A dog named Black Jack he was found on the side of the road at a roadside park sitting on the concrete tables a buddy of mine picked him up and we tried to find the owner of this dog for three months never found them. I dont think he was a hog dog before I got him. My buddy called me on a very very cold Dec night as a matter of fact it was the nite before Xmas and it was sleeting and cold as hell told me hey Jim you said you was looking for a dog to work I got you one here dont know anything about him but I put him n the pen and he done pretty well.
I didnt want to go because this guy lived 35 miles from me and the weather was terriable but me and my son went and picked him up soon as I saw him I like him he jumped right in the back of the truck took him hunting he didnt know anything at first but was the fastest learning dog I have ever seen in my life time and I have seen a lot of them and the rest is History around here all my buddys that has ever hunted with that dog on a reg basis will tell you they aint ever seen a dog do the things that dog would do to get a hog . He was the type of dogs that found hogs when there was none never had a bad habit in his life .
The most amazing thing I ever seen that dog do was wind a hog from across a coastal patch that was at least 1200 yards across take off like a Tomahawk missile and hit the woods on the other side with us watching in disbelief and sthen go 200 yards into the woods and bayed up a big boar in the middle of a creek . It took us 15 mins to get to him from having to go threw all the gates he not only done this one time but threee times with all of us looking on my good friend Tom Graham chairman of the board of the Lacy dog org will tell you the same thing along with his daughter , son in law my son and Cory and Kyle and the land owner himself.
Went on a hunt one morning let out at 7am and we had 11 big big hogs by 11 am withhim finding them all went back the next morning let at at 7 am again and caught 10 more all big hogs over 150 lbs with him again finding them all.
Watch this dog one day wind a hog from about 1000 yards away took off in a full run and when he got to the gate are the road waited on us to catch up we went threw the gate and as soon as we crossed the road he took off again and in less than three mns had a 285 lbs sow bayed .
Watched this dog get on a big boar hog 250 lbs run him for half mile in 30 degree weather in the middle of Jan and had him in the middle of a tank swimming in circles finally we shot the hog and the hog went to the bottem of the tank and the dog would not come out of the tank he was diving down tryin to find the hog my son had to strip off and go in and get him so we took off and looked back missing him and he was back in the middle of the tank agian my son went int to try and get him but he would not let my son get close to him so we went back to the truck to warm up came back 30 mins late the dog was still in the tank still trying to find the hog and diving down here and thre to try to get him finally my son went back in with a rope dove down in 10 foot of freezing water tie the rope around the hogs legs and we
pulled the hog out with the four wheelers ahahahahahh then the dog would come to us and he like to froze to death before we could get to the truck again. No number 2 true story with plenty of back up .
Black Jack got killed two years ago on one of the baddest hogs I have ever seen a man agressive boar and a pure dog killer that killed and cut up many many dogs on that place.
First time I had ever put a cut collar on him and the hogs tusk missed the collar by about a 1/16 of a inch and hit him in the jugular and Black Jack never quit the hog he died on the run chasing the hog . Dogs all came back but black jack covered in blood spray from head to toe but not one dog was cut I tld Tom right there my Black Jack dog is dead 30 min later we found in in a slew with a trail of blood leading up to him died on the run doing what he loved to do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111
He was a mans man and the best I ever hunted behind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe not a perfect defenition of a finished dog but onehell of a great great dog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Boar that killed Black Jack hunted him finally got him a little over a year later.
