I don't know if you can compare catching rank boars here to the islands ........ from what I have seen it is some ruff up and down country ....but the size and strength of the boars is way different ...... 250 pound rank male on good feed is hard to handle ....the male we caught about a week ago had 3 curdogs on him he knocked one bulldog clean out and beat my gyp off on a tree .......when we cut him his seeds was like ground meat them curdogs was working on him and he still put it on our catchdogs from time we turned catchdogs loose we had him tied in about 5 too 6 minutes ........I just believe ya'll would have been gathering some collars on a rank boar like him caught way out ......
Parker you painted a picture for me of those dogs fighting the big boar. Your cd sounds like it did its job but the curs ripping on the boar while the bulldog was caught didn't help the catch dog on this boar. Your so wrapped up in what you have seen over the past years with your own dogs, that it's almost impossible for you to grasp what happens with different style dogs. Really sounds like a bad boar that would have tested any dogs metal but in all likelihood 2 and only 2 finder holders or just 2 big but good cd's would have held that boar without as much fuse. They would have been more in control and not bitting, barking, chewing, and inciting more violence from the pig. The level of energy put into escape and defense and assault on the 2 cd's by the pig would have deesculates after the first minute of hookup without the way it's done as Hyan and I describe using only 2 finder holder type dogs. Not like the dogs are caught way out and the boar fights just as hard from start to finish the entire time it takes you to get there. When you get to a catch often times the boar tries a little harder but nothing like the initial hook up. If you have never hunted like this, then I wouldn't expect you to get it. Just got to take the word of people that do. I've hunted both ways and understand both really well. You do not. you understand 1 really well, not the other as you have proved many many times in the past threads. No big deal, just stop telling people like me what would have happened with our type dogs on pigs you catch in the type of environment you hunt. Been there and done that buddy, with two different kinds of dogs. Hyan has provided pictures of what he hunted back home and and give good detail of the dogs and their hunt style. Even in the face of that, you still stand on your soap box saying your dogs hunt what ours can't. just cause we don't hunt that stuff anymore doesn't mean if we moved back to our old haunts, we can't go back to hunting it again.
