Glad y’all are getting on some even though they are scarce.


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Yes sir. We are dry, bad dry. Hogs are thin. We bayed on a big group right after new year behind Tim’s cattle co and that’s the only big set of hogs we’ve run in to this year so far.


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Still hunting some. Just hard to post with way Tapatalk and forum don’t function on my phone properly.

Been slow yet this year. Only real hunt we’ve made it took till 3 pm to find the hogs and we had a bunch of gassed out of shape dogs once we did. Caught 2 and couldn’t get back in them.

Then I went the following day solo with a few of mine. Killed 3 good boars and a sow, and then jumped in a coyote race and caught him in a culvert after an hour. That was a fun little afternoon.







Kicked spoon and 4 littermates down the other day at the ranch mid day and they made 1 good cast. Come up empty and had another boar bayed on the 2nd cast.

Went last week with Tim and some yearlings and caught a little boar and bayed a big ole sow. Dogs started great and then did horrible, then ended okay so we didn’t get no pics that day.


Then I casted a few of mine at my house solo again this afternoon and killed a little boar. Then had a coyote race that ended with a dog having this in their eye. Seems like it’s gonna be okay in long run. Give him a round of oxy and see what a few days shows. Eye isn’t all tore up, just scratched pretty good. It was on the out side of his eye in his socket with only about a 1/4” sticking out past his eyelid. I imagine in the reduce there’s a chance that could have been fatal, or atleast a lot more damaging than it seems to be so far.


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Seen a dog get it hung out and them not be able to save it. Cut his unit off and rerouted his urethra. Pissed about like a gyp after that.


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We seem to have a few more this year than the last few years, but still not nearly as many as we once had. And part of was in easy hunting areas, pretty much sectioned off with roads, but now probably due to the easy access they are scarce in there. A few thermal hunters in the area.

The thermal has ruined the last bit of country that ain’t been sold off around here. Not a single “thermal” hunter I know can stand to look through that scope at something and not shoot it.

Yes sir, I’m grateful for every opportunity I get to put these dogs in the woods. I just finished putting together this rigging rack for the box. Guess we’ll see if the can rig one or just get a suntan riding up there.

That rig is SWEET!


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   Slim I'm a poor camera man, especially while hunting but I'll try to take some and post'em. If you're ever up this way stop in and see them in person.

I sure will. I have a good buddy who is an auctioneer at The city StockYards. I go visit him next I will have to reach out and see if you have some free time.
Actually just Spent my new years in Red Rock, Ok with him coyote hunting.


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  Lizzo. The Greyhound and all around fan favorite.


King. From T dog


Not pictured: my number 1, Spoon. As he is on loan to a buddy right now. And Sketch, cause she’s somewhere off running ranch patrols probably.


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Lulu.June ‘24 sketch pup

Flop (the Mellman)

Misty. May ‘23 sketch pup

Rusty. June ‘24 sketch pup


Theresa. June 24’ sketch pup.

Monica. Summer ‘25 bulldog pup off my partners cardi dog and Rednose’s male.


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Some random stuff from last few weeks. Have to go get update pics of all them and post them up. Full yard for me these days.


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Good start to the year it sounds like Mr.Anderson. I’d love to see some of the dogs you’re feeding.


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I’ve got 2 long yearlings(brother and sister) to find out if they make the 2 year old grade. They both been used a fair amount and have lots of potential. The gyp we caught our first hog of the season behind Friday after a lot of running around on multiple dogs. Have another sister the got to go for first time. She may have it in her, but she’s getting a late start for sure.

Then I got a pup I call flop goes back to Mr.Mellmans dogs I may get to start the back half of this year. She’s got lots of spunk and excited to see what she may be. She comes off some nice dogs. Will have to get some pictures of everything.


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I’d maybe agree to an extent. I’ve can think of a handful of dogs that if they’d had double the bottom. They’d have been in the upper echelon of dogs I’ve seen.


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What make of pocket knife is that?

Just a case brand that a buddy of mine who does leather work took an engraver to. Headed back to the woods this evening for the hogs head cause that knife is still in its mouth right now lol.


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Hahaha I actually have a brand new spankin pair of hoggin sneakers. These don’t have the extra toe air flow built in yet.

Dogs are doing well hunting wise lately for sure. Still having young dog mix ups/mistakes but nothing but time and tracks will fix that.


