the single BEST dog you have ever owned or hunted behind

[justincorbell]

We talk all about dogs and our likes/ dislikes but I can't say I remember a thread (at least recently) in which we talked about the single BEST dog we have ever hunted behind. I enjoy reading and conversing about good dogs (don't we all?) so I'd like to hear from you guys about these dogs, post pictures, stories, backgrounds etc etc........whatever you want to add, tell us why that particular dog made a lasting impression on you and how he or she went about it.

One of the best dogs i've ever hunted behind was a dog by the name of bubba that a good buddy of mine David Coburn owned some years ago. he was an older yella dog out of some of the same stock I currently own, he wasn't the fastest, hardest, biggest, strongest dog i've been around but that dog almost never lied on a hog out of the literally 100's of times I hunted behind him. If other dogs left the road/ trail and bubba stayed then odds are we could keep on easing along, this wasn't always hte case as some of the other dogs we hunted could line one out also BUT if he left it was almost a guarantee that it was time to get your things together because it was fixin to be on. He was no amazing out of this world super dog but out of all the dogs i've ever hunted behind I will never forget ol bubba, he was as true a dog as i've ever followed, we hunted him hard for quite a while and I honestly can say that when he left on a track it was almost a guarantee that the next time you saw him would be on the front end of pork.

Bubba was much more deliberate in his actions than other dogs i've ever hunted with and honestly all these years later I still chalk it up to the exposure and experience he gained over the years hunting with david, it was almost like he would pass up a older track and pick the more favorable track he KNEW he could work out .............I have no idea if that is what he was doing or not but it sure seemed that way, he was just an all around good dog. Bubba passed in Davids yard over 2 years ago at I believe 9+ years of age and to this day almost every time we hunt his name still comes up at some point in conversation.

I will have to dig up some pictures of him, he wasn't the prettiest, leanest most well built dog by any means but he was im my opinion as true a hog dog as i've ever seen.

that was one of the best i've seen, lets hear about ya'lls!

[hookem54]

This is him for me, my tiger dog hunted as hard as anything I've ever seen could cast rig whatever you wanted he would do it it used to piss me off to set and wait on him or follow him for miles and miles but always a hog at the end of it lost him last year and he was the best dog I've ever had the pleasure of hunting with

[LTcaughthog]

This is buster. He was plot/cat and not a burn up the woods type dog but if there's a pig he'd find it. Used too piss me off waiting for him with his bottom and stuff but truth is hunting behind good dogs we get spoiled. And since loosing him realitys set in that good dogs are hard too come by but great dogs are a needle in haystack. Miss the hell out of him. RIP BUSTER.

[Bowhunter1994]

Tuned in for some good stories


Sonny

[dodgegirl]

I'll have to find a picture of the dog I'm about to talk about. My first true hunting dog of my own "hoochie mama" aka "hooch". Now some will think she was my favorite because she was my first dog, but that's not the case. She was a little 30 pound mutt. Pit/cat/ridgeback/bulldog. I'll never forget the time we took her out and turned her loose she got to the bay and I kid you not she slid on her back & caught the hog. That little dog was amazing. When she was about two yrs old she would find & catch her own hog. I miss her every day. When she was almost three she stuck her head through the fence and my neighbors pit grabbed hold of her.

[Jmesonp1]

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My 2 best hog dogs.  Dependable and honest. Son and grandson of a gyp named worthless who was probably the best hog dog I've seen. The best dog I ever hunted was a plott bear dog named Louie. But bear dogs and hog dogs are like apples and oranges to me. I know that a good plott can do both but In the country I pig hunt my Plotts would have gotten me a tresspass ticket cause they will take a track 20 miles if they had to. Telling the whole world we were coming! Love Plotts! can't wait to go on another bear hunt.

[Bo Pugh]

One of the best I have ever hunted with was a dog named orange a older man I hunt with use to own. He wasn't a long range hunter he usually just stayed in sight of the four wheeler which this old man road hunts so he liked that. He was a suppose to be a half bmc half Kemmer but that's not for sure. But this dog had a good nose and was a hell of a trail dog if he cut off the road or started acting hoggy he was going to bay that hog somewhere. Me and this man are good buddy's as i been hunting with him for years but before i had any dogs that was any count i would go get this dog and one more and go hunting my self. But this dog had bottom like it was unbelievable he would stick with one and it's been a many of days I hated that dog because I was ready to go home and he would still be baying hogs. He was a loose baying dog 100% silent on track if he barked he was standing still looking at it bayed if it broke he wasn't barking. But I've been all over this country chasing that dog and caught a pile of big hogs with him. Everyone of this dogs littermates turned out to be hog dogs that anyone would of loved to have. The same two dogs were bred numerous times producing not even good buzzard food so were really not sure what happen but the first litter were true hog dogs.

