Most Memorable Hog?

[BRUTE]

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

I don't have his permission to post his face on the e-net. He probably wouldn't care... but you never know.

[matt_aggie04]

Where did the good pics go Brute, I remember when you posted these when you cought the hog and they were real clear.  The clear pics really showed how big that hog was, great catch!!

Matt

[BRUTE]

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.

Ya, they do ride. Not sure if it helps them wind or not. They do like to ride up there. I like it too because I hate loading dogs up, like that they just load and unload themselves.

I have a rack on top my MULE for them also. THat works good because it ply woods. The plastic tops are hard for the dogs to hold on to.

[BRUTE]

Where did the good pics go Brute, I remember when you posted these when you cought the hog and they were real clear.  The clear pics really showed how big that hog was, great catch!!

Matt

I am getting lazy and have pics scattered every where, even diff. computers. I need to go through and organize and delete the repeats.

[elliscountyhog]

Awsome! thanks for that idea of the wood on top. Did you mount with U bolts. A lot cheaper than buying one! I saw one with a rack on front one time and i have been thinkin of that too. I am just excited about my new toy and look foward to doing some inventions.

[HIPOCKETS]

[catchdog7469]

This I caught a few years ago and would have to be my most memorable hunt it was my pups 1st hog found one her own ,but did require the assistence of her elders to get him shut down.

[hogdoggin91]

nice cutters!

[HIPOCKETS]

I've had many memorable hunts but this one kinda stands out. I was hunting a ranch near Pledger Texas, and I was training 3 pit/ cur crosses as catch dogs. These were some big dogs and I've had them on about 10 good hogs in the woods with a finished catchdog . These 3 dogs was at least 100 lbs each and buddy they would tear a hog up. On this hunt I felt it was time to leave the finished catch dog at home and let the young dogs do it on thier own, they were 16 months old. Ya might know the dogs struck and bayed and I could here Clenton booger barking. As we got closer you could smell boar hog in the air. I had 5 cur dogs baying this hog. So I drove the truck up with-in about 50 yrd of the bay and I told Victor (my son-in law) that when I called him on the radio to turn the 3 young catch dogs loose. I eased into that big briar patch on a little cow trail and there was a big area of mashed down brairs where the boar hog was and he was a monster(350#). I pulled my little radio out and whispered Victer , turn-um loose. I could here them bulldogs coming and all 3 bulldogs ran in there and joined the bay.I was pissed. So i told victor ,,NO PROBALEM,, I've had to catch hogs like this all my life,,, NOTHING TO IT. I TOLD VICTOR TO HOLD THE LITE AND BLIND THE HOG WHILE I SLIP UP AND GRAB HIS LEG. I started easing toward the hog and bout that time Victor took the lite off the hog and shined the lite on me.All hell broke loose,,, Here came the hog and I jumped to the side and he kelp coming after me , Victor took off running with the light and I froze still not being able to see where the hog was . Finally I begged victor to come back and shine the light. Then I had to resort to plan # 2. The dogs were still baying but would not try to catch. so,,, i said,, Victor , go to the truck and get that roll of blk duct tape and bring it here. I cut me a small limb bout 5 ft long. I taped my sticken knife to the limb and I slipped up to that hog again. The hog was about 25 yards from me when I noticed all the dogs kinda was clear of the hog so I reared back and throwed the home made spear (TARZON STYLE) and hit that hog perfect in the heart.I could'nt do that again in a 100 trys. That hog kinda gave a long groan and them catch dogs caught, when the hog fell. The hog broke my spear when he fell on it and I saved the knife and stick and it now hangs on my wall.Victor got grounded from hoghunting for a while & I GOT RID OF THEM HALF BREEDS AND HAV'NT OWNED ONE SENCE.

[Flatbroke]

LMAO, Dang Now I got to change my boots 

[BRUTE]

Catchdog, that hog is the one from the Walker right.

