Friday Night Swamp Donkey

[Austesus]

I decided to line up a Friday night hunt at a club that me and a few friends hunt occasionally, and realized that a buddy of mine was planning to hunt there too. He had been in there twice earlier in the week and killed 4 pigs. He told me that he had caught a big boar that put a whooping on his dogs and cut up his bulldog pretty good, the hog broke and he lost it. We decided to get together and see if we couldn’t find him.

We met at the club house just before dark, loaded up on the buggy, and rode to the back end of the club by the river. There’s a field that’s near the river, with a road that turns off of it, goes through a section of woods, then comes out at another field that’s 50 yards off the river. We put the dogs down on the ground right before we turned out of the first field and we let them hunt in front of the buggy. We turned on to the road and then they all rolled out so we stopped and waited to see what they’d do. We had dogs split all over the place covering ground. My dogs Red and Punk didn’t check back in for a little over an hour and covered a ton of ground going out to a little over a half mile. When everything finally came back we started roading them through a bunch of the property and they hunted out pretty hard and covered lots of ground but we just couldn’t get on anything. After 3-4 hours of hunting we covered most of the property with no luck.

We decided that we’d hunt a little later and go to the neighboring property. We put the dogs on the ground and creeped through swamp trails and around fields all around the river for an hour or so before the dogs finally struck. They cut off in to some woods to our right, so we killed the engine and listened. We heard a few dogs open up around 200yds in and then heard some branches breaking with some more yelps and a few barks. We get to em and they have a real nice boar hog caught. He wasn’t making a noise and was barely moving around. We flipped and stuck him and he never made one noise the whole time.

We aren’t positive that it’s the same boar that had cut down my buddies dogs but it was only 800-900 yards from where it happened so we thought he may be the same one. Regardless he was a good one for sure, we don’t catch many like this. He had some long wooly hair too, pretty cool looking. I wish we could’ve put him on a scale to see what he weighed, he was pretty stout. It took 3 of us to get him up on the tailgate lol.







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[WayOutWest]

Dang that's a good one. Way to stay after it!

[HIGHWATER KENNELS]

Yeah he was full grown wasn’t he.   Got some age on that one.   Fine boar hog. 


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[Cajun]

That's a fine boar for sure. Hope the dogs were not busted up.

[TheRednose]

Thats a hell of a hog right there, good job.

[l.h.cracker]

Ol Swamp Donkey good hog Asteus.

[Reuben]

Big hog…

[Austesus]

Thanks fellas, he was a lot of hog that’s for sure. No dogs busted up bad, my Punk dog got lucky. She got about a 6” long cut from her cut collar going down her back over the top of her right shoulder. It shaved the hair and just barely scraped the skin, didn’t even draw blood. She got one small poke under the cut collar as well. My buddies dog took a few pokes under the chin, but nothing bad.

I think he could’ve done a lot more damage if he wanted too. He was pretty calm and just standing there when he was caught, not doing a whole lot of fighting.


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[t-dog]

That’s a real nice hog!


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[Judge peel]

That’s a stud


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[GOODEN]

Good hog there!

[Rough curs]

Just by the looks, I'd say that's the 1...lol definitely a good ol  nasty.  He looks like he has put a whooping on a few. Good hog

[Austesus]

Rough curs, I think so but didn’t want to claim it outright without being 100%. There’s a creek that splits the two properties and sometimes the pigs treat it like a boundary and they’ll stay on one side or the other. We caught him on the neighboring side about 800-900yds away from where he was hit on our side. My friend is the care taker for our side and he called it, he told us about where we would probably find him at. He killed one in this property a few years ago that weighed 456lbs on the scale, with the head already cut off.


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[make-em-squeel]

thats a beast 4sure. nice job

[NLAhunter]

Good hog

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[BriarBay]

Dang good hog. Even better that no dogs got hurt bad. Makes it easier to celebrate afterwards

[Bred4DaGame]

Nice trophy mount


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[gary fuller]

what a toad. good deal

[USA1stNate]

That looks like a beast of a hog. Good hunt.

[Shotgun66]

Nice work! Quality boar hog there bud.


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