As I mentioned, I carried some dogs this afternoon after I got home from returning Rednose’s Bulldog to him. First went here below my house and spoon did a first and gently and quietly retrieved me a baby armadillo. Baby Dillo was released unharmed on spoons own accord lol. Then not 4 hours after I had just told Rednose sketch has been known to go run a coyote on me if I push her in country she knows there isn’t hogs. Well I guess it wasn’t any hogs around because to spite me sketch carried spoon Misty and a 9 month old pup 3/4 mile to start a half hour coyote race.
It was hot in the brush and wind was blowing 35 outside of it so I didn’t really intend on doing much more hunting but I just couldn’t let Tim’s pup I had with me end his first hunt on a coyote race so I jumped across the FM road into the next bottom and said I’ll cast them once from the road ditch up the river and see what happens. They all trail 5-600 out of the bar ditch to the horseshoe where the hogs usually live and go Paws up. I pull out of the road and go to them. Wind has me screwed and hogs scatter as I’m walking up. I managed a young sow. We’ve had these hogs break like this once before and dogs couldn’t carry them out of it.
This time was different. spoon and Misty were out front a good ways, through a set of cows and a couple African wild asses. Across the county road and up hill they go. Sketch bringing up the rear. Pup had fallen out in the scramble and met me back at the truck.
Jump across the county road into the other side of this ranch and sketch is bayed in a slough solo and Misty and spoon are caught same way in the next one up. Pup goes to sketch and I go to spoon and Misty with nothing but my pocket knife and a can do attitude. Killed 3 shoats in a briar patch with them. Finally got them to go to sketch and the pup and they had young boar. 100 lbs or so. He was hot and gave out and I tricked spoon and company in to catching him(gun,phone, garmin were still 300ish yards away at my truck).
At this point I’m done. Dogs are tired and hot, I’m hot and tired. Go back to truck, water them in the lake and load them. I sit for 10 minutes or so wrestling with the fact that I’m pretty sure I finally figured these hogs out. And the bigger hogs gotta be close to taking bays. Send them off the bed back up hill in to the wind and the 3 youngins pick up and go another .6 and bay a good portion of the group back up not 200 yards from the entrance to my house. Me and sketch go to them. Kill another young sow and hogs head back where they come from. dogs ain’t quitting. They roll back down 500 or so and show bayed. go to them, they’ve got another 100lb boar. shoot him and he rolls down. I thought everything rolled down with him but it was just sketch. Went and shot him again. Youngins bayed again back where that boar originally was. Go to them and another shoat.
Dogs roll up this little slough their in and bay at the other end. Ends up being a pretty decent sow they bring out and let me video. At this point I’m more than please and ready to go home. I call everything back in and start the journey back to my truck 2 pastures over. At some point spoon and Misty decide they just can’t handle it and roll 150 yards past my truck and bay sow I think against a big tank dam. Went and shot her and got a video, and then called it a dang day lol.
The video worth watching -
https://youtube.com/shorts/kyv7D_1XQr0?si=JTwR1KETT2f7D3WLPart 1 last one -
https://youtube.com/shorts/8RL7Y0dk_DE?si=ELKrYDJFbIlUjD1CPart 2 -
https://youtube.com/shorts/1Mhr3yo0gqk?si=AI7IgZDbGSfvVfFVHogs break -
https://youtube.com/shorts/Q3zjsTleZNo?si=h1WFdKquaWBcU3nZThe “Prairie” -
https://youtube.com/shorts/SL_9MqYSqSI?si=aopxCIYF7CIqbIMB End of the Line -
https://youtube.com/shorts/Z5PE6puJ6v0?si=TIT9f77eXxyoxjZVHogs breaking back where they come from -
https://youtube.com/shorts/SLGirKHpSwA?si=aXjbbmUkas9jiiPM
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