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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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Makes sense


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T Dog he has slowed down some but more from the fact that I have heat stroked him twice. I dont hunt him in the summer but in the winter you could never tell. He's a pretty nice dog.

That’s pretty cool.


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Those rough coats do protect the dogs, just how much, I can’t say. Some of those tusks are sharp and can do some damage. Just reading that testimony, I’d be inclined to believe it. When I first got exposed to hog hunting in Hawaii about 30 years ago, the guy I apprenticed under had a percentage of Airedale in most of his dogs. They didn’t get cut when I was with him, that was before anyone there was using telemetry or cut gear of any kind. Those dogs ran naked as the day they were born.

Man I hate to hear about the hardships there. I’m glad you got some dogs out of him. At 6 years old, was he showing any signs of slowing down any yet?

My wife’s hands look like that all the time but it’s because she’s always banging them on my Angelic head. I’ve tried telling her that the good Lord encompassed all that wisdom in a hard case, but she’s impulsive and forgets.


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Thanks everyone. The only downside to that trip was coming home. Andy would stress to me that we would get up at 4:30.  I was always up at 3:45 or 4:00 am. It takes me longer to collar up dogs and to get ready.
  If I want things to go wrong, all I have to do is leave town. My dog Yellow got loose and I had pictures of him headed out the driveway. He came up to a guys house around 2:00pm and he called me. He lives about 2 miles north of me. We dont hunt to close to my house because the hogs always run north and the club's boundary is about 3/4 of a mile north of me .  I called Cheryl and she went and got him. Well she does not know enough about dogs to tell that he was having a heat stroke and she put him up. Anyway when she came out to feed him about three hours later, he was dead. He was 6 years old. Fortunately I have several dogs off of him.
  Then a couple days before I came home my better half Cheryl gets snake bit while cleaning out a old doghouse. She was wearing gloves and jerked her hand back when she felt the bite and heard it rustling in the hay. When she pulled her glove off there was only one puncture that had a few drops of blood. My daughter drove her to the hospital where she received 3 doses of Crofab anti venom and she spent 2 days in the hospital.



One hour after bite


2 1/2 days later when they released her

Hollowpoint there use to be a guy across the river here that hunted blue Lacey find dogs and Airedale catch dogs. He claimed he didn’t run a vest on the Airedales and that the only one he ever got cut was one that he shaved on summer. He thought he was helping the dog stay cooler by getting rid of all that hair but instead made it susceptible to getting cut. He claimed that dog was the first and last one he ever had cut. He thought it was because of the hair. What’s your thoughts on it? I have zero experience with those type of dogs.


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Lol that’s not at all what I was doing. I was giving the option of alternative phrasing!


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


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