Rusty is for sale to the right home. $1500 2 years old. More of a trail dog than free casting but he will hunt a hog track. If he can smell the track he’s taking it how ever far he can. Can and will strike, and I’ve caught hogs with him solo, he just needs more and consistent hunting, I’ve got too many dogs, and not enough time or country.

Son of sketch. Out of a T-dog stud. Legs and lung to go all day and he ain’t bad looking to boot. Most people would consider him pretty loose baying.
I do like this dog and he don’t have to leave.




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Looks like ole King is feeling a little more mobile. He tightened up but Rusty isn’t as tight baying as I figured he would be. That little sow thought she was tough. It’s for sure dry here too. We made a round the other day and the dogs ended up crossing the FM highway. We called them out about 2+ miles into it because they were trying to move it towards a another county road and I didn’t want to jump through all the hoops it was going to take to get them back if we even could. It was so dry though that my clothes and my hat were a different color than they actually are because of all the dust and pollen.


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King is one of my tightest baying dogs forsure. Rusty the loosest by a fair bit. He is not what I’m after in that regard, but he does other things well and willingly.

It’s the dog days of summer. They don’t call it that for no reason. Takes a real one to get it done this time of year.


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Carried the A-holes Spoon, King, and Rusty this morning. Hogs crossed below the house last night at some point. Turned out where hogs hit water in the ranch, wide open prairie. Took about half an hour but they finally worked the track about a mile the right direction, but no dew last night and no rain since mid July has us dry and trailing has done got hard. Spoon and king made 2 losses on it in the neighbors to the north and everybody brought it on back.

Went and gar holed them to the east for a little before I went and dumped them back in that track they lost about half a mile further up. They looped south and come back 500 north and struck. Couple hundred yards race out of the slough they was bedded in to their water hole, and they were standing on her. Waiting half an hour for okay to go to em. Finally got to go. Broke her back and forth 4 times, 5th bay they bayed on top of another good hog and rusty and king/spoon were split by about 10 yards. Well I broke Rusty’s bay trying to get eyes on his hog and that turned into a pretty big dust up between 3 cur dogs and 2 pretty good sows. Had em both sat up and holding for a while but the fresh hog was pretty sporty, and kept breaking, finally she spun out and dogs stayed on the original hog. Finally shoot her and she was stiff about the time she hit the ground she was so hot.

They got the 2nd hog bayed back pretty quick. And then she whooped their asses in 2 different dozed brush pile and then dumped them on a shoat back head south towards my place. Called it a morning after that.



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Mav ain’t fat, he built like a boar hog. Carries the weight where it counts.


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Good hog , but he looks bigger next to you compared with Maverick. Lol

Haha, I do have years of practice of making hogs look bigger than they are.


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Amber is a nice gyp. I know Mav likes her as he’s already asked me if he has access to a stud if he wants to breed her next year.


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Young Maverick hit me up yesterday evening asked if I had some time and a place we could go hunt in the morning so I told him come on.

Went and hunted some feed country on the edge of town I’d been baying some hogs in lately. As luck would have it hogs weren’t where they’d been. About 9:30 we found a lone track from a decent hog on a pond. A couple places away from the feed bunks. Dogs tried it but couldn’t get it worked out through the brushed up cattle.

We had called it and were at the trucks. Popped box doors and lulu misty and amber made about a 800 yard half circle way up around some bunks on the hill and set into a neighbors and bayed. We start up the hill to them and catch about 40 hd coming down the hill. We run and gun on them a little then before tryin to go to dogs bayed in corner of Mott they found them in.
 Got to them, seen they had a lead boar and he broke south. They carried him 500 or so and put him up in a stock tank against the county road. Took me half an hour to get the call back and okay to go to them, finally did and Mav sent goose to them.  Goose got there, they went for a little swim, hog tried to come to me and they snatched his ass up as he come out of the water to me. I grabbed a leg and stuck the barrel of my .44 in his back and ended it. We decided to call it instead of being greedy and going after the other hogs we sent to the bottom.
Boar is better than picture show, 210ish probably. Pretty rotund for being no longer than he is.

This pups all look good, I’d feed them. Ya’lls boars seem genetically predisposed to having big teeth, I’ve got one here from down that way and he’s the toothiest one I’ve got. From what I’ve encountered, I see bigger bodies and shorter teeth up here.  That’s not to say they aren’t in the area, I know they are, maybe I’m just catching the dinks.

Teeth is probably 75% age in my opinion. I hunt lots of high pressure areas(this tri-county area is high pressure)  so I feel like we don’t catch many big or toothy hogs. Theres just no big country around here where hogs can be left alone. When we do get around an older boar, he will have some teeth probably.

Pups are growing into them selves. They’ll bay the grown heifers and calves around my house already at 8 weeks. They are little opportunistic predators around the house. Mean as a sack of snakes too. I still have all 5 here.

Freeze branded misty and spoon myself a few weeks ago. Not a clue what I was doing. Had 2 dogs branded years ago. Watched a YouTube video and read a few forums and gave it my best go(dry ice and alcohol)Verdict is still out. Here’s Misty’s, maybe somebody with experience can give me some insight as to how it’s healing. Spoons is a good bit more scabbed up still. I think 3 weeks it’s been now. When i originally did it, I thought spoons would take alright and that I probably didn’t get misty long enough. Today I don’t know lol. I’ll get a picture of spoons brand and the pups tomorrow evening.



