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« on: August 12, 2015, 02:00:06 pm » |
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All this talk about a decent dog finding hogs anywhere got me thinking of some of the toughest places I've hunted. I've been fortunate enough to travel some and hunt in a few different states and see some different country. I believe some country will make or break a dog, and usually your better dogs will be right down the road from you cuz they're bred for the country you hunt in.
I'm curious to know what's the hardest place you've ever hunted and why was it so hard...Terrain, accessibility, bad running hogs, bad rank hogs, low hog population? This is just something alil different to get a picture of some tough places.
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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2015, 02:08:48 pm » |
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I get a kick out of these east tx boys coming out to my country and leaving with there tails tucked wondering what happened
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They Call It The Hill Country I Call It Home !
The more people I'm around the more I like my dogs !!
ROOT HOG OR DIE
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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2015, 02:11:45 pm » |
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Toughest place i have hunted is down in the catcus country I hate it. Don't have a problem catching hogs in it I just hate it.
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They Call It The Hill Country I Call It Home !
The more people I'm around the more I like my dogs !!
ROOT HOG OR DIE
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BA-IV
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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2015, 02:52:45 pm » |
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Didn't even know you was still kicking on here JP!
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warrent423
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« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2015, 03:05:52 pm » |
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These Southern Appalachian Mountains are a bitch to hunt, especially for this South Florida boy. West Texas(canyon country) ain't no walk in the park neither.
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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2015, 03:09:29 pm » |
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Lol JP I'm still ready to come down there... Don't mind having my butt handed to me or my meat dogs! Just makes it a little easier the next time around!  I have never said I have the best dogs... Ever. But I do like my dogs and wouldn't feed them if I didn't think they were worth feeding, or they didn't get their job done... I'd say either South Sulphur river bottoms up here in NETX, or the Tawakoni lake bottoms we have to hunt are some of the hardest hunting I've been through. Doesn't matter what property we hunt we have to find the hogs... We never know where they are going to be. Almost all hogs around here have been dogged before and run like track stars... And the population seems to have gone down quite a bit as well in recent years. When we hunt the lake bottoms you never know what kind of terrain you'll end up in... Cat claw thickets, regular thorn thickets, ankle to knee to waist deep water, mangrol tree thickets, crossing deep creeks, waist high lake bottom brush that you can't see through, and the list goes on... Then you add 20-40 degree weather in winter or 110 degree summer hunting and it starts to get interesting. We normally put down anywhere from 4-10 miles on foot on most good hunts... So that's tough in itself. I've been lucky enough to be able to run dogs all over this state, and when it gets thick anywhere it's never easy... But I will say, the dogs tend to have a harder time in dry piney woods than anything. Idk whether it's because they are just not used to it at all, or don't have a cold enough nose to follow an older dryer track, or what... But it just seemed to give them more trouble. Nonetheless, my dogs seem to have done fairly well no matter where I drop them at. Really can't expect anymore out of them honestly. Not currently feeding anything that I don't like, so I guess that's a good thing I think. I'm always up for any challenge for my dogs and I though... |
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« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2015, 03:37:57 pm » |
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Well the roughest on the legs was bloody Madison county NC got to be a billy goat. Next the big island of Hawaii. Every where else is bout the same might have more rock or cactus bigger briar patch bout the same. It's only hard if it's not fun lol
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« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2015, 04:33:12 pm » |
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A thick sorghum field. I don't like not being able to see 2 foot in front of me. Seems the rocks south of mason ate my dogs feet up quicker than where I usually hunt.
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« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2015, 06:05:25 pm » |
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For me so far it Palo pinto County but there a lot of places I haven't been
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Mike
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« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2015, 08:10:07 pm » |
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The worst place I've ever hunted was on an island near Matagorda... I don't ever care to go back haha!
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« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2015, 08:28:13 pm » |
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It's all relative. The older you get the tougher it gets. lol I think every state has it's tough places & easier places. Some parts of Fla. & Ga. are thick & wet & you have to chop your way in. The mountains have always been tough. 3-6 year cutovers are no pick nick. The marsh that I hunt now is hands down the easiest place I have hunted.
