Shot a barr hog one time over my dogs but we have never been about that life. My first few years I was lucky to carry even a knife. Threw 4 or 5 tie ropes on and went to them. We would cut anything that needed it after the hunts.
Lots of reasons I never was a gun hunter... you can’t see number 2 in most of the places we hunt east of I-45. Even when you go west it gets tough to get in there and get them in some thickets.
A lot of the old dogs I started with would hit the trailer with the first gun shot fired.
The legality of ending up somewhere you weren’t supposed to be with a firearm never sat well with me.
Guys I grew up hunting with and some I still hunt with don’t like killing hogs. Lots of old school, turn the sows loose and cut the boars. I honestly could care less anymore about not killing hogs... if we can cut a boar hog Im all about it but I’ve shanked and killed more than I’ve tied in the last 5 years.
I like knowing the fact that we can go do whatever we want with the same set of dogs. If we want to go tie 30-40 hogs and put them in the trailer we can. If we want to go shoot them, we can do that too. I do think it’s harder and more work to go catch and tie 30 hogs vs shooting 30 hogs over your dogs but that’s pretty self explanatory.
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In most of the places we bay, a gnat has trouble getting through, you can’t see a thing until you leg the hog, and in the places where you can see the bay, very seldom is the hog or hogs going to stand, once they see or smell you or even hear you coming, and dang ain’t going to stay anywhere around if you get to yelling dogs back....
