I had a couple days off this week and wasn’t planning on hunting but my daughter decided Wednesday morning that she wanted to go hunting. I didn’t have anything ready to go but Since she wanted to go I threw the collars on charge and loaded up the ranger. Earlier in the week I had some of my leashes, break sticks, and a cut vest stolen off the back of my truck so I had to dig around and find some spares I had tucked back in the shed. With all the unpreparedness I just knew the hunt was gonna be a disaster but the good lord blessed us with a good, safe, and quick hunt. We pulled up to the spot I wanted to hunt and I let my daughter pick which dogs to turn out. She picked Sadie and Earl. She turned them loose and we sat around talking while they made a couple loops out in front of us. Sadie come up bayed a few hundred yards in but while I was getting everybody loaded up the hog broke bay and ran within a hundred yards of where we were standing and sat down bayed in the wide open. I grabbed the bulldog and walked into 50 yards and turned him loose. I got him caught and under control and then let the kids come in. This was little bits first time to stick a hog and my little mans first hunting trip. They both had a blast and was wanting to go again Thursday but I told them we had to wait and let the roads dry out after all the rain Wednesday night.

Caught another good boar hog Saturday morning. Here lately it’s been small pigs or or pretty good boars.

Made a little round this morning. Started off on Pigs but finally got on a decent Boar Hog. Even got a decent video of the bay and catch.  This was the first hunt back for Harley and Sadie since they both had a litter of pups earlier this year.



Video
https://youtu.be/IvfN4oNHOhM

What is your favorite Sausage seasoning or sausage recipe? I’m gonna try my hand at a batch off this Barr hog we caught. I have made sausage with my Granddad several years ago and it was good but I don’t remember what we used and the last seasoning I bought back in deer season wasn’t very good to me.

This hog was not the biggest I have ever caught but hands down he was the meanest. I found his track going into a bad 2 year old cutover at the beginning of summer in 2018. I turned loose on him in that same spot 6 times throughout the summer before finally catching him. He accounted for a lot of emergency tailgate surgeries. Every time I turned loose on him I had to sew something up. He had a very simple and effective game plan. The dogs would always bay him the first time pretty quick and most of the time in the same spot in that bad thicket. He would stay bayed for just a minute or two, then pick out one of the dogs and bull rush it and then off to the races. The first time he butchered my old dog and put the other pup off on a sow and pigs. The second time started off the same way except he didn’t throw the dogs off on other hogs. Instead he swam the Tombigbee River so I called the dogs off and had to start sewing. The third, fourth, and Fifth was exactly like the first. He was a running joker after he would break bay the first time. The final time the two dogs I turned loose on him both still had staples in them from an earlier encounter with him. They bayed him quick and luckily they both got out of the way when he tried to bull rush them. He done his usual and went the same way but this time I decided as soon as I turned loose we would drive around to where he would normally cross a road and try to turn him a different direction from the thicket that he always seemed to put the dogs off on other hogs. Luckily it worked and he went into the open hardwoods and the dogs hung with him for a pretty long race. I had to work nights that night and it had gotten late in the morning so we went and turned a couple more dogs loose in a different spot because I really didnt want to let the guy that was with me go home empty handed. Shortly after turning the other dogs loose I was watching the Garmin close and it appeared that the other dogs were barely at a walking pace so I assumed they had burnt out so I quit watching the Garmin and ended up catching two sows before noticing that they were still walking the same creek bed back and forth in a 15 yard stretch. I guess they were moving just enough to where it didn’t show treed. So I drove 200 yards from them and stopped to listen. I didn’t hear anything so I drove up to about 80 yards and they started back baying. We started to them with the bulldog and when I got close enough to see them and they were walking back and forth 10-20 yards in front of a stump hole with him backed up in it. Sent the bulldog and the fight was on. He was one rank joker.

 I don’t know if I couldn’t hear them down in that hole from 200 yards or if they wasn’t baying until I got close enough they heard the ranger coming but I fully understand why they stayed so far back from him. Lol. I love to catch big toothy boar hogs but I will be ok if I never get on another one as rank as that joker was.

