EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Here's my new hunting rig.  Her name is "Opie", formerly known as "Oprah".  My youngest daughter thought it distasteful for her name to be Oprah.  I thought it was a perfect name for a beautiful, intelligent, black a$$.  In trying to get along and play well with others, I caved and re-named her Opie, unfortunately she now has gender issues.

I have never owned a mule before and I was actually looking for a young mule so I could "train" it how I wanted.  A good friend told me that in this endeavor, one of us should know what we are doing and since I don't, I went with an 11 year old that has been hog hunted, coon hunted, used as a pack animal on elk hunts and lots of trail rides.

By the way, the saddlebags are insulated ;D

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She is the perfect size for hunting off of

shes a beast happy riding...oh time to go milk the cows

She looks awesome.

She jump fences for you ?

Nice looking ride right there.

insulated? u require cold? ;D

Thats a nice ass right there!  ;) Love me some mules!!

that is one fine looking ride you have there ... :)

Thats a fine lookin ass. Hope she rides good is what ur lookin for.

She does jump.  I built a gizmo that will hold some square tubing and so far she will jump about 3 feet, over that she sets her parking brake, again if I knew what I was doing we might have different results.

This gal is awesome!  I went for a ride this morning with her and most of it was in timber along a creek near my house.  She is a bulldozer in the woods.  I have a nice gash in my left ear from me not ducking low enough.  I have found that I can literally lay on her neck and she will go thru just about any timber she can get her head under.  She appears to be the ultimate 4-wheel drive.

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I like that!!

Great jumping pic.  Shes got ups.

Keep on training man... I need one that will jump any cattle fence with a blanket on it. When you figure it out you can train one for me... Lol ! Loookin good. I'm jealouse.

If she's been trained to jump fences, you might try laying a blanket over what she jumps.....Most train them this way so they wont jump out while turned in a pasture......I've hunted with several that would jump a 5 srand barb wire fence with a blanket thrown over it, but you couldn't make them jump it without......By the way looks good, hope she works out for you.....

love the story thats funny chit

It's hard to see from the angle, but there is an old lightweight saddle blanket over the tubing.  She learned if she walks up to the tubing and bumps it with her chest , it falls and she can step over it ;D   I had to rig the tubing so it was a bit more secure.  I'm having a ball with her and have been wondering why I've waited so long to do this!

Real nice looking animal there.  Ill take experience over youth any day!  Call her Pearl, the black pearl haha

You have got yourself something now man,........I used to coonhunt off mules and enjoyed it. You will enjoy her too,.....they're fun to ride and great in the woods.....good luck and you're a lucky guy.

showed the wife the pics ..that makes her want one more than ever ..we have benn looking for a month now  found some but not that perfect one ,or if it was the one, was out  of my bank account balance .. she will find one ,and ill get it for  her .. yours is  looking really good  and  great pics  :)

Looks good!! I'd like to get me one of those!!

Thats awesome man.

Put in about 7 or 8 hours of riding time over the last 3 days.  Man, this gal is awesome.  She is a beast in the timber.  I really had no idea what to expect when I took off into the woods with her but she travels as well in the woods as she does in a wheat field.  She just ducks her head a little finds an opening and bulldozes straight ahead. 

I have yet to shoot within her hearing to gauge her sensitivity to the gun.  She is not on bit squirrelly around the dogs.  My wife's schnauzer ran  up to her yesterday.  I held my breath, as I fully expected to see the dog get punted into the neighbors yard.  She never picked up a foot and the dog was sniffing her hocks of the back end.  SO far, so good!!  After that introduction, I will bring my dogs around her and start making their acquaintances.

Here's a couple more pics of some good looking black ass ;D  Look at the tip of the dogs tail, and you'll she her checking out the puppy training session.

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NICE MULE. A GOOD MULE IS PRICELESS!

Thats a great rig!

Is that hog dog part birddog?

That's all bird dog.  She's a year old and I was working her on some pigeons.  We got a bay pen finished this week-end.  We'll get to work some young hog dogs as soon as we can catch or get a smaller hog and I can't wait!

this is our mule, cant find a good pic of her but she had a habit of takin fences down before she would jump them

far right real tall one
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Here is mine...

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