For those of you who are not quick to judge someone you know nothing about here is this. No i am not a one-out hunter, but my experiences with Josh have been such. I have been bay dog hunting (maybe not owning dogs but hunting) for 14 years. I recently moved to bigger faster dogs that do still bay on when need be, and a lot due to Josh. I invited him to hunt my thick country and he rose to the challenge and caught 5 pigs with one dog in less then an hour, and no not by site hunting. He quickly shut me up on judging his style. The real reason i had to post is becuase for you younger guys or guys who don't think there God's gift to hog dogging and only been doing it for a few years you should know his character. No were not best friends but we do talk every once and awhile. I once had a dog on a saturday night get gutted and die on my twice, could not find a vet anywhere. I called him and he didn't even question it and got in his car at 2am and drove nearly 2 hours and saved my dogs life. On a second occassion my friend whom Josh does not get along with had his best cur get cut in jug vein. Again he didn't even blink an eye when we couldn't get a dang vet to answer the phone. He drove the same amount and saved a "bay" dogs life for someone he doesn't even like. So before any of you begin to judge, don't ever judge a book by its cover. Half the stuff written in that article was so twisted to what really came out of his mouth its not even funny, but some of you are too blind to see that. Judge his hunting style but don't judge character or the fact that he is in it for just himself. I can gaurantee most of you dogging him would never drive that far at that time in the morning to save someones dog you don't even like. That is true facts. do i care for his type of hunting not really, but i will take him to a fight before most others. You can't dog someone for just being passassionate about a way they hunt. yes sometime i think he struggles with how he types stuff on forums but how it comes out i promise you he means well.
There may be a few that judge him and his style, but i think the main thing that ruffled feathers was the fact that he put down the way alot of others hunt. I dont see any reason to go into detail about it, because its all there in the article for everyone to see.
And what gets me is that if you say that what the article says is so twisted from what was actually said , why would he allow them to " twist " it a second time?
I would think that if they did screw up his words enough to make is seem like he was against pack hunting and make the hog dogging community look down on him, he wouldnt take the chance of letting it happen a second time.
Hopefully this time around will go better for him than the last. Because whatever they decide to show, good or bad, will be shining the light on ALL of us hog doggers. And in the end, its not going to be how we hog doggers see it, it will be how the outside world see it. IMO All i can say now is GOOD LUCK!
