Cut Vest or no Cut Vest????

[TColt]

I forgot to post the reason I am choosing this brand of vest. Most vests this style are very stiff, this one is not...

[make-em-squeel]

TColt those are nice, Im having one of those made for my unicorn princess 

[dangedhogs]

I'm going to give these a try on catchy cut dogs and rcd. They are "hairy holder" plates. Designed for rcd and staghound type dogs. I think they will work out real good. Not as much protection as a full plate by any means, but much more than just a cut collar and should still be very cool on the dogs for this hot weather. I haven't been running gear on my rcd this summer and I know it's an accident waiting to happen. I just feel like the heat this time of year is just as dangerous as the big boars. I think this leg hole vest is goin to be the happy medium I am looking for.

Leg hole vest




Full vest with leg flaps

Now those are some bad a vests there man. I like how the collar is integrated with the vest. Where'd u get em at?

[TColt]

Shoot Mr. Teegardin a PM (Silverton Boar Dogs)

[alapaha blue blood]

Ya buddy dangedhogs we run some thick south texas brush the places we run that dont have livestock are ruff on the dogs but vest r not if its thick its hard on any dog  vest or not.

[dangedhogs]

Ya buddy dangedhogs we run some thick south texas brush the places we run that dont have livestock are ruff on the dogs but vest r not if its thick its hard on any dog  vest or not.

Alrighty. I've only ran my dog at my land where there's no real thick south Texas brush. It's all just tall weeds, grapevines and a few briars. I haven't ran a vest on him up here in north Texas. I'll be goin down to south Texas tho and there's hella thick thorn bushes. I figured the vest would get him cuaght up in that stuff. I'm gonna go ahead and go collar only this time and see how he does. I'm running him by himself. He hasn't had a problem doing it up here so we'll see what's up down there

[alapaha blue blood]

Call me up if u need someone to run with u I'm here in corpus Mike 3615483916

[shuttin em down]

I only run catch dogs in cut vests bay fogs dont get a vest unless there rough dogs and when it's hot we run thinner vest and wet em down unless it holds big hogs then we dont put a cut vests on our catch dogs until a bay starts   

[dangedhogs]

Call me up if u need someone to run with u I'm here in corpus Mike 3615483916

I would invite ya out if it was my land. If you're ever up near Ft. Worth gimme a holler on here and we'll run down some hogs. I plan on trapping some little ones this winter and castrating em to make some big barr hogs and keep population in check

[TChunter]

Call me up if u need someone to run with u I'm here in corpus Mike 3615483916

I would invite ya out if it was my land. If you're ever up near Ft. Worth gimme a holler on here and we'll run down some hogs. I plan on trapping some little ones this winter and castrating em to make some big barr hogs and keep population in check

heck i dont live to far from ft worth..you hunt a lot around there?

[drew]

To hot right don't use them just cut collars

[alapaha blue blood]

No problem if ur down here in my area call me up my partner and I run about 25,000 ares woods and fields both

[TColt]

Im near Ft. Worth too, and got some ok dogs. Hunt out east mostly, but hunt the ft worth area some as well.

[T-Bob Parker]

Good friend of mine gave me some advice once and I'll pass it on to all yall

"Whatever you decide, do it all the time."

Don't run a dog vested and let it get used to being poked while vested then decide its too hot and run it without one, it'll inevetbly be the day you get on a bad one and what would usually be a few staples will now be you diggin a big hole for "ol red"

Don't run a dog with no protection then decide your gonna suit'm up and think you'll get the same performance. You had a dog that never got poked and now you have one who couldn't move as freely and got manhandled!

[alapaha blue blood]

Good advice there t- Bob the main reason I vest mine is I train my dogs to be rough and cause during there first few years of hunting I got tired of stitching and stapleing em on the regular so i oppted to protect them

[dangedhogs]

Yeah good advice tbob. I'll just keep runnin no vest. Tcolt yeah I'm in south ft. Worth. Have a few pigs on my land. I just bay and release to practice and the pigs don't ever tear anything up considering it's a dirt pit and not too many of em lol they just showed up a year ago. There's a big boar on the neighboring property that's been there forever tho

[TColt]

Im north of Ft Worth, I went to school in Argyle. Im all over the place now, don't really have a permanent residence. Mostly back and forth between Stephenville and Terrell, and everywhere in between, right now though. Maybe we can get together for a hunt sometime. I got places all over lol.

[dangedhogs]

Yeah man just shoot me a pm sometime and I'll go. Only crappy thing about hunting with me right now is that's I can't be around gun cuz I'm on probation for a non violent offense. Evading. Don't kno why I can't be around em considering I didn't even have a weapon on me at the time but it is what it is

[KevinN]

I use to only run collars on my bay dogs and both on my catch dog. In the hottest months we wouldn't vest the catch dog up till the hog was bayed. Then we would vest him up and walk him in and cut him loose. Coming up, my mentors never vested their bay dogs, but let me say, these dogs got the job done and stayed clear of th ivory most of the time, even in the bottoms we ran. They stopped the hogs and held them ALMOST every time without more than a break or two before we got there. All this being said, it IS up to each man individually to determine his own hunting style. I'm at the point now ( 5 hunting dogs/1 catch dog) that I really don't want to take a chance on one getting cut down for an extended period or God forbid, permenantly. It takes to long to replace them and I'm just not going to take a chance, therefore, I vest and collar ALL my dogs. It's easy enough to cut the hunt short if the dogs get too hot and if that means I can't hunt at all in late July/August then so be it.

[Florida Curdog]

I'd rather have cuts then heat stroke.  I run a tracking collar & a name plate collar. I seen way to many dogs over heat from cut collars and vest's