EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

We went hunting last night on a new place that the farmer had seen fresh rooting on that morning. We walked for a while and my Red dog pulled out to 600+ yd. and bayed. One of the other dogs got there and they caught out. In the mean time a couple of the pups had bayed on their way to Red but pulled off and went on to him when the pig started squeeling. They weren't on the place we started on so we went to some houses and got permission to go back in there and as we were headed back in there we started hearing gun shots and the dogs stopped baying. Some of the dogs started back to us but some stayed still. We were sure we had some dead dogs but when we got back there it ended up being a guys hog pen that was right at the edge of the woods and he was shooting in the air to scare the dogs out. We appologised all over ourselves and told him we would pay for, replace, or fix anything our dogs had done. He was a super nice guy and said "Oh no, I couldn't shoot a dog, I was just trying to scare them out". To make a long story short, it could have been a really bad deal. There are very few people that live out in that part of the country, and we had no way of knowing that the folks lived there or had hogs. Luckily there was nothing but a few scratched ears on his pigs. Red had struck wild hogs and they must have run right past the guys hog pen. There were hog tracks all around a little pool right there by the pen. The fella had every right to shoot our dogs as they were harming his livestock, but he was one of the few level headed and considerate people out there. I was wondering if anyone else had ever had something like this happen to them? I have thought about it happening before but never thought that it really would. It was kind of a nightmare but I'm really thankful that it worked out the way it did. I guess we won't be hunting around that area any more which sucks because there are a ton of pigs.

It's hard to break them off a domestic hog!  Wish we could.  I have had the same thing happen as well and the guy was pissed and had a gun in his hands when i got there.  It didn't end the ways yours did but all my dogs came out just fine but his hog was serve on the table that night I'm sure.   ;)

a couple places i hunt have them in a pen and my dogs dont mess with them atleast not yet

You will have to bring someone on the hunt. Then put them on that pen to keep the pig safe so you can hunt. Maybe even pay for better hog fence to keep the dogs out ;D It is funny because he was a good guy.

OKIE has a friend that caught a domestic hog running around in Altus OK. A huge pink one...

Yes, while hunting one property, the dogs found domestic hogs on neighboring farms.  The farm in Florida it was problem, just cussing and threats really. The farm in Georgia, the owner thought it was funny I drove all that way to find his hogs ,still in the pen.  One of my catch dogs winded a poachers trap on a farm in Ala. with a sow in it.  The land owner was pleased to be the new owner of the sow, and the trap.
I ask about neighboring livestock, before going to a new place now.  I've turned down several farms, due to potential livestock problems.        

I even caught two pot bellied pigs while hunting.  They were obvious pets that someone released.

Try baying freaking POTBELLY pigs with 3 and 5 inch teeth.......A guy just west of me was raising around 200 head of potbelly and he had been crossing them with some wild boars......These suckers are only like 75 lbs to 150 lbs but have 3 to 5 inch teeth.....The Marshall County Sheriff is a friend and he told us that i needed to bring some dogs down to a piece of property of his that was pretty close to this guys place. When we got there we didnt expect what we were getting our selfs into......we started unloading dogs and the fourwheelers and the sheriff told us, you boys arent gonna need all those dogs and i just laughed....we walked about 200 yards from the truck and he pointed and there were about 75 hogs at the bottom of the hill. He told me to just cut a catch dog loose and i told him we had to bay one first cuz i didnt want them to ralley on the dogs and he told me to do what he told me and just cut a catch dog loose. lol well i did and i wish some of you guys could have been there to help......we would catch one and the group of potbellys would run about 35 to 40yards and stop and look at us and this went on 27 times until i got tired of tieing hogs.....I told the sheriff that he was loading them......when it was all over all that work was for nothing cuz i had nowere to go with them cuz nobody would buy them cuz they were so ugly and they were not TRUE wild hogs even though they had 3 to 5 inch teeth lol and i dont blame them for not taking them.....lol ill try to find some pics and post them.....thank god for mule tape and a 3/4 ton truck with a long bed cuz those hogs were PILED in there

A long time ago I was called out to hunt a section of woods because wild hogs were rooting up a near by little league ball park. I caught and tied 8 Blue butt show hogs in the 100 pound range pretty quick.  :o  I ran out of tie rope and had to lock 3 of them in a dugout on the T-ball field. They sure did some damage in that park.

I would of like to seen the someone going to use to dugout with them in there  ;D

We use a domestic pig to train pups. Here in Ohio you get fined if you own a wild boar, by law if you catch one you have to kill it ;)
anyway last week we are training some 1/2 boxer 1/2 bluetick pups (4months) that are doing good. They had our pig bayed in the corner of the pen, the pig broke the pen loose and escaped. We had a black and tan we on the outside to see if it would bark at the pig, The pig ran and those pups and black and tan bayed it till we could go tie it up. It was a neat experience.
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one morning we loaded up and went to this new piece of property with my buddy, got loaded collared and loaded dogs and struck out. turned loose and in 5 min. my dog hammer showed bayed at 400 yrd sent my catch dog (rowdy) and heard him squeal. when we got there it was a 300 pound pink (kill) sow. we all confusingly laughed it off and looked at gps and my dog lexus showed bayed 500 yrd got there and same thing another 300 pound pink sow. and i am telling no hog barns or anybody with domestic pigs for miles and miles. but now i am really blown away... about an hour later same thing another pink sow, after 7 pink pigs and confused as hell we call it a day. 2 days later we find out that a semi full of domestics had a bad wreck about 3 miles south of us, and 32 of the pigs were unaccounted for (well now 25  rolleyes) but  there for a while it had me scratchin my head.....

Mannn it wouldve been bacon at the house.....

Wow, ya'll have some good storys! You never know what you will get into in this sport, I think it's part of the attraction!