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« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2025, 10:07:01 pm » |
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I listened to it earlier on. I enjoyed it except I missed the part where he talked about considering the introduction of some border collie to freshen those plott dogs up.
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« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2025, 07:12:29 am » |
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No problem at all. Hope y'all enjoy it.
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« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2025, 06:43:17 am » |
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Mike, it was an enjoyable listen. It sounds like you hunted a time or three! lol
Tell us about them old cur dogs. I know you said what you had couldnt reproduce. What were they? Where they scatterbred cur dogs or just the line of dogs the hunters aged out?
Ive spent a lot of time with these old cur dogs......but this plott dog thing can create an itch on an old hog hunter!
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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2025, 06:42:01 pm » |
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I just listened to it and have to apologize. The reception on my end was not that great.
Those cur dogs came out of Abita Springs, La. and they were Catahoula Curs. Those guys had cows and hogs in the woods and had about gotten rid of all their dogs. I was shoeing a horse for Sal Smith and noticed a few cur dogs hanging around and asked him about them. He said they were all that was left of his Dad's dogs that he used on cows and hogs. He had a young blue leopard about 8 months that he offered me and said he was going to keep the parents. The Dam of the pup was a blue leopard and the sire was a yellow brindle.Those dogs were leggy lean built dogs not at all like the heavier built Catahoulas seen today. Anyway I took him and he made a real dog that had unbelievable stamina and a real good nose. I had gotten a gyp from Robert Hobgood( She was a Mason bred dog) and bred them. One of those was one of the ones that stayed bayed so long. He was a Yellow brindle like his Grandsire. Named him Couger and the other one was a Blackmouth cur that was a 1/4 treeing Walker named Hank.
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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2025, 07:55:50 pm » |
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So you didn’t get the opportunity to do any line breeding with those dogs. They sound like my kind of dogs.
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« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2025, 08:13:04 pm » |
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No TDog, sure didnt. Had a Grandson of Dawg and he was a pretty fair dog but never reproduced himself.
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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2025, 04:04:50 pm » |
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Dang that can sure hurt a fella’s feelings when he likes something like that and can’t keep it going.
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« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2025, 03:59:39 pm » |
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T dog that was before the internet so didnt really know where else to look and at that point I was well into bear hunting with Plotts.
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« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2025, 01:35:49 pm » |
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Cajun, back in the 90’s when I lived in Maryland we went bear hunting down in North Carolina. I don’t know if you have any connections out there, but Lord have mercy there are some absolute monster sized bears in the eastern part of that state.
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« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2025, 07:14:08 pm » |
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I have hunted the coast of No. Carolina and the reason they grow such big bear is agricultural. Pretty thick terrain but plenty of bear.
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« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2025, 07:44:24 pm » |
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Our lease was across the road from some huge cornfields, where the bears gorged themselves all night, then slid across the road into the woods in the predawn darkness. Opening morning found a line of trucks with dog boxes lining the road to keep the bears from crossing the road. Our group was being blocked out, we still had some success but the group that had the lease across from us who blocked the road had a slay fest.
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Man I bet that was loud with that many dogs in one area! I know here we have some corn fields that are big enough for dogs to be out of hearing without leaving it, but that sounds like a lot of hounds. When I was hunting row crops, I found that more dogs was better and more bite seemed to help. The dogs get fanned out in there and it makes it a little harder for the hogs to slip around. Those hogs would break and run down a row and then all of a sudden duck over a couple of rows and stand still. The dogs would pass them and they would go back the direction they just came from. More dogs made that a little harder. More bite helped catch the smaller type stuff and keep the bigger ones that could be convinced to stand to stop and stand. The ones that couldn’t be convinced usually left the corn and to me that was better for me and the dogs.
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T-dog, I previous to that hunt I had coon dogs, hog hunted with dogs, but the roar in the woods that morning was the loudest I’d ever heard. The man in charge of the group across the road called our man in charge to let him know that a big bear made it into our block. They dumped the hounds in behind him ad ended up baying him on the ground. One of the guys walked in and shot him but not before he killed one hound. Turned out to be a 450lb boar. I’ve got the pics laying around here somewhere.
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That sounds wild
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