Message #574581

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Quick update: Caught 3 with him, 1 nice boar, 1 nice sow and an 80 lb shoat. He gutted the shoat. UNFORTUNANTLY for my experiment of using a pointy eared catch dog I didnt love what I  saw bc he was caught on the leg. 1st 2 he was on the ear, the last 2 he was on back leg.(only caught 4 hogs so far not counting shoats)

In his defense and why im going to try a few more times to see how it plays out is I sent him in from 100 and 200 yds out in real thick briars to settle the bay, the curs were walk jog baying and we couldnt get within 50 yds bc of the pigs not baying up solid/ constantly walking (very dogged, thick area) He defiantly put the breaks on them and after walking for hours to the bay from one side of the 4 acre pond to the other I was glad to end the race and drink a beer on the 2 200lbers. All that said I have had some straight ear bulldogs in the past that when used to stop a runner instead of sending them into a bay that would catch on the leg or other odd spots but be on the ear like usual when it was used like normal for me of being sent to a solid still bay.