EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Well, did some serious hunting this weekend and turned up empty handed on 3 different spots. It seems most of our spots aren't showing any fresh signs, and we have to do some serious walking just to see any signs at all, and old ones at that. I think total I walked close to 8-10 miles this weekend. Dogs did around 20-25 and nothing. They were hunting out good, but just nothing... Could it be that the hogs have just moved out for the time being...? I'm thinking so... I needed the workout anyways from being laid up for almost 2months. It's a funny thing... Love hate relationship really. Love being in the woods hunting and working the dogs, but just hate coming out empty handed. That's why they call it hunting and not finding I guess...

x2 thats happend the last two time to us!! No fresh sign..Where do they go??

Sometimes my best hunt are the ones where I come up empty handed man. Gives you time to sit back and relax and be thankful for what the good lord created. I can't tell you how many times I will get lost in deep thought lookin over an ole slough or cane break and chills will spill down my spine, pure beauty. then you look over at your dogs and be thankful for the obedient hunters and friends they are to you. I could go on and on, This is what I think about instead of coming up empty handed. Kinda mellows it out.

By the way I like your lil picture with the silouetter and texas flag. you do that?

thats a good way to think abt it. i also agree with u on that...

I like the way you think ARhogdogs.
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That s the thing about hogs. Sometimes they are right were they are supposed to be and sometimes they are lerkining around schoolyards and holding people hostage in their own homes.  :D

Hogs can really move around when they want too.  The strange weather patterns and new growth we have in the dead of winter have them acting a little different this year in some spots.

Id have plenty of tie rope handy for when they do show back up.

AR, that is for sure brother! My tattoo artist did our logo, and some other stuff. Love the fact that I'm alive and able to get out there and enjoy it all! Its really cool to see the dogs "get bored" and just keep hunting even though there isn't any sign... like they're trying to impress you or something. LOL!
Ninja, we will be ready... There is whole side to this property that we haven't ever touched. So we are gona hit hard again this week at night to see if anything different happens. Just gotta stay at it, and enjoy being able to do it.
I'm just glad to be able to get off my butt and start hunting again!!! Here is why... The first happened March of 2011, the second set happened December 2011... Not fun and was laid up for both. This year I will remain healthy, and hunting!!!  ;D

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Fun huh? LOL! Like I said, I'm glad to be back in the woods! And I'm down to do some traveling to meet some new folks, and hunt some new hogs!  ;D

Aliens came and took em for research...  :o LOL! They move a lot, and the more you hunt you realize that. It'd be too easy if they just stayed in one place all the time.  ;D Fun, but too easy...  >:D

Dang! I bet they love you at the airport! lol

LOL! This is all last year, so we'll find out soon or later.  ;D

I was thinkin the same thing! Sir step aside and drop your drawers we're gonna have to check your body cavitites!!!! :o

Some times we catch hogs all week an then some time don't catch any. We think they move on to another location. But they will come back.

LOL! they are some sneaky little buggers! and I'm really not looking forward to flying now that I have this crap in me... The pins in my pinky aren't there anymore, but that plate isn't going anywhere. Now you got me all worried... LOL!  ;D not that I fly a lot, LOL!, but still!!!

I have the same plate in my right wrist you have in your left,  metal detectors at both the court house and airport dont even notice it..

oh and i didnt get full mobility back, been two years.. makes tyin hogs a pain..  Keep workin it and it will get better...  Sorry not to get off topic..

Not off topic at all... I had to help a couple friends catch and tie 4 hogs out of a pen, and did most of it with one hand... LOL! They weren't too big. I'd say the biggest was a 120+ pound boar, and I faired ok, but after the first 2 had to call in some back up. LOL! It has only been 2 months since the surgery, and it's coming along nice. I think it's too funny how a doctor can look at X-Rays of something like this and know that you have been using it too much. He said, "Have you been picking things up, and trying to get movement back in your wrist?"... I said yes, but how did you know...? He said, "Well, it still has a fracture in it where the pressure is mostly applied.” Then said, “STOP! Or you're not going to like what happens next!!!" LOL! ;D I don't have full movement back in it, but hope to have most back by end of March. I will probably start either taping it up before the hunts or something from now on. Most people don't understand what it is like to lose function of one of your limbs. I think it’s funny how much I took it for granted. Now that I know what I have to go through as an “older” young man, I do not want to have to do it again. LOL!

my biggest problem after teh surgery was my tendons.  i hate to say this and i hope yours aint the same, but it took every bit of 6 months for me to use all my fingers again, and be able to have enough strength in my wrist to even shoot a pistol.

Damn... Thank God mine hasn't been that way. It took me a few weeks to get movement in it again... but I went for my last check up and there was still a fracture in the radius and he asked if I had been using it and trying to get more movement out of it... LOL! I don't know how he could tell, but he could. So I said yes, I had been, and he bluntly told me to STOP! Or I won't like what he'll have to do if it doesn't heal faster.  >:D I can't help it... I hate not having both arms and full movement!!! Thanks for the concern guys! I really appreciate it!

Love hate relationship---you didn't run across my crazy ex wife out there did you.

AAAAAAAAAAAAmen brother!!!!!

I will have to agree there... Been laid up for a long time and to just be one with the woods again is a blessing. I look at it like this... It could have been a lot worse... Think if I would broken my back or something on the fall... Then my hunting partners would have to wheel me around in the woods!!! Lol! I'm a blessed man to have an understand wife that loves to hunt, friends to help me facilitate it, and great dogs to be able to hunt behind. Thanks for your post guys!