Think we went last weekend and caught 7 or 8 out of some netwire stuff. Young dogs did alright. We have lizzo back, we left her with 2 of our buddies sons and they got to send her to a boar trying to leave. Nothing to write home about but more hogs for bulk of our young dogs.
Think Tuesday we went here at my house me Tim and Rhett. Caught a piggy sow right behind the big house. Then spoon and Anne rolled up into a neighbors where boars been laying lately and I’ve had a good one on camera. Whatever they find breaks, they cross the county road with him and drop off in to the next bottom a mile and a half over. We get back in to there about dark and they’re dumped on a group. Baying the heck out of 20ish head I’d guess.
I knock one off the group and they break. Then we spend the next 2 hours baying and breaking this paint sow all over the bottom. Finally they show treed another mile up the way on a pond. We get back to buggy and around and dogs are smoked. It’s all long yearlings and one older gyp of Tim’s and they’re smoked. About time we go to call dogs to the box my younger brother and I realize the hog is still swimming in the middle of this pond.
Holler at Tim and Rhett to kick the one fresh dog we have down (sketch) and after what seemed like a really long time that hog broke out of the water on the wrong side of the pond and Tim was in hot pursuit on the ranger. Hog was gassed and Tim t boned her and dropped lizzo and dynamite to her and we caught her. Young dogs put some miles down and did fairly well. Only dog that didn’t make the entire race was sketch and she was never in it.
Then yesterday,Sunday. Me and Tim went to probably the worst country we willingly hunt. It’s a family place of mine just north of Flatonia. Anne is only dog over 2. Then it’s Tiny, pilgrim, spoon, Misty, and king. This country is like beach sand with some pine needles on some of it. Eats a track and hogs travel from a long ways off. Got into a sow with shoats off a pretty good trail job by spoon and Anne. While other dogs were working something a mile the other way. We kill the sow and one shoat with Anne and spoon and other young dogs were working back down a thin creek line that is the travel corridor through our place about 800 yards behind us. They come across the balance of shoats and we catch 2 more. Reset dogs and Tim’s tiny gyp and Anne carry a track 2 miles north across a county road and get bayed in a spot I’ve been before and I know it’s a group.
We gather up the balance up dogs and I call Mr.Mica. He’s an old dog man, and it’s 75% family of his, or his land around that part of the world. He says he’ll meet us at the gate. We go in there. Send some help to them. Pull catch dogs off the buggy and get in there to see they got 20ish head dang near in a pile.
Decide to send bulldogs even though we know how this typically goes. Lizzo and dynamite roll in and everything scrambles. Dynamite and 2 cur dogs end up caught on a boar in the creek.
We can hear other cur dogs bayed 50ish yards behind us. while we’re killing the boar, the garmin shows lizzo is about 20 yards away in the creek. Tim sends me to find her while he breaks his bulldog off. I walk over and look down and lizzo is caught on a smaller boar in the creek. Neither making a sound until I showed up. I was pretty surprised and Mr.Mica was too as he was standing right above her almost and never realized she was there. He made sure to pull out his phone and get some pictures as I drown the hog. About that time them cur dogs bring that 3rd hog back to Tim’s lap and lizzo goes to him and they kill another young boar. Lizzo was probably caught for 5 minutes solo and then 3 boars were 30 yards apart from the furthest 2.
That’s the only picture I got all day. Dogs ended up rolling all the way back down towards where we started. We had pilgrim and Misty bayed at 1.5 and the other 3 gyps were running another 5 head across our place. My grandpa made sure to call and let me know he just seen the darndest thing lol. Took too long to get around and Misty and pilgrim lost theirs after he jumped 2 ponds. Went to the gyps they had another shoat and we called it. Tim was pretty happy with young dogs showing in that country. I am as well.
We’ve got 6 long yearlings really trying to make dogs and another round of coming yearlings acting like they might be getting ready to start being used a little bit.
Also got a bulldog breeding in the works with Rednose. Was a last minute deal when Tim called and said cardi was in. I texted Thomas asking if he knew where a stud was and he reminded me of Rednose’s Hoss dog. Mr.Rednose was kind enough to let me actually come get his dog and bring him to cardi on a half days notice so we could have our vet involved.
all 4 of my coming yearlings. Related 3 ways. Betting we bat 1.000 on them working as well.
Spoon. This dude is trying to make a pretty nice 2 year old. Miles are all that’s between him and being a great hog dog I believe. And he is a nice looking animal in my eyes to boot.
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