draggin hogs out

[shadygrovehawgdawg]

I'm way too lazy for that, here is my preferred way

[charles]

 why is the pig riding and u walking? The pig would b dragged, not gettin a free ride out of the whole deal.

[shadygrovehawgdawg]

Trust me Charles, I didn't walk a step.

[charles]

Trust me Charles, I didn't walk a step.

LOL, that's a cats meow. But if that hog would be alive, I think it but a whoopin on you and the horse 

[sfullwood88]

I agree horseback is definitely a great advantage at times I'm sure. I'm jealous of that I admit.
However us here in these Florida swamps especially in the Perry area 80% of the hog bays are in the thickest  "wait a minute vines " you ever seen.  Horse would probably throw you off and look at you like you were stupid if you tried to get him in there to the hog. Lol

So we pretty much have to man up and drag them out of the block by hand in order to do anything with them.

[Georgia-Hawgs]

Fullwood i have hunted in madison florida and it was CRAZY THICK those boys were calling them ty ty bushes or something like that. Its real good hunting down there with a ton of hogs but dang its thick and wet !! And yall florida boys are use to the gators down there and run around like no big deal. I was freaked out everytime we went near the water. Im from north georgia and yall can keep your alligators

[halfbreed]

  lol  dragging hogs is nuts , I will butcher them right where they die and just haul the meat .

[sfullwood88]

Lol Georgia Hawgs I guess we are raised in it and it's all we know so it's not a big deal. Gators can be a true pain in the ass that's for sure. Mainly in the warmer months . But recently a guy that hunts with us lost some dogs to a 11 footer. So that kind of thing is what bothers us the most. Florida can be tricky. From the venomous snakes to the gators to the terrain.
But you know I live in Lakeland Florida which is about 3 in a half hours south of Perry where we hunt.
The woods around the house and local to us aren't near as thick and nasty as Perry woods.  The Perry woods will make or break ya to be a Florida hog hunter .

[Georgia-Hawgs]

I heard that. I did enjoy myslef and we go there a good bit but i aint never got use to the critters..lol..i still do it but i can assure you im thinking about way harder than the locals. And them guys were saying they tracked there dog down one time that a gator had killed and shoved in the weeds for later. Do they do that ?said they followed the garmin sinal that was sayin treed all the way to a dead dog ..

[Irondog87]

For those who drag em out. If you face the hogs head the way your pulling it makes life easier ha. Me and buddies have drug hogs a lot just to get them close enough for a truck or wheeler. Even drug a few almost a mile:(. Lots of cussing and grunting haha

[sfullwood88]

Yes. It's not hard to figure out when a gator has ruined your day. You will track the dog (if collar wasn't bitten ) but even then you will have a ? At the scene. But you will track them to the water and if the garmin is still working at the time you could be standing on the edge of the water and watching the dogs position on your garmin change when it's pointed out into the pond . Now the guy that hunts with us did get that gator and if I remember the story right he retrieved one of his collars back. But mainly he wanted that gator gone to eliminate another threat. 11 footer in the woods you hunt isn't a good thing.

[shadygrovehawgdawg]

That picture above we had already gutted that one, dogs rolled and caught another so we hung him in a tree and went back to get him. We took that picture at the truck.
Charles, we don't kill a lot of hogs, and that buckskin horse will haul them dead or alive, he is only 5 but a good one. If they are too big for me and them in the saddle, I ride behind it. Most of the places we huknt are pretty rough also, and you can't just ride every inch of it. I might have to drag to get to my horse, but that is about it. If not I do like Mr. Whitten said and take care of business where it happens. A while back caught a good boar in a really deep and steep, rough and rocky holler. After we tied him and took his picture, we untied 2 legs and persuaded him to start down the hill. He went about 3/8 of a mile on his own and we caught him again, tiedd him back up and hauled him 1.8 miles to the truck, on the horse. I have a lot of respect for those that will drag them, its work and separates the men from the boys. I used to hunt in the southern part of Oklahoma a bunch and hunted around some swamps, I am sure nothing like you Florida men do but I know a little what you mean. I got lost in one of those swamps and when we got back to the horses and mules, I asked the man I was with where the truck was. It had got dark and we were catching hogs, he told me he didnt know and I got kind of nervous, he cut his mule loose when we got out of them swamps and he took us to the truck. You can bet I didnt let him and that mule out of my sight, dark and no light aint no fun. That garmin cuts down on that now.

[Goose87]

If we decided to bring one out and it's a decent drag we'll tie some string around the snout and tie the other end to a good pole and one or two ppl get on both sides of the rope and go to town like a team of mules . Takes a whole lot of the work out of it, by doing it this way your using your weight to do all the work

[oconee]

Been hunting hogs for 18 years and I have only ever killed a couple barrs to eat and you could put the ones I've taken out of the woods in a very small trailer over the last 18 years.  I learned along time ago not to add work to something I love.  LOL

[Goose87]

You exactly right Oconee I'm going to enjoy myself not make work out of it, everybody who hunts with me on a regular basis knows I don't drag hogs out unless it's a bar or it's been tore up then and only then I'll drag one out, or if I can get a vehicle, boat, or bike to it and that's got to be a hundred yards or less.

[Judge peel]

Half a mile to a mile drag is normal for us

[thegroundskeeper]

Only horse we have......


....and thats a live hog. 

[dallas22]

Only horse we have......


....and thats a live hog. 

Damn thats tough what u do with its mouth.

[Judge peel]

Dang right grounds keeper that's how it's done right there

[reatj81]

This hog weighed 369#  Getting him out was a breeze with the cart.

I would sure would like to see more pictures of your cart and some measurements


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