Tagged Barr Hog

[TShelly]

I picked up a new lease in Corrigan last year in April. Our very first picture on the place was a 120# tagged Barr hog. When I got the lease I met an old man that’s been hunting all that country for the last 30 years. My place is only 1200 acres but I can hunt it and the 4K acre pasture next door. The old man has permission on about 15k in there. They hunt a lot and we’ve stayed out of there.

Fast forward a year and we finally made a run out there. We invited the old man, He actually caught in my lease a couple weeks ago another big 1 ear Barr that weighed 312#...  I had him on camera this whole time as well.  Guess we should of went and hunted there a little earlier lol. It turns out this old man and his buddy turned 8 tagged shoats out about 18 months ago. They were around 50#’s. They turned them loose about 3 miles from us on the Neches River. The majority of them quickly got caught in a trap, the tagged hog we had on camera was the only one known to make it. He was all over our cameras and feeders this last year. He gained a considerable amount of weight.

I decided to keep my pups held back because I knew there were some deer around all the feeders spinning and not many hogs. I cut Lacey and Joe loose and we headed down the line to a feeder he frequents. They worked about 10 min before they both fell bayed right next to highway 59, they were set up pretty nice so I was hoping to get the pups to them. We were 300 yards from them hammering and still couldn’t hardly hear them with the highway noise. About that time a deer runs out right in front of my pups. Lol off to the races. They ran through some lower shock therapy in the beginning. I finally let them have it and got them broke off the deer as we were heading into the bay. I got the gyp in on the bay and the male ended up at the buggy with all the dogs barking in the box. We got in pretty close to them bayed and sent the bulldog. Caught just long enough to get in there and he throws the bulldog off and off to the races. A short 309 yard loop and they are sat back down. We got in there about 45 seconds before the bulldog, she comes right in and sticks him and gets thrown off. They run him about 35 yards then finally get him caught in a briar/pine thicket. Got him caught, flipped and tied. Found out why the bulldog was getting thrown. His non tagged ear barely had an inch of ear left and she kept catching him on that nub.

I look like I got in a fight with a pole cat. My arms and face are shredded, my wife was not too happy about that lol. It beat the dogs around pretty good. My black gyp got her back leg busted up. It’s swollen some in the ankle and foot. I imagine she is going to be out a while, She won’t put any weight on it yet. That was about it for the hunt. Some of the other guys dogs had bayed while we were catching the boar hog. He ended breaking and crossing a FM road and we toned those dogs back.

Got the hog home and butchered up. Going to be some great sausage coming up











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[BA-IV]

It’s crazy the amount of weight they can put on when you strip that high gear out and feed em deer corn 

[NLAhunter]

Dang good Barr hog

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[TFree80]

Nice hog Tony!

[Goose87]

We used to do that around here but it points a direct finger at the hog dog hunter, all deer hunters want them dead, nobody works and cuts the boars anymore except in isolated part of the swamp, ands that's just about a 1500 acre block and that's it, I might put a mark in ones ear or bob a tail on some of the deer leases I hunt but other than that we try to be discreet as possible, if we got the stuff to do it close by well trim the hooves back on one toe on one side on a Barr, about 20 years ago and old man used to hog hunt and trap and bring in hogs around his dairy farm, he cut a bunch of boars and tagged them and turned them loose there and told everybody around those were HIS hogs, he pitched a fit when some deer hunters shot two of them, one night he gets a call from a neighbor down the road and ask if he had a big spotted hog with a tag in it, he told the fellow as matter of fact I do but I don't want them messed with, the neighbor said "thanks for informing me, my wife just totaled out her brand new car right down the road from your house, she hit your hog, I'll be there in a minute with the deputy to fill out the report", after that ole Chester Dillon never claimed another hog in Walthhall County Ms...

[t-dog]

Tony you should've told the wife that you encountered a band of wild women while you were hunting and you got all those scratches fighting to get away and back home to her.

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[t-dog]

Goose that's funny you say that. SEVERAL  years back a big farmer down here took some guys hog hunting in the river bottom they hunted. The dogs crossed the river into a wooded place. They drove around and he took the ad and introduced himself to the land owner and explained the situation. The land owner then said that it was fine e to go get the dogs this time but the next time it happens he's going to shoot every dog that crosses into his place messing with "his" hogs. The farmer said that's fine. You can go shoot them now. And when your done, you can write me a check for every ear of corn "your" hogs have walked down or eaten. From then on they were able to come and go as they needed on that place.

