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  I have a set of mule brand chaps and a mule brand shirt that will absolutely without fail turn the briars, but my poor old face still gets scratched up pretty regularly when riding.  When it's real hot I don't wear them and will find thorns in my legs and arms days later that I didn't even know I had gotten.

  It sounds like your 18 mo old dogs are pretty much made, I'm always concerned with the ice. I guess not too much though because we hunt when it is frozen and or starting to thaw. Guess I'm not intelligent enough to be intimidated.

  That 500 yds and not getting them is also the exception rather than the rule.

 I have a long range antenna hooked to an old 320 I leave in the truck, but under the right conditions (from high elevations with no obstructions between me and the dog) I have gotten them over 10 miles, the exception rather than the rule. Once in WV I had a dog out of pocket from a split race and while trying to find him I got a signal from 20 some odd miles, I knew that couldn't be my dog, but zooming out to pin point where that signal was coming from, it was on a distant mountain top and I was up on another.
 By the same token if they are over a sharp high spot, or off in a deep hole sometimes 500 yds will not show them.   

Great dog work

That’s quite an adventure, you seem to get good reception with your tracker. Here where I hunt sometimes I do and most times I don’t, I get question marks usually around 500 yards give or take.

That was a busy hunt. I like hearing the details. Those details are what us slower learners use to try and learn from. I hope the dogs are ok soon. Those dang stifle cuts can be aggravating. That big bend there can make it hard to keep together and they can sure hit a tendon right there real easy.


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Sounds like a good hunt. We like to hear about the ones got and the ones that got away!

 My older dog and my youngest dog got struck and left driving, my older young dog, Adam's older dog and his pup were all 3 behind but went that way. They went over the hill, when we topped out the front two dogs came bayed, the other 3 arrived shortly. We rode to them and caught a good sow.
  Led the dogs about 75 yards away from the bay site, got the mules and continued on, hadn't gotten far and the 2 pups struck, older dogs drifted their way and put in behind them. The pups had ran north of us and did a 180 and were coming back to the south up on the hill from us running really hard, the other 3 dogs went on a little farther than where the pups did the 180 and came bayed, we caught another good sow.
  After that those 3 dogs sort of all went their own direction, Adam's older dog wound up 1.3 mi east and bayed, our 2 pups and my older young dog were on the next hill over and were no longer driving, couldn't tell if they had made a bad bobble or were fighting a jungle of briars. I got my older dog gathered up and we decided to go gather the pups as they were between us and the truck, then go to the Bayed dog east of us. We weren't within hearing of the 3 young dogs and were just going up the hill through some thick stuff, when we topped out and hit a little open spot I got the tracker out and discovered they had went from 700 yds north of us to 700 south of us in a very short time and were still going. We elected to leave them running and go on to Adam's bayed dog, we got pretty close to the truck and I got a hit on the young dogs bayed 3/4 mile from us. Adam says lets go to them first, we arrive and they have a better than average boar bayed in a briar pile, we tied the mules up leashed the bulldogs and walked a few steps closer now we are 40 feet away and there's 2 dogs in a small clean spot half the size of a pick-up bed, we cut the bulldogs and just before they got there the hog blew out of the briars and ran through those two bay dogs, catch dogs didn't have a chance. The boar and now 4 dogs (Adam's bulldog got away with them) leave for parts unknown.
  We went to Adam's dog caught another good sow and headed back to find the other dogs, Adam's pup and my youngest dog had not made it out of the country with my older 2, I finally got a hit on them 4 miles from where they had been bayed, over 5 miles from where that hog was struck, I believe that hog went home, he ran in some real big, outstanding hog country. That goes to show how far boars will range sometimes.
  I figured he'd scrub them off  on some sows, when I got a signal on them one was hung up 1.8 mi from the truck and the other had lost coms on past that. We rode in and found my older dog had quit he was cut between the hind legs just missed castration, hobbling around. Went on to find the other dog he was not bayed nor running very well I made him come in.
  We went back to try to find Adam's Bulldog, in the same section they had been bayed in, split up riding and calling didn't find him. I got to studying the tracker following where they had went into the next section, and about a mile from the baysite I saw that it looked like they had bayed there before I lost coms with them. We rode in there and sure enough there was the bulldog, had been cut in the stifle and carrying the leg.
  Had a good day, younger dogs gained some ground, rode 14 miles total, I'm confident the injured dogs will be fine soon.
  I probably should have just said, caught 3 sows and bayed a good boar but didn't get him caught, instead or writing this book.   

Sounds like the dogs are doing good, they’re ranging out pretty far for young dogs. I hate being around any form of ice when hunting my dogs, it’s dangerous for everyone involved.