Message #497429

[justincorbell]

don't remember the year off hand but I ran into an acquaintance of mine that I knew ran dogs and told him I had a few places with a buncha hogs and that I hunted em like deer in a stand over a feeder and would like to run dogs.......well like any hog dogger his eyes lit up, im sure he was thinkin "hell yeah, a place with feeders runnin and he wants me to tote my dogs" lol. Anyway I told him I wanted my own pack and he said he had some pups on the ground and would trade me a pup for a hunt on one of my spots......... the rest is history lol. I went to his house that weekend and picked up 4 crossed up curr pups so I owed him 4 hunts. We made plans to go hunting the next morning, he invited another guy I knew that also owned dogs and we met close to my lease the following morning to go. I remember it like it was yesterday, I told them "your dogs, your show" im followin ya'll and with that off we went. They rotated dog pushin 2-4 at a time thru the lease, a couple hours into the hunt we turned onto a nice secluded grassy lane in the back of the lease with good dense tallow/palmetto thickets on both sides, I actually had a trap/feeder going on the lane and as we approached it the dogs started gettin "piggy" shortly after hell broke loose not 50yds into the woods from my trap and that was that, the dogs bayed a big black and white boar and they sent the cd from the buggy and off we went. When I saw that big boar fightin the dogs with a bulldog on his ear there was no doubt in my mind that I was 100% hooked. To this day I have not found anything that comes close to the rush I get when I hear those mutts start hammerin.........don't believe I ever will, and I'm fine with it lol! spent ALOT of time and money since then and I still enjoy it now as much as I did back then. I hope that i'll still be able to enjoy this 20-30years from now as much as I do today.