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It’ll be interesting to see if he gets rougher or smarter after this. I’m glad there was nothing life threatening though. It sounds like they are starting to get hog minded leaving like that. Do you ever worry about the Yotes getting your jagd? I ask because we’ve definitely had them get after our bigger dogs at solo bays, even single one out with several dogs baying. My buddy Tommy Crump quit hunting those feists because the yotes would snatch them off a tree before he could get there.


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Took the dogs to a spot I’ve avoided for a while, nice cool morning with a little ground moisture. Walked the dogs to the woods and they took off. Unlike Thursday’s trip where they acted like they’ve never been in the woods before. I’m watching them on the garmin and they’re moving parallel to the creek, they make a loop, then a smaller loop inside of that one, then they line out.

I keep moving in the same direction as them to maintain contact, then my jagd Chopper starts yapping so I know they’re onto something. They get to about 350 yards and I get the infamous ? But I know to keep on track, I hear a coyote barking and the dogs ain’t messing with him so I continue on. I get closer and I got a new signal, they’re about 300 and I hear some barking. I start closing in and I hear three dogs barking so I know it’s a good one if one or both of the curs are barking.

I ease into about 20 yards or so and I see him in a sunny area, three of the dogs are baying him up and keeping him busy. I get a little closer and he sees me, so I got my catch dog Kimber in my hand ready for a charge. He turns and goes into the woods only a short distance and the dogs stop him again. I ease closer and as soon as he turns I get a shot off, he spins to take off so I dump two more into him. He might’ve gone 15/20 yards then piled up. Biggest boar we’ve gotten on our own, and I’m glad that part is over.

I’m missing Dan, so I’m worried he got hurt bad, i was putting the knife to this boar but thinking of the dog was on my mind. So I just grabbed his head and started towards him. I finally got him to come to me, he didn’t have his innards hanging out and was moving decent. So we get back to the truck, inspect the dogs and head home. Even with the collared vests on Pete got a poke in the neck and a few scuffs, I like he had the preservation to back up and bay. Dan on the other hand has a more gangster attitude and took more damage. I could see where they had one ear pretty good and the boars right ear showed to signs of a previous encounter with a dog.

Now deer season starts Wednesday, so we got one before the shutdown.

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Lol Cajun I said it was a load of bull when I heard that at first. Two things caused me to believe it. There were three other young guys with the old man the morning it happened. Two of them didn’t really care for the third one but all were there by invitation of the old man with the dogs. He was up in age pretty good for a hog dogger, late seventies at the time. He always had young guy’s going so they could do all the heavy lifting. All 3 young guys told the same story at separate times and I know they wouldn’t have done that with the relationship they had. Second, the old man was a Korean War vet and he wasn’t quite right in the head. He was always super good to me and it made most of these other young guys mad because he would give me stuff that he wouldn’t sell them. The old man wasn’t about nice fancy stuff. He had money from some businesses he had sold. He would buy a truck and in no time it would be beat all to hell and homemade bumpers and contraptions on it.  The cab was full of guns, trash, MRE’s, sardines, potted meat, etc. He eventually went to prison and died there for pulling up to a business and killing a man that owned it over a land dispute. He went and turned himself in and told the Sheriff he would’ve shot the man more times but his gun jammed. So he wasn’t wired right and is totally the kind of fella that would say no just to prove he didn’t need you. I said it was where two fools met. Him for declining and the other for offering.


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Lot of different ways to look at a dog for being great. I don’t think anyone in there thought of that is wrong you might have what you think is and another guy totally different. Ain’t many dogs in the last 10 yrs or so impressed me much as far as a great dog some decent and others or most others just shy of the decent mark. I am fairly picky tho just don’t see why people say most of the things they do. When you see some one putting high remarks on some one else there could be some merit to it. But if a guy says his dog is great or good or bad idc I have always been if you like the dog and it does something and don’t mess up the hunt who cares I don’t. What real and not real is only in there minds cuz if you believe it then it’s so lol. Most would say a short rang dog can’t be great or a dog that’s rough so on and on. Or not being built right I say nonsense. One thing I know is good dogs ain’t on every corner just like good people

Yall talking about great dogs over here.....and Im just trying to get a good one?!


In all honesty. Ive had some very, very, very good dogs. BUT
Ive yet to have my great dog. The closest thing I had got crippled up young. Still was a very very good dog.

That said Ive only seen 1-2 truly great dogs. Of those ones I have seen.....when bred always seemed to produce  below average dogs, even when bred to good dogs. Dont know if the expectation was too high on the offspring or discouragement from the owners? But it is funny how that works sometimes. Do yall see the same?

Leone I have seen the same thing when breeding  what I consider top tier dogs. Seems like what they reproduce tends to drop more down to the average altho to be fair to the dogs we have bred the females while good were not in the same class as the male. Now what I have seen is dogs reproduce better then what they are.