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[Goose87]

Goose that's funny you say that. SEVERAL  years back a big farmer down here took some guys hog hunting in the river bottom they hunted. The dogs crossed the river into a wooded place. They drove around and he took the ad and introduced himself to the land owner and explained the situation. The land owner then said that it was fine e to go get the dogs this time but the next time it happens he's going to shoot every dog that crosses into his place messing with "his" hogs. The farmer said that's fine. You can go shoot them now. And when your done, you can write me a check for every ear of corn "your" hogs have walked down or eaten. From then on they were able to come and go as they needed on that place.

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  There's an old maid that used to harass us all the time right by one of our main spots, she had it out for hog hunters for some reason, one night I was parked on the hwy just down from from her house just to keep them from crossing over over onto her land, she came out and give me the usual tongue lashing and went on to say that she fed those hogs and they were her pets, I said shoot lady you just the person I'm looking for, them hogs have done eat 2k dollars worth of my deer corn and that I leased the land from her neighbor and planted soybeans and they destroyed them, she said well I don't know what to tell you but their wild animals, I said well a minute ago they were your pets, she yelled at me that she didn't have time for my foolishness and went back inside, she has done gotten to old to mess with us now...

[TShelly]

Tony you should've told the wife that you encountered a band of wild women while you were hunting and you got all those scratches fighting to get away and back home to her.

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Those are along the lines of what I told her. It’s better to getting those scratches out in the woods instead of the bars like old times lol!!


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[Goose87]

Tony you should've told the wife that you encountered a band of wild women while you were hunting and you got all those scratches fighting to get away and back home to her.

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Those are along the lines of what I told her. It’s better to getting those scratches out in the woods instead of the bars like old times lol!!


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Just "Barrs" of a different sort these days lol...

[Austesus]

We used to do that around here but it points a direct finger at the hog dog hunter, all deer hunters want them dead, nobody works and cuts the boars anymore except in isolated part of the swamp, ands that's just about a 1500 acre block and that's it, I might put a mark in ones ear or bob a tail on some of the deer leases I hunt but other than that we try to be discreet as possible, if we got the stuff to do it close by well trim the hooves back on one toe on one side on a Barr, about 20 years ago and old man used to hog hunt and trap and bring in hogs around his dairy farm, he cut a bunch of boars and tagged them and turned them loose there and told everybody around those were HIS hogs, he pitched a fit when some deer hunters shot two of them, one night he gets a call from a neighbor down the road and ask if he had a big spotted hog with a tag in it, he told the fellow as matter of fact I do but I don't want them messed with, the neighbor said "thanks for informing me, my wife just totaled out her brand new car right down the road from your house, she hit your hog, I'll be there in a minute with the deputy to fill out the report", after that ole Chester Dillon never claimed another hog in Walthhall County Ms...

Lol that’s a good story goose. Some people just have it coming to them. Me and a few buddies have exclusive permission to hunt a bunch of farmland that’s all connected and we have both sides of the river. It’s several big properties with a lot of small tracts in between them. The guy that got me hunting has been the only one with permission to hunt there for 10 years, and hunts/trains dogs 7 days a week for a living. It’s about 180k acres of land total. Well he basically moved the pigs around like cattle. He would keep them going back and forth to minimize how long they were on a property which helped keep them from damaging crops. Of course every pig caught is killed, but he would do it in a way that the sounders were constantly being pushed to different areas.

     Well a year ago he stopped hunting for some personal reasons. Until he starts again, me and a few others are hunting all his land. Well one of the farmers flipped out about it. So we meet him, everything is cool. Hunt his property and get on two pigs. Well he had been having some damage in his field, so we told him we would hit that property as a priority until the pigs pushed to another property. Next day he shoots a pig and texts us saying to never come back and that he would get someone else to hunt the pigs. Well my mentor had JUST quit hunting two weeks before that. And he was hunting 12-16 hours a day 6-7 days a week. Makes no money from hunting, only for training dogs. And this farmer acted like he was being done wrong because we didn’t sit on his fields 24/7 and keep every single pig out.

     My mentor is a very well respected man and hunter in that area and is well known. So the other farmers didn’t take kindly to the situation after how much he’s helped them. The end outcome was that if anyone tries to hunt his property, the other land owners will have DNR called as soon as they cross property lines, and these pigs run like hell. So you’re not catching them and staying on that property. Essentially any other hunters will be ran out and the other farmers are going to have all the pigs pushed to his property since it will be the one safe haven where the pigs aren’t being hit. Sometimes it bites ya in the butt to be an hole in the butt and piss off all your neighbors


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