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I shoot over my dogs when I hunt alone. I have two dogs that that bay loose and dont mind gun shots. One dog will even back up more when I move in to make the shot. Just have to take your time and hunt loose baying dogs. Both will catch after the shot if the hog drops, if it doesnt drop they wont touch it. Had to make multiple shots on a sow one night and they didnt touch her until she was down.
I think you can do it at night, you just have to be quite and helps to have someone else with you to hold a light.
I like to shot over them sometimes. I can go alone and make a quick hunt by the house. I have used a 7x57,30cal and tuesday I used a 12ga slug. I can say all rounds work good. The slug flat out knocked him down. My 7x57 has yet to exit on a hog. Smallest being 75lbs.
** Tuesday night I drop my two grown dogs out. They bayed a good boar in a corn feild. No way for me to get in there and shoot so I broke the bay and the hog went into a creek. Thats the only bad thing this time of year. Impossible to shoot in corn that is 6 ft tall.
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you hav to get down on your belly in the corn  i hav shot over my dogs for years and hav never had a problem |
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They Call It The Hill Country I Call It Home !
The more people I'm around the more I like my dogs !!
ROOT HOG OR DIE
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Bar M
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As far as the ruining them. I ask because I have a dog that was a great strike dog. Great hunter, just an all around great dog. Pretty much 'finished'. But I sold her to a buddy and he shot over the bay. He soon got tired of hunting and sold her back to me. Now since she has been back, she will strike a pig, but as soon as the other dogs get there or she sees us coming she leaves. Does not stick around. (We do not shoot over them, we don't even carry a gun)
The only thing I can think is that she got scared of the gun??..
That is why I asked if anyone has ever seen that ruin a dog.
Do you think she will come out of??
Alan - Come on...we have been hunting quite a bit lately. We just do it at night or first thing in the morning.
We would be glad to have ya!
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As far as the ruining them. I ask because I have a dog that was a great strike dog. Great hunter, just an all around great dog. Pretty much 'finished'. But I sold her to a buddy and he shot over the bay. He soon got tired of hunting and sold her back to me. Now since she has been back, she will strike a pig, but as soon as the other dogs get there or she sees us coming she leaves. Does not stick around.
The only thing I can think is that she got scared of the gun??..
That is why I asked if anyone has ever seen that ruin a dog.
Do you think she will come out of??
I got a dog several years ago that I shot over a couple times and he did the same thing. Would still hunt decent, but would come out of a bay when he saw me coming. I think I only shot over him twice, but it took a long time before he got right again. Good luck. |
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As far as the ruining them. I ask because I have a dog that was a great strike dog. Great hunter, just an all around great dog. Pretty much 'finished'. But I sold her to a buddy and he shot over the bay. He soon got tired of hunting and sold her back to me. Now since she has been back, she will strike a pig, but as soon as the other dogs get there or she sees us coming she leaves. Does not stick around. (We do not shoot over them, we don't even carry a gun)
The only thing I can think is that she got scared of the gun??..
That is why I asked if anyone has ever seen that ruin a dog.
Do you think she will come out of??
Alan - Come on...we have been hunting quite a bit lately. We just do it at night or first thing in the morning.
We would be glad to have ya!
Man I hate to hear that. I guess I have never seen it because the dogs I have always shot around was raised as pups and always around shooting. Something to try would be to let her bay a hog outside the pen. Send her to it from a distance and let her bay a wile. As you approach her, talk to her and encourage here to keep on working. Stay close but work your way around the pen encouraging her only if she stops barking. It may be touch and go at 1st but I think she will eventually stop worrying about a "BIG BANG" on your approach in the woods but it may take a wile. I will be in touch to organize a hunt with you guys soon. |
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"No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs." - President Harry Truman
“I like hogs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Hogs treat us as equals” - Sir Winston Churchill
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As far as the ruining them. I ask because I have a dog that was a great strike dog. Great hunter, just an all around great dog. Pretty much 'finished'. But I sold her to a buddy and he shot over the bay. He soon got tired of hunting and sold her back to me. Now since she has been back, she will strike a pig, but as soon as the other dogs get there or she sees us coming she leaves. Does not stick around. (We do not shoot over them, we don't even carry a gun)
The only thing I can think is that she got scared of the gun??..
That is why I asked if anyone has ever seen that ruin a dog.
Do you think she will come out of??
Alan - Come on...we have been hunting quite a bit lately. We just do it at night or first thing in the morning.
We would be glad to have ya!
It almost sounds like she was being hunted with a dog that like to cause trouble with her. Maybe not, but I've seen them decide to eliminate the possibility of dog scraps. Will she leave a bayed hog, if she is the only one baying? Have you gone in to her with no other dogs around to see if she stays? Just curious. |
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I've never shot hogs over my dogs but I shot a barn sparrow off my back porch the other day and my two best dogs would not come out the rest of that night.
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" A bad dog eats as much as a good one"
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I shoot over my dogs and take my youngins with me to the forests or gun range as soon as they can leave the house to get them used to it. Majority of my kills are with my knife but in the case of a big scrappy boar my dogs know I'm coming. I have noticed my older 2 dogs know the command to back up and will do it consistantly but my 7 month old pup I just started still gets so excited and stuck on working the pig it takes a few tries to get her out which leaves her on the pig by herself. Good training for her but gets me uncomfortable and I start getting ansy to drop the pig or put the big dogs back in. Good times! |
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I am fortunate to have my kennels in the country where I can shoot right next to them. I have had very good luck shooting with them in the kennel (their safe zone) and then feeding them right after (positive reinforcement). It doesn't take more than a couple days and they are bouncing around waiting to be fed when I am shooting.
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