Your Best of the Best. (Strike Dogs)

[djhogdogger]

We have two best dogs to date that are equally good but have very different styles of hunting. They both have a good nose and are long range but the red bmc is rough with an evil hatred for hogs with no stop until he gets what he is after then he will catch with the cd, and then the red brindle dog is loose baying and will find his own track and has a great handle and has just started to roll out after we get our hands on the hog this year. He is an older style dog. He has been known to bay a choat when he is by himself. We have had to make lots of phone calls to get permission to go get both of these dogs.  They have produced many hogs for us.

Red  He is 2 but has many battle scars



Foot  He is 3 1/2 and although he has been on many, many hogs he doesn't really have any scars because he bays so loose



Red is caught with the cd and Foot is the red brindle still baying.

[Brad W.]

I'm a rookie to the sport, and this is my first hog dog but she has proven to be the best dog I've ever owned. She might not meet the expectations of some of you but to me she is the best! She's nine months old this weekend and has already found me a few hogs. I'm sure in the years to come and as I start to grow my pack I'll run across some better hog dogs but as of now to me "She's the Best of the Best".

[Indian Valley Ranch]

This is Gator, a good strike dog that is gone but not forgotten. He found his 1st hog in Jan. of 1998 and didn't stop until he was around 10yrs old. He was a NALC Cat., and the best $50 investment we ever made. Gator was a christmas present for my dad, we didn't know he really wanted a blue leopard, oh well, too bad. He joked about him cramping his style because my dad hunted on a palamino horse, a bunch of yella cur dogs, a yella, ring necked AB catch dog and then there was Gator. He didn't mind as much when he started finding hogs on a regular basis. He also sired some real good pups. Wish I still had some of them.

[Indian Valley Ranch]

This is Skip, he was a son of Sadie (on page 1) and the first strike dog we ever had Sam. Skip didn't need any help to stop a bad hog or keep him bayed up. It took him a few years and alot of penicillan injections to figure out he needed to wait on the bulldog before catching. He was a little older than Gator and they were always competing for lead dog. They very seldom hunted together, which was a plus because between the 2, they covered some ground. It was always a toss up who would bay first. Skip also found hogs for us until he was over 10 yrs old.

[hookem54]

These are the best I've ever owned

Tiger is still on my yard hard hunting little dog never quits countless hogs under his belt

Buck was truly probably one of the best at finding a hog and holding bay in his younger days

Jr was also one of a kind he found hogs when you thought none were around lost him about two months ago (on the far left caught)

boy (10 years old still a very good dog just very grouchy)

Cricket great strike dog but all catch that is what claimed him very tough loss for me

[Tusk Hog]

I consider myself very fortunate to have these. I raised all 4 in this picture, still own 3 of them and the other I give to one of my hunting buddies as a pup. They are all straight BMC's. There's 3 generations represented there and all are very capable of finding their own pig. Pete is the black dog and is 6, Titus next to him is 2, Taz is 4, and last is Peaches she is 2 and a full sister to Titus.

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

This is Ole Trooper. He was out of my old lines from above and is what I am considering my last can't buy him dogs. He is old and grey faced in this picture but I promise don't let it fool you. I lost him this past winter. He had been on retirement and was lead stud around here. I let him loose around the house for a little R&R. Next thing I knew my hunting partner called me and said he picked him up fixing to cross a farm road about five miles from the house still on track. Guess he jumped him one last one. It was extremly cold that day and guess he was to bad out of shape. Found him in the pen dead later that night. There were three of these litter mates al together. I lost my other five years ago ran one so long he had a heart attack, found him dead in bottom of a creek. My good friend has the last one and is still hunting him and teachin all the young ones how its done.

[Reuben]

This is Buck. He was born with every hair on his body the same color which is rare. Also had the prettiest green eyes you ever saw as a pup and then they turned yellow. He was a top strike dog but had quite a few like him and a few that were better. Just don't have pictures. He was the sire of at least 4 generations and I bred him to his daughters and grandaughters who were related on both sides. The little boy is my right hand man who is my grandson. He was always trying to help me wash down the kennels and he wasted lots of water. He does everything for me so I am lucky to have him...




