I been shooting over my dogs for years and love it myself. If someone comes along and has catch dogs and wants to play with the hog that is fine by me but I will still have my gun with me I dont leave home with out it . If somebody invites me and dont allow guns then I will hunt my on hunt . There has been more than a few times if I didnt have my gun with me I would have been in the ER . I dont mind catching hogs with dogs have done it many times it gets boring to me . Had ruff dogs for years caught 300 lbs and under with out bulldogs, but the staple guns and the vet bills and all the sewing got old. Aint noting like a few loose baying , grab'em in the butt stoppem dogs when they run then back off and bay'em and you can sit there and watch a pretty show makes the walk all worth it . Then line the sights up . Besides that I done got to dang old to be packin a 250 lb boar hog a mile out of the river bottom just to get to the four wheeler ! Lol !
everything you have said makes alot of sence, i been catching hog for a long time but my knees are bad, i dont walk hunt anymore,i ride a horse or i dont go,, and i dont always have someone there to back me up. im gona try breaking my dogs to a gun and experiment with shooting over them.. like you said age has alot to do with this hunting style..
I think you and your dogs will learn to love it Craig. When I did it regular, I had my dogs to where I could call them off if it wasnt a hog I wanted to shoot. Talk about kicken back and watching a good bay!
I hope to be catching and tieing hogs for a long time but when Im an old man and no young bucks are around to coach and yell at, I plan to watch a good bay from the back of a mule. I just may shoot one or two if I need some sausage!
