Howdy y'all, I haven't been in the woods near as much as I'd like these days, but hey, quality over quantity right? My good buddy Josh and I were blessed with access to a beautiful piece of property a few years back where we take some guys involved in various local ministries. Of course we haven't totally given up our disreputable ways, but as we've gotten a little longer in the tooth, we decided we'd like to give back just a little to the fellas who help drag us back to the straight and narrow on occasion.
This last trip we were able to host a fella who shares his faith with real rough customers through prison ministry.
On top of that we were able to get our other good buddy Ronnie a hall pass for the day and get him back where he really loves to be, in the hog woods!!
I'll cut to the chase and admit I was nervous about my dogs this time around. They had been put up for a loooong time, unused and out of shape. Back when they were being used, we very rarely ever got them on hogs at all and when we did, it was disappointingly long races, with a majority of the youngsters dropping out before the completion. This has long been a pet peeve of mine. I believe in dogs having bottom, no doubt, but I dispise starting young dogs in situations where they never get accustomed to success. You may disagree with me, but I feel repetition is the key to mastery and if a pup only bays one hog for every 8-10 hunts, even if they out in a phenomenal amount of track time and distance, it puts them at a huge disadvantage over litter mates who may see 8-10 hogs every hunt.
Anyhow, this hunt went wonderfully. All dogs involved casted extremely well from the first drop, they all stayed hustling and it paid off at the end of the day with 12 big hogs and Lord knows how many pigs. The guest went home with a delicious, pecan fattened sow and we all saw lots of really encouraging dog work. By the end of the hunt, just about every dog was rolling off a caught hog as soon a human hand made contact with a rear hog leg and some of them were doing what I love, rolling out as soon as the bulldog hit.
Anyhow, ive typed too much, here's some pictures.
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