Well I am back..if only halfway......

Alan, between getting the dogs wrecked and my personal issues it has been a hectic last few months. I am just now getting used to things the way they are now and getting my life back to semi-normal anyway.

The dogs healed up good, they have a few extra scars and such, but did well for their first hunt back. That road did have me worried though......that and the gators we kept seeing in the woods. Its about to get hot here, they say it will be 93 degrees today. Not exactly good hunting weather, especially when your dogs are fat and out of shape from not hunting in several months.

Hopefully things will get better in the months to come.

spazhogdog, I was drawn for the GSW dog hunt. There is a BIG boar hog in there with some dog marks on him, a few .22 shells in his head and I am pretty sure he has MY name written all over him, as I will be hunting him come Feb. He better find a new zip code as I will have more firepower next year........

I don't know if I ever told you guys the rest of the story about that "invincible" hog that wrecked Monkey and Spur. They ran him for 2 miles (in a straight line with the GPS, have no idea how far they ran the route they took), bayed him for two hours until we could get to them, I shot him EIGHT times, he still cut and wrecked dogs and ran off.

As Lynel and I were taking the dogs out, we ran into some guys I knew, they saw my dogs and they asked what happened. I told them we ran into a fire breathing dragon, not a boar hog! They said they needed to catch him, so I kept going out with the dogs, Lynel took them back into where we had the hog bayed. They went to the exact spot, found blood (which was probably my dogs..not the hogs) and put out a couple hounds. The hounds trailed off and jumped within about 300 yards. The race was on, the guys jumped in their truck and ran around to try and get ahead of the hounds. I never saw the guys again, so wasn't sure what the outcome was.

I had a guy call me a few weeks ago and tell me what happened. Seems the hounds ran the hog about 1 1/2 hours, never stopped him. It was getting close to dark on the last day of hunting, so they caught the hounds up and another guy dropped a couple curs on the track. I was told the curs finally got the hog stopped (he had dogs on him almost continually from that morning until dark) and they went in with two bulldogs to finally catch the hog.

They turned the bulldogs loose right at dark, they heard the catch, then a fight, and the hog crossed a dim trail ahead of them shaking one of the bulldogs as he went............

They got the cur dogs back an hour or so later....but no bulldogs. They didn't have tracking collars on the catchdogs, so the man at the check station let them stay at the campsite that night and let them in the next morning to look for their bulldogs...which they never found. They are presumed dead.

I am telling you guys, that was no ordinary hog. Monkey and Spur ran him a couple miles, stopped him, kept him bayed two hours, I shot him 8 times , mostly in the head, Monkey and Spur tried to catch him, were both hanging off him at one point before he wrecked both dogs, then the hounds ran him for miles, more curs ran him, bulldogs tried to catch him , all in the same day, and he STILL whipped everything!

Hopefully he isn't breeding a bunch of sows this sumer to produce more like him!!