Message #542072

[Semmes]

I have only had the pleasure of baying a sounder once in my life and I'll never forget it.

We have bayed 5 or more hogs here and there from time to time and get to hear jaws popping and grunts.

But this one night with old hunting buddy and some others up around Angola LA we bayed a whole herd with some other friends. They had been bayed a while as we were way of our door and took us a while to get in there.

It was pitch black and none of us could see what the dogs were baying as we walked in with catchdogs.

The only way I can explain that sound is it was like cicadas, some call em locusts. But way louder. I guess they had all settled in and circled ranks on the bay and had this rhythmic sound going. Me and my bud where next to each other at arms length and tryn to speak softly to one another but couldn't hear each other. It was the loud. I asked him, in what seemed like a yell at the time. What the he!! Is that? ...he said that hogs....I couldn't hardly believe it. It sounded as loud as a train.

They had settled into a beat we felt as much as heard. They would all sound and it would wind down then start right back up...wasn't grunts. All I can figure is it was dozens of hogs grinding teeth all in unison at the dogs in a rhythm. It really did sound like alien cicadas.

Then we sent catch dogs and all he!! Broke loose... Lol