Message #85816

[Bryant]

Bump's probably right.

I've had dogs go quiet on a bay several times.  A couple years back I was hunting one night with Scott Leone.  I had turned my dogs out and we got to shooting the bull, having a few refreshments and didn't realize an hour and a half had passed and we hadn't seen the dogs.  I pulled out the tracking system (prior to Garmin) and they were a long ways off.  We drove around a while, and finally decided we would have to walk in.  Finally about three hours after turning out we got so close to the dog that the tracker was pegging on low, but we could hear nothing nor would he come when I called his name.  Scott took a flashlight and stood up on a fallen tree and there was my Buck dog laying about 5 yards from a hog that was also laying down.  When the light hit the hog, he stood up and Buck jumped up and went to work.  As soon as the dog started barking, the hog layed back down and so did Buck.  We turned in Zues and it was a caught hog, but Buck was wore OUT and ready to go home.