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Young Maverick hit me up yesterday evening asked if I had some time and a place we could go hunt in the morning so I told him come on.

Went and hunted some feed country on the edge of town I’d been baying some hogs in lately. As luck would have it hogs weren’t where they’d been. About 9:30 we found a lone track from a decent hog on a pond. A couple places away from the feed bunks. Dogs tried it but couldn’t get it worked out through the brushed up cattle.

We had called it and were at the trucks. Popped box doors and lulu misty and amber made about a 800 yard half circle way up around some bunks on the hill and set into a neighbors and bayed. We start up the hill to them and catch about 40 hd coming down the hill. We run and gun on them a little then before tryin to go to dogs bayed in corner of Mott they found them in.
 Got to them, seen they had a lead boar and he broke south. They carried him 500 or so and put him up in a stock tank against the county road. Took me half an hour to get the call back and okay to go to them, finally did and Mav sent goose to them.  Goose got there, they went for a little swim, hog tried to come to me and they snatched his ass up as he come out of the water to me. I grabbed a leg and stuck the barrel of my .44 in his back and ended it. We decided to call it instead of being greedy and going after the other hogs we sent to the bottom.
Boar is better than picture show, 210ish probably. Pretty rotund for being no longer than he is.

I liked both of those dogs when I got to see them. I’m sure they are good together. Everybody has their own style and what suits them. I think hog hunting is different from every other dog hunting sport out there in the sense that there are probably more ways to get it done and none of them are wrong. 


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Also, I just noticed Judge posted a pic of Pete’s mother at the top of this page.

Pete isn’t necessarily a walk in catch dog, I let them run loose rcd style. But when it comes to heavy lifting, he seems better equipped than his leaner brother. They aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I like hunting them, it suits me and what I like to do. All credit to Judge for breeding them. He’s also been smart enough to back up and bay if things get too hot to handle till the Calvary gets there.

good dog wk..

.... has always been a good leggy, 60 to 70lb Florida bred cur cow dog. Catch and hold anything we've ever asked them to, from bovine to porcine

The right hound blood has always been a foundation in making cur cow dogs down here. Old timey, leggy, Redbones and Leopard hounds have always been at the top of the list. I have met some boys here in Tn that breed plott crosses. Way too much bark to breed out of them in my opinion. They do excel at treeing bears though.

That plott/cur pup has something going for him or you wouldn’t still be feeding him. In all my years I’ve only ever seen a handful (4-5) of what I considered “great” dogs. One of those was a plott/cur. He was a heck of a dog.

As for looking like he came from Slim, that’s Slim’s Sketch blood. Some of his dogs now carry a little of our dogs blood. I had a Bayou Cajun Plotts VDNA (Visual DNA) test done and Dr Mike confirmed that there is border collie in there. It might have a baring on their look in the future lol.

I would think the plotts would be the easiest hounds to get consistent stock dogs from just because of how they were developed, but they be too far removed from that to matter by now. I would sure think it would help in the heat having the hound in there. I’m not knocking breeds, just a personal observation that the hounds prey drive supersedes his self preservation instinct a lot of times. It can be a good thing and a bad thing.


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  I haven't used a Plott on cattle but a long time ago I had one get loose a time or two while gathering cattle at home that came to me and worked. He didn't display as much get ahead or lead as the Curs.
  And yes, it is just another sport that I enjoy.
  We gather and or catch cattle for people pretty regularly, especially when it is in the seasons cattlemen are gathering to work and sell them.

  I had an accidental breeding a while back Plott/BMC and I have kept one to piddle with. Just want to see what he'll do, Pretty good lookin OL'pup, actually looks like Slim might have raised him and given him to me. I have been going to take some pictures of some of the dogs and when I do I'll include a pic of him.

A little hound hybrid vigor never hurts once in a blue moon, especially if you are using them to find cattle

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