Started out close to midnight on Friday with DParker555, Chuck, and River Ridge. After checking around a bean field we decided to ride by a couple of corn fields on the way to some baited wallows we have. About half way down the field from the oilfield road my J.W. Dog and Squirt started whinning. I immeadiately cut them and the other two curs loose and we had a bay about 150 yards deep in the corn field. We turned Chuck and River Ridges bulldogs loose and caught a nice sow. No sooner than we got it stuck we had Squirt bayed a hundred yards from us. As we headed towards him my other 3 curs started up behind about 250yds, drowning out squirts bay. Chuck looks at GPS and sees River Ridges dog heading to the bay so we know they got that one, so we wait for that catch so we can go to Squirt. In a few moments later Silence over at the other bay, but now Squirt is back on the move and has crossed the road looping in a bean field and that is about the time we heard Bo, Chucks dog, bayed back up next to the truck some 900+ yards away so we get back on the Ranger and head that way. At about 350 we turned Petey loose and he sealed the deal on a young boar in a culvert, that was right next to the truck, which was nice! Later we ran a Real Nice Hog, but we made some rookie mistakes and missed our best opportunity to catch him.(you win some, loose some)
My Soldiers
First Hog Sow
Second Hog Young Boar that Petey caught in Culvert
Only ended up with two for Friday night but should have had more if I would have been more prepared.
Saturday night I ended up hunting off of horseback with Cody Robinson and DParker555. We hit the woods at a decent hour Cody and I on horses and DParker555 on a fourwheeler with the bulldog. We used two way radios and took my already tired dogs into some briar country around some different corn fields. Didnt take long and we had two pregnant sows and a shoat pretty fast. The first sow didnt wanna sucumb to the blade I was using but that Cold Steel that I gave DParker555 got the job done. Second sow was a circus. We turned Blaze loose from 250yds out and waited a few seconds and began heading that way while Cody held the horses. Got to them and Blaze had her jaw as usual these days, (I love a jaw dog!) so I decided to let Dparker555 leg and flip his this hog and he was eager. Well he grab it and tried to throw it but with a solid 95lb bulldog on one side and two good sized curs on the other it can be tough to get one thrown for anyone muchless someone as green at this part of hog hunting as DParker. Then to my suprise he flipped it end over end, (looked more like a wrestling move), and the hog ended up on top all the dogs heads and on the other side of their holds and we DParker555 hit it with that blade she came alive and pulled free of the dogs but was caught only feet away in a slough and Blazes head was submerged for a good bit but he never let go of her till long after she was dead this time. (Bubbles were actually coming to the surface where his head was submerged with every breath and the hog was already dead.) Then the dogs got back into some pigs and we listened to them killing them out in the Cornfield for a while then we called them in and headed to the truck to clean the kills and get some rest.
Hogs with DParker555
My transportation for the night, a Missouri Fox Trotter, and she has made me never want to ride any other horse again. She was smooth, fast, and the most pleasureable horse I have ever riden!
Blaze learning to not bother the horses and I was very suprised of how well behaved he was, but he was EYEBALLING them hard all night, but never made a move other than his initial barks when he first saw them, but after we talked for a bit he never said another word.
Great weekend, but I was exhausted. Sorry for the long winded story again.
Joey Young
