Good hunt. Grain season should be in full swing next few months, perfect to get some more miles on your gyp pups.
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Yessir we should have no problem getting around hogs here for the next few months. Pups will get plenty use. I personally am not the biggest fan of hunting grain fields for certain reasons, but it certainly is a good time of year to get young dogs around hogs. Just got to keep an eye on them and make sure they don’t develop a few bad habits I think hunting grain early on can set them up for.
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Yeah I’ve never hunted much grain. I know it can be tough and sometimes they will hardly ever bay in it. Just run for days. Any hunt during the summer are a plus though, so you do what you can. Take the good with the bad I guess.
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Always makes me feel better hearing other folks say it too!
I think grain sets a dog up to become pretty comfortable walking over a little older track because they can probably hold out and hit a smoking hot one in next few hundred yard. Me, I want my dogs to grub on any track they can physically smell, find the short end, push it and go get bayed. If they don’t posses the ability to line it out, I’m okay with that, but they better at least try like hell. I think it can also knock a lot of bottom right out from under a young dog before he can ever even show you he has any. It isn’t a rare deal for a hog to get way ahead, dogs lose him and have to find him all over again in the grain. Pups probably ain’t gonna have the stay power to stick him out and keep hunting him. They’ll lose him the 2nd or 3rd time and probably come out of the field. Too many of these situations I think will really hurt them. These instances I think matter mostly when you got a 1-2 year old dog that’s on the bubble, where he’s trying to come on and the next couple months and what he gets to see in that time is going to make or break him. At 7 months to a year old where my pups are at. I think any way you can put hogs on the ground in front of a them, is a good thing
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