The hog in Catchdog's picture and the #400 hog we caught are off two ranches that back up to each other that we hunt. They are BYOCB invite ONLY! (bring your own cut bag)

Had to put that rule after " THE BOYS FROM DEWITT COUNTY" wanted to run with us.

[Critter]

Hipockets,
            You could make some money selling stories like that. Too funny. I enjoyed that.--John

[capt jack]

when i started hog hunting, i read every thing i could find on dogs and hunting with dogs. one the great dog hunters i read about was sasha siemel. sasha was a jaugar hunter from south america. he hunted with a pack of dogs and a spear. sasha killed over 300 cats. (30 with a spear)

kind of reminds me of that great spear hunter sasha hipockets.

the story is better sitting around a camp fire drinking. you will laugh till you cry. and you now something, what makes it better iS, IT IS A TRUE STORY.

[capt jack]

in the early 80's, i had just started hunting with dogs. i met an old hog hunter, who took me under his wing and taught me a few tricks of the trade.
at the time i was hunting cur dogs and pit catch dogs. i asked him to take me down south around refugio and to hunt big hogs. his words to me were. son you are going to get your dogs killed.
we set up a hunt for the end of november on a full moon night. the air was cool and the dogs were running good.
well we had a second trick up our sleeve. we had a ranch hand taking us hunting and he was the horse wrangler. so all he did all day was ride the ranch braking the young horses. he new were every hog on the ranch hung out.
we pulled in the gate, and pulled up into the pasture. the wrangler told us a big hog was staying in the area.
we dropped the tail gate and the fight was on. the dogs ran about a 100 yards and struck the hog.
the hog backed into a bush and started cutting dogs. i walked up to the tree and observed the dog with one bull dog on his ear. i pulled my knife and walked in for the kill.
the hog came around and laid the bull dog out. here i am standing under a tree with one mad boar hog and no dog on him.
i pulled my 41 mag and put one round in his head and the fight was over.
as if stood under the tree looking at my hog. i felt something on the back of my neck.
i felt and found blood on my neck and clothes. i could not find were the blood was coming from.
i looked into the top of the tree and got blood on my face. the boar hog was pitching the dogs into the top of the tree and the blood was dripping down from the top of the tree.
we had seven dogs, all were cut up and the bull dog had made his last hunt.
this hunt turned me into a hog hunting junky. i think about this hunt often. it changed the way i hunted, i never used a pit catch dog again.
the hog was only around 250 pounds with good ivory and a very bad attituded.

[BRUTE]

What is the reason for not using a pit? What ranch was it... if you don't mind.

[capt jack]

to be honest. i got every one of the pits i used in that country killed. i got tired of sewing dogs and the vet bills. so i stopped hunting catch dogs and went to dogs that would bay a big hog.
also, and not to start a fight, because every one hunts different. i found i caught and killed bigger hogs with bay dogs.
at the time all i wanted to do was kill trophy hogs.  one bigger than any one of my friends  hunting had killed.
we were hunting a ranch next to the aransas wild life refuge.

[BRUTE]

How do you kill hogs with only bay dogs? Bay and shoot?

[capt jack]

i always shot the bayed hogs. but a good cur dog will catch. if the hog could be caught, i would use a knife. if not a 44 or 41 mag.
i hunted with one old man, who used a 30 carbine and two cur dogs. he killed some good ones.
two of the biggest hogs i killed were with one catahoula bay dog. (thats may next story)
just as soon as i find out how to scan my pictures in this thing.

[BRUTE]

I have been debating doing that. With the price of every thing, not having as much time to hunt, and other obligations. It would seem easier to just have 2 Curr dogs for close and 2 hound crosses for distance. No catch dogs. Get out of the whole hunting like a job and go more for the sport. 

I use to hunt alot with a guy who hunted like that... 2 hound x cur and a gun. Killed alot of good hogs like that. Same thing... some times they would grab when we got there if they could. 

[hogdoggintexas]

that just dont seem as fun to me i like seeing the catch and getin in there with them and putin hands on em