I want to see a hogs that just run in straight lines. Most all hogs circle. May be a 5 mile circle or 500 yard circle. Even if they run to a creek, most creeks have lots of bends. My Garmin always looks like a 2 yr old got ahold of a crayon. Anyways I’ll take the drifter 100x’s over the track straddler. Here is kinda an example.
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This right here. The first picture, that orange line is what the old coon hunters I know call drifting on a track and it is not a good term. No a dog should not drop his head and make a circle every where the hog stuck his nose in the dirt and meandered around. Find the short end and drive it up his rear. As for straight line runners we got them. Generally hogs seem to have a place the originate from, more often it’s some over grown place or the one place in the area the owner won’t let you hog hunt. The hogs will drift out a good ways and feed and lay for a few days at a time if you stick a dog on him he is going to head straight for home. Yes there’s going to be a bend or 2 hear or there due to either topography or fencing. Here is a place we have hunted hard for going on 5 years. Since the very beginning with number 2 eaters to what I have no which are far and away better than what a lot of boys are using in my opinion. The hogs have always done the same. 1 of 2 ways depending on where you caught them laid. And they always run to the same set of woods because it’s over growed and you can’t get in there to them. That is their home. Short arrows come from common beds and to which main path they will use. You might as well put a county road in because these hogs are running one of those damn near to perfection every time.
the white is dictated by netwire fencing and the hogs travel through the 2 bad thickets on the way back home. The blue is walker branch which is a small wet weather creek. Not much room for doing anything else with these tracks other than taking them for what they are. We used to hunt the place they run to as well. They never went back south. They always go due north.
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