Buck was 3/4 mtn cur and 1/4 taylor bred bmc. Pup in the background was Banjo#1 and he was hamstrung by a big boar in a corn field at 1 year of age. He was the son of buck and one of bucks daughters who was also his granddaughter named fly who was a top strike/stop dog.

Bucks sire was one of the best dogs I ever owned. I had  a few that were better than buck but very few that were close to bucks sire named yeller. I wrote a story in full cry magazine about yeller. Yeller was 1/2 mtn cur and 1/2 taylor bred bmc. Don't have a picture of yeller but still have the story.

[bayed hard hog dogs]

Myles it was a hell of a loss when ol trooper died he was one of a kind I guess that's why half my kennel is out of him but as did rooter,kitty,molly,gunner,tader he to has now passed but are not forgotten thay among others did what thay loved and loved what thay did so here's to the next best of the best you got some big shoes to fill and I now just the guy to get you there hats off to u brother.

[Strike Dog Kennels]

Im still upset that I didnt get invited to the grave side services for ol Trooper.  I had my own moment of silence for him.  If you were to name all of the dogs out of him that made lead strike dogs, the list would be long.  One of the best.

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Man O Man, I did not expect this thread to blow up like it did. I have scrolled thru it multiple times so far just enjoying taking a look at all of yall's fine lookin Strike dogs. The best part about it is.. if everyone has followed the rules everydog on here is part of the elite few called "One in a thousand". My thanks to everyone on here so far its been absoulutly outstanding for everyone to show off their greats and to give the background on em. We can show our pretty dogs all day but these are the dogs that bring the pork everytime!!! Would love to know out of the dogs so far how much pork has been produced!!! LOL a post for another day!!    Keep em commin guys we aint done yet...

Myles

[levibarcus]

I've only been hunting for a little over a year, so I don't have a lot of experience to go on, but here is my best dog so far. Red was a stray last summer, still growing when he showed up so I figure he was about 8 or 10 months old. The neighbors corn fields were just ripening when he showed up and he bayed his first hog the first trip out in the corn and hasn't quit since. Almost every hog I have caught since he came along has been his doing. I've hunted with better dogs, but I don't own them. There have been few times that he didn't strike first. He hunts out to about 300 to 400 yd. but will wind or take a track and really get gone.
He winded this one from about 500 yd. where he was rooting up my pasture and bayed him in a pool. I got wet that night!
I jumped this one in the road ditch on my way home from a dry run about a quarter mile from my house.
The first time I showed him a hog.

[keyserdawg]

THis dog was passed through a couple tree hunters hands before i got her and tried her on hogs.  SHe has caught hogs in all kinds of places.  She has found and bayed hogs on her own in zero degree weather with ice and she has done the same down south in several states in the heat of the summer.  And she lives on the couch.  She has produced some nice dogs for us now also. 

june gettin bred to a ben dog from john aimes, made nice pups

guarding her beer

in fl

in tx

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Levi

Don't matter how long you been in the game brother cause from the looks of it you gettin-er-done. That just makes your little deal that much sweeter that a stray made a hell of a strike dog for ya. They look good along with the pork. Keep us posted

Keyserdawg.

Looking mighty fine. I could tell she was a keeper when I saw the pic of her protecting "Tha Stones" LMAO. The brindle dog you may have to fight some of my friends off with a stick for, he is built the way they like em. Also like the pic with the kido's looks like they had one just about the right size to leg. Thanks for yall's post

[keyserdawg]

The brindle dog is a crocket gyp.  SHe is rough as heck.  Got me some nice ones though.

this was in sc

this one was also sc. 
SHe gets out fast and far.  But you betta have some help cause she is going to try em all.  ANd she isnt more than 40 lbs. 
Ben

[Wormy Dog Kennels]

My best i will ever own my dog Duece, Hands down a cold nose,All the bottom a man could want, No Quit,with all the heart, MILE after Mile after Mile
A true hog dog in my book





My other dog is Hank R.I.P.  Hood dog deluxe!!!! Just a great honest big brindle ruff dog, He would only bay big hogs and load up on punk hogs......He sure is missed




And last but not least My Sweet heart Worm, Cow dog, Pen Dog , and woods dog there will never be another Worm in my life time.

