EVER BEEN SCARED OF A HOG?

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

17 yrs old. Me and one buddy bayed a Hampshire boar that had been wild probably his whole life. We could not lift his back end up off the ground way to heavy. I tried to grab him by the hackles and push him over while my buddy tripped him. Well......great plan except he kicked my buddy off and I was laying on top of his back while he was spinning trying to get me.

Finally threw me off into a thicket and broke out.  All I could see while on top of him was knives hanging off his lips.

Truly the only hog to date I would say went 500 plus that I have had my hands on.

We both came out shaking like lil girls. 

[H.Wilson]

I've had my fair share of scares no doubt about that but it always makes my blood boil when my catch dig gets there and I hear a grunt instead of a squeal always scares me when my dogs quit a hog cause I no there will be staples or stitches involved

[TColt]

Got boogered twice pretty bad.

 First time was a pig that I barred, bout a 175 lbs boar, he had been hobbled for a while because we were catching other pigs. I wanted to make sure he was gonna get up and live, if not, I was goin to put him down. Gave him a nudge in the rear once... nothin, nudge in the rear twice... nothin, went in for the third nudge and he decided he was gonna get up and live. Must have been hungry too because he thought I was going to be his next meal. Chased me down the fence row, Im running yelling "cut soco loose, cut soco loose", I took a right where the fence was down, he kept on coming and was right on my heels at this point. I jumped up and tucked my legs, he caught my heel and put me on my back, thankfully he kept on keeping on across the field.

Second time was last fall, 283 lbs boar. Everyone else went to take a dog to the vet. I went to drag the hog down the hill into the field, only about fifteen yards. He had broke his hobbles while we were tending dogs, I could see by the track that some of his legs were still hobbled but lost the trail. Cut Lacy back loose, she went and bayed across the field at the tree line. I walked down and saw the boar in the dry creek bed facing lacy. I didn't want to cut soco loose because this boar was expecting him and I didn't have any gear on him, so I got the bright idea that I would tip toe in behind him, while lacy had him bayed... bad idea. Long story short, he ended up on top of me, I screened like a girl, then got him catch dog style, took lacy's collar and clipped him to a tree. Then I thanked god and thought about how stupid I was till everyone showed back up to help me.

[bob]

I chased a big boar down a creek on foot 2 miles , after we already caught a couple of hogs , we got to the bay with 2 CDs  we turned the dogs loose close enought to see it was big , it was every bit of 250 in a big thicket , right at the same time he broke [ oh crap  ]  Im looking at my garmin running like heck to back up my dogs thinking the worst , they had run several hundred yards out , I found jorge just trashed by the briars and super hot and marvin gathered up his and by this time candy had the hog bayed within 700yrds of a busy highway 3 miles from where we let out , I got within 100 yrds of the bay and started hollaring at her and she came and we walked away , my dogs were shot and I felt like I was throwing them to the wolves , so we will catch him another time

[hillbilly]

Been there a couple times. Stomach kinda gets in knots when the catch dogs catch and you just here a grunt or a growl. You know you got a good one

[Take Them Alive]

When I get where I am not afraid of hogs it won't be fun any more.

Well said Sir....................

[Aaron BMC]

Well every one hunts different cause me myself I like them the bigger there are and the only time I would get worried if my dogs started baying then u know u need a few cd's but at the same time you have to respect the big hogs and stay on ur toes cause it could go bad at any time so im not saying I ain't looked for something to get on or behind but the bigger the better  and u just have to respect them big boys

[JoshH34]

yes it happen to me , dogs stopped baying and after cd tried him 4 or 5 times they all went back to the truck. the big oh boy is still in the aere

   

I remember the time in Scotland when you opened the truck door and go whoa chit!!!!  thats a nice and big spotted one, ran what 5 foot from you, I jump out the back of the truck and went to run by the passenger door, and BAMMMM!!!!!  I forgot who opened the door, I just remember it hurt...  You just yelling drop the bulldogs!!!  Had 3 dogs already dropped and caught before we even hit the brakes though I think.  Then a little swimming, well actually about a mile of it in waist deep water.  Good times!!!!!

