Lets get familiar

[Rockin-P-Ranch]

He is talking about with this many people on this board that there are no one is posting up to share. It aint like someone is going to make fun of you.

[BobbyB]

I grew up following my grandpa and the old guy that worked for us coon hunting on a ranch that had about 4 miles of Colorado River frontage in WHarton County.. I live in Hond now,. I have had hounds, beagles, labs, and bird dogs.

I have a kennel full of Britts and English Pointers right now. I have hunted with friends dogging hogs here and there over the years and got myself a BMC last Fall. he is getting better all the time and I have a 14 month old gyp that is trying and a 4 month old gyp that I believe from all signs here at home is going to be a good one.

I had thought about hog dogs over the years, but what really started me is the fact that quail are getting scarcer and hogs are getting more plentiful.

As y'all know you can hunt hogs year 'round, but I only get a few trips for quail.

My son just got a nice Cat pup from Douglas Mason, but personally, I like the yellow dogs.

[HogzgoneWild]

gottagettem- Rockin-p is right, and no one will be made fun of or any other negativety. Thanks Rockin-P for clarifying that for me in my absence. This is just to get to know one another better and get an idea of what each of us do. Lots of views but not as many posts is what I was refering to, and with a few thousand members the posts numbers aren't good.

[Jared H.]

My name is Jared Honzell and I am 28yrs old and live in Pittsburg Tx. I've been hog hunting since I was old enough to hold a gun but have only had hog dogs for about a year.  I got a job at Priefert and my supervisors are big into it.  After going with them a few times I was hooked.  Right now I have a 3yr old bmc that is nothing but a help dog and then 5 pups that Im just starting to work with.  When I hunt by myself I walk hunt and mainly just bay and shoot unless my dogs decide to catch.  I love working with dogs and watching them come into their own.  I've hunted with some good dogs so far but none of them were mine. LOL But I know my time is coming so I just keep walking mile after mile every chance I get until my dogs stop a hog. And when they do it makes me so proud that I completely forget about all of the dry runs.  That's my story so far.

[willhunt4food]

My name is Will I am 37 yrs old live in Rosharon TX...  I have had all kinds hunting and working dogs. Im a Dog Sgt and run man tracking dogs for over 15 yrs as a living......right now I have 34 hounds and 18 horses that I train at work. I live where I work and its 17000 acres to run dogs on...My hog dogs 4 lep cats... 3 female 1 male and 1 plott male I hunt with 2 orther buds we run 6 to 12 RCD at a time we walk hunt.. some wheeler mostly to pick of dogs. Have been hog doggen off and on 15 yrs. I like to see the reward of training and good dogs working be it on a man or a hog!!!  I have 4 kids and they all hunt and fish!!!! I'm big on kids going hunting and fishing!!!!

[gottagettem]

oh ..... ok........ i miss read .........and yes there is alot of people. on here... for no responces......i just started my own pack.... so im still sum what learning.... i really dont care what people think of me... cause im me.... if they dont like then who cares... i hunt for the love of outdoors.. and fun.... without that .. its just something to do....... but fun  ass hell chasing what ever u hunt....  i love a good bay .... and hope to learn more from the people i meet on here....

[Coady Curbow]

I'm Coady Curbow, from Garrison, TX.  My family and I started hog hunting in the mid 90's when hogs first started showing up.  We us BMC, Plott, and Redbones.  We turn the hunt into a social event.  We used to hunt by ourselves, but we came to the conclusion that making friends was more important than always catching a hog.  We try to carry young people any time we can.

I've been around some good dogs over the past 15 years.  I get off on starting young dogs and watching them grow into a hog dog.  Got two boys ages 6 and 3 that I love to carry.

I have come to realize that it is good to try to be an ambassador to the sport.  Carrying young people is a good way because they might grow up to be  a person of influence.

