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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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Went out last night with a friend on his place, says he’s got a boar on camera at a feeder. I get there and we load the dogs on my buggy and off we go. We get to feeder number one and his plott gyp rigs, he drops his two I drop my two girls.

His main dog gets it lined out and is moving it, it took the other dogs awhile to figure it out. The plott had it stopped and we head to her driving as close as we could get. All the dogs minus my young Lacy dog (she was 860 in another direction) are there and baying good. Grab the bulldog and get within 50 yards and cut him loose.

This patch of woods was nice walking until it wasn’t, the last 50 yards I didn’t see was a slough full of quick sand, cat tails and cotton mouths. Me never being in there before said we gotta get to them, friend says there’s quick sand watch out. About that time I sank thigh deep in it, I flatten out and struggle to get back up. Now more cautiously we finally get to where they are, and I see a young boar the dogs are struggling with cuz someone was kind enough to slice his ears smooth off.

We get closer and he just backs down under the cat tails, my friend spots a cotton mouth and shoots at it. I keep pushing towards the boar who is now under a patch of these massive cat tails, I finally get to where the boar and bull dog are and the only thing I could do was put the muzzle of my pistol to his spine to stop him. Mind you, I’m laid out flat looking down, they’re in a slough of black swamp water and there’s no other option without getting sucked down in that mess.

I could hardly get a lead on the bulldog and help get him out of there, so we struggle to find our way out of there, I fall back into a water hole when he yells snake. I bounce up and keep moving, I didn’t see it but he said there was one heading towards me. I didn’t look back just keep pushing till we got out of there. Dogs had a few cuts and pokes, bulldog was wore out from being on there longer than it should’ve taken but than God we got out of there alive and injury free.

She didnt know what kind it was but the Hospital staff were the ones that confirmed snakebite after doing bloodwork. she was lucky she was wearing gloves and only one fang penetrated.
  Hate to hear about your dogs Clue. seems like a lot of good dogs have died this year. My Primetime dog got hit in the femoral artery and he bled out right next to where we caught the hog. That boar took two more with him.

  Boy that's an outstanding hunt, just doesn't get much better than that. Hate to hear about Cheryl getting snakebit, but it appears she is healing up well, Hope there aren't any ongoing problems,  Was it a cotton mouth? Sorry about the your losing the dog to heat.

 I recently had one to die and one is ruined from the heat, I had dogs split and could not find one set of them. Went back the next day and found 2 of them fairly quick but looked most of the  day riding my mule in the big country and driving miles with the long range antenna, finally found them 2.2 miles from the last point I could think to look. They were 2 pups not quite 9 months old that were really showing out, one of them I caried out in my lap on the mule he was dead the next morning, the other one did not eat a bite for 4 days but did mend up. He had a chunk bitten out of one shoulder and the foot on that leg was crushed, aside from having been overheated.

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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Good hunt Mike. Glad to see you back in action! That looks like a load of fun and good dog work.
I know the luck around the house everytime you leave. Sounds like my luck.

Hate to hear about the dog. I have a cur dog that I can barely hunt anymore for the heat. It gets her down quick but she bounces back quickly....so far! I know one time she won't.

Sorry to hear about the other half. What do they think got her? Copperhead? You are gonna have to go back to work.....they think that crofab is liquid gold and price accordingly! Glad she is OK

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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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.