Last year when the corn crop was tall I was hunting my mountain curXpit cross and a couple birddog pups that were a little under a year old at the time. We pulled up to the farm and hog tracks were everywhere, I mean everywhere! I figured it would be a good spot to break in the pups. We turned loose and they let out with noses in the air except for one dog. That one dog shot off straight in to the corn went a few hundred yards and sat down hammering, man I was pumped as it would have been his first hog. The other two dogs never turned back once they left. We eased down the corn row with the bulldog, unsnapped him from about 40 yards and CRUNCH! A dadgum armadillo in the middle of a corn field. I've been fortunate though and not ever really had much trouble with armadillos except for that time (Knock on wood). That dog learned pretty quick dillers hit back pretty hard when I show up lol.
Another time I've been let down at a bay would have to be about a month ago. I was doing a guided hunt with a guy that just wanted to film everything. We pull up to the farm with a few good size tracks leaving an old peanut field, we cut the dogs loose and it wasn't 5 minutes. The dogs went down the edge of the field, shot into the woods about 15 yards, and went to hammering. I had two grown dogs and two pups out. We ease up and can see the dogs baying but what they were baying was behind a tree. The guy was videoing, but something didn't look right to me. The pups were baying hard but the two grown dogs would bark a time or two and then start sniffing the ground and looking around. So I sent the bulldog he goes around the tree and nothing. I run in and they were baying a dead sow
. I couldn't help but laugh but I was a little embarrassed as well. I slap them on the head and they took off, went 200 yards and sat down again. This time it was a boar hog about 200lbs lol so they made up for their little mishap. But I guess if they are going to do crap like that I would rather it be on a dead hog than a diller.