  T Dog I am going to have to redefine what I call a top dog. I have never been offered a brand new truck for any of my culls, not even a older one. lol

Of the dogs I considered great, mine and the first one I hunted with were the only two that I ever saw offspring from. The first one was only bred once as far as I know. In my opinion, the gyp was subpar. The best of the pups turned out to be on the lower end of average. My old dog wasn’t bred a whole bunch but he did produce well. The first gyp was a registered black mouth gyp. She was junk honestly. Her and her previous litter were given to me. None of the previous litter turned out. They had zero hunt and only some of them would even bark at a hog. Her and Clyde had a 50/50 litter but they all would at least bark. The one that stayed close turned out to be a really really good dog. Another black mouth gyp was bred to him and they had a small litter. She wasn’t mine so I don’t know how they all turned out except for the two we kept close. The male started a little slower (almost a year old)but when he started it was like he’d been doing it forever. He never was scared just immature and puppyish. The female was a Cracker Jack and was a super nice little gyp. Both finished out nicely. Then I bred him to a couple tight bred cat gyps that were related to him. That was really good. I think there were two out of several that were lower end average dogs. I don’t know if they were lesser or just never got the opportunity that the others got because both of them stayed cut up. Both of them died in the line of duty. I actually forgot about two of those. You might consider them great dogs. Man they got it done in style every time. Other good dogs would look silly hunting with them. Every now and then another dog might be there with them on the initial bay but never before. There were at least two more gyps out of that litter that were awesome. They didn’t have the bite that I like is about the only thing that keeps me from considering them great dogs. They were quick locators that hunted hard start to finish. They didn’t over run hogs. They drove a track really fast. If they started it they were going to finish it. Literally stayed bayed as long as it took for you to get there. Good noses and would grub cold tracks or wind either one. Super intelligent and didn’t just hunt but knew where to hunt, hog minded. They were real easy to live with too. I do know for a fact that the old man that had the male and female that I consider great, turned down a brand new truck for the pair. He was guiding for a guy that owned a dealership and after a few hunts the guy offered to buy the pair. This old man had money too. He turned the offer down. Finally the fella said look, I’ll give you a brand new truck, go down to the lot and pick it out what you want for that pair of dogs, he still declined. He said there wasn’t anything wrong with his truck lol. So I guess I’ve seen it both ways Cajunl. It absolutely affected my mind set towards what I kept puppy wise. To this day I’m picking females 90% of the time.


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Yall talking about great dogs over here.....and Im just trying to get a good one?!


In all honesty. Ive had some very, very, very good dogs. BUT
Ive yet to have my great dog. The closest thing I had got crippled up young. Still was a very very good dog.

That said Ive only seen 1-2 truly great dogs. Of those ones I have seen.....when bred always seemed to produce  below average dogs, even when bred to good dogs. Dont know if the expectation was too high on the offspring or discouragement from the owners? But it is funny how that works sometimes. Do yall see the same?

I think that is a very good definition of a “great dog” Cajun. When I had what I call  my once in a lifetime dog, I hunted him with a lot of dogs that people said were top tier. It wasn’t to embarrass them but to measure my dog. I wanted to see if he was as good as I thought he was. A good buddy of mine that I ran with in high school called me one time. He said hey, I heard you have a bad
a$$ hog dog. I said I have a dog and I like him, he finds me hogs. He said well bring him over here and hunt with us. So we set it up. I had an square body Chevy 4x4 at the time. It was cold and misty the morning I left and went over there. They had catch dogs so all I hauled was Clyde. When I pulled up, my buddy came to the truck and immediately looked over in the bed of the truck for my dog. He said I thought you were bringing that bad a$$ dog. I said I did. Where’s he at he asked? I pointed to the floor board and grinned. He looked and said I wouldn’t let no $hit eater ride in my truck. I just chuckled and said ok. We get to the spot we are going to hunt and I asked if this was where he was going to cast? He said yeah go ahead, he ain’t gonna hunt no way. Lol if you can’t tell, the trash talking was very much alive and well. I cast ole Clyde and we waited. Their dogs came back but no Clyde. He said what’s that SOB doing? I said hunting but we can move if you need to move for your dogs and we did. About 45 minutes in he said where’s your dog? I pulled out the old wildlife and just could get a beep. I tracked him a couple more times in the next few minutes and he was in the same direction and the same signal strength so we headed his way. We stopped about 5-600 yards away to listen and sure enough he was hitting like clockwork. Of course my buddy asked what he was doing and I laughed. I said trying to show your dogs some pork. We let his dogs go to him and ended up catching several out of the group. I think Clyde bayed every one of them except one. When we got ready to leave my buddy said “ ya know I wouldn’t let no dog ride in my truck, but that SOB right can ride in my truck anytime he wants to!”, lol. He made lots of believers like that. He never let me down. He was good on his worst days. I sure do miss him. I see a whole lot of him in my Outlaw dog. I think it’s one reason I like Outlaw so much.

I think I have hunted with 5-6 great dogs and a whole bunch of really good dogs over the years. All the great ones were hound and cur or hound and cat crosses. I think one of them was pretty much a straight cur type dog. He wasn’t pure anything and if he had any hound in him it was extremely minimal. He was a hog dog though. Of course great is just like good when your asking opinions. It’s all in the eye of the beholder.


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I’d maybe agree to an extent. I’ve can think of a handful of dogs that if they’d had double the bottom. They’d have been in the upper echelon of dogs I’ve seen.


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