Hunt 9.6.08

[Noah]

Made a morning hunt at 33 and turned out about 7.  Dogs worked over the first big bayhead and no pigs.  Pulled them over to the other side and off to the races.  We eased in to get close to the action and the pig looped right back to us.  As we were standing on the edge of canal we heard the hog running head long at us, he broke the palmettos and did a flying leap into the water coming right at us... a half second later I see Snappa flying through the air and she landed right on him, latching on to his ear.  AJ met him when he reached the other side and it was done.  Few shoulder pokes on Snapps but he only had 1 1/2" of teeth.  Tied him up and sent the dogs on, they struck about a 100' away and the real race began....

2.76 miles later (thank God for GPS), and 2.5 hrs of walking through knee deep water and head high palmettos in full 90 degree sun....WITH ONLY a PINT of water to split between the FOUR OF US $#!% (Everyone conveniently left their water at the truck but me)..... we finally caught up to the dogs and they had a sow caught.  Dispatched her and made the 2.5 hr hike out. 

Fun hunt now that it's over, brought the bar home to give the pups something to practice on.   Lee's cat pup is no more... she would never leave our feet, even when a whole pack walked out in front of us 60yds ahead....  I gave him one of my white pups so he'll have a dog in the fight.

The marathon sow... still aggravated my two couldn't shut her down quicker, gonna start running one of these ruff pups with them from now on... hopefully give me some anchoring ability on these runners. 


Bar hog and hired help   They had a blast even though we tried to kill them

[Wyatt 545]

   Lee's cat pup is no more... she would never leave our feet, even when a whole pack walked out in front of us 60yds ahead....  I gave him one of my white pups so he'll have a dog in the fight.

HUH?  You make it sound like yall gave the pup one hunt.  Please don't tell me the pup is really "no more" for that.

[Noah]

She's been on 25-30 hunts and was just not improving.  Go in to check a bay, bark once or twice and walk away.... and repeat.  We've got too many dogs that want to hunt to fool with a dog that doesn't.  You're not the guy that bred her are you?  He(my hunting buddy) and another guy got 4-5 of these young dogs from a guy in Winterhaven, FL.... not one of them has done a thing yet.

[shawn]

i agree with ya noah, if a dog wont hunt, bye bye, try to find a good home for it (peta people read here), or whatever. lol....good hunt, still wanna hunt with the "florida lagend" one day.

[Noah]

still wanna hunt with the "florida lagend" one day.

Thanks Shawn, one of these days "grasshoppa"   How's that pack of bulldogs doing, are they ranging out very far?

[shawn]

well they was doing good until last weekend when we went with ellis country and ran into a couple of his "shoats" lol, thoses river bottom hogs tore half our bulldog pack up, lol was proud of micheals little pit prince though, lil 40 lb sucker that "needs a biscuit" was hanging on like an earring and didnt even get one wack from the hog.

I dunno, a couple of buddys wounds arent healing as fast as i thought they would, plus he got an infection in his jaw from a little scratch i didnt see and dr. so with deer season coming up and two of our better find and catch bulldogs on the mend, looks like hunting is over for us until the winter, unless someone with a pack will feel sorry for us and let us "tag along"?

[Mike]

Palmettos suck! I've got a place you'd feel right at home in... 10 to 12 ft. high.

Looks like y'all had a good hunt!

[Noah]

Palmettos suck!

Yes they do   It's amazing how bad the saw palmettos can cut you when you try to run to a bay   Always seem to trip and fall and those suckers will cut your knuckles to the bone

Pigs sure do love them though... especially now that the berries are about to be ripe...

[clint]

good hogs noah