Third morning I turned out Monkey and two of his daughters. We headed into a block that is palmettos and gallberries with scattered flat ponds. Monkey was out about 250-280 yards and just stayed about that far out. Then he jumped and changed zip codes. We lost him at 1.2 miles on the Garmin. We had to go to the truck and drive closer to pick him back up on the Garmin. We found him and he was bayed along a creek in a wet slough.
My Sister female had gone towards Monkey before he jumped and we had left her in the woods. I had Runt with me and my young CD. CajunL and Bird were there and had a CD also. Runt went to Monkey and both bayed. I got there and the hog was backed up under the roots of a fallen oak tree in knee deep water. It looked like a good hog so we cut both CD's loose. It turned out to just be a mean old sow, but I don't trust my CD yet as this was only her second hog. She did good though so maybe there is hope.
Monkey did a good job on this hog. Especially for a 8 1/2 year old beat up hog dog.....
After we loaded the hog and got all the dogs situated I was wondering where Sister was as I had a beep beep collar on her but no Garmin and my box was in my grey truck at the lunch site. All of a sudden she shows up coming to us, about 1 1/2 miles from where we lost her. Not sure if she trailed Monkey up or the truck, but glad she has enough sense to find me.
Another good hunt.
CajunL and Bird with the sow. I had to hunt out of my yellow truck as every now and then Cajunl would throw a blue spotted dog in there and I had to travel under cover........