[djhogdogger]

 My name is Dinah, I am 40 yrs. old and I live in Dayton, TX.
 I hunt hogs with my husband who has hunted hogs his whole life. We went hog hunting on some of our dates before we were married back in the early 90's. We stopped hunting for a while because team roping consumed our lives for a while, and then we put our pack together a year and a half ago and started hunting again. We
   hunt off of 4 wheelers.  Our pack is 2 red bmc's, 1bmc/cat, 1 cat, 1 pit cd, 1 pit/dane cd. We usally put 2 or 3 bay dogs on the ground and then use a lead in cd. unless we are hunting with friends and then anything goes. I hunt because it is so much fun and it puts meat in the freezer. I prefer to feed my family wild meat because it is so much healthier than whats in the grocery store. We hunt mostly farm land to help eliminate hogs for the local farmers, but we do it for recreation.

[rdjustham]

grew up around dogs, some good some bad.  got into dogging a few years ago with a buddy who grew up doing it.  Only had one dog since that was all "the boss" would let me have.  At the moment ive got a semi started cat and a pit pup.  Love working with dogs and have always trained my own, from protection to bird hunting and saw this as a new "training challenge".  Used to just shoot the dang things but after one dogging trip i was hooked.  Need to get back into some good yellar dogs though since now im "the boss" 

[jerryg]

My passion is blood tracking wounded deer with dogs, I have been doing this for about 10 yrs, got serious about 5 years ago and have an old strain of cow dogs that I use and also one solid Lacy.  I got into the hog hunting as an avenue to see different bloodlines work and to find what I could find to bring back to my original line bred deer dogs.  We feed about 6 hog dogs and 3 + blood tracking dogs, hunt hogs about 3 times per month or more when we can.  Track alot of deer during deer season... 

Jerryg

[Pudge]

I've loved hunting since I was a kid. Always have been dog crazy. Started hog hunting about ten years ago. I have Cats for baydogs and an AB for a catchdog. Not a whole lot of hogs where I live here in KY. Have to really work hard to get em. Hog hunting is how I relax. I've met a lot of good people thru hunting and made a few good friends.

[Nickjones]

My name is nick jones. I live in nogalus prarie, texas. I have been hunting for a little over four years. I walk, rider 4 wheelers and hunt of horses every once in a while. I have ten grown dogs and three pups. I have three curs, a plott/cur, a pit/cur, three mountain cur pups, a dogo/pit, full blooded pit, and ab. I have trained all the catch dogs, two of the curs, the three pups and the pit/cur. The other was given to me by friends or bought. Hog hunting is my high. Even though we haven't been able to stop the hogs the last two months, I still keep goin. I love to see all my work pay off WHEN my dogs DO bay and catch a hog.

[BarrNinja]

I hunted beagles as a kid growing up in North Alabama. My best friends on the farm were my guns, my horse, and a few AB/Pit crosses.
Those bull dogs were hell on stray cats, ground hogs, and the mail man! All strays were caught and eaten by those dogs!lol They came in handy if we had to catch a sirly hog out of the 40 acre hog pen also.

I moved to Texas with my family when I was in Junior High school. I didn’t think you were hunting with a dog unless it was a hound in those days.
I few Texas cowboys and a red runt BMC pup changed my mind forever when it came to hog hunting dogs!
A few more BoarNinja fun facts:

•   I am not a Ninja!  
•   I have been hunting hogs with my own dogs since I was 18. I started with hounds but it didn’t last long.
•   I am a big failure as a breeder! I have bred some of the best that I have ever owned. Just don’t ask me about all the culls!
•   I still love hounds but most of all I like to pick at those who raise and hunt them. I always let them start it though! You houndsmen still have my respect! Even as hog hunters. Please don’t forget it!
•   I don’t like cross breeding hunting dogs but I have seen some outstanding cross bred hog dogs.
•   I can’t stand a dog that barks on a track but my favorite gyp does way too often!
•   I don’t like Pits but I know some folks that own a few that I would feed!
•   I don’t hunt hogs to catch hogs or personal glory. If it wasn’t for the dogs, I wouldn’t even fool with them!
•   I love to see a great dog work whether it belongs to me or somebody else! I could care less if I own the best dogs! I just want a few good ones that suit me is all!
•   I have a huge respect for the men and women that have figured out how to consistently breed good hog/cow dogs and hunting dogs in general because that is something I have never been able to accomplish!
•   I hunt hogs with any source of transportation I can come by but I think everyone should hunt on foot from time to time to more appreciate the effort out of their dogs!
•   I am an expert at making biscuits and pissing women off but that is about it!
•   This December I will be married for 25 years and my wife still likes me and my dogs! My three adult children and my grand child think I am the greatest hog hunter and dog man of all time!!! I dont have the heart to tell them any different!
•   Im not a cowboy but some of my heroes are!
•   My wife “is” a Ninja!
•   I am a God fearing sinner saved by Grace through my Faith but I will drink all your beer on a fishing trip!

