Dec 30 Solo Hunt

[crackerc]

Loaded Monkey and my pups this morning and went for a public land hunt. Hunted several hours, but only saw some other hunters and some hounds. I had let my pups out with Monkey hoping to get them on their first hog in the woods. Just never got on anything, even though they hunted with Monkey better than I thought they would. This was their second trip to the woods. Monkey is starting to get worn out from all the hunting I have been doing the past few weeks, so I only hunted part of the day.

I loaded up and was headed out, saw some hog tracks that were probably made last night as they had all been run over by trucks, you could only see the tracks in the ditch. I wasn't far from the highway so I only let Monkey out, just for a last ditch attempt before I headed home. He went off into the palmettos and a few minutes later I heard him bark once about 100-150 yards off in the woods, then it was a caught hog! And wouldn't you know it, both my pups in the box........

As I could see the road from where I was I didn't even let my pups out to go to him. So they missed out completely.

It isn't much of a hog, in fact, I forgot to take a pic until I got home. I put her in with my good toothy boar here at the house. If she isn't bred, she soon will be......in time for her return to the woods with some new genetics after hunting season.... 

[sfboarbuster]

I put her in with my good toothy boar here at the house. If she isn't bred, she soon will be......in time for her return to the woods with some new genetics after hunting season.... 

Thats what I like to hear!!!

[hogdoggerdude14]

Thats looks like a good hunt

[craig]

sounds like one of my puppy training sesions, i wouldnt have turned them out either.
glad to see you have been hunting alot kinda makes me jelous (spelling) .    my hunting will kick of this weekend deer season is finally over and  it will be pretty good thru first of april  then turkey season starts and i will let up a little.   maybe i can be contributing to the post before to long.

[Noah]

Good deal Mark, it's been too long since I got to start some pups... reminds me of how exciting it can be!  I'll be down south the wknd of the 8-9th to hunt with some new guys, the foot is border line good-e-nuff   Let's try an' get together soon(ON A WKND!!! )

[crackerc]

I plan on taking several bred sows back to the woods after the season closes there...most will be bred to my good black toothy boar from GSW. Those hogs are known for growing teeth and he has them........I am breeding some sows to him, then will take them back up after deer season and kick them back out in the woods. That way they will have 9 months or so to raise some GSW/GH cross pigs....... We can only hog hunt this property from Nov to Jan so the pigs will be safe until next Nov.


craig, that just seems how its been with these two pups. They turned 9 months old in Dec and still haven't seen a pig in the woods. I have been mainly hunting by myself and can handle Monkey and Spur by myself, but its tough to leg/tie a hog and control two big pups and an old dog by yourself......so I haven't been taking them like I should. I just need to make myself do it, as they are big and old enough to go.........

Next year I hope to have sfboarbuster there to help me....

[craig]

thats the way it goes , some of my pups miss out on everything , then the next set i raise get to see it all by the time they are 6 mo. old.
  i have a gyp now that i raised when she was 5 mo. old , first trip to the woods got on a 300# er, i would have like for her to have seen some smaller ones first. got a tendon cut on her back leg, got that fixed. lost about 6 mo. training on her though.

[crackerc]

I have tried to ease these pups into hunting...I may have been too easy, as yesterday was only their second trip to the woods and they turned 9 months old Dec 20. What I was trying to prevent was just what you described. I have seen several young dogs ruined by getting hurt their first couple of hunts. Some just never seem to gain their confidence back.

Last year a buddy took a Monkey x JJ pup he got from me on his first hunt at about 9 months old. Monkey bayed in a palmetto/gallberry thicket and when we got close the pup went to him. The pup ran in, tried the hog (he had been messed with a time or two in a controlled situation with a hog), got slung about 10-12 feet, came right back, and got cut several times. Monkey got cut once in the fight as he thought he had help catching, not realizing it was just a pup with him. We had to shoot the hog to save the young dog as he just kept going back in. It was a 205 lb boar with about 2" teeth and we had to staple the pup in five places...some cuts were 4-5 inches long, plus he had numerous pokes.

That put the young dog out of commission for several weeks, luckily he didn't get killed. It hasn't slowed him down on the hogs, but I have seen some that something like that would have ruined them.

Thats what I am trying to prevent on these two pups, at least until they get on a few hogs in the woods.....

[lilmisshogdogger]

YOU SURE ARE ON A ROLL! I KNO WHAT YOU MEAN ABOUT THE PUPS, GOOD LUCK ON THEM HOPE U CAN GET THEM GOIN AND THEY DO WELL FOR YA! SOUNDS LIKE THEY WILL HAVE PLENTY TO GET ON COME NOV