EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

  Seems over the last few months I have noticed a lot of hunters don't catch their hogs live.  Ever since I've been hog hunting, we have always taken our game out the woods alive.  On occasion we may have to kill one just to get it out from the deep woods, but it was still caught alive.  From what I've been reading, a lot of hunters shoot over their dogs and never actually catch the hog.  It seems success rates are higher with this type of hunting.  My question is, what style of hunting have you done and what yields the most hogs.

i like to catch and keep em alive most of the time, but depending on the situation, sometimes i stick em.  i do carry a 22mag pistol, but dont like to shoot over my dogs.  only shot 1 last year that was cuttin up my dogs real bad.

IMO its more fun to catch em live. ;D

Haven't done much hunting but we walk hunt and if there are no CDs well shoot with a .44 mag or .357 mag

In the old days (70s)We did shoot over our dogs.But we where trying to wipe every hog we could find out.We had 6 cur dogs that would hunt& bay.WE ride up(horse back)And shoot as many as we could.They would brake and bay again.This would go all day some times.Then we went to trapping them.These traps would be up to a 100ft by 100ft big.Same thing shoot till you get tiered.Even with that much slathering we still not wipe the hogs out. they are here to stay for ever.And we did kill some wall hangers but back then no body wanted to put a stinking hog on the wall.How times do change right boys.And I do not think badly of anyone that turns hogs lose. Just was not raised that way.

we catch and hobble when we do catch something most of the time rolleyes.  but this new contract is gonna be almost a must that we catch and hobble/tie all of them and take em out alive if at all possible.     

I love catching them live and do not ever shoot over the dogs. But, I also hate dealing with them. So, 90% of the time, I slide a knife in the pump house and leave them to pick up later. If they are hard to get to, I just leave them for the coyotes and buzzards.

Steve

We catch and tie, seems like there is much more action that way. We always remove them from the property that we hunt and they end up in someones freezer or bay pen.

we catch & tie

strictly catch and re--- whooops i mean, catch and kill ;) everything ;D
dont carry a gun so, if it gets killed it is either stuck, or by dogs.

Catch and tie only for me,if I want to shoot one I will sit in my deer stand and not take the chance of getting my dogs tore up.

we hunt on atvs , horses & I go on multimile walk hunts , we will bring some home tied sometimes , but most of the time we are miles from the truck so we just stick them & quarter them up in the woods & put them on the horses or when we walk we all carry backpacks & trashbags split it up & carry it out , here in oklahoma you dont get 15 hogs in a weekend , I would be dead trying to pack all that pork out of the woods on foot

Lot of catch and ties, I sure thought they had more that shot.  In my area, if someone shoots over the dogs, we don't count them hogs. ;D

I cast the dogs and hood the dogs. Very rarely walk and drive as close as I can to every bay...typically that is within a few hundred yards. My country allows me to do that.

Catch and stick 99% of the hogs. Leave almost every one laying or haul off at landowners requests. Can count on one hand the times I have tied a hog.

ya im same as the guy above me kill them and leave them lay most of them and my dog work on the ground but better out the truck

Depends on where we are hunting... prefer to catch and tie, but sometimes it's stick and go. :o

we walk hunt up here in the mtns, not many rds. park at the foot of the mtn somewhere, unload dogs and hit a trail, if we find fresh sign or dogs strike we cut them loose. there aint no catchin 6-7 hogs a day here. I hunt by myself most of the time, so by the time i walk in,turn loose, run up and down a couple "BIG" ridges to get to dogs, then turn catch dogs loose, then wrestle a hog, tie it, then wrestle the dogs off the hog, take dogs back to truck, then go back and get hog, well i'm just plain too tired to go catch another one ;) lol.
but thats how this TN hillbilly does it anyway.

so beejay if you get to the bay and your catch dogs are laying there dead and you got 2 or 3 of your bay dogs gutted and bleeding out what do you do do you call them off or shoot and say you didnt catch a hog that night :-\

I take off running for the closest tree. ;D  We don't carry guns so I couldn't shoot, La you can't have guns at night.  Lot of times I may sneak one when I go by myself just to try not get dead.

tnhillbilly
   you need to get your self a mule ( the long eared kind)    ;D


we hunt alot of rough country too, not many roads.  if it wasnt for the mules and horses, i wouldnt want to catch a hog..

We walk hunt most of the time with no guns, would like to try it with mules though. I heard thats the way to go.

Sorry Jesse, I didn't fully answer your question. I would call that a kill not a catch.

My personal preference is bay-and-shoot... but I enjoy catch-and-stick, and catch-and-tie. Any hunt that puts you on game is a good hunt  ;D

it has crossed my mind a couple of times :D but then i would have to buy a bigger truck and a trailer, and i would have to load and unload a mule on top of everything else ;) ;D shoot i would be wore out then lol :D

i am new to the board and hog dog hunting and this is my first post but i have to say...

I grew up hunting and we shot any and every hog we saw from distance.  a few weeks back i had a great opportunity to go out with Chris, Mandi, Mike and Matt on a tie hunt.  That was the most fun i have had in a long time!  later i went on a stick hunt that was, well just not as exciting as the tie hunts.  i love tie hunting and would rather tie one or two than stick a few or shoot a dozen at distance.  i realize some land owners want it done one way and it's their call but for me the tie is the way to go (even if the yield is less).

I have hunted all styles and prefer to catch and tie or stick these days but I've spent a lot of years shooting over dogs also. Its a great way to solo hunt or with one friend.

If I had to pick a style that was most effective for numbers it would be one good dog, a rifle, plenty of ammo, and a sack lunch. ;D
You can sure put a lot of pork on the ground that way!

I stick pretty much every hog I catch.  I just don't have any use for a live hog.  I don' have a pen or even a handy buyer, so why bother with a live one.  I will tie one if know I'll be hunting for quite a while, then stick it right before I head home, but that's about it.