Have been put up trees though two times that I can remember.

[gary fuller]

cant really recall havin all the dogs quit one, but then again we have hunted a ton of dogs that wont stay there and bay all day either if they dont get help. and ive been hit, knocked down and had a lap full of mad hog a few times and  thats one reason i keep clean drawers in my truck. years ago we had 2 rough dogs cut down and out of the race and the guy i was with  shot this big bad boar in a shallow creek with one dog bayin and chris shot him as he charged us and the hog fell but got back up and of all things his pistol had locked up.i ran into the hog and tackeled him with my shoukder and started stickin and yellin for chris to help; he jumped on  while i got him finished and then we quit shakin and had a big hog and 2 cut up dogs to carry out to the truck.  a big red 4 incher  was slammin dogs and i couldnt leg him as  he kept spinnin and i finnaly got a chance to run in and get right on him and use my pistol in his neck. i am really surpeised he didnt get me down as im clumsy.i fell  into the  fight one timme  and was punchin kickin and yellin  till the dogs got him off me, lol. just got dog bit a little outta that luckily. i had about a 6 foot ditch cave in on me one night as the dogs had a good boar. we had a brand new cd and when i fell he let go and looked at us like he was in trouble. well i was stretched out across the bottom of the water cut in the bottom of the ditch with this boar popin teeth at me  about 15 feet away. i could imagine this thing comin and guttin me too. my partners som jumped down in the ditch behind the hog and sicced the dogs and the cd caught and then all of em and i fell in the ditch soon as he had it caught.the whole time i heard my partner yellin oh sheeet  from top of the ditch ,lol. last summer we had a boar under 200 with a bit of teeth   and i got down in front of the fight and started takin pictures and forgot we didnt have a bulldog .all of a sudden he kinda slipped the dogs and i was on my seat kickin and hittin and all i could hear was frank holerin keep takin pictures.

[gary fuller]

i forgot to add. carryin  a big pistola  can be a life saver  and also  stop them bad boys from leavin  too.

[djhogdogger]

 I has happened once to us too. We were about 3 or 400 yards down from a cornfield and we spotted something that looked like a black cow crossing into the corn field.

 We thought we were going to get us a good trophy hog that day.  So we hurried down to where the hog crossed and turned three dogs loose into the corn. I was TOO excited about the situation and as soon as I heard the dogs open up, I turned the cd loose. Thinking that I didn't want to take a chance on loosing this big sucker.

 That was a mistake. I should have waited and let the dogs work the hog for a little while. Any way, the cd ran in and we heard a yelp and then the dogs just quit barking. We thought that maybe the bay had broke.

 All of a sudden, all of the bay dogs and the cd came running back to us. The cd must have gotten tossed because there was a fresh hole in the belly of the cd vest that went all the way through.

 I will never forget the look on all of the dogs faces. They were big eyed. We tried to get them to go back after it but they refused. Our dogs have NEVER left a hog except for that one day and we didn't even get a chance to see the hog up close.

 I still to this day dont really understand what happend. That cd had been on lots of hogs. Been cut, bit, thrown and and never once backed down. He was on plenty of hogs after that one, including some big, nasty 300lbers by himself and it never phased him. The bay dogs too. Never seen them do it before or after this hog.

 I really want to know what made this hog so scary to the dogs. Was it the size? The fight in him? or was it huge tusks? I guess we will never know.

[T-Bob Parker]

Mrs Dinah, ill bet you it was a combination of two things. In corn depending on the time of year the dogs don't have great visibility and the sounds of a massive boar crashing stalks can sound like its coming from all directions. Number 2, because the visibility is so poor, they can get charged by the hog and feel like there no way out but down the row they're standing in. Normally a big boar will try a dog and the dog can juke and get a lil room, but in the corn the boar can roll the dog up in the stalks and give the dog the felling of being " up against a wall" if you will. My Ratty dog has been on countless hogs and has only been poked twice (knock on wood) but the boar we posted in "children of the corn" poked her good in the back leg, and she wasn't herself for several days after.



