Message #571091

[cbar79]

how I got Started....I had not hunted with a dog since we had a family hunting accident on a deer dog drive when I was in the 6th grade.  Everything turned out OK but we stopped dog hunting that year.  Hogs arrived on my farm in 2010.  I had started taking a rifle with me to check the calving pastures. I had killed a few but there was a sow nest on a creek in a canebrake. Every time I tried to sneak in there she would hit the ditch and get away.  One day while checking the heifers a coon hound started following me around, he was upsetting the new mothers so I took him to the creek. We traveled along the creek downwind of the nest. I told him to "Hunt em up" and he got in there and ran the sow and 2 shoats out.  I shot the sow and a shoat and the dog caught the other shoat. I decided I needed a dog that evening.  I fed the dog all that I could find in the truck. I haven't seen him since. I started with one dog and now have several. They are training me!  They teach me something every time I take them out!!!