Hadn’t been hunting much as of late. It’s done got hot, we lost a buddies bulldog to heat stroke a couple weekends ago.
Sketch is put up in hopes she is bred, excited to talk about that if it ends up going our way.
Said heck with it last night and loaded my 2 yearling pups out of sketch, and the secret weapon, Lizzo, my greyhound around 8pm.
Drove out to a family place we call the Camphouse just north of Flatonia. Hogs in this country are super sporadic and few and far between, but we’ve pulled some real good boars out of there over the years.
Fresh cut hay fields showed evidence of a hog or 2 passing through last weekend. It’s 2 deer feeders still running and one of em has a green light on it so my plan was to post up at a distance with dogs on the buggy and wait for the hogs to show.
10:30 rolled around and I was ready to make something happen, not to mention every 5 minutes or so Spoon would stand up and whine staring straight into the wind. Got out and sent all 3 together, they hit the ground headed straight into the wind about 500 yards to the feeder I wasn’t sitting on. Got a few barks and then they showed treed. Head to them and realize they’re still over by the feeder and not in the slough, so have to go around backside. Pull up and they are stretching a good boar 180ish lbs not 10 yards outside the feeder pen. I didn’t have a knife and failed to grab a tie rope because I had little faith in even seeing a hog, so I flipped him and got dogs back, and pulled my 5.7x28 out and hit his off switch. Kicked my self in the butt immediately. Perfect hog and place to cut one and try to build a trophy.
Got a picture or 2 and pet them dogs up real good, I was sure proud of em. Only the 2nd time I’ve taken just Spoon and Misty for cur dogs, and they’ve been out at night maybe 3 times in their life, they turned a year beginning of May.
And lizzo has been used very sparingly at night and it’s always been using her as a sight dog to hogs in feed bunks. So for them all to rig this hog and go straight to him and not let him go anywhere, was a job well done and all I could ask of them.
Spoon riding on the box headed to the Camphouse. This dude knows what his nose is and I’m pretty confident he’s got a better than average one. If He gets his mind,feet, and nose all goin the same way, he’s going to bay lots of hogs.
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