shooting over dogs

I have always had a mailbox with a 22 short in it loaded and shoot it every time i went out to feed dogs, weather coonhounds, terriers, wolf dogs, cat dogs or hog or jvelina dogs, i thought everybody did this until i went hunting with some hog doggers, I saw hand cannons that blasted into peeps foreheads after one shoot, shot a flame throwed into the air that scared me and the dogs off a hog bay and lead to a horrible dog gutting when they came back after an idiot shot a 44 mag pistol into a pack baying loose and scattered the hog an dogs right into us in a brush tunnel.. I will only take a 22 or 25 raven old autoloader i still have a bunch of hot loaded by hand loads for, the reason is it the raven will fit in my pockets and brush wont get into it, plus it you have to crawl in brush or up a tree to get a shot at a hog being bayed that has been breaking when it sees you its easier to get a eye shot or ear. Plus if you lose it no big deal at the pawn shop. WE shot over everything with the 22 long or 25 autoloader and the dogs never got ears blasted or flamethrowered off the bay up, also when i quit hunting if you were dumb enuff to shoot a rife especially a blaster off a fence jumping mule at night that did not like it you were likey to walk home or be dragged or bucked into a cctus patch from hell. Another thing is ammo is cheap and easy to get unlike those hand cannons all the sports use to try to bring on paid hunts at the ranch, i never let them bring thieri guns and made them wait and use mine or the helpers same pistol afyrt i gave per,ission after looking it over good, i think the mules i had would let u shoot maybe a 35 o5 something like that in a rifle if u showrf it to them and woahed them some like a heads up, better not miss and try it nite or another shot either, but if u had a 22 that was always kept in the saddle bag in the same place time agte time they learn that it is the same gun and not to fear it, many many times i stood up in the saddle and shined with a Nitelight coonhunting type light that lit up the hog ot bobcat and held a mesquite limb with one hand and the pistol with theother with dogs treeing under and all around the mules feet, the cat would fall out after a shot or2 and no cicus rodeo, hogs were kinda the same way, I tried a 41 smith no work either and also a 38 smith, we went back to old school 22s and forget i he has one got to have one because i saw it in a magazine, plus it wont got thru most hogs and kill a person or a dog, it makes u slow down and take one good kill shot to the ear or eye or even the heart if u dont have dog on other side or someidot from newyork as a paid hunterlol