Plotts

[TexasHogDogs]

Yeah you can really tell the difference on those two lines of dogs.  You can sure tell that female is family related to my male they look a lot alike.  It sure was nice talking to you and if you need to use this  male just let me know he is a pretty good bred little fellow most important he has been finding hogs since 10 months old and has never stopped also quiet on track only barking when he is looking at the hog and is a med distance  hunter a real looping dog only getting real rangey when he is on a runner they have trouible stopping he won't quit lots of game lots of drive and hunt.  You can come hunt with him if you like.

 Stay in touch.

THD

15 Months old in pic.



His pups at 6 Months old

[Hog]

This was a good thread on dogs.  I know its almost a year old, but just signed up on the page and was using the search and it popped up..

I think the original post was asking about pocahantas plotts. 

I only owned 1.  He was a night champion coon dog and needed if my memory serves me right, 1 more win and would be a grand night champion coon dog.

I had been on a coon dog message board I think it was  at coon hound central.  Keep in mind, I never was much count as a coon hunter, just wasnt exciting enough for me.  But, I found a nitch.  Them coon  and bear hunters are bad to pull out the 22 remington if a sure nuff coon hound does two things  1. is on a hunt and runs across a hog track and likes hogs more than coons if suppose to be a coon dog or 2. if they ran quiet.  A coon hunter has to hear his dog to make a call on a coon contest... no bark, no call, no points....and bear hunters, they love to hear that dogs voice.  No voice, no likey..

I got several dogs over the years from the above when one of the two happened..  The coon hunters would usually give you the dog, but, without papers just to save the bullet... the bear hunters, they didnt have many give me's, but would sell'm quick and cheap compared to what they had paid for the dog in the first place.

Well, this is how I got the pocohontas male dog I had.   Talked to the fella on a message board the night he came in from the hunt.. He was mad as a hornet at the dog....   got on a hog and wouldnt get off, had to follow his dang tracking collar all night and was imbarrased as heck infront of the other coon hunters....

I had to drive all the way from Danbury Texas to Bentonville arkansas that weekend to get him, but, other than gas and food along the way, He didnt cost me a dime.

Took him hog hunting the following weekend, he never barked a time until he was looking at the hog.   Never once ran a coon when I owned him... A gator finally got him as he was after a hog in a slew...  He was a natural hog dog and ran quite for me on hogs, but, I ran him mostly by himself or another dog that ran quiet also.  I wasnt much for turning a mess of dogs loose at one time..  But, some folks like that type of huntin.  Theres no right or wrong way if a hog is at the end of the bark...     

A hound will run game naturally if he's/she's got any heart at all, you just have to find the game he wants to run the most...  If its a hog, man, hold on to that dog...  but if it likes coons more, let a coon hunter have it and find you another..

Just my opinon,

Hog

[firemedic]

I agree with you hog,....that's how I came by my best dog right now,....she's a cur/fiest cross that started yipping on a really hot hog track and that was it....the guy that owned her was done with her. I traded another dog for her and a little boot. Since I mostly hunt with guys that have hounds that are open on track it made no difference to me if she yipped a little bit on track. She's a heck of a hog finding dog and I'm very happy with her. Good luck on your next hunt.

[Bama36502]

Ive got a pochahontas hammer breed plott male (open). Hunts his arss off. Just bred him to a solid florida cur bitch.

[Coady Curbow]

We have a plott from Orval Roberts.  He is twelve years old, but he is still our main strike dog.  Not real fast, but has more nose than anything I've ever hunted with.  The thing that really sets him apart is heart.  This past year on one hunt, he started the hog then we turned four two year olds to him.  An hour later we made a road crossing, the young dogs crossed 15 minutes before he did.  Five hours later, the old dog had the hog bayed by himself while the young dogs were in the box, having been picked up along the way.

I have a two year old from White Deer Kennel that is making a nice dog.

Both of these dogs are open on track.  My Dad uses silent BMC's, but I think I bay as many as he does.  When he can't start a track, he will tell me, "Go ahead and put one of those loud-mouthed SOB's on it and see what they can do".  LOL

[jesse]

hear is my plott out of bear and cat dogs best hog dog i can find my dad raise hem from a pup       some hogs we got with him