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« on: September 09, 2008, 10:23:03 am » |
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2.76 miles(as the crow flies) through swamp bottoms and catching the hog the other day got me wondering how far yall have had to go to a bay before. Now I'm talking about starting and finishing on the same hog, not getting burned and finding another...
That's the furthest my dogs have ever gone to stop one(and I'd still rather they had stopped it or quit it earlier). It's probably a question of how far have you seen a hog go more than a dog, because I know those hounds will go forever...
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Rowdy
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« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2008, 11:11:17 am » |
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Noah of coarse i just have hounds but the longest race with the plotts i have was around seven miles on the same boar his ears were eat off and cut all to hatie!
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« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2008, 03:46:35 pm » |
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Cant really give a distance or time but I can say I dont have any quitters. LOL
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« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2008, 04:08:16 pm » |
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Now I'm talking about starting and finishing on the same hog, not getting burned and finding another... How would you know that they started and stopped the same hog other than actually seeing the hog when they started it? We have had some long races that netted a hog at the end, though no way of knowing if it was the same hog from start to finish. |
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« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2008, 04:32:51 pm » |
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long races...whew.....thats EXACTLY why i went to pretty much all bulldogs, lol
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Noah
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« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2008, 05:24:24 pm » |
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Now I'm talking about starting and finishing on the same hog, not getting burned and finding another... How would you know that they started and stopped the same hog other than actually seeing the hog when they started it? We got a good look at the hog when the race started, that's why I mentioned it. |
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« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2008, 09:29:54 pm » |
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I have been a couple different hogs that where cought right at 2 miles from where the dogs originally bayed the hog. One was last July and it had just rained and we were able to to see where the hogs track and dog tracks on our way to the bay and then it would brake and we kept following and following knowing is was a good size hog by the size of the track. We cought that boar and I still have his head, prolly didn't weigh over 180 and had about 3/4" teeth but he was an older hog and SMART and in my book was a true trophy. He covered ground back and forth and knew how to work his terrain. He cut 5 out of 6 dogs pretty dang good and almost crippled my brandy dog. I hate long races but there is something really rewarding about catching a hog that breaks and runs and then bays over and over. I also like to think that I am removing a bad running hog gene from the breeding pool  . |
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« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2008, 09:56:55 pm » |
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51/2 miles from the west rim of Tule Canyon to the east Rim. 1000 feet down then 1000 feet up the other side. Two good young gritty bay dogs on two boars that stayed together and worked together. I got to see alot of it while climbing to the dogs. The dogs would hold one boar and the other would run back in and grab a dog across the back, pick him up and shake him and then they would break and run. Seven hours on foot. Toughest hunt of my life.
Longest on time 14 hrs. Two, hound Catahoula crosses. Track struck at 9pm finaly tracked to them the next day and carried them out of the canyon at 10 am the next morning. Both dogs were suffering from heat exaustion and were layed up for 45 days, but they were still bayed on a set of 100lb hogs that they had tracked off a feeder the night before.
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« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2008, 10:19:17 pm » |
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hunt with some plotts sometimes and have ran hogs for 7-9 hours on a couple hunts,, them plotts can go!
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« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2008, 10:31:37 pm » |
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 Two miles verified by GPS. I know it was the same hog cause I kept up the whole way on foot. No bulldogs. Curs and knife. |
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Noah
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« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2008, 11:06:56 pm » |
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51/2 miles from the west rim of Tule Canyon to the east Rim. 1000 feet down then 1000 feet up the other side. Two good young gritty bay dogs on two boars that stayed together and worked together. I got to see alot of it while climbing to the dogs. The dogs would hold one boar and the other would run back in and grab a dog across the back, pick him up and shake him and then they would break and run. Seven hours on foot. Toughest hunt of my life.
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« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2008, 09:00:44 am » |
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Long enough to last about 2 hours and make me barf a couple of times along the way............. I hate races!  Steve |
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« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2008, 06:05:30 pm » |
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There have been some long ones and I'm not sure the longest, but the first one that comes to mind was a big barron sow this spring that had to weight close to 250lbs. She went 4 miles across the Old Brazos River twice(its more like a creek) and the Big Brazos once and finally bayed on the other side of the big Brazos. The ranch manager saw her and the dogs but did not have a gun to shoot her with. she was not running all out the whole time more like a roling bay. We had to go back up stream to cross the old brazos the first time she crossed, then she crossed back and we had to also. So we got pretty far behind. Finnally we got to the Big Brazos and they were baying just on the other side but up in the vines so I stayed just across from them on the river bank and pops went to try and find a boat. But I hitched a ride across with some guys that came allong fishing. I found the sow so hot that she could barely stand and the dogs were close to the same it was in the high 80's, and probly 90% humiditity. When I got there the dogs would let out only a few barks per min. and the dogs and hog were just laying down. The sow would get up and try to run again but could'nt hardly move and the dogs would nip her and she would lunge at them and fall down and just lay there then the dogs would lay down again. They did that a few times before I got a shot throught the thick vines and took the dogs to the river asap.
Last Satrday we had a hog cross the river and the dogs bayed it for 5 hours and we could not find a boat, or call them out because the wind was in the wrong direction. The wind finally changed and I was able to call them out, but they stayed and taught that hog how to bay for a good while. But that day the hog only ran about a half mile.
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« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2008, 07:22:16 pm » |
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I've only really GPS'ed one race and it was three miles... straight line from where we struck. The race itself was probably more like 5 or 6 miles in a big loop. Unfortunately we were on foot in a river bottom. Finally got tired of chasing them and waited until they were tracked in the same spot for a while. That ended up being a loooong night. |
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