First of all, yes Orville was a icon to the hoghunting fraternity. He would go out of his way to help a friend out. He has never, ever said that he has the best dogs around & was probably just throwing that statement out to me, to see what kind of response I had, just like I posted it on the board to get comments about.
Everybody who has hoghunted any length of time has had his a** handed to them a time or two by a rough boar. It happens & will continue to happen. Does that mean they have sorry dogs, of course not. Sometimes it is just the terrain the hog is in, dogs are tired or just plain human error or it is the hogs day to win.
Look how many big toothy hogs that just look like they would wreck any dog that got on them & a lot of them are caught with just minor scratches. On the flip side, a lil 175# boar with 2" cutters can wreck the whole pack.
When I first met Orville, all he had was cur dogs & we would bring our young plotts up there. Back then, they had a ton of hogs & open woods. Totally different then our cutovers today with russian hogs & a lot of pressure. Orville liked the sound & stick our plotts had & then got into them & formed his own line of plotts that were great hogdogs. I don't know how many years Orville has hoghunted but he told me he hunted them when he was young & he had to be around 80 when he passed. That is a lot of experience with dogs & hogs.
Getting back to the statement:
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BAD HOG. JUST SORRY DOGS & SORRY MEN.
I have hunted with enough hunters & dogs to really believe the second sentence. JUST SORRY DOGS & SORRY MEN.
When men will not commit to going in & catch a boar after they have turned the catchdog loose, they are sorry hunters & the dogs pay the price. There are a number of people that go through dogs like this, when it is owner error.
I know alot of ya'll have hunted with a lot of sorry dogs that you would not feed.
JMO & not necessarily the opinion of the viewing audience.
