Message #295025

[treeingratterrier]

Hog dogs have prob stayed the same, there were always top dogs and culls, there are just more of them now since now where there were 3 hog hunters in the county there are 30 and were there might have been 300 hogs in a county now there are 3000 running all over it from feild to oak mott to tanks, deer feeders, to root up coastal feilds, if they changed at all its prob for the worse, lots of dogs who people catch hogs with now would not be kept back 30 years ago, so many ride 4x4's too, then when it was rare to get a strike 1 out of 5 nights of roading or hooding from 10 to 6 in the morning, on the way in to the ranch i see 5 or 6 packs about every time on a 6 mile easement i been driving since the 60's, used to be rare to even see a hog track on it much less a live hog crossing.  Back then if u had a dog that could trail some it was the only way you could catch hogs, sometimes they strike 1 mile away, now just make a loop around a pasture and its pretty easy to run into a hog or have a dog strike on close by, every pasture that joins us has deer feeders running year around as well and not fenced off so they got food to eat and dont have to roam miles and miles to eat and drink.