Registered: Mar 2006
Location: texas
Posts: 99

first off remind me to never hunt on friday the 13th.....i met up with two guys over here in humble. well let me back up...i just got another hog dog. he's a good looking leopard cur. 90% white three or four small leopard patchs on this back end and double glass eyes. he'll find one and if it don't sit he'll chew the nuts. he is an older dog so those fast ones he don't have the legs for, but that is where my blue dog comes in handy for trailing.

back to the hunt, we cut my dogs loose at 8pm. we wanted to see if they could get on something by themselves first then we were going to cut the others loose. well we hunt for about an hour to 2hrs. no dice. so we cut the others loose and went in the woods. we were sticking to trails outside the woods on atv's. soon as we hit the edge of one thicket all the dogs were gone but my old dog and another guys really young dog. we waited for about 2min and the sweetest sound you could ever hear came loud and clear. my boy sye was bayed up with the other dogs. sye is so loud that you could barely hear the other dogs. well the hog ran on us, so we didn't get him. we moved on after another hr to two hrs we headed back to the trucks. about 200yds or so from the trucks my old dog and my bluetick shot off into the woods. we heard waldo(my cur dog) then about a min later we heard the unmistaken voice of sye. they were so deep in we went around to get a better draw on where they were and guess what....yep hog ran again...no dice. the dogs came back and we went to the trucks..well we call up one of my buddies friends and they were at place that was covered in sign...so we headed out, mind you it is 12am now...my dogs have been on the ground since 8pm.

by the time we get to the spot and cut the dogs loose it is about 1:15am. my dogs got about an hr or so rest which they really needed. well we get going and the dogs take off several times, but the always came back. fast forward about 2.5hrs, the dogs take out. i mean every last one, about 7-10 curs.about 30sec in again sye is letting the world know that he looking at something. we all are excited. i mean every stinking dog we got out there, but the catch dogs are hammering away. we run about 50-100yds and the dogs are bayed solid. we let the catch dogs loose AND mmmmoooooo!! LOL. yep we ran up on a wild cow and her calf..lol. i mean we got about 10-12dogs hammering away catching and everything inbetween. we start whipping dogs telling them to get out, breaking off catch dogs leasing dogs AND falling in mud. after about 5-10min of this we finally head on. so unfourtunately we got no hogs BUT one heck of a memory...lol

still looking for my first pig in the wild..lol..was real proud of my dogs. worked from 8pm to 4am with only a one hr break in there. my bluetick was in on every bay and my old dog found one by himself. dogs were good and tired , sye's backfoot is hurting him right now, was going to take them out for hog hunt this morning, but bout threw a fit, lol...

we also had my waldo dog and one of the guys cur dogs scrap it out pretty good(waldo's ear was bleeding, got ointment on it now clotting it up), sye was tailing a young female dog off and on all night(he's still young, he still hunted hard when he was tail piping) and we came to the conclusion i need a tracking collar...lol

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Registered: Dec 2006
Location: Sandy Hook, KY
Posts: 1009

have huntted wild hogs befor if you got a good dog why did the 2 hogs get away,not to sound mean but you mite need a good hog dog ,if the hog ran off when you got there the dogs should run and bay it again and keep doing that till you kill it or lead the dogs off it wile it is bayed up,,

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Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Elkview, WV
Posts: 134

I like beef better than pork anyway.

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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: texas
Posts: 99

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Originally posted by ky huntter
have huntted wild hogs befor if you got a good dog why did the 2 hogs get away,not to sound mean but you mite need a good hog dog ,if the hog ran off when you got there the dogs should run and bay it again and keep doing that till you kill it or lead the dogs off it wile it is bayed up,,

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Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Sandy Hook, Ky
Posts: 221

hogs mite be doged hard but if you got a good dog it should run the hog when it runs,if your dogs are letting the hogs get away ,,you mite wount to get you a better dog that will not quit a track,i hunt hogs in ten, and every one we ran we killed,

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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: texas
Posts: 99

sounds like you need to come to texas. i mean it is what it is. my bluetick is young, he is very inexperienced. i believe after some good time in the woods he will be able to trail up any hog we get on. my other dog is 8 and has been dogged hard during his life, so his speed just isn't what it used to be. again the terrian in tenn is vastly different than texas as well. sounds like you have some really good dogs. you should plan a trip out here some time and me and my buddies can take you out and we can see how well your dogs fair in some thick thick woods. i mean woods so thick with vines, palmettos, and thorns that you can even walk your catch dog in. the dogs aren't just letting it run away. the hog is breaking and running through thick thick woods and the dogs just can't keep up. we got hogs that will run out of the country when i dog barks, so at times it is hard to stop some of the really fast ones.

we went out the other night and we got on a hog that took us for a little run and we were able to get him bayed solid. he was in an area that was less thick than the other two places. actually had him bayed in a waist deep pond.

you say you hog hunted in tenn. how many times did you go. we go at least once a week sometimes more. we can only wish to have your success rate on hunts, 100%!! that's unheard of hear in texas to have a 100% kill rate, guess our dogs are inferior to those kentucky and tenn hog dogs..lol. seriously, how many times have you gone hunting because there is NO ONE in the state of texas that has a 100% kill rate when hog dogging.

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Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Texas
Posts: 4

yeah, not buyin that. i have seen all kinds of hunting dogs over the years, both good and bad. the simple fact is that if you have a 100% kill ratio hog doggin, then you're not hunting very much. everyone gets smoked sooner or later if you hunt enough, no matter whether you are from Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee or Zimbabwa. Hogs get away, that's just a fact even if you run 100 dogs. they will find places that dogs simply cannot get through. so don't feel bad nightowl. anyone that tells you they are 100% hog hunting with dogs isn't hunting enough, or it might not be superior dogs, just a superior imagination.

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Registered: Jul 2007
Location: SOUTH TEXAS
Posts: 1

I do not know this man's dogs... they may be junk... they may not be... but any one who sits there,,, on the other side of a computer,,, in another state,,, and passes a judgement just based on that story is flat out ignorant. I personally like a little more handle on my dogs but this person sounds new to the whole deal... correct me if I am wrong... so it is not surprising.

IF you have not been flat out ran atleast once you have not been hunting long enough to comment.

I hunt big ranches where hogs don't get run often and I hunt corn fields that get ran almost evey night. There is a definate difference in the two and I hunt each one wiht a different approach.

Hogs that have not been ran stay to strap. The only thing to worry about is them killing your dogs other wise it is easy pickings.

Hogs that have been ran will turn tail and run at the sound of a voice, tail gate drop, bark, ect... and they don't care if there are dogs barking in their face, hanging off their nuts what ever, they do not stop. It almost seem as if they have evacuation routes planned. I personally am not going 5 miles to where those hogs finally stop.

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