We made a hunt last Thursday. My wife was under the weather Tuesday and Wednesday so I didn’t get to go with Slim on there slaughter. Anyway, seems like more and more people are starting to grasp the importance of tracking speed. I’ve really not paid much attention to the numbers on the garmin until these last few hunts. There are several factors on what the collar shows. For instance, if your dogs are collared and then hauled around in the buggy before or during the hunt before you look at the reading, it won’t be true. I made sure to zero my collars out each hunt and cast from where I collared. One hunt we were catching hogs in briars and brush so thick you couldn’t see the dogs from 12-15 feet away. I was whooped trying to get to them from 25-30 yards away. The experienced dogs were at about 9.5 to 11.5mph. I thought that was pretty good. Then Thursday Outlaw went and two others went a mile into the wind and got into hogs from the truck. The hogs busted and went several directions and all three dogs did the same. Outlaw got his bayed 3/4 of a mile across this Johnson grass and blood weed bottom. I checked his speed as soon as the hog was dead and it was nearly 13mph, 12.6 mph I think it was. I was impressed with that. One because how thick it was and two how dry it is. I just don’t see how they do it.
This was that hog and you can see in the background what it was like.
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