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Lulu and Spoon. Lulu is a yearling out of sketch x ray. Lulu is on her way to being a one out dog. Her and 2 year old half sister misty went the distance for a pretty good boar hog today right before lunch. Them and my 3 males kinda screwed around this morning with a good rally and broke it up and run us out of country and never stopped anything back. So, out of spite, on the way home I went to cast them at our deer camp. Not great hog country but if a dog will go far enough. There’s a decent boar somewhere within a mile or so. The boys quit me but the girls just stuck their nose in the dirt and walked half a mile across 2 places to him. called landowner and let em know I was gonna go in there. Too maybe 45 minutes from them showing bayed to me getting out of the truck to go to them. Sent spoon for fresh lungs. They’re like 150 off the end of a lease road. Walk in and they have him backed up in about a 4 ft  creek bank digging a big ol hole. Was going to video and he opened his mouth and looked up at me and decided to kill him instead. Maybe 3.25-3.5” on short side, 4.25ish on long side. Just shy of 200lbs.


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First time I’ve seen sketch in a couple months. 9 this summer but of course been crippled and she has surely passed the torch. Although she did give 2 valiant efforts on races once we got in the hogs. This was a tough hunt. Had dogs walking a bay in the county road ditch and a neighbor did a drive by on them basically. I had to go get king out of a deer blind 2 places over after this.

Full brother sister/ parents on left
Misty and Spoon
Littermate gyp(my doodle bug) and male (Goose belonging to Maverick) on right.


2nd of as many this evening. Man asked me to ride through his place make sure they didn’t miss any cattle when they cleaned the place off. I took spoon king Misty and a spoon x Misty yearling Doodle bug. Misty stole the show for the first Time in front of spoon and king and when I needed spoon to retake the track he pulled off that Misty was running. He took it and we caught this hog at the end of a 3.5 mile race.
It was an impressive showing for them 2 by my standards.


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Tim and Rednose had a few bulldog pups drop Saturday night. All 5 doing well so far.


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Pretty neat picture from the young man who has sketch and her double bred grandson goose at 10 months old. He is running and baying hogs and can get behind one pretty decent for a 10 month old. I got a video of his crossing behind a hog this weekend, way ahead of grandma lol.


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Was this male dog out of Jamie’s dog? I like the leg under him and that deep chest. He almost looks a little cow hocked but it could be an awkward position he was caught in. My biggest breeding philosophy is “breed to a litter, not an individual”. I’m other words no matter how good a dog is, if a high percentage of his litter mates didn’t finish out at a high caliber then you are likely making the breeding for nothing. My second rule is that if I don’t like that dogs parents and parents of the other dog being bred to it then I don’t do it. The pups are usually gonna have a strong resemblance to the most prepotent one of those four or the most prepotent line of those four if it’s an outcross. If it’s a line breeding of a tighter bred family then you should have a pretty good idea about what you’re going to get. Of course these are just my opinions and what I have experienced.I hope it works out for you.


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T-dog if you know who Brian Adams is, from Lee County. That’s who got him from my uncle.

He’s not out of Jamie’s dogs but a close relative. My ex/ uncle Cullen that i worked for at the time, his lead cow dog was a big dark brindle dog named Levi. Them dogs come out of Jamie and Timmy Exners dogs. This is all documented on this forum in one of my threads. This thread starts on the litter of this dogs brother bred back to sketch.

Also, I asked you about the Reats and if they had a gyp named Tiggy that’s somewhere up there running hogs after the Iselts got her from me and had her for years. That’s this dogs full sister from that original litter. Finding out about her on hogs will tell you the tape on that litter. There was 3 more in East Texas that slowly got killed off the guy loved on hogs, in fact he finally got another from me out of the other litter I had next to the sketch/ray litter and she just got killed on hwy running a hog.

He wasn’t/isnt cow hocked, rhett ended up with a sister that was though. She got culled promptly.

Litter was a success as far as the type of dog. Most of them just didn’t make it to a year and a half. It might be more of a sentimental breeding, but he is the last of those alive besides tiggy, and the inbred so out of this dogs brother named tracker that my buddy Nathan has.


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This is potential stud in question. He was radar to me. Here he was at about 8 months old on my yard. He was going a little bit on hogs pretty good by this time. We had kept four. 3 males and a gyp. 2 males were dead by a year or so. His sister at a year was easily the most natural of any pups I’ve raised, hunting wench and I could make her trail or bay anything. caught a nasty coyote with her and found her dead in her pen a week later.

Here is my spoon dog at around same age. Just under a year. He’s coming on 2 in May I believe and is number one around here right now.
His sister may have something to say about that but I don’t use her as much because I want to breed her again. The litter out of her from last year is already hog hunting and they’re not a year till June.


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