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Been real slow for me/us . I just been enjoying this litter of pups around the house. 

Loaded Theresa Lulu Spoon king and Mary Jane this morning. Figured I’d let them use their legs. Hadn’t been any hog sign or any on camera lately. Drop em down at the big house and Theresa Mary Jane(first hunt for this young gyp. She’s out of some cowdogs around Bryan tx. Dads supposedly top notch) and Spoon loop out around the edge of the ranch, trailed through a couple neighbors and come bayed in far corner of a neighboring place on the other side of the ranch. Lulu and king were hung up on a track in the middle of the ranch and went to them when they went treed.

I got around there. Had to hoof it the last 300 to them for lack of good gates. Could smell a good boar going in. He broke on me twice before they finally held him long enough for me to get a safe shot(hard with 5 dogs around).

I shoot him first at about 15 steps. He drops and pops back up in seconds. I close about half the distance and kill him with a second shot.

I look down and at the base of this cedar tree I’m standing at I see gold between my foot and the tree. Bend down, and it’s the first .44 slug I shot him with. Some how. 8-10 foot closer to where I shot from, than the hog ever made it. Hot as hell, but in perfect shape. I don’t really have an explanation for it, other than bullets do weird stuff. He was quartered to me. I was aiming for neck, high shoulder. Best I can figure I missed the spine and blew through the top of his neck. Bullet never opened and somehow bounced off something and back towards me upon exit. Wild stuff









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Looking good. The blue pup looks big compared to the others.


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He is beefy for sure lol


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Been slow for us. I’ve been going a little but been solo just here around the house. Nickle and diming stragglers as I’ve got a neighbor in the next bottom over harboring a pretty good group. They’ve been living on him for 45+ days.  he’s a weirdo and his temperament is like a box of chocolates as Mrs.Gump would say, so I just try to stay away from over there. Even though I have rights on 3 sides of him.

Caught 2 hogs leaving the grain below my house late morning of the 4th. Introduced both of them to the underside of my buggy a few times at varying rate of speed. Then put a little boar in a pond and managed to go grab lizzo and come back and catch him.

Tied him to Barr him but he was dead 3 hours later. I rolled him pretty good lol.

May take the twisted sisters and Misty here in a little bit to try to bay one.



Screen grabs from a video. Lizzo keeping him off of me as I tried to step over a temp fence that is hot as you want one.

Went back grabbed cur dogs, camera said we were 3 ish hours behind the group at that point. Kicked 5 down and was picking them up 30 minutes later headed across the road into that country I don’t want to fool with. went around to and check the north end where I’d left a group of found late in the day last week after killing 3. They weren’t anywhere right the close so I called it.

Pups are doing good. Up and moving around now. I’ll have to get some pictures.


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These from Sunday. Got done covering yearlings for Tim at the Cattle co. Hit the house and loaded spoon Theresa Lulu and Bug. Casted at 12:03 off By 1:03 I was back at the truck loading my buggy back up and we had 8 good hogs dead.

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All is well so far 10 days in. Pups look great and Misty is doing a fine job at momming for her second go. 1 female 4 males. Not sure how I’m dealing this litter out yet.

Far as the rest of the hounds they are running and gunning. I’ve got 6 head of 2 and 3 year olds that I’d show anyone anywhere and tim has 3 to match and we’ve got some short yearlings getting ready to start.
Long time coming to get back to a real string of using dog. Hopefully that string keeps growing and progressing the back half of this year in to next.


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Says these bugs live in woods by woodpiles and coons possums and armadillo are vectors. Heck I live way back in woods and got a firewood stand right by the dog run I stomped the buy yesterday.

This place seem to be overrun lol

Yessir. Had to clean up around my dogs because of that as they’re all under a century old oak Mott.

Hopefully this gyp don’t have it.

Now I get to worry about screw worm and these puppies. The flies are officially north of the I-10 corridor in Gillespie county. Always something.


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I think the one under her head is a true black with a little white trim. One of them is going to color out like rusty I think, That liver hi tan color. Other is hard to tell. He’s got some brindle or something going on. He’s not a true black. Usually takes a week or so for them to finish changing colors.


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Walked out the house at 5 am to load a few dogs. Misty didn’t come greet me so I knew what that meant. DOMINO! 5 seemingly healthy leopard pups.
I’ve been gone all day but she seemed emptied out with the 5. If we can wean them all it’s just enough to take care of me and a few close buds till we can get another cross made.
I’m stoked, somebody fast forward a year.


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Are you saying there isn’t a guarantee raising good dogs? Lol, you are exactly right though. I don’t gamble because I figure I wouldn’t be very good at it. The breedings I would’ve bet some pretty big money on were the biggest failures in my mind. The Oldman and I just had a conversation about this. So many variables.


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The only guarantee I’ve found in my short time, is for better or worse, it never goes exactly as you draw it up. And it’s why I think there’s a lot of pride to be had in consistently producing good dogs. It’s hard.


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I get it. If the king/Misty pups work you can go back to your buddies dog, Spoon, or even the Ray/sketch pups. You’ll be fine if it works.


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I told Nathan. If breeding dogs was simple math and 2+2 always equaled 4. I love the cross on paper.


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I can’t see his face but I’m betting he had a smile on it! I sure hope they turn out for you. That would give you several options if they do.


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Yessir. The plan has always been to breed a outcross gyp back to my side to one of the early males. it just hasn’t timed out to work yet. Got to keep usable numbers around for time being.


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