Most Memorable Hog?

[elliscountyhog]

Post your most memorable hog!

Mine is last year i took my 2 year old son on his first ever hog hunt. We were in corsicana,tx and when the dogs started baying, Dylan(my son) starting yelling daddy daddy the dogs, I smiled. When we got to the hog it was a goodin and i remember him being so excited. We watch the dogs on hogs videos all the time and he loves them. . Momma dont though . He has his two dogs at the house that he LETS me take hunting .

If i had another it would be the one i took my dad on last year. It was his first hog hunt ever. We ended up with 5 hogs that day and he said at the end of the day. " I wish i was younger and in more shape to do this more often with you". He still talks about it to his friends to this day. We caught one that was over 300lb.

[elliscountyhog]

I tried to post a pic but is says the upload folder is full.

[Sean]

if you use photobucket there is no upload folder, it's just linked to the pic in your photobucket album. let me know how you're loading it and i'll try to help.
now on the topic, are we talking about my most memorable hog, or most memorable hunt? because for me those fall into two seperate categories, and i have stories for each

[elliscountyhog]

Uh you got me sean. I would have to go with the most memorable hog. But with my dad it was hunt. So can we do both . Good point though. I was just using the upload on the reply and i double click the folder then to the pic and it says that.

[Sean]

oh yeah, you can't use that unless it's a very very small picture as it limits the size of the file greatly. it's more like for avatars i think.

[Txhoghunter]

Wow Richard, thats a tough one...I would have to go with one that me and Kevin caught one night in a corn patch two or three years ago. I had a new catch dog(had him for almost 24 hrs) and had hunted all night with ya'll down at Italy. Came back up here and hunted that morning, caught two with the new bulldog. Went home, slept a few hours, met up with Kevin and turned out after dark that day. Got the hog bayed, turned the bulldog loose, he had problems catching the hog so Kevin free tipped it, haha, thats what makes it stand out. Bulldog died, I think from internal damage, on the spot. Hog was 264# with big teeth.....I have pics of him, but none on the comp.



Richard, here is the big one we caught the day your dad was along...makes me think of Shadow...

[Mike]

My most memorable hog is the one that made me realize that I needed a catch dog... not just a bunch of rough curr dogs!

Back when I got my own pack of dogs started, we'd run 6 or 8 dogs on the ground and would catch every hog they bayed... until one cold winter morning. I guess it's been about 5 years ago when we bayed this big boar hog out in the national forest. We got into a group of hogs and had dogs all over the place. My old Rebel dog and Cheyenne bayed this big boy up in a briar patch, right up against the trunk of a blown down tree. All the dogs started coming in and every time one would get close to catch, he'd throw them through the air. My buddy's Tuff dog, a pup of Blue's, ran in and the hog grabbed him around the chest, put him on the ground and went to work on him. We thought he was a goner until another dog spun the hog off of him.

Finally, after about 20 minutes of watching 7 dogs get whipped they were all backed up and baying. Then Blue finally comes rolling in and I hollered "catch him Blue"! Now for the first 2 to 3 years of his life, Blue thought he was a catch dog. He would bay right in a hogs face and when the hog would hook him, he'd latch onto the jowl.

Well, when Blue tried to catch, that ol' boar tossed him about ten feet through the air... now we had 8 dogs baying! Now my buddy Stephen and I were watching this whole thing from about twenty feet away... and of course, we didn't have a gun with us!

That boar finally had enough and he broke and went deeper into the thicket where we couldn't see anymore. A few minutes later, my Cheyenne gyp comes out covered in blood. He ripped her inside the arm, through the arm pit and down the rib cage. I finally got the bleeding stopped and all the the dogs were slowly coming back in. That big boar hog whipped 8 dogs and walked away laughing.

A couple of months later, I bought Clifford from Craig... he's been catching hogs for me ever since.

[elliscountyhog]

Good story mike. There is some biguns in that forest . Thanks micheal man i still regret not letting yall take that hog to sale. or getting in mounted or something. Well live and learn. I didnt realize just how big that hog was untill now. We were on a good streak at that time and we were catching a lot of good hogs and we took it for granted. I was glad my dad went on that hunt it was awsome.

[matt_aggie04]

My most memorable cought hog would be this little guy.  Struck bayed and cought all within about the first thirty minutes of the hunt and not even a scratch on the dogs.  His head is in my freezer to be mounted.  Went 310 with perfectly matching 3" teeth.



