How many of yall tote a pistol while hunting? I would say 95% of the time we dont, after seeing that +440lber Jesse killed it makes me question my methods
I try to have two CDs but what do yall hunt with normally?
I don't and never have. I riased my dogs to catch hogs and for me to catch them. We as sportmen should have respect for hogs also and i beleive if a boar whoops up on your dogs and keeps going he should deserve to run around. You won't see me shoot one! JMO
I used to think the same thing until one night when it was a full moon and James spotted a large group of hogs running across a hay field. The wind was not in the dogs favor. So we hauled butt and cut them off. We saw a really big boar standing in our headlights about 200 yards from us. We sent the bay dogs. There were so many hogs that the dogs all scattered, and one of our seasoned dogs spotted the big boar. He bee lined to the boar and had him bayed up on the road. There was still a pup on the wheeler so we turned him loose to help the one dog bay the boar. The rest of the dogs were after their own hogs. We could see that they had this boar spinning circles so James turned the catchdog loose.....
the dang catch dog spotted a choat out of the corner of his eye that was booking it across the field so he took a hard left and took off after the choat. That left the two bay dogs with the big boar hanging so to speak. One of our buddies took off to go try and retrieve the cd and we took off to get closer to the bay. When we got down there, the pup was trying to put teeth on the boar and that was a big mistake. He was taking some pretty good licks. They got down in a brushy ditch and then our seasoned dog who normally bays loose started baying real tight. Still no luck getting the cd back and this boar had some knives.
Well there aint a hog alive worth any of our dogs getting cut down so James grabbed the 30/30 off of the wheeler and when the dogs where on either side of the hog baying, James shot the hog.
They may have bayed it just fine until we got the cd back but it just wasnt worth the chance of standing there and watching a good dog be cut down when you can do something about it. IMO
