Message #131013

[bolo]

i'm 62 yrs old & started hog hunting as soon as i was big enough to go(had to ride behind my daddy on his horse). the woods were much more open then & we usually hunted 1 dog. when you bayed hogs,you whould ride up & look the hogs over to see if the hogs had your ear mark on them. if not your hogs, you would call the dog off & go on. if the hog had our mark, dad would catch & mark any & all  that weren't marked.he would do this with a rope on larger hogs or a piging string on pigs & shoats.he always had a sack of corn on his saddle & would always throw the hogs  a few ears of corn before he called the dog off & rode on. he cut & marked every boar he found, either roping it or making his bay dog catch it.a dog that caught a hog before he was toid to do so was not tolerated. you could bay up a few hogs & you would see other hogs coming TO THE BAY! nowdays when i bay the woods are so thick you usually can't even see what you have bayed so you send a catchdog in.my point being:in the old days hogs weren't chewed  on by the dogs and nowdays they know they are  going to get eat up if they can't out run the dogs. i still cut & mark & hunt with with bay dogs, not with rough dogs.i stop a lot of hogs that will stand and bay & rally.still have to catch with bulldog most of the time because woods are so thick you can't see what you have have bayed.  just one old mans opinion.