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Wmwendler
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« on: April 03, 2013, 05:52:01 pm » |
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500 is not much for a dog to have bayed. Now caught is a tiny bit different story because they are at much more risk when catching, but many dogs have caught 500+ hogs in their career. I doubt it is all that uncommon. I bay and shoot so my dogs have less risk and liver longer than most. I've got a 10 year old gyp..... lets say she has been at it for 9 of those ten years. Most years we bay and shoot 150-200 hogs. She is on almost all of those hunts lets say she is on at least 100 hogs a year (conservative estimate) that's 900 hogs that I have killed over her during her career. But where do you account for the hogs she bays as groups. 5-10 hogs at a time, but I only shoot one or two. Or the ones she bays that I don't kill because they spook, or I cant get to in time, the ones she runs that never bay. The shoats she catches and kills on her own. I'd say she has been on 1000's of hogs in her lifetime being hunted one a week. Her dad was hunted steady until he was 13.
Speaking of numbers. When it comes to polishing a young dog I think the # of hogs you put them on as a 1.5- two year old is directly proportional to how well they live up to their full potential. A goal of mine is to get a young dog on at least 200 successful bays during their first spring and fall. Just say they were born in December you start them in the fall before deer season they will be ready to go hard in January when deer season closes. Then you hunt their ass of that whole year and try to get them on at least 200 solid bays. Don't we all wish we had that much time.
Waylon
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