Hunting Alone

Well I guess I'm not a real hog hunter cause I will shoot a hog and at all times use two cds - guess I'm unethical as well. I dog 95% of the hogs we hunt. I dog hunting alone - doesn't matter to me. I've caught plenty good rank boars on here like anyone else so just because I decide to shoot one means makes me or my dogs lesser hunters? Don't think so.

I raise everything from pups, cds too, have over $5k invested in a kennel/yard setup not to mention endless hours of care and training - so think about the investment in say a five year old dog. If I can prevent an accident with a fifty cent bullet, you dang right I'm shooting a pig - sow or boar. It's going to die anyway cause I don't catch and tie. Like I said, it's 5% or less of the time. If I've got a pig bayed in January across the river and don't feel like swimming, shoot it and go on hunting some more. I've been there and done that and don't care to do it again if I don't have to.

As far as using two cds - we caught 9 hogs last Sunday am. Five were good size and had teeth. Had three cds..one had to stay in the buggy after boar number 3. Now were down to two. Cut two cd in on a stud and he knocked the first cd out on her feet. I never seen anything like it before. She stood there stiffed legged and wide eyed staring into the sky. Good thing the other was there cause our strike dogs help and they went in as soon as she initiated contact. Now would we probably would have caught it without the second cd, but more than likely avoided some injuries by having the second catch dog there.

Just a different perspective for y'all. Besides - any of you that know me know that we always haul kids. We do this for them and to raise them in the woods, I have nothing to prove to anyone. A dead hog is a dead hog.