I've had lots of hogs I was scared of. I try to keep my head on a swivel with every hog.

[curdogs3006]

There is a difference between been scared and full of adrenaline.

Any way I've been both. While  hog hunting for sure.

[djhogdogger]

Mrs Dinah, ill bet you it was a combination of two things. In corn depending on the time of year the dogs don't have great visibility and the sounds of a massive boar crashing stalks can sound like its coming from all directions. Number 2, because the visibility is so poor, they can get charged by the hog and feel like there no way out but down the row they're standing in. Normally a big boar will try a dog and the dog can juke and get a lil room, but in the corn the boar can roll the dog up in the stalks and give the dog the felling of being " up against a wall" if you will. My Ratty dog has been on countless hogs and has only been poked twice (knock on wood) but the boar we posted in "children of the corn" poked her good in the back leg, and she wasn't herself for several days after.



I've had lots of hogs I was scared of. I try to keep my head on a swivel with every hog.

T bob, you make a good point. I don't think that we have ever caught any monsters out of the corn fields. We have caught some real good ones right next to it but not in it.

[DWEST]

Fresh out of highschool being young and dumb...I had a half cur/half bulldog (Odis)  He was my first hog dog and a pretty decent one.  Me and a buddy had been baitin up some hogs kinda behind his house where we didn't exactly have permission to be (never done it since, and dont plan on it).  Well, got off work and stopped by another buddy's house (who is much older and wiser) and told him the plan...he declined the invite, but told me take his "kirby" dog (since odis hadnt been on many hunts yet).  Kirby had a good handle, so he would hunt for other people, and was one hell of a dog Cur/redbone.  Well, I stop load my buddy up and we make the 2 min drive to our new found honey hole.  It was only about a 500 yrd walk through sparse palmettos to a cypress head we figured the hogs were laid up in.  Not 100 yrds from the truck a good boar hog jumps outa some palmettos and had the after burners turned on...makes it to the fence and across open pasture, we called the dogs back.  Then we smelled rank boar hog and figured it was that one.
So, we're headed back towards the cypress head and i realize Odis isn't infront of us...i tell my buddy to walk that kirby dog into the head and I'll go back to the truck to get Odis (figured that he circled back).  Bout that time we hear a single bark back towards the truck.  We run up there to see Odis hit this Monster hog that we had to walk right by.  Not sure how big the hog was, but he made all of Odis (90lbs in his prime) look like a chiuaua.  The hog dropped and rolled and slung Odis.  They both jump up and have a stare down that seemed to last for minutes, but only a sec or two.  The Hog bolts and heads for the fence, but he doesnt go through...he backed into a palmetto patch right against the fence.  We see both dogs go in and sounds like they're caught.  Bout the time we go runnin in the kirby dog come flying out over our heads and this hog is coming out to meet us.  We still laugh about it...my buddy trips and falls and i swear he got back up and was on the other side of me before he got dirty, and luckaly odis hit him again before he made it out of the patch.  This old joker was smart.  he backed up against that fence row and wasnt coming out.  The dogs gave him hell for what had to be an hour.  They'd go in and he'd sling 'em back out.  Eventually they stopped trying to catch and started baying.  Now we're gettin nervous cuz we aint far from the road and its gettin dark and all this comotion is going on.  Finally get a hold of the dogs and realize one is cut, start checkin them over and it was just a small cut under kirby's eye that just bled like hell.  while we're catchin our breath the hog tries to break and run, odis drug me to the ground and i couldnt hold him...and it all started over again
Got the dogs caught up (with only one minor cut) and got our tales outta there before we got caught....never did get that ol' smart boar hog

Sorry so long winded, but it sure was a memerable one that had us buggered up a few times

[coach]

I believe most of the time I ain't been scared of the hog but more of the situation I was in. No light, no bullets in the gun, getting run back n forth in a creek with the bank being 7 ft tall, baying a sounder of hogs that sound like a 18 wheeler and they were so far in a thicket you could only see their feet.

