Ever hear anyone say they've caught 500 plus hogs with a dog?

[cdc505]

Maybe I'm just dumb but that's an astronomical number of hogs to say were caught or bayed with a single dog. I don't know maybe I just don't realize how good everyones dogs are but it just seems to me if we go out and catch a few a time or two a week well that's a good week. Point being me nor my die hard friends can hunt every week for example deer season and if we could we wouldn't have time to get on here and tell it. Now I'm sure there are a few legendary dogs that have but everybody cant have one. Opinions on this

[dodgegirl]

It's possible. 1 or 2 hogs a weeks for a few years and you're at 500. If you have private land deer season don't matter.

[Scott]

It's possible. 1 or 2 hogs a weeks for a few years and you're at 500. If you have private land deer season don't matter.

Haven't quite figured out how to train my dogs to read and understand property lines yet...anyone have any good tips...

[dodgegirl]

It's possible. 1 or 2 hogs a weeks for a few years and you're at 500. If you have private land deer season don't matter.

Haven't quite figured out how to train my dogs to read and understand property lines yet...anyone have any good tips...

Nope. My dogs don't know property lines of that's what your were implying. But we are good friends with our surrounding neighbors and they don't mind. Guess we're just lucky.

[T-Bob Parker]

It's a good number of hogs for sure, but not out of the realm of possibilities.

There's several dogs I know of who could hold that distinction if their owners really felt like adding it all up and telling everybody about it. When the type of hog dogs your used to only catch a handful of hogs per month or the dogs your used to are usually dead by two and half or three years old, then sure, it'd be hard to believe, but, one of the most successful hog dogs I've been around is over 10 years old and still will put it on most anybodies dogs.

Go and search for the posts of "VAN DORN" and read his thread "busy march" if memory serves me correctly he cuaght like 55 or so hogs in march alone. That's a fine month of hunting there bud, and he wasn't even doing "hog removal" they were just farting around having fun and doing a few tournaments!!!
You take dogs like he and his buddies have and start putting pen to paper and it'll depress you how many hogs them dogs are looking at! 

Heck even my lil ol potlickers flat cleaned up along with Critter catcher an his crew a year and half ago when he had "the hog zoo" lol
None of us claim to have super dogs at all, but I know for certain that we dogged several hundred out of that place in no time flat, and we had plenty if time to brag about it on the Internet too!! 

[TexasHogDogs]

A couple hundred hogs a year are more and you are right in the ball park.  Totally possible and has been done by more than you might think.  Thats not unreal at all .

[bob]

I've kept log on every hog I've caught for the last 6 yrs  its now around 500   All with the same dogs and the same catch dogs. And I'm a okie. If I lived in Texas it would be way over that and I'm sure there is some here , I really don't think that's a crazy    Number , I guess it depends on how many good spots you get

[TexasHogDogs]

My ole Blu gyp is ten years old still going strong and I can tell you its way over the 500 mark dont know how much exactly but its way up there .  Like they say you would be surprised at how man can do it .  Back four five years ago Tom and I were hunting five six days a week all year long just about .

[dane]

It is possible and I sure wish I had the dog to do it.  It also takes a lot good spots.   Here in north la where I hunt if you hit a spot two three times in week or two hogs will relocate for a while.  We try and not just slap run em out so we hunt around on a lot different spots. 

[Eric]

I had a male dog that easily had 1,000+ hogs under his belt when I sold him. I have a gyp now that probably has 2,000+ hogs under her belt. That is in a life time of course. Its really not that hard. When we hunted steady we killed 300+ hogs per year. The gyp is around 10yrs old now.

Old dogs with those kinds of numbers will spoil you. When they take a trail there are no ifs, ands, or buts...

[Easttex91]

I guess if you have the time and places to hunt

[Wmwendler]

500 is not much for a dog to have bayed.  Now caught is a tiny bit different story because they are at much more risk when catching, but many dogs have caught 500+ hogs in their career.  I doubt it is all that uncommon.  I bay and shoot so my dogs have less risk and liver longer than most.  I've got a 10 year old gyp..... lets say she has been at it for 9 of those ten years.  Most years we bay and shoot 150-200 hogs.  She is on almost all of those hunts lets say she is on at least 100 hogs a year (conservative estimate) that's 900 hogs that I have killed over her during her career.  But where do you account for the hogs she bays as groups.  5-10 hogs at a time, but I only shoot one or two.  Or the ones she bays that I don't kill because they spook, or I cant get to in time, the ones she runs that never bay.  The shoats she catches and kills on her own.  I'd say she has been on 1000's of hogs in her lifetime being hunted one a week.  Her dad was hunted steady until he was 13.  

