Charles and I set up a hunt for yesterday morning and he was trialing a dog out so if he asked if he could invite matt(texaslacy). I agreed to it and we met off of 103 west yesterday morning around 5:15 a.m. We got to the landowners spot where i had been asked to do some hog removal. After a confusion with the Garmins and collars we finally got set up 20 minutes later to drop dogs. we had 12+ heads of dogs with us, and we didnt realize it until they all darted out! we didnt even have time to cross the fence before they opened up. The hog broke and went 400+ yards and sat down again where we hoped they would stayed bayed at right off an ol creek bank. We heard em raising cane and dogs getting hit so we take off on foot once again. This creek had palmettos, briars, goat weed, logs, and a pretty good size island in the middle. We get 50 yards out and they broke again... We settled down for a little break after what competing in seemed to be the olympics 1/2 mile sprint
we eased back up to the pasture land side and started walking. When matt points to the left and made me imagine being a member of the AMERICAN HOGGERS crew. A 150+ sow trotting across the open pasture into a nasty thick island full of no telling what?! Shortly after the dogs are behind her trailing Before the dogs dart out of the woods two more hogs cross prolly 50 yards from where the sow crossed. The race is on and then the adrenaline kicked in for all of us, Charles, His son, Matt,Myself and Josh. After me and charles eat thorns and hay from the old hog rooting around were on our feet again. Send matts CD which was impressing IMO. and we have a caught hog now it was time to fight through the dense pasture island and get to em. 15 minutes later we stumbled upon em' and tried hobbling her. We had Charles son holding the CD when we got her off now it was our turn to pull 12 dogs off between 4 people wasnt the easiest but we finally just had to stick her because the dogs were wanting to stick around on the same caught hog. Dogs finally pulled out and bayed again this time we had split bays going...Both broke and got out of town .9 miles the garmin showed.They eventually turned into a foot race 1 on 1 hog vs. dog the dogs stuck with em we didnt
We made our way back to the truck 5 miles later and loaded dogs. A little ride to town for drinks and something to snack on. we headed out to the national forest to try to turn something else up. Never struck anything but did have 2 breedings take place while hunting.
We didnt have a hog slaughtering but it was alltogether a great hunt, met new people had charles son in the woods for the first time! and a blast seeing dogs work together as many dogs as we had on the ground! heres the sow we caught the first cast out she ended up being around 175-180
