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scdogman
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« on: June 28, 2009, 06:59:38 am » |
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For you guys that run bay vest.
Are you using them right now? Are you not hunting the bay dogs that need them and hunting others?
I have always wondered what about baydogs that needed them and how you hunt them in the summer.
In my home state, night time hog hunting is not allowed. So if you want to catch hogs in the summer months, you have to run early morning and that my sneaak over into the day. Because of where I get started, I would never own a bay dog that needed one.
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jsh
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« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2009, 08:20:56 am » |
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SCDOGMAN,
I have a dog like you're talking about. Always tries to catch one time no matter how big the hog or if he's by himself or with other dogs. I always catch more hogs with him in the pack if they're runners as he's fast and will bite a running hog. Winter time - he gets a short bay vest. Right or wrong, in the summer months he just wears a cut collar and I take my chances.
However, I've been thinking of trying something new with him during these hot months. I'm going to try keeping him on the four wheeler with the catch dog and let him loose with the vest on when I hear a bay. Not so much in a catch dog fashion, I think the bear hunters call them "cut in" dogs where they send them in to the race. That way he gets the benefit of the vest and a lesser chance of overheating. Of course there's always the chance that they don't stop it, ending in a long race and gets too hot anyways - but that's hog hunting. I do everything I can to protect my dogs as they give me everything they've got time and time again.
Each situation is different I guess, I don't want to turn him into a catch dog or send him into a solid bay needlessly putting pressure on a bayed hog, causing it to break either. I just hate leaving him at home cause these dogs are bred to hunt, not sit in a kennel.
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