jassenswisher1974
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« on: December 30, 2011, 10:04:50 am » |
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I am headed that way. My catch dog is half plott half pit. I have a female weems that is my lead strike dog but she just had a litter and will be down for 2 months. I have 2 half boxer half blue tick that 11 months old but can find and catch a hog (two gyps that are litter mates.) I have 2 plott males that were born the first week of may of this year but are just being started. Hopefully by the fall of 2012 I will have 4-5 plotts or hound crosses and we will take a catch dog just in case. Here in southern Ohio we have to have plotts. Where we hunt is National Forrest and cant have atv's or horses and we have small mountains and thick deep woods. Very few hogs. We exhausted every avenue in using a straight cur. My best one wouldnt run with my plott strike dog. Our dogs hunt out deep but the past couple times they have bayed or caught out 800 yards, in our terrain it takes 2 hours to cover ground and thats a long time for 1 or 2 dogs to hold a hog and and a long way to drag a staight bull dog. We just started with dogs this year, but our goal is to hunt hogs like you bear hunt with plotts. You have 4-6 hounds that find the hog and they all put their mouth on the hog and can hold till you get there. I know this isnt to traditional bay and then catch with a bull dog but that method of hog dogging is not very effective here with our conditions. Plotts for us are about the only way.
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