I has happened once to us too. We were about 3 or 400 yards down from a cornfield and we spotted something that looked like a black cow crossing into the corn field.
We thought we were going to get us a good trophy hog that day.
So we hurried down to where the hog crossed and turned three dogs loose into the corn. I was TOO excited about the situation and as soon as I heard the dogs open up, I turned the cd loose. Thinking that I didn't want to take a chance on loosing this big sucker.
That was a mistake. I should have waited and let the dogs work the hog for a little while. Any way, the cd ran in and we heard a yelp and then the dogs just quit barking. We thought that maybe the bay had broke.
All of a sudden, all of the bay dogs and the cd came running back to us. The cd must have gotten tossed because there was a fresh hole in the belly of the cd vest that went all the way through.
I will never forget the look on all of the dogs faces. They were big eyed. We tried to get them to go back after it but they refused. Our dogs have NEVER left a hog except for that one day and we didn't even get a chance to see the hog up close.
I still to this day dont really understand what happend. That cd had been on lots of hogs. Been cut, bit, thrown and and never once backed down. He was on plenty of hogs after that one, including some big, nasty 300lbers by himself and it never phased him. The bay dogs too. Never seen them do it before or after this hog.
I really want to know what made this hog so scary to the dogs. Was it the size? The fight in him? or was it huge tusks? I guess we will never know.