The next hog would take the cake on most memorable hunt because of the wreckage that he caused.  This photo was taken about a month after we got him and as you can see he is a little scared from the encounter also, no ears.  The story of the hunt is pretty long but in the end he killed my dogo and cost me over a grand at the vet on one of my cur dogs chest and turned Cliffords chest into swiss cheese.  We were able to walk right up on him in a creek while they were baying him but by that time the damage was already done and we had no gun.  Truly an impressive hog, tall, athletic and old with some really big teeth and on the same property as the one above, after comparing game cam pics this hog will be much larger then the 310# hog.  We'll bay him and shoot him one day, he is still around.

[hogdoggin91]

looks like a ruff one. no ears no handles, only imagine how hard the dogs were tryin.

[Circle C]

I have two that fall into my most memorable category and for different reasons.

The first one, was the largest hog we have ever caught.

We were roading the dogs in a corn field, this field has an asphalt road that runs through the center of it. Struck, bayed, and caught with 3 plottxcur dogs, no catchdogs. all within about 50' of the asphalt road.

Had some trouble getting him hobbled, then loading in the trailer was even harder.






The other memorable one is this boar. He only went 180, but he was the first hog that Mandi and I ever caught with just our dogs. It became a downhill run after that. It let us know that we are capable of catching hogs with the dogs in our pack.

[Cull Buck]

Matt, that no eared SOB really makes my butt pucker up.  I remember when Sean showed us that picture at the lodge and I was a little took back.  Very mean looking to say the least.

[GitDatHawg]

Dang Circle C, how much did that first hog weigh?  That thing was fat!!

[Circle C]

We say he was 440#   

He bottomed the 440# scale. Honestly have no idea the actual weight.  When we first got him hobbled and had a good look at him, we were thinking 335# or so. Needless to say, we were surprised.  We kept him alive, and dropped him off in some working pens, about 3 days later he died. That is when we got the scale weight.

[GitDatHawg]

dang that big ole' guy couldn't handle all the stress.

[aladatrot]

The first hog on Circle C's post went 440. Well, 440 is all the scale would read and the hog wasn't actually hanging when the scale pegged. I'm sure that means he'd go a little heavier but all we can account for was 440, so we will go with that number. This hog was shut down by two plotts (Lupe and Gus) a black and tan cur dog named Lizzie (who struck it), and one Cody Childs. The pit was green and didn't catch until the hog was legged and had a hobble on, and the running catch dog got there about the time the other hobble was on. It was a weird night to say the least.

The second hog was way cool. We hunt with other people so much that we never hunt just our dogs. We have the philosophy that hunting is better with buddies. This night, we took buddies, but they didn't own dogs so it was just ours. Lupe struck this hog in some woods, and when we heard Patches and Split baying hard and then just Split, we knew we had to get in there quick. Our Lupe dog thinks she's a pit, and will catch any hog. Obviously she needed help and Patches dove in right behind her. They shut him down in some thick rose hedges, and it was like razor vines! We kept trying to get in there with Meat Head, but couldn't get where we could see. We were all cut up badly by the rose hedges. Finally, Chris just cut Meaty loose when he heard one of the dogs get hit and yelp. We got to it and got it legged but decided it was going on the wall anyway so we just stuck it right there. You have never seen a happier bulldog. That was the first hog Meaty got to catch in the woods after his "life changing" surgery. The only dog that got a nick on him that night was Patches, our three legged dog. He is a great dog with lots of heart, and was back in the woods in less than a week. The boar has been hanging out in the barn freezer waiting on the go ahead from the taxidermist. He will be on our dining room wall.
Good times
M

[Circle C]

Scott,

   The welding was done with 1/8   MG289  rod. running about 85 amps. We ran out of the MG 289 and finished off with some 1/8 6010, we did not plan it that way, but sometimes "it" happens!

I cannot claim the job as my own though. My neighbor did it for me. The dude can run a bead.

[BRUTE]

We caught this boar hog a while back. We had a bunch of rain the night before so every one was rained out of work. We grabbed 2 young Cur dogs and a Pit ad another guy was supposetly bringing two catch dogs.

The dogs bailed off the top and bayed we kicked out and you could hear a loud squeel. I still remember running up and seeing the Pit going over the top a big bush getting flung back and forth, but never let go. Looked like he was doing the windmill. The other guys two catch dogs never made it to the bay.

My Cur gyp was caught on the testi-s and we found the other Cur gyp close. She had taken a shot to the lung. She has comletley recovered now.

Hog went right at #400 and was caught at about 10am.

[elliscountyhog]

Nice brute. Hey brute do them dogs ride on top of the kubota and bail off from there? Does it give them a better way to wind? I just got a rhino and thinkin of training a couple to wind off of it.

[Flatbroke]

Nice Hog Brute, I like the look of the hair on the back.  How come that mans face is blacked out?