Speaking of numbers.  When it comes to polishing a young dog I think the # of hogs you put them on as a 1.5- two year old is directly proportional to how well they live up to their full potential.  A goal of mine is to get a young dog on at least 200 successful bays during their first spring and fall.  Just say they were born in December you start them in the fall before deer season they will be ready to go hard in January when deer season closes.  Then you hunt their ass of that whole year and try to get them on at least 200 solid bays.  Don't we all wish we had that much time.

Waylon

[cdc505]

I'm talking about one single dog not hunting 3 or 4 at a time and catching that many. I know what you guys are saying the last 4 or 5 times I've ran my dogs in the last 2 weeks I've caught atleast 5 each time within 3 hrs but I'm sharp enough to know the same dog didn't find every pig. I've caught over 50 this year just hunting once a week and didn't even hunt in January.  It's difficult for me to believe that one dog is such a wrecking crew when I've hunted with so many different guys that hunt 2 to 4 dogs at a time.

[hillbilly]

That is a very possible number. I have a 10 year old dog and I know he has bayed well over that amount. He ain't soppose to catch any of them. I sen him bay about 40 in one group.

[bolo]

I have a 10 yr. old black jyp that has been finding hogs for me since she was 9 months old.There is no telling how many she has found & bayed in her life.Way over 1000, maybe over 2000. Aint never tried to keep score.

[Eric]

Speaking of numbers.  When it comes to polishing a young dog I think the # of hogs you put them on as a 1.5- two year old is directly proportional to how well they live up to their full potential.  A goal of mine is to get a young dog on at least 200 successful bays during their first spring and fall.  Just say they were born in December you start them in the fall before deer season they will be ready to go hard in January when deer season closes.  Then you hunt their ass of that whole year and try to get them on at least 200 solid bays.  Don't we all wish we had that much time.

Waylon

Very true. Good post. It was easy to make dogs when we hunted that much.

[cdc505]

I really meant 1 dog baying a pig and holding it til you catch it. Many times I've had a dog bay up a large group of pigs but only to actually catch one pig out of that bay. Now they may scatter and you go catch a couple more of them but I'm sorry I just feel like the numbers a little far fetched the way it gets thrown around. Thanks for your opinions

[kerreydw]

[jhy]

I got two that are way over that number, but they are old as dirt, and I know of several dogs that strike and bay that in a year. It all depends on the hog population you hunt, but it really doesn't take that long to get to that number if you have a good places, a solid dog, and can catch 6-7 hogs a weekend. Look at Van Dorn and TShelly, BARRMAKER, etc. their teams brought in over 100 hogs each in a month of hunting tournaments more or less. Just imagine the work they put into those dogs while having a good time and getting them trained. 500 is an easy number for a 2-3 yr old dog in their country to have under their collar.

[justincorbell]

back about 8-9years ago when I really got into running dogs I had 1 hunting buddy and we had 3 SOLID large tracts of land to hunt, we hunted 3 ymb'cs 1 ybmc/plott and 1 walker and I can guarantee that those 5 dogs saw at least 350 in 1 year alone, one place we hunted in Labelle Texas 3-5 days a week I can honestly say that we may have gone  a dozen times in a year and not caught multiple hogs. It was a honey hole like I have never seen since. 26,000 acres of hay, rice and marsh plum full of hogs, we had it made back then, no kids no ol ladys no real responsibilities other than a little bs 40hr a week job, pretty much we worked solely to pay for our hog hunting, those were great times and some of the best memories i've ever made in the woods. Me and david are still close friends to this day and it seems like everytime we get together with our families the pictures start coming out and we end up talkin about all the good times. To be honest we didn't have the best dogs around by any means BUT we hunted them 5 + days a week EVERY week for a LONG time.....sure dogs came and went but the core 5 were on every hunt unless they were injured....... wish I could still hunt like that but life has gotten in the way and family comes first!