Hog Hunting Tenure (Whats your number)?

[reatj81]

Fix to be the big 40 started going with my uncle at 8 only main reason I got to go is he wanted to take my pup he was around a yr old. The only one that made it out if that litter, was trying to figure out if wanted to try that breeding again.  Have hunted somewhat regular since then.   Always having at least 1 dog.   Often that is all it took to bay and shoot the last 13-14 yrs been using catch dogs mostly.

[hillcountry]

23 yrs and still amazed how hogs can swim like fish run like deer and be so smart.

[brad s]

First time i went i was 12 years old and was hooked. But i been huntin hard bout the last 10yrs

[Whistler]

Starting when i was in highschool i would go maybe 2 or 3 times a year.  Picked up my first two pups around this time last year. 

[Txmason]

Justed turned 70 and started working dogs for people in 1968 so working out side dogs for over 45 years.

[collars and cutters kennels]

12 years

[coach]

24 yrs with my own dogs and well before that we didn't have hogs in our area so we went with relatives around Uvalde, Batesville and Premont for 6 yrs prior to that. They are the ones who got us hooked. My wife is pretty pissed at those guys, lol.

[Hogsnatchers]

Around 3yrs Marvin Garrett with ladogos dogs ran some hogs behind my parents property where I deer hunt I asked if I could help catch the dogs and show em a easy way to get to em been hooked ever since. Got my first mutt about a month later

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[airduster29]

16yrs for me with my own dogs hunted 2yrs with a group of friends thatgot me hooked after first hunt

[yellerdog]

43 yrs hunted javalinas before wasnt many hogs in south texas back then

[goose]

my dad took me with a fellow when i was 13 0r 14 and i been hooked ever since and now am 25 and going through my 3rd string of dogs dont get to hunt as much as i used to and would like because of growing up and becoming an adult and all ive had a hunting dog ever since i was born my moms dad was a beagler dads dad was a foxhunter my dad had both and my soon to be wifes dad has a had beagles cowdogs and hogdogs his entire life as well....never once in 25 years has there never been some sort of hunting dog on my yard

[Cajun]

Boy, I am glad I am not the oldest guy on here.lol  39 years & had deer & coon dogs before that.

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Well we are still setting at

2.5 yrs to 48yrs experience range.  Keep em comming to both ends. 

Finally got some of these 30 + yr guys to hit a key.

Good stuff gentlemen.

Here is a question to pose for guys hunting hogs in sixties and seventies.
Share what you have observed that has drastically changed and stayed the exactly the same to our modern day methods.

[halfbreed]

  BE GOOD TO GET SOME GEOGRAPHICS IN AS WELL CAUSE I KNOW WE DIDN'T EVEN HERE OF WILD PIGS IN NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL TEXAS TILL AS OF LATE  LAST 12 or 13  YEARS OR SO . dang caps lol  back in the 70's did get to go on a hog hunt down in jasper county in like 71 or 72  i think it was, they still free ranged a bunch back then . all we had around here was coon and squirrel and bobcats and yotes .

[Jmesonp1]

hunted with dogs for 22 yrs.  only 6 on hogs. bear,bobcat,coon and pheasants in the past.

[aussie black mouth curs]

Got my first dog in 1988, so 25 years this year.  I'm 40 this year.  Slowed down when we moved to the coast for a couple of years but always had a dog or two.  No hunters in the family except a grandfather who trapped rabbits for survival. Its funny my wife was grumbling about dogs one day and mum piped in with "not much point trying to get him to give it up now its just Troy". 

I have two boys 4 and 2 and I hope that they want to continue it if not then I'll support them in whatever they want to do, right now they love it.  Really enjoying having the BMC's, needed to do something to keep it interesting for me.  I reckon I've learnt more about dogs in the past 2 years than the previous 10. 

Troy

[bigthickethogdogs]

i have been hunting my own dogs 17 years hunted with my dad n grandpa before that

[sterling]

4 yrs

[Cajun]

  Two things that have changed hog hunting since the early days are cutovers & Russian hogs. We used to bay herds of hogs in wide open woods. Only once in a while did we have a runner. In the 70's we had a importation of Russian boar. We still caught them but we had way more runners. I still kept curs but got into Plotts because of the runners.
  We hunted on foot alot & horseback. forgot the year but I thought I was in high cotton when I got a Honda Big red 185cc & started using that to hoghunt on. Got my first telemetry system in 1980 & we caught more hogs because we knew where the dogs were. we used to hunt more for the dogs then we actually hunted them if u know what I mean. Now with gps collars, tritronics & the internet it is alot easier finding good dogs & traing them. Just some rambling thoughts.

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Good stuff Cajun.
Thanks for your rambling thoughts.   

We are plagued here also with the clear cutting methods that produce the wallhanger cannot crawl through thickets.