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Wormy

Man you must have been a professional photographer. That my friend is about the best jam up action pics I have seen. I sure enough like Ol Duece. He looks like he is the old man on the farm. I see the grey creepin on him and also noticed the trackin coller still fits. How is he bred and what is his age? Is the younger lookin yeller kin to him or same dog just younger pic? Great pics thanks for sharin

[Bryant]

I'll play.

Best I've raised and owned to date was my BMC dog Abby.  She died two years ago in October from Blastomycosis at the age of four.  She had a nose like no dog I've owned.  She was a 100% track dog and could take a track and work it out like nothing I've seen.  The last year or so before she died I must admit I got a little cocky with her.  When hunting with people, I would never turn her out first.  Can't say the number of times I'd slip back to the buggy and cut her out once other dogs had made a round and come back and she'd come bayed somewhere.  I've wondered since if perhaps the man upstairs was teaching me a lesson in humility when he took her from me.  Man I miss this dog.



Another one of the best was ole Spade.  He died early last year at the age of 14.  Almost hate to admit at one time I hunted a lacy, but he was 1/2 lacy and 1/2 plott if that makes it better.  God only knows how many hogs this dog found.  He could have been born without teeth, because he sure never used any on a hog but he knew just how to work one to make him stay put.  Seldom EVER did hogs run when we were hunting Spade.  It had been a long time since he had been hunted.  We decided to load him up last year and carried him along on a random hunt.  He didn't strike, and didn't get very far when the others were hunting but he made it to the bay and was in there hammering just like he had for many years.  He died in his kennel about a week later.



Here's a few of the lead dogs currently occupying my kennel space.

First is Buck.  Quirky as all get-out but my personal favorite if for no other reason than he intrigues me because I still haven't quite figured him out.  Hunts deep like I require...usually 3/4 to a mile loops.  Not real catchy, and will seldom see him at a bay once the bulldogs get there.  Tons of bottom and will run a hog as long as it takes.  Buck has sired four litters and has shown to be quite a producer.



Next is Cash.  He is unrelated to anything else on my yard and was bought to use as an outcross dog to my hunting partners line due to the fact he is a linebred proven producer.  A colder nose, and more bottom than most people want.  You don't make plans when you hunt Cash because you're going home on his terms...not yours.  In cold sign, he hunts much like Buck above...3/4 to a mile loops.  He knows the deal, and is strickly business about his hunting. His breeding goes all the way back to Ricky Driver's Big Boy X Blondie cross and other dogs in his pedigree are John Gay's Dr. Feelgood and Ben Jordan's Henry to name a few. (and no...he does not have a bobbed tail!)





Can't go without mentioning Dolly.  She's the mother, sister, grandmother or aunt to almost everything on my yard.  One HECK of a dog, and one HECK of a producer.  I had her bred to Cash above due to whelp mid-March, but for whatever reason (and much to my disappointment) she didn't take.



A couple of others worth mentioning.
Maddison...full sister to Dolly and the mother to the pups I have on the ground now out of she and Buck.



Deuce..Out of Dolly and Poncho...one of the best conformation dogs we've produced and making one heck of a good dog.  Another deep hunter and gets the job done.

[djhogdogger]

Awesome line up Bryant. Some real lookers and I haven't heard of many dogs that range out like that, you've got a gold mine in hog dogs!

[Reuben]

Awesome line up Bryant. Some real lookers and I haven't heard of many dogs that range out like that, you've got a gold mine in hog dogs!

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