This is the 1/2 Dewey 1/2 Parker

It’s two different males that are bred similar. The litter that is heavy on the Denison blood should be built like the gyp in the top picture. I cast hunt them and from my experience with them they should Hunt out  around 400+ yards in no sign with the occasional dog that will stroll out to a 1000 or above in no sign. Most of them hunt real hard, are very independent, and start early. They don’t have the best nose but cover a lot of ground. They aren’t the best option for hunting everywhere but they work great for the areas that I mostly hunt. A couple groups of hunters in this area have had this family of dogs a lot longer than me and they have done a really good job of keeping it going strong and not giving up quality for $$$.  Most of us around here that has these dogs don’t let them out of the group of guys we  hunt with.

The other litter I don’t really know what to expect. I’ve had the gyp for 4 or 5 years but only bred to her once and she had 4 and all of them died. She is a good dog I just don’t know anything about the Parker gyp that was her momma.

The gyp from the top pic is Catahoula. She is Denison / Dewey Gravois and she was bred to a Denison / Dewey Gravois Male.

The bottom pic gyp is 1/2 Dewey Gravois 1/2 Parker cur and she was bred to a Denison / Dewey Gravois male.

Cajun I like a brindle dog myself... But I’m partial to Black and Tan. Lol

Hot off the press. Maybe a few of these will make a dog!!!

If they don’t work it won’t be because of lack of opportunity.

2015 Polaris Ranger 900. It’s been ok. I like having the bed and cab but it’s no where near as reliable as my old Honda Foreman was. I have had electrical problems since 2 weeks after I bought it brand new. I constantly have to change bearings and bushings. Now I have to rebuild one side of the front differential because the cup that holds the cv axle is worn out and slips on the splines. It only has 2400 miles on it but just about all of them has been in the  South Alabama River Swamp.




I have some buddies that had similar problems and they have swapped to the Honda Pioneer 1000 with good results.

I don’t know how this ended up here. I tried to reply to the other post. Lol

I will start by saying that it takes a high level of bad luck to get two dogs run over at separate times in one night. I know you were sick.

As far as the dog that made it. I personally would use him for hunting and stay away from breeding him even though it’s questionable if the hip problem was pre existing. If you and Justin are close I imagine y’all could work a deal on a different male pup that isn’t from that outcross just to be safe. Like others have said problems end up showing up years down the road that make you regret the decisions that you made because you were either in a hurry or felt you didn’t  have any other options.

I will start by saying that it takes a high level of bad luck to get two dogs run over at separate times in one night. I know you were sick.

As far as the dog that made it. I personally would use him for hunting and stay away from breeding him even though it’s questionable if the hip problem was pre existing. If you and Justin are close I imagine y’all could work a deal on a different male pup that isn’t from that outcross just to be safe. Like others have said problems end up showing up years down the road that make you regret the decisions that you made because you were either in a hurry or felt you didn’t  have any other options.

Biggest I’ve ever caught was a 380 Barr. It’s hard for a hog to break 350 pounds in these swamps. I know of several caught in this area over 400 but it’s rare and they were all Barr hogs. For the dogs sake I had rather catch one 250lbs and up with big teeth than 125lbs with 1” razors. I have caught several 300+ with very few vet bills but I have paid a pile of money and lost a few good dogs on them 125lb rank jokers.

Good Hunt

T5

Loftin I have a older bulldog right now that will not catch worth a flip with a vest on but catches like a champ without. I get questioned all the time why I don’t run a vest on him but to me the risk is higher of injury to multiple bay dogs if the bulldog misses vs the bulldog getting a cut from lack of a vest.

As far as getting a catchdog to take time going to a bay the only thing I have found to work is time and experience. Some dogs slow down with experience and some dogs never do.

The information about Alabama is true. I have a buddy that got caught the first year that fine was in play  with 4 hogs in the bed of his truck. Lucky for him the guys he was hunting with split the fines with him.

Occasionally one will still slip the hobbles after having his cods removed but I don’t transport them to my pen anymore.

Got invited to a buddies hunting club that has a few hogs. We caught a good boar hog early and a pig a little while later. It got a little hectic for a min with the boar hog. Got the dogs off of him and that big joker got his back legs under him while we were trying to let my buddies son kill him and about got away. I jumped on his back and grabbed his front legs to trip him while another buddy finished killing him. The dogs hunted good to have only been the second hunt of the year. They will sleep good tonight after all the ground they covered.

In Alabama our Deer Season goes till February 10th and naturally I have been working 7 days a week since January. I finally got a day off to go make a quick hunt this morning. All of my good hunting spots are flooded right now so I’m having to hunt in the hills. The place we hunted this morning is small and doesn’t have many hogs but we managed to catch a decent boar early.



Video
https://youtu.be/6OTMcassYBM