[cward]

Well I started going hunting and working cattle with my uncle as alittle feller he had no kids so I became his rideing buddy and have a whole lot of respect for him!!

I got my first puppy from him in 1991 at the age of 12. I started working with the pup and some how made a hellava hog/cow dog out of him!! I breed him to a bitch at a year old to get me some more pups to hunt my uncle was teaching me how to linebreed and it was working!!I have been breeding the same dogs since still useing them on hogs and cows!!

I have tryed most all cross's with my dogs and alway's went back to the line breeding had to cull to many of the others!!

Now I have 3 kids and a wife that hunt with me and would not do it any other way!They all have there own dogs!!

There are around 25 dogs on my place counting puppies!!But I cull hard so 25 could be 15 in a week!!

Love meeting and catching hogs with different people!!

[jhy]

My name is Joey Young and I am 34 years old.  I work in the Oil business, but spend more time with the dogs, or at least it seems that way.  Been raised with bulldogs and Dobermans since I was born until I was old enough to raise my own dogs.  Been raising hog dogs for over 10 years and still learning something about the dogs or hogs on almost every hunt, if not every hunt.  My philosiphy on hog dogs is that you have to evolve with the hogs and never have a closed mind about crosses or other breeds until you have tried or hunted with a decent example of the breed.

My different ways of hog hunting transportation includes most everything (Walking, buggies, truck, boat, horses, etc.)

I hunt pretty much cur crosses that are linebred out(bmc, mt. cur, catahoula, pit, walker,  and bluetick).  Still crossing dogs to reach a goal.  Some of the purebreds that I hunt are BMC, Jagd, Plott, Drathaar, Pitbull, and American Bulldog.  Dont know how many for sure but that is probally for the best. I hunt with a select group and every now and then I will hunt socially, but I am in the woods to work dogs and you got to catch hogs to work them for the most part.  Not to mention it is what the landowners want as well. My favorite breed of dogs is the Blue Heeler and they got me started in the stock dog world when I graduated highschool. I also enjoy working bulldogs in protection work and begining to dabble with the bird dog training as well.  All of this dog work is shared with my beautiful girlfriend and her two boys, which is a blessing.

That is it in a nutshell, hope I didnt leave anything out.

Joey Young

[Noah]

Grew up the son of a commercial deep drop fisherman in SW Florida... ol' pops instilled a real keen eye for "efficiency" in harvest  ... I credit him for my killer instinct... find what works and run with it till it don't work no more

My early yrs were spent fishing the gulf, and freedive spearfishing A LOT.... let's just say I've killed some fish   At 8 yrs old I remember my dad sending me down the anchor line in a cold, milky 30'... literally "feeling" my way down the anchor line to retrieve a hung anchor... "hung on what" was the only thing I could think of... "I ain't gonna lose an expensive anchor when you've got a perfectly good mask on the boat...", I remember him saying.... however.... the adrenaline rush on the way down evidentally stuck....

Raised in an upper class, Christian Reformed school... I was imprinted to look down on the "country folk" that lived inland of our coastal community... I still heard the stories though... stories of cattle, hogs, and dogs... far away from what I knew to that point...

