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Fresh out of highschool being young and dumb...I had a half cur/half bulldog (Odis) He was my first hog dog and a pretty decent one. Me and a buddy had been baitin up some hogs kinda behind his house where we didn't exactly have permission to be (never done it since, and dont plan on it). Well, got off work and stopped by another buddy's house (who is much older and wiser) and told him the plan...he declined the invite, but told me take his "kirby" dog (since odis hadnt been on many hunts yet). Kirby had a good handle, so he would hunt for other people, and was one hell of a dog Cur/redbone. Well, I stop load my buddy up and we make the 2 min drive to our new found honey hole. It was only about a 500 yrd walk through sparse palmettos to a cypress head we figured the hogs were laid up in. Not 100 yrds from the truck a good boar hog jumps outa some palmettos and had the after burners turned on...makes it to the fence and across open pasture, we called the dogs back. Then we smelled rank boar hog and figured it was that one.
So, we're headed back towards the cypress head and i realize Odis isn't infront of us...i tell my buddy to walk that kirby dog into the head and I'll go back to the truck to get Odis (figured that he circled back). Bout that time we hear a single bark back towards the truck. We run up there to see Odis hit this Monster hog that we had to walk right by. Not sure how big the hog was, but he made all of Odis (90lbs in his prime) look like a chiuaua. The hog dropped and rolled and slung Odis. They both jump up and have a stare down that seemed to last for minutes, but only a sec or two. The Hog bolts and heads for the fence, but he doesnt go through...he backed into a palmetto patch right against the fence. We see both dogs go in and sounds like they're caught. Bout the time we go runnin in the kirby dog come flying out over our heads and this hog is coming out to meet us. We still laugh about it...my buddy trips and falls and i swear he got back up and was on the other side of me before he got dirty, and luckaly odis hit him again before he made it out of the patch. This old joker was smart. he backed up against that fence row and wasnt coming out. The dogs gave him hell for what had to be an hour. They'd go in and he'd sling 'em back out. Eventually they stopped trying to catch and started baying. Now we're gettin nervous cuz we aint far from the road and its gettin dark and all this comotion is going on. Finally get a hold of the dogs and realize one is cut, start checkin them over and it was just a small cut under kirby's eye that just bled like hell. while we're catchin our breath the hog tries to break and run, odis drug me to the ground and i couldnt hold him...and it all started over again
Got the dogs caught up (with only one minor cut) and got our tales outta there before we got caught....never did get that ol' smart boar hog
Sorry so long winded, but it sure was a memerable one that had us buggered up a few times
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