EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Have you ever had one of those hunts that seems to be a chain reaction of bad events? I left town yesterday headed to Phillips to go and talk to an old man about hunting on his place, I had been asking Phillip just about all day to call and make an appointment with him, he told me he would so I leave two hours early to go visit the fellow. I get 30 miles down the road pull in to get some diesel and Redman, reach for my wallet and Guess What???? NO WALLET! EPIC FAIL #1.  I left it at home! So I turn around and go get it. I have to have it. keep in mind it takes me an hour and a half to get to Phillips. I get almost to Phillips house and find out he is just now calling the guy who is out workin cows! So that was EPIC FAIL #2.  Went on to Phillips to wait on Eric (Leif Barns) to get there we were meeting to hunt a new ranch. Eric Calls says he is running late because he had two Flats on his Ranger Trailer, EPIC FAIL #3.  We call him a little while later he says I would have been there but the Ranger slid off the trailer at a stop light! EPIC FAIL #4. Finaly get to the ranch get a good bay going after about 15 mins. Send in three CD's they miss the catch the race is on! Failure #5. Finally caught a 40# shoat(yea). While we are standing at the edge of the creek on one little patch of sand bar a big COTTONMOUTH swims over and quiles up on that small sandbar right in the middle of the 4 of us! EPIC FAIL #6. I start smacking it with a dog lead. Phillip starts hollaring dont do that, because (He wants to cut its head of with a 6" knife) Its important to him that everyone knows he is brave! I guess he didnt care about the smart part! Before I could get a Pic of this BIG 3 footer Phillip throws it out in the creek and it sank! Failure #7. We caught two skunks right after that. Failure # 8-9. Then while going across a Cow Pasture in the ranger we noticeed one of the Young Plott Pups striking up a game with a young Calf who was bucking up and down back and fourth. This turned into EPIC EPIC EPIC FAIL #10 a caught calf in the pasture and all the dogs chasin cows all over the ranch right in front of the landowner! (We have hunted this pack for two years and in cows and not a problem) We finaly caught all the dogs up and headed to one of our ranches to hunt. After about an hour we finaly caught another Trophy Skunk. Failure #11. Zig finaly struck another track, the pack went about 800 yds and bayed up in the corn, caught another 50# shoat(yea). Zig and Daisy rolled out about 1.5 mi. and we drove around to within 60 yds of the bay turn in the two finished CD's, MISSED AGAIN! Failure #12.  The garmin shows Salty bayed all the way back where we just came from and I actually heard her just hammering, so away we go with a 10 month and a 6 month future CD's. Got about 150 yards from the bay only to find one of our best dogs sittin on Eric's Trailer without a care in the world while Salty is baying her guts out only 150 yards away. EPIC FAIL #13. We go on in to salty within 25 or 30 yds cut those two pit pups loose, Erics go to her Phillips 6month old doesnt! Hog shashes the dogs and is off to the races! Failure #14. We rode around the next hour collecting dogs for the night but before we could get on the road I had EPIC FAIL #15.......I RAN OUT OF REDMAN!!!!!!!!  To all those people that call and want to go hunting with us. How do you like us now??????????

Well this sounds some what about like our trip tonight!!! I am literally minutes from throwing my hound puppy out on a coon just so I can hear a bay and I would like to give a severe disciplining to this whining a** catch dog who seems to have forgotten his manners!!

 :o Helluva story, sounds like a run of bad luck for sure...I know its aggravating but it happens to everybody...Good luck on yalls next hunt

Outside of a dog not hunting a noisey CD's aggervates me more than anything else

one  thing  i love  about  bad  hunts ....you  do for a  good  one ........

 Shoot that dont sound horrible, You got on pigs, everyone is safe and unharmed and no dogs got killed. Everything else is just a fluke thing. (although that is a kinda bad) ;)

This is about one of the most up front and true hunting stories that I have heard on here sence I have been reading this board. And I thank you for sharing with us Raider. These kind of hunts happen to all of us, but as we all know sh!@ happens and things go wrong. that is what makes the good hunts so fun.

It happens sometimes... you just never read any posts of the bad hunts. :o

I don't have enough time to post about all our bad hunts..  ;)

sounds like a page out of my book !!skunks and cows

Geez, I hadn't put all those together but it was still a fun hunt!  Even with Daisy "peanut butter" Dog and Probation "Nogo" Paul. Thanks for letting me tag along once again. 

I think that's why they call it hunting and not catching LOL  sounds like my luck !!!!!

I WILL SAY THA IT WAS THE MOST PLEASANT HUNT I HAVE BEEN ON  IN A WHILE WITH PAUL ON PROBATION HE DIDNT EVEN YELL AT ANYBODY FRIDAY NIGHT FOR FEAR HE WOULD GET KICKED OFF OF HOG DOGGERS. ERIC AND I SAY THANKS MIKE FOR SETTING HIM STRAIGHT,AND IF HE GETS OUT OF HAND WE WILL CALL YOU.

HAHA....I bet you and phillip were bein extra polite to each other all night  ;D

Y'all go easy on him... he's had enough trauma for one week. ;)

Grant I may be polite on the outside.....but on the inside you have no idea of some of the evil going thru my mind.... >:D >:D >:D

whoooooo!!!!!!! that sounds like a whipping!!! even worse than the muddy day out by that cemetery (14 dogs on cows) and the azz whippin out there when we got the brand new Mule stuck in the mud 10 minutes into the hunt.  I gotta say, some of the more trying hunts have been with you guys but in the end i had fun on both of those hunts and have enjoyed many more hunts where nothing bad happened. You guys have a way of turning a "charlie foxtrot" into a hell of a time!!

Dang Paul, that sounds like a LONG night. We had one kinda like that when I was up there but not that bad. I'm still wonderin if some of my bad luck stuck with you.  ;)

I think we caught some hogs when you cam up and I dont think we missed any

I'm pretty sure everyone has had a day or 2 like that. I know I have.

Sounds about like my morning.  Started off about 10 miles from my house, when the big hunting trailer came loose from my truck.  Ended up sideways in a bar ditch, buggy completely broke the tongue off and was on it's side a little further down.  I had crap all over the road and it was pitch black outside.  Thank goodness for good friends who came to my rescue!

sometimes when the tailgate drops the bs stops, some nights it's just starting....

I know thats right

I have had more hunting and fishing trips to match this story than I care to remember! Thanks for sharing Paul! It helps the rest of us look back and laugh a little at our own jacked up hunts!

Yeah, we caught that one. But after that it seemed every time we'd turn the bulldogs loose the bay would break. Then we had that blowout there on the highway with the trailer loaded with four wheelers, and CD's. Oh and saltys snakebite.
But still a great hunt and I had an awesome time.

Momma said there'd be days like that..... ??? :o

Amen to that!  We all have hunts like those paul but i gotta tell you after about epic fail 3 id be in the truck headed home..lol  Give you all the credit in the world for sticking it out..

I hope we got most of the bad luck over with

If someone won't admit to having several hunts like that, then they ain't been hunting long.  I like to hear these kind of stories.  I guess it makes me feel better about feeding these culls that I got in my yard.  LOL

NOW that sounds like a hunt i am used to ;D

We need to get together and have a disaster together

Thanks for sharing that with us, I laughed so hard and have to give ya'll credit, it did not stop the hunt. Reading this is like watching bloopers, makes one appreciate the good hunts.

Spazhog, We never stop hunting! Thats one thing I can truely say about my buddy Phillip, I finally met someone that will get with it as much as I will.........

If you ever want a disaster to let me know, it seems to always happen when i go ;D