The Drought is over here in CA

[liefalwepon]

Gary, I always thought you lived in the Central Valley. When I started on here I didn't realize we had met, I knew your name from conversation but I never caught your last name when I met you

[gary fuller]

lol lief, i actually have you in pictures from the first time you came down here and hunted i think. we caught a small sow and tigger and titan were young dogs. too bad you werent in the picture yet when i still was actively takin my bulldogs to the woods every week. back then the tree man had so many good places it wasnt funny. we hunted after work a couple times a week for many years and was rare to have a dry run.  ahh the good ol days. it was nothing like these texans  have but for us we slammed em  around here.

[liefalwepon]

I think that was the first pig I ever killed with dogs. I would have been in hog heaven back in the good old days, I was a huntin fool back then. If you can find those pics if like to get a copy

[bigboarinca]

Ya Gary Fuller there is quite a bit of Euro blood around here now i've had some of my ranches for 6 plus years and use to get nothing but boring ole black pigs nothing else no high lights no color at all now the last few years nothing but colored pigs of every color combination you can think of, so definatley some new blood lines getting in there and stirring things up which i myself think is awsome lil variety now and some cool looking bigger boars out there now. As for what im running im kinda a running catch kinda guy like em to shut em down quick my dogs will catch pretty much everything and anything its gotta be a pretty big and mean one for them to be barking, but they have the brains in em if they are getting beat up they will back off till i get there. All my dogs have a quarter to half ridgeback in them then mixed with some cattle dog and lil bit of cur or some hound and a dash of pit  in there as well they kinda medium range dogs that will take a track pretty decent.

[gary fuller]

thanks big. i like hearin about how hog populations are in different areas. i have 2 copies of a book all about hogs in this country. interesting read but now outdated in alot of cases.  its been years since i hunted behind dogs that had any discenable amount of ridgeback in em. years back guys who used a turn in bulldog used half apbt half ridgeback or 3/4 apbt 1/4 ridgeback. they wanted the bulldogs power and ability to catch and not let go and add some more size and less desire to dog fight from the ridgebacks. hunted behind a couple plott ridgebacks that if you could keep em off deer would find hogs if any were in the county,lol. i bred one of my abs to a female of a guys up around liveremore some years back and he liked the results. the female was catahoula and border collie.one of my first 2 hog dogs was a big male aussie that would flat make a big boar sit .

[liefalwepon]

Bigboarinca some interesting crossed up dogs you have, do you have any pics of them you could post?

[gary fuller]

lief, i will find those pictures and see that you get them.

[liefalwepon]

Thanks!


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[bigboarinca]

Lief I'll post some pics shortly of some of the dogs and what the crosses are. also Gary do you have any of the pics of the ridgeback crosses you were talking about those would be cool to see what those dogs look ike.

[liefalwepon]

Ok, are you using tapatalk? It makes posting pics super easy with your phone, unless you have a dinosaur phone like gary


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[bigboarinca]

Ya I just got the tap talk trying to figure out how to get the pics on there.

[liefalwepon]

When you're writing a comment there's a plus sign to the left, tap that and then tap the picture icon


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[bigboarinca]

well I tried the pic thing through my phone not sure if I actually have the tap talk app it asked me I said ok didn't do anything after that, so tried the computer at home and everything is to large to post so I may need some help on this one or someones email addres to post the pics

[bigboarinca]

Got my tapatalk installed now so let's see what we can do to get some pics on here. I'll start with this pic make sure then I'll get some more if I did it all correctly.

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[bigboarinca]

Every dog on the bike except tan color dog on passenger side with the vest as 1/4 to 1/2 ridgeback in it.

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[bigboarinca]

this is the dog that was hiding in the back on the drivers side he is 1/2 Ridgeback x 1/2 pit.

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[bigboarinca]

Here is my most recent cross this pup is about 4 months old in the pic but is a 1/2 Pit x 1/4 Ridgeback x 1/8 Walker x 1/8 Trigg so we will see what he is all about pretty soon. this next dog is not mine but outta my buddy's ridgeback female he is a 1/2 Ridgeback x with bunch of stuff but a real good dog.

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[bigboarinca]

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My Brindle dog on the back of the blue bike is the half sister to the dog leashed up to the green bike both 1/2 Ridgeback x with bunch of stuff  mostly cur and cattle dog and some pit and amer bulldog.

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[TheRednose]

Those are some fine looking dogs right there. Truthfully I had never been fond of ridgebacks because I have seen the pure ones be very human aggressive, but your crosses look really good.

I am guessing they are pretty much straight catch right? How far out do they tend to hunt for you? I really like the looks of them.