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Its dang sure winter time we go lot ice trees and limbs down everywhere power went off this morning

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Just takes time and swine. It will get better. Doesn’t sound like they got beat for lack of try.


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Yes sir, I hit the woods day after deer season. All my dogs are young with the exception of one older dog, I’m trying to get them in shape and educated at the same time.

  That's a lot of hog action, sure helps keep young dogs focused.

Went out to my usual public spot, I went to an area I’d been staying out of for a while. We get in the woods and start finding were the hogs had been busy diggin up acorns. The dogs trailed out a couple times without stopping anything, they got scattered leaving me to collect them up. One dog left the reservation and crossed a county road, he had a close call with a pick up.

I get them going in the direction I originally wanted to travel and I’m seeing more sign. I start thinking about sitting down to take five, when all at once the dogs throw their heads up and dive into a thicket of this bamboo grass (that’s 6/7’ tall) along a creek we’ve been following. I hear one of them catch. From where I was standing I see the brush shaking violently, I’m thinking we’re gonna put hands on this one, it gets quiet and I see a nice black boar bust a move out the back door.

The dogs come out in pursuit, but alas he had too much speed and head start for them to catch up to him again.


The day before the storm hit, me and a buddy went to the new private spot. First time there, owner shows us a couple places and leaves us to it. We walk up a hill and two of the dogs trail out and get bayed about 1/2 mile away. We drive the buggy to them and they got a young boar in a creek. My Dan and Hondo had his ears locked up with the rest of them supporting the cause. We pick up and find an area of hardwoods and dump them, in short order they move out and split. We hear a bacon bit getting stretched and the others got the sow.

We go to the sow, and Dan has her on the ear with the others cheering him on. We get her hobbled then the other dogs fresh from their adventure arrive and tell the sow how they feel about her. One of my buddies better dogs relayed and trailed all the way across the section and is bayed next to the hi way, we get there and send one of his rough curs and me Pete dog. Wrong choice, he was too much for them to hold and breaks, never to be seen again that day.

It’s dark now and we make a couple more drops and get into a couple of family groups resulting in a couple bacon bits getting picked up and other dogs getting scattered and bayed a long ways off. We got them all back to the truck about 10:30 and called it.

That is all.

So you’re copying me now old man? I feel like I’ve made it if the legends are copying me! Lol just kidding of course. I decided the same thing about the chin flap. I like the leg flaps. My old vests had a ton of influence on my thought process. I looked at them and where all the punishment was taken on them. Those old leg flaps took a good bit. I like the three overlapping flaps better than the one solid one. They same to restrict reach less and I haven’t had near as many cuts in what would be our arm pit area with that third flap being inside. I don’t think the vests need to be as layered as a lot of them are. When a dog gets cut, the skin cut and the muscle cut usually aren’t in the exact same spot, you have to roll the hide around to find the muscle cut. That’s how you know what direction the hog was slinging his head. Sometimes that can tell you if the dog was at fault or just got cut, mainly the bay dogs. The skin rolls 9 out of ten times when the hog hits the dog is the reason for the cuts not aligning. The vest does the same thing. I’ve had a vest cut through numerous times but can count on one how many of those times the dog received any damage. So fewer layers is less weight, especially when wet which means the dog doesn’t have to work as hard. I haven’t investigated it, but I’d bet one pound to a dog is like 5-7 for a person. So that light weight vest to us is heavier to that dog and in the southern heat, everything is a factor.


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We need the moisture too. Ours looks like snow but isn’t soft. It’s like we got sleet over the snow and it has created a layer of ice over the snow.


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I’ve done it both ways, in the past I kept dogs outdoors regardless how cold it got. Maybe I’m soft in my older years, we have a side room that can accommodate the few dogs we have, so we use it. I have been soaking their food too, learned that from an old coon hunting friend, he pretty much said the same thing regarding dogs staying hydrated.

Our local forecast shows we will be above freezing on Tuesday, I plan on taking them out if that’s the case. We have a layer of soft snow on top of the crusty ice from yesterday. We need any kind of moisture in the ground we can get here.

Man, y'all blaming me for the weather when it's Mother nature off her meds again.

 My vest is made the same way, with a cut collar attached and a chin flap, I don't adjust the cut collar real tight. It is just layered kevlar so it is light, flexible, and doesn't hold very much water. When I ordered it the chin flap was debatable but I figured if I didn't like it I'd just cut it off. I didn't find it to be a problem.