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Semmes, bud we’ve visited a good bit and I can tell you, you have a wealth of knowledge, especially when it comes to bulldogs. You shouldn’t be reluctant to share. Everyone will not agree with everything any of us have to say, but at the very least it gives us all something to chew on.


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I check this site every day for over a decade now I believe. Though I no longer hunt with dogs it still was one of my biggest passions in life and those times made me the person I became and I believe helped me raise my children, now adults, into the great youngsters they are.

I too look forward to WOW’s trip every year.
 
And the rest of you kicking off the hunting stories.

I don’t  comment much because I simply have little input. But rest assured I read and enjoy!

No I didn’t, after yesterday’s hunt we found some damage that might’ve lead to the tracking failure. Dan was fighting that boar for a while before the cavalry could get there, his collar took some damage that appears to have severed the wire from the module to the gps unit. Also you can see the tusk got between his nameplate and collar in the same place.

 AMEN to all that was said.

WOW is taking those sows back home with him in an ice chest and my neighbor has been after me for a shoat that he can put on a rotisserie. I finally got him one that wasn’t half eaten by the time we got to it. Those smaller ones are hard to save most times.

We didn’t put up great numbers this year, about 30 I think. I know in other places people don’t have our numbers so they can’t put up huge numbers. In years past we would’ve done this good in a couple of hunts. Evolution though is a factor. Properties have changed hands, hogs are pressured harder, etc. so it all has an impact. We did catch some good hogs though and every hunt was a good time. I’m extremely blessed to have a really good hunting circle. At the end of the day it’s a great day if the dogs did well and you got to be with good friends to enjoy it.


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Have you cleaned the connection at the collar antenna?

I had that problem with the DC-40s fairly often. 

I just updated all collars and handhelds last week.

When is the last time you updated your collar?

I have a TT-15 that was losing signal, but since I updated the collar, I have not had that issue.

hobbling hogs is allot of extra work, good job. what do you do with the live hogs?

Got out with that new antenna yesterday, the dogs got out around 4/600 yards in a couple different directions so I extended the antenna and was tracking them all. Then I got a question mark on one dog, long story short when I got the dog back the question mark wouldn’t go away. Turns out there is something wrong with his collar, I can tone him but not track him.

It’s one of my first collars a tt15 mini about 8 years old. So while I was sitting in the buggy waiting on everyone to get back I was online ordering a new tt25.

Back to the antenna, it seemed to work fine but the design and durability are the weak points. When I got home and climbed out of the truck, the antenna broke off at the base and hit the driveway. I will be back to the long rubber duck.