Skin that smoke wagon

[Slim9797]

Hauled Misty spoon king and sketch to the woods this morning. I am not keeping up with Cajun on the numbers but we did get in to a few good hogs today. Beat more than we got beat by, and the one that beat us was my fault. Dogs had him bayed I was trying to be cute and video and came in up wind and blew a pretty nice paint boar out, and he pulled some big hog trickery in short order and shook the dogs. I had a cheap chance at him afterwards, but he’s too good of a hog to cheat. So I called dogs out and we went to another spot. That turned out to be a short, sweet, and very eventful cast right below my house.

[t-dog]

Everybody gets beat. They’re lying or they ain’t hunting if they say they aren’t or haven’t been.


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[The Old Man]

 Don't sound too bad to me, and I'd bet it was a good time.

[Cajun]

Good hog hunt. Some of those ole boars are pretty smart.

[Slim9797]

First cast the 3 youngins covered 1.5 miles in about no time at all, and sketch found a neighbor putting out hay.

 Once I got all the goobers rounded up I re cast from the same spot. Youngins go 500 and tree while sketch is looking at me wondering why I’ve been toning her collar for the last half hour.

Sketch goes and they got a hog. It’s always hogs in this briar patch, so when I arrived and dogs were kind of spaced out. I originally thought we had multiple hogs. Figured out it was one good boar after he hit a dog the first time.
  At that point I kind of thought king was cut already somewhere around his collar line so I put the phone down to try and get the hog killed. By time I did that he had just so happened to walk into the one little rabbit trail through the briars I could see through, and promptly got a cranial lead injection.

I tried to leave after this but spoon rolled and bayed again and everything went so I did as well. Long story short I break the bay trying to video. He runs the dreaded Oopty-oop offense on us. Ditches every cur dog and then Breaks out of the river bottom at a walk 75 yards in front of me. Headed for nothing but wide open hills and the highway. Took me too long to get any dogs gathered and he was a real sitting duck by then. So i picked up and pulled out.

Next cast was below my house. Misty and King split left, spoon and sketch right. Spoon and sketch had the hog in his bed a couple hundred yards away. He breaks out of his bed. Goes maybe 250 and they set him up. As I’m walking in the 2nd time he tries to come to me and dogs spin him around and set him back up pretty quickly.

Now I’m trying to video and shoot this hog. I’m walking up and around and I can see him through some brush. Well I reckon he saw me too. Sketch and Misty both lurch forward into the his path in front of me and as I’m coming to peak around the last year. When I see Misty pull back between my legs.

I cannot see the hog at that point, but that was the point that I knew I was about to see him. And I was gonna see him real close. Luckily muscle memory kind of kicks in and the hog was dead before I had time to realize how big a pickle I was almost in.

Decided to call it after that. Great showing by the young dogs on 2 good hogs.









 Here is video of charging hog. https://youtube.com/shorts/BmO0v2w4UDk?si=blWfC5OI9wjGMi_G

First hog of day bayed https://youtube.com/shorts/PZm_aISEIs4?si=u9mBDTWaCtviIqH4

First hog soaked the first head shot up https://youtube.com/shorts/gSifsJ3NjmA?si=QzxpVnBey5pVYBuO

Here’s me breaking the bay on the big paint. https://youtube.com/shorts/a7-lidy0aEg?si=JdgSGMaRh8DGUNU8


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[Hollowpoint]

That's some good action Slim, the couple times I tried recording I inadvertently lower my phone when I get ready to shoot, I don't know why but I do. That charging boar was right in your personal space, nice shot to turn out his lights.

[WayOutWest]

That was a little close.

[Slim9797]

That's some good action Slim, the couple times I tried recording I inadvertently lower my phone when I get ready to shoot, I don't know why but I do. That charging boar was right in your personal space, nice shot to turn out his lights.

I bay and shoot lots of hogs and have for the last 8 years. I do the same thing, you naturally want to roll your wrist to hold a rifle properly I reckon. Muscle memory kinda deal. Surprised I actually caught this. I have figured out the only way I can do it almost use the corner of my phone and my hand to hold the forend of my gun.

I have had that kind of situation happen more than a few times over the years. You just got to let them come to you and kill them at your feet. This is certainly one of the better hogs to do it. Adds a little more to the adrenaline dump when he’s dead and you realize he was big enough to really hurt you.


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[Slim9797]

That was a little close.

Juuuust a bit outside.


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[WayOutWest]

I know a guy here in Washington that has a contract to take out bear on the timber company tree farms in the spring. He had a bear coming to the road with the dogs pretty hot on it so he grabbed a handgun off the dash and ran up to head it off. He hit the top of the hill at the same time as the bear. It was a big boar and he pulled the gun up and started unloading on it. The gun went click as the bear hit him. He ended up with scars on his face and arms. The dogs hit it real quick and the bear died pretty quick but that stuff happens fast.

[Slim9797]

I know a guy here in Washington that has a contract to take out bear on the timber company tree farms in the spring. He had a bear coming to the road with the dogs pretty hot on it so he grabbed a handgun off the dash and ran up to head it off. He hit the top of the hill at the same time as the bear. It was a big boar and he pulled the gun up and started unloading on it. The gun went click as the bear hit him. He ended up with scars on his face and arms. The dogs hit it real quick and the bear died pretty quick but that stuff happens fast.

Yeah see I draw the line on toeing up with animals at hogs. A hog in the right circumstance “Could” kill you. A bear WILL kill you, and fairly easily from what I’ve seen and heard.


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[HIGHWATER KENNELS]

Yeah man,,, that is as close as you want it rite there,,,   that one will make you miss supper...

[make-em-squeel]

they usually dont charge like that, close one

[The Old Man]

  Many years ago a noted bear hunter "Doyle DeMoss AKA Dee"founder of teh Cascade strain of Plott dogs, had a contract with the timber companies to kill bear, they were stripping bark and the next layer off "I think" some sort of Fir tree costing tons of money in Timber.  This is the first I've heard of in in a long long time.

[WayOutWest]

Clue, they still have hunters licensed to do that. In the spring after bear come out of hibernation there isn't a lot of food so they eat the tops of the fir seedlings and it costs those timber companies a bunch of money. These are the only ones who can dog hunt bears in the state of Washington.

[t-dog]

Money talks!


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[The Old Man]

 That'd be a real cool job except for killing them. I figure if I kill him I can't run and tree him again, but I also understand damage control so I'm not an anti or a tree hugger haha. I say all the time I understand why all the ag related folks hate the hogs but that doesn't mean I have to hate them too.

[WayOutWest]

Numbers are not a problem around here, there are lots of bears but they are not much of a problem. We have had them cross our property numerous times. But then we have good habitat for them. There are a number of guys who run them but don't kill them. If they get checked, they are running coons which is legal.

[shadygrovehawgdawg]

That’s my kind of coon hunting WOW. Glad it turned out for you Slim.