[KDB]

two weeks ago we were just ridin around the club with just one cd just lettin him ride, well old big boy walked across the road like he owned the place and we knew it was a bad idea but we couldnt resist turnin the cd loose by himself well we did atleast have the garmin on him and he found him and caught him 600 yards from us, well we get to him and and its right in  the middle of some thick briars and we hear em fightin and then the cd came out we sent him back in and he got threw off and came and layed by us about to have a heat stroke and cut three times in the throat so we just left big boy there for a day when theres more than one dog to gang up on him, he wont wolp all them 

[make-em-squeel]

 We went out to get a "little pig" the night before the super bowl for the bbq. After hunting 10 min's the old dogs bayed & the garmin says within in 30-100 yds back & forth but it didnt sound right for the terrain we were in & being so close, since the old curs and the dogos are trash broke the "not so smart" solution we decided was to just cut the CDs, shortly after we saw my cd gyp kaya sprint into a water ditch under the road no bigger than I can duck walk/ crawl through with freezing cold water about 6 in deep. It sounded like WW2 and all the young curs dumb enough to try him came out shredded and cut up, they either stayed completely out of the ditch or way, way back  from that point on, basically quit, all the pups were cut fairly bad.
 After getting the boar in sight with the flashlight about 30 minutes later on the opposite side of the roads drain culvert that we saw my dogo run in, and still saw her on the ear so I had to go in and back her up. I was very very scared with no back up cd or gun as I crawled into this very small under ground pipe basically, with my dagger in hand and light on high. As I assessed the clostrofobic situation I was glad that the boar would walk away from me/the light but was freaked out he was walking at will with my 90 lb cd on ear, anytime I would get to within 5-6 ft he would repeatedly (3-6 x's) viciously slam kaya's head into the metal/concrete pipe, after seeing this 3 times and expecting her to let go or let the hog slip from her being knocked out via the mike tyson like head shots and fatiuge/heat stroke from me being to scared to follow her in quickly, but she would get body to body with the beast and keep walking him, I stayed about 10 feet back and pushed them to the complete other end of the pipe where I made my move and awkwardly stuck it then kicked it out of the pipe where my buddy legged and finished him off and Kaya finally let go. I never felt so happy to stand up straight and thankfull for a great cd! After loading up the cut dogs & superbowl hog on the wheeler when we headed back Kaya was still loopy and was walking in circles like a drunk, but recovered and trotted back to the truck without any cuts and a lifetime of dog food  . Not sure how big he was but very long and athletic, 6 ft and guessing about 230lbs (bigger than I want to tangle with). In 6 + years of doing this is the only close call i've personally had. Thank God fro guardian angel's.

[josh54]

Me and my brother were hunting near a river between anson and merkel. We cut the dogs loose and my dogs, bones and bug, tore out immediately. My brother's 3 dogs followed suit. Within seconds we had four separate bays goin and only one catch dog. When we got there there were about 25 sows and all had piglets and a couple big boars a couple young dogs caught piglets and needless to say the sows were pissed and came at us. We were both up a mesquite pretty darn quick. Ended up catching a 150 pound sow and about a 300 or so pound boar. But never seen so many hogs at once

[Reuben]

I get scared on a regular basis if it is a big boar hog...especially if I have his rear hocks in my hands and my boots are stuck in the mud... 

I have always said that there is an imaginary boundary...when you cross it the hog will charge...I was standing back while one dog was baying a big boar and a big sow...I could have shot either one but was waiting on my buddy and the other dogs...the sow charged at me 3 or 4 times and she always turned back. The dog was keeping the boar busy...about the 4 time the sow stopped at the end of her charge...now that boundary was past me and she charged from there and lucky for me she kept going after she raked my leg pretty good...she tore my jeans but the the cut turned out to be a scratch...it happened so quick I didn't have time to draw my gun...