HAVE BEEN HAVING SOME FUN HUNTS

[The Old Man]

   Have been a few times lately, went one night and rigged a hog that really ran, by the track it's a mid sized boar. He ran in 6 sections and covered 12 miles, briar thicket to briar thicket with some good running in between. Caught off of him when he got out of our country.        Went SW of us an hour to a friends place that doesn't have dogs, we made a pretty big round in a couple of places where the hogs had moved from and then hit a spot with fresh sign. Dogs got struck and ran probably .75 out of a bottom to a hill, they split, I had 2 that went over the hill and stopped in a very small area but did not show bayed " they were out of hearing", were about to move to them and Adam's dogs turned towards the highway so we went out there to be road guard. While there my two left where they'd been and came over near the highway as well, the 4 dogs were on two separate tracks, then headed back to where my tow had been circling. they all 4 bayed wo we moved back off the highway a mile and started to them. They broke and headed north we rode on up to the top of the hill in a highline right of way and were tracking them when the largest group of big hogs I've ever seen together came out of the timber from exactly where my dogs had been circling. At least 30 head and not a shoat or pig among them.  From this high spot the dogs showed bayed 1.8 NW of us right on the North Canadian river, we drove to within .5 of them to a corner and locked gate not knowing who owned it, an older  man pulled up in a pickup  by us and asked if we were lost, I told him no but we had a hog bayed down on the river. He said that was his place and I asked if he cared if we went and got the dogs and hog. He told us the combination to the gate. We rode in and found them bayed in the river it was not swimming deep where they were, we put Adam's bulldog on a leash and a rope and pulled her over to us. Real good sow, pretty wooly, mahogany colored body with a grey bottom.  Rode back out of there and since the man lived just about 100 yds from the gate went and knocked on the door, thanked him, he said we could go in there any time.     Another trip near home we rode in a place and my old pup went and got bayed by himself, I saw him leave working some real old sign, head up drifting and casting once in a while putting his nose down, he never opened on track went about 500 to the hog. The other dogs went to him and it broke, after a short 75yd race and another bay caught a decent boar. Went on up the bottom and had some good running with a good sow bayed and a bacon bit mashed, that was a group of hogs that got in a big briar patch and from there to a cattail patch  We sat in one spot and heard some good running for an hour or more.       

[Hollowpoint]

Sounds like some real good dog work, and got access to some new property to boot.

[The Old Man]

  I was real pleased with the young dog, and the new property is far enough from home we won't go down there often but it's good to know we can get in there if we need to.

[t-dog]

A lot of times when you do things right they work out in your favor. Y’all showed respect and he reciprocated it. Your young dogs sound like they are really trying and the one that went solo sounds like he has it figured out for sure.


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[Cajun]

Good hunt Clue. Glad those young dogs are cranking.

[The Old Man]

             Those young dogs came along just in time, I only have two mature dogs, and all 4 young dogs are still doing equally well, thankful to not run out. Have another four coming right behind them, then two more after those. Gonna be really busy assessing for a year or so. With a total of 10, surely can get a few all the way over the hump. There are 4 crosses in the 10, 4 of one cross then 2-2-and 2, so some future breeding possibilities as well.  I sure don't want to run out and have to start over again, I'm old and that takes time haha.

[Cajun]

  Clue, I have had people ask me why I have so many dogs. I often leave trained dogs at home just so I can hunt the young dogs. Twice I have come close to running out of dogs and I sure dont want that to happen again. One year I lost 4 young dogs in the month of Feb. to hogs and later that summer had two overheat and die. I am not going to get in that position again if I can help it.

[t-dog]

Y’all are smarter than me. I let my old family of bulldogs run out and man, I really wish I could kick myself sometimes. Now I am starting over.


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[NLAhunter]

Sounds like them young dogs are showing out for you

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[The Old Man]

  They are doing good on the hogs, but they are still soaking up quite a bit of electricity. The one that outshined the other dogs baying that boar solo got fried off a coyote before we struck the next hogs. But it doesn't cow them down.