And I have one more I will tell about. This dog is another good friend of mines also. This dog is named jack he is a puppy off the above dog and a female jag out of Dixieland jags. He is still alive and he's a smaller dog about 35lbs but is a dog anyone would love to own a yard just like him. He's probably a Better trail dog than his daddy and hunts out a little farther and would stay with one til it was bayed somewhere he's a fun dog to hunt with I've seen this dog when he was young and all the older dogs come back on a big track it wouldn't be long he's have him bayed he's a little gritty but I have seen most of all this country over here where we hunt following these two dogs around in the woods it's always been a pleasure hunting with these two dogs. And it's weird how it worked out but all his littermates made fine hog dogs and he's the last one but they tried this same cross and never got anything  worth a count again. His daddy and  his littermates were fine dogs the following litters were culls and this jack dog and his littermates were super hog dogs and the following litters were nothing but culls. It's like everything went into the first litters and that was it . But it's been a lot of pups raised in hopes of just getting one more like them.

[hatchett]

Hatchets Bobbie hands down and not because she was ours but because she got it done

[justincorbell]

good stuff folks.

KEEP THE STORIES COMING................there's 1000's of folks on this site and I believe we are all here because we run and enjoy talkin dogs correct? Where's everyone else's stories??? This isn't intended to be a peter measurin post tellin us who's dog was the best, it was made so that we could all read about the best each of us has followed thru the woods, doesn't have to be a dog off your yard just simply the best you have hunted behind.

[Mike]

The best I've ever owned...


One of the best I've ever hunted behind...

[justincorbell]

when you got the time elaborate on em Mr. Mike, i'd like to hear more about em.

[colecross]

Queen was her name she was a full blood cat,my dad had her raised from pup,her mom and dad was true hog dogs,wat stood out on this gyp,when we would go to the woods and mark and cut,she knew were to look for hogs,she would find pigs nest and bay her butt off ,if pigs would run she would catch them and bring them to u,i never seen her hurt one.

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Had alot of gooduns. But gotta go back to the beginning for my personal favorites.

Gyp on the left started it all for me. Everything on the place goes back to her.



Second favorite was a son out of her. Looks perty rough in this one. Was dehydrated and has a ribcage full of stitches on other side of him.  But he was a stepper and would flat get gone. Never questions with them old dogs.

[Jaren10]

This is him for me, my tiger dog hunted as hard as anything I've ever seen could cast rig whatever you wanted he would do it it used to piss me off to set and wait on him or follow him for miles and miles but always a hog at the end of it lost him last year and he was the best dog I've ever had the pleasure of hunting with

Is that the dog out of sue gabriel talks about?

[mattr]

Thats Sues littermate

[mattr]

Sue would be it for me 3/4 bmc 1/4 plott. Long range, cold nosed, lots of bottom, a pleasure and a headache to hunt with. Theres a lot better dogs out there Im sure, but she has always done it for me. There is several off her offspring getting it done now days. Only one out of a very good litter still alive, may the rest chase hogs in heaven forever.

[Reuben]

I have had a yard full of pretty good dogs...but I had one that fascinated me on a regular basis...started out at 10 weeks and on the day he disappeared he showed out...had some dogs strike a track and couldn't line them out...Yeller cut in the rice field and was working a cold track that all the other dogs passed up on the way to the woods...yeller worked the track for about 30 minutes and he comes back out...we get in the truck and follow him to where the other dogs are trying to line out the track...as usual he cuts in and in 5 minutes he is about 3/8 of a mile in the woods baying a hog...last time I saw that dog...the difference between him and the other best dogs I had was the brain power he had...when he was ten months old he hunted hard and smart...when he was 6 years he hunted smart first and only as hard as was needed...

another dog I remember was a dark yellow bmc named nugget...I could have bought him for 325 back in the late 1980's...he hunted pretty good but was one stop a hog right now kind of dog...he was awesome at rolling over to the next hog...cut it from the pack and that hog would be backed up to a tree or bush...nugget would be nose to nose and had the prettiest chop mouth you ever heard that could be heard for a mile...he opened 3 times when he struck a track and the next time you heard him he was bayed...he was sold to this hunter because he was a bay buster but I would take that dog anytime over any other type of hog dog...

I bought one that was sold because he was a bay buster as well...was not a great hunting dog but when he teamed up with yeller together they caught their fair share of hogs...I put my dogs on a big hog track we had seen before and the pack struck and stopped this big hog 3 times in hearing range and went out of hearing...got part of the pack back that night except for Killer and Yeller...never saw killer again and Yeller I got back 3 weeks later and he had some pretty good cuts that were healing...got my tracking unit right after that...

I have never ever enjoyed hunting with any dog like I did hunting with Yeller...

[hookem54]

@jaren10 no sue and tiger were full litter mates me and mattr have caught a ton of great hogs behind them absolutely no quit what so ever