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« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2015, 08:48:57 pm » |
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The worst place I've ever hunted was on an island near Matagorda... I don't ever care to go back haha!
haha yea right mike I have seen u out here almost $hitting blood and casping for air and screaming I ain't never coming back to MF ing hills. ! |
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They Call It The Hill Country I Call It Home !
The more people I'm around the more I like my dogs !!
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« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2015, 08:57:12 pm » |
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The worst place I've ever hunted was on an island near Matagorda... I don't ever care to go back haha!
Was that hog island your talikg about |
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Mike
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« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2015, 09:46:02 pm » |
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The worst place I've ever hunted was on an island near Matagorda... I don't ever care to go back haha!
haha yea right mike I have seen u out here almost $hitting blood and casping for air and screaming I ain't never coming back to MF ing hills. ! Haha... but I love the hills!!! That's just my old, out of shape ass talking trying to keep up with you. I hated that damn island. |
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« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2015, 09:47:11 pm » |
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We hunt some pretty thick sh@t thick thick stick Marsh,switch grass,palmettos,briar thickets and pepper berries I've caught a hog 800yds in a endless coastal pepper berry patch at low tide and we had to crawl in and out the whole way they grow so thick that above the water line was impenetrable but even those catches are still fun and if there are hogs there then it's a good place to hunt in my book.We have a ton of deer doggers here and the hogs are dog smart but I'm sure it's the same everywhere hogs go to the thickest nastiest place they can find.I just want to catch hogs.
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« Reply #15 on: August 12, 2015, 09:48:35 pm » |
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The worst place I've ever hunted was on an island near Matagorda... I don't ever care to go back haha!
Was that hog island your talikg about Not sure, we went out there with Mr. jimmy. I believe he owned it or was part owner in it. He said they won't even hunt it after February cause the rattlesnakes are so bad... and gators. |
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« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2015, 09:59:03 pm » |
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The worst place I've ever hunted was on an island near Matagorda... I don't ever care to go back haha!
Was that hog island your talikg about Not sure, we went out there with Mr. jimmy. I believe he owned it or was part owner in it. He said they won't even hunt it after February cause the rattlesnakes are so bad... and gators. Ive heard of it and heard people say the same thing about the snakes and gators theres a beach in freeport that ive heard theres alot of hogs but it has alot of snakes too and alot of bush. Anyhow just caught my eye when u said Matagorda |
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« Reply #17 on: August 13, 2015, 12:19:43 am » |
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That beach in Freeport is no hill for a climber. Worst part of it is the occasional rattlesnake that has wandered up a salt cedar around neck high.  I've hunted in varied terrains none of them were "bad" just all different. If you have hogs, hog dogs oughta find em, if you have a terrible sparse population then it just requires more time. Have a friend living in Snyder now who has loads of land with minimal hogs, we always end up catching hogs and having fun, just some trips take longer than others |
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« Reply #18 on: August 13, 2015, 03:57:51 am » |
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Appalachian mountains is probably one of the toughest places. Literally will break a man and his dogs.
I have a 400 acre pine clearcut on my property that just absolutely sucked trying to get in or out of. Just full of briars wore the dogs ears off. Hogs would just sprint for that clearcut if they were within a mile of it. Had a small creek that ran through it just full of cattails and briars.
The worst place is an island in a swamp area that literally shredded a thick carhartt coat. In the summer its was horrible always left with an ear full of briars. Always On my belly trying to get to dogs. One time it took us almost an hour to go 60 yards. Fell in a gator hole out there bout gave me heart attack. Hogs would always seem to be trying to go out the way i was going in on my belly. Every hog in that river bottom would always take you to that island tryin to lose the dogs.
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« Reply #19 on: August 13, 2015, 09:07:27 am » |
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The worst place I've ever hunted was on an island near Matagorda... I don't ever care to go back haha!
haha yea right mike I have seen u out here almost $hitting blood and casping for air and screaming I ain't never coming back to MF ing hills. ! That was me. Haha. That place is sure pretty but hard on a fat man. |
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