally turned back to go to the buggy from the last bay. They still had I’d say 20-30 grown hogs bayed. Cooler than it was impressive. But it was pretty cool. Called dogs out at dark and Went had a burger and couple beers with the land owner, 500 yards away from where they were bayed at this country store there in that little community.


Maverick come down Monday afternoon. Nathan Was supposed to come up and get 2 yearlings he sent me and time months ago that were sending him back now that he’s in a bind for some dogs after a hog crippled 2 of his young nice gyps.
Nate had to back out so me and Mav took spoon rusty and mavs Goose and Amber across from my house.
 
  Bayed a good group off the back and let em go for a while. Killed one of that. Amber and sooon carried one 150 south and bayed. Rusty come back to them. Killed it. They rolled back to goose bayed 600 to the north. Killed another good hog. Then they rolled north, got in some shoats and we caught them off of that and called it an evening. Mav took Rusty home with the option to buy him if he likes him enough and thinks he will help him, or to just use him as he wants unless I need him. Maverick is at the point where hes ready for a 3rd dog. Hes got a pup from Nathan that’s just not mentally ready yet.
I’ve got 6 head need hunted myself and not near enough country to do it,so rusty and him will both benefit from being together I think, hopefully it will end up a good deal.


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30 in and not a catch dog yet is pretty tough standards. I can appreciate that, especially with a bulldog. He’s a nice looking specimen.


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Number 9 of 10 we killed with just sketch on Christmas Eve 3 years ago I believe. She was 305. Off some feedbunk country I used to manage.


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Catching is easy.....the dragging to the trailer makes it feel like work!

And that’s why we don’t tie many lol. We carry a pile of tie ropes, they are leads wore so.
Yall have had some good hunts!


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Hunted late weekday last week. Was really trying to gar hole them around my house and just make them use their feet, before a big Sunday guided hunt kinda deal. Well 3rd circle they made king lulu and Theresa finally pulled out. Bayed a group a mile and some change across a county road.

2 hours later they were running what was left of a 30ish hog rally back into the place they started them for the 3rd time. I called em out as it’s right on a county road and traffic was unusually heavy for out here. Flagged one lady down and after I explained why I did, as she pulled past me hogs and a dog crossed in front of her.

Only killed one. was tons of fresh pigs in the original group and I need them to make it to adulthood around here. Could have whacked on them pretty good with some help.

 
 

That’s Theresa carrying the majority of what was left back north for the 3rd time.




There’s a screen grab from one hog I shot where they were living off the first bay. Nothing happens fast in that little 50 acres of tangled mess. I’m aiming at the hog right there and there dogs in frame.


Got invited Sunday to bring dogs to a friend of my stepdads family country out around waelder. Good hog country. Took a bunch of his kids and grandkids for one of their birthdays. I carried my 6 and Rhett brought his gidget dog. First cast we end up by the time they line out. Misty and Lulu headed north and spoon and king and rusty headed south. About and hour of what the heck’s happening right now later, we got all 7 cur dogs together and hammered. Walk a full baseball line up of folks in on the bay and they had about a 150 lb boar with 2inch teeth back up in a rootball in a small creek bottom. We send lizzo and cardi from 5 yards and that was that. Couple sows after that, got into a rally about 11 and then they started pickings off cheap shoats. About noon Lulu carries another group off our permission finally and we got catch another shoat.
One of my males is being cheap and catching pigs out of groups when things get hectic and it’s not something I’m a fan of.

As we’re Pulling up down county road we watch the group run back into our permission. Good time to call it and not get greedy though so that’s what Rhett and I decide to do.

Don’t think either of us pulled our phone out the entire day to get a picture. Never was a hog worth mentioning past the boar.

Got a few from the landowner.

As we sent CDs to a rally the rally broke and cuts caught a decent sow. 2 hogs crossed the sendero in front of lizzo on her way there, She did what she does when something runs from her. Caught it. So they got to see lizzo work one out as she caught it running down the road. And we were doubled up. Rhett went ahead to get hands on the other hog and we made our way to him after catching lizzos.


Willie and Theresa. Her and LuLu have been dubbed the “Twisted Sisters” cause they are a little throwed off. But they are 2 gyps I am proud of and would show anybody.


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Sounds like a good ole time. That’s a good hog there. Good hunting gentlemen.


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It sucks they can’t stay young forever. You gotta be great full, and I know you are, that you had a good many years with her plus the fact that she left a large part of herself here in flesh. As good as she was,  now you can stretch the facts of the stories now. She’ll never quit getting better. Heck I had some cracker jacks in the past. They did some things you’d never believe! I’ll tell you about some of’em sometime when we have a good bit of time. It takes a while to tell about that kind of magic.


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Thanks for playing a part in furthering her story T-dog.

Can’t wait to hear the stories of all your sketch’s, and im sure I can come up with a few about her you haven’t heard yet lol.


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Semmes, so it does go. I think her and I made peace with it over the last 3 weeks. Onward.
She laid the foundation no doubt. Thank you.

Where life ends, legacy hopefully begins.

Sketch had a heart attack about sunrise this morning. I laid her to rest then loaded up a bunch of her pups and we set out to send her something to bay on.

After they made a loss on him about 20 minutes into the race I figured he was gone and we tried. Theresa Lulu and Rusty just needed some time. They pulled back out. Got him jumped again, and half an hour later put him right back where they had started him to begin with. Proud to say the least.

10 more years with sketch and I’d still have never been able to feed her enough leftover beef or Taco Bell to ever repay her for what she did for me over the last 10 years. She left me better than she found me in every way possible.

Get Ahead, Sketch!


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