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firemedic
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Good luck with that hog Tshelly,.....if you're lucky you'll find him way off on his own and nail him. There is another thing that I've noticed over the years about big, old boar hogs. I hunt south GA with some buddies from TN, they all, except one, have hounds, mostly Plotts....that's what they've always used and I don't see 'em changing anytime soon. I have 2 cur dogs that I hunt with their hounds and they do fine, they just won't stay after a hog, unless they're looking at it, for several miles and several hours, which is what I like about them. I've noticed that when we get after a big, old lone boar hog, he will do almost the same thing as all the other old boars we run,....first he'll try the dogs, since these hounds are open on track, the hog knows they're coming, he'll stand up in his bed and see what the dogs are going to do, if he's mean enough, they won't try to catch him, if they think they can handle him, he's caught, doesn't mean they can hold him, but they will catch him. If they don't try to catch him, and he can't bluff them off of him, then he will leave....I mean hit the road and change zip codes,....usually they run clean out of hearing, if he can't shake the dogs by doing that, then he'll head back to his home territory, usually not near as fast as he left, and when he gets there, he'll make his stand, quite often within a 100 yards of where they jumped him. This is when you see what your dogs are made of....because by then he is tired, madder than when he first left and ready to kill these pesky dogs that are tormenting him so much. This is when you can kill him if you can get to the bay,....I've seen this happen on several occasions, and it happens almost exactly the same way every time. In my humble opinion, these hogs have learned to do this when comnfronted with a pack of dogs and apparently it's worked pretty well before, so they keep at it. We've killed several big, old boar hogs that exibited this exact same behavior, that leads me to believe that it's a learned thing. Anyone else seen this sort of thing when running hogs with hounds?
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