"Grandpa" introduced me to hunting... a german immigrant living in Ohio, I stayed with them in the summers hunting pheasant and woodchucks    As a "water boy" I didn't have much access to hunting but I managed to find a viable population of squirrels, rabbits, doves, and coons to occupy my innate desire to hunt...  as a boy, my bedroom wall was covered by more varieties of animal skins, skulls, and carcass' than I'd like to admit to this day.... prelude to a serial killer... or just the most bad a$$ Florida born hunter ever??  .....Time will tell....

Moved up to Gainesville to go to UF after highschool... had never had the opportunity to be around "rednecks" until then... found some good ones and fully "immersed" myself into the culture to my familie's disgrin...

After a few yrs at UF, began to grow restless.... by this point I'd become an extremely proficient (self taught) deer hunter... had the bug bad... spent more months a yr than I'd like to admit in a tree...  I'd also, by this point, become a perty savvy horse trainer... which led me out west for another adventure...

Went to train with Pat Parelli, whom I credit with the majority of my animal psychology skillset.... he made me "quite" efficient    Trained reining horses for Bob Anthony and Ed Rennia for a spell....  Something about training animals really caught hold in me...

Can't say women had nothin' to do with it... but figures I met one that couldn't care less about them(my horses, that is)...  Trained on my own for a good few yrs, before realizing I needed a "safer" occupation if I was plannin' on raisin' a family...

Still a deer hunter at this point, I went back to my home town one fine day and was "talked into" going on a "hog dog hunt".....  "Why the hell would I want to go runnin' after a stinkin' hog??" I asked.... the promise of a few beers with friends (fortunately) talked me into it...

...The rest is history...

I gave up deer hunting pretty quick... my search for dogs began... I raised one from a friend's line and promptly got her killed by a car just as she was starting to produce... which was my first introduction to the heartache of this sport... so much time.... so much effort... here one second.... gone the next.

Fate stepped in immediately, in the form of my wife bringing home a mangy pup she'd picked up at the local hardware store.... after many arguments... April convinced me to keep the "coyote" looking pup a while longer...

Ellie taught me more about hog dogs than I can ever explain.... She and I did a lot of amazing things together... but I'm sure you all are tired of hearing about that 

Been workin' on dogs since to "replicate" what I saw in ol' Ellie.... some day... some day.


More than you wanted to know I'm sure

[HogzgoneWild]

Is that it?? C'mon guys still lots of folks with no info......Lets hear from some of the MODS too, that should've been the top of the list Post up guys and gals.

[firemedic]

I find this extremely interesting reading, it gives those of us that don't live in TX a chance to get to know you folks better and understand a bit about you.......so please, by all means jump right in here and tell us about yourself. Don't let it bother you if you're new to this sport or you don't have a big pack of hog finding, big boar catching super dogs,......the vast majority of us are in the same boat that you are. So come on, give us some insight into you and your hunting style.....hey, we weren't born knowing this, it's all learned.

[steadman]

I teach and coach in the great state of Texas! I have been hog hunting with dogs for 19 years. I hunt BMC and pits, usually hunt on foot or off the four wheelers. It is my favorite thing to do because I enjoy watching dogs work and the company that hunts with me. MY grandfather hunted, my father hunted and still does when he can. Its in my blood ! I do now have any kids as of now so I look at my dogs as my kids. Thanks for reading and happy hunting!

[DangerZone]

I've hunted in Texas my whole life. Started back when the only way to get a quick photo was a Polaroid camera lol. I've hunted bird dogs bout 8yrs ago and have been getting in to hog dogs the last three years. Lost my catahoula strike dog and two others in Hwy accident last year. Started building me a new pack this winter going with BMC's this time. I carry my dogs with me to work  nearly every day for the first 5-6 month when I first get them to get a solid bond and a good handle with them. I've really enjoyed this forum good people and a wealth of info. I've only met 1-2 members on here but I hope to get to hunt with others when the chance comes around. I love the hunt but I think I'm getting the most enjoyment from training the pups my self, when they get it or figure out what your wanting from them and I can get them to repeat it, it's awesome........wish everyone....hard stools lol....happy hunting ....and  god bless !!