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Title: Cow or hog Post by: James Ket on February 22, 2012, 01:56:08 pm Went to one of my places today to do some arrowhead hunting. Didn't find any. But found a really big track. It milled around where other hogs were at as well. It is comparable to a cow but I don't think a cow could get out there and to top it off it goes through a fence line that I don't see a cow being able to get through. Here is a pic of a track I found out there that is smaller. Then the other tracks. What are your thoughts.
(http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p174/Jamison559/ae28a578.jpg) (http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p174/Jamison559/c74199e0.jpg) Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: James Ket on February 22, 2012, 01:58:01 pm (http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p174/Jamison559/fdd641c5.jpg)
(http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p174/Jamison559/ed5ff70c.jpg) (http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p174/Jamison559/edb35a9e.jpg) Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: halfbreed on February 22, 2012, 02:04:25 pm GOOD HOG !! do you need help?? ;D
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: JLH on February 22, 2012, 02:21:33 pm It is a split hoofed animal so run it
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: Silverton Boar Dogs on February 22, 2012, 02:52:17 pm That big track is a cow track, 800 lb yearling is my guess.
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: James Ket on February 22, 2012, 02:54:37 pm It was split. But I will admit I haven't messed around cows much.
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: mattr on February 22, 2012, 03:09:54 pm Cow
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: halfbreed on February 22, 2012, 03:24:58 pm you boys ain't seen too many big hog tracks in the black gumbo have ya . mud pushes out makin em look bigger than they really are . it's a hog
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: Bedias92 on February 22, 2012, 03:31:07 pm you boys ain't seen too many big hog tracks in the black gumbo have ya . mud pushes out makin em look bigger than they really are . it's a hog I was thinkin the same thing Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: James Ket on February 22, 2012, 03:53:44 pm Lol no there isn't ever any mud down here hardly
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: S_J_KENNELS on February 22, 2012, 04:03:09 pm Its a hog. I have/had video of a hog tossing dogs above a corn field one night with my hand in the track it made leaving. After whipping and cutting down every dog we had there. Have to see if I still have it.
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: James Ket on February 22, 2012, 04:06:19 pm Shane this is right on a field at the edge of the cibolo by Kosciusko.
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: Cutter Bay Kennels on February 22, 2012, 04:11:33 pm you boys ain't seen too many big hog tracks in the black gumbo have ya . mud pushes out makin em look bigger than they really are . it's a hog I like your enthusiasm. ;D However, I believe you to be incorrect. ;) I am referencing this pic below. His hand is on both sides of the plant (meaning it is at the ground level). The lenth (front to back) of that track is 5" based off of the average full grown man's hand dimensions where it is in relation to that track. NOT a hog. I had similar tracks down at the bottom of my property by a pond that was drying up. I was thinking jackpot. That is, until I really thought about it. :D I began to watch the field in the morning, and sure enough the yearling calves were stepping through my neighbor's fence close to the pond edge to partake in the fresh green shoot buffet. Don't dog the COWS!!!!!!!! (http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p174/Jamison559/fdd641c5.jpg) Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: Cutter Bay Kennels on February 22, 2012, 04:14:12 pm I will add, if it stepped on it's front track to enlarge the original indintation, it is possible it is a hog. If that is the case, Halfbreed, I apoligize. ;D :angel:
There, did I cover all my angles? ;D Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: RyanTBH on February 22, 2012, 04:16:45 pm I will add, if it stepped on it's front track to enlarge the original indintation, it is possible it is a hog. If that is the case, Halfbreed, I apoligize. ;D :angel: Cutter, you're a trip... ;DThere, did I cover all my angles? ;D Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: S_J_KENNELS on February 22, 2012, 04:20:53 pm James lets go get it one weekend. I gotta try to find the video and pics. The track the hog I hit years ago I could not cover with my hand open. You could see the edges of the track on both sides of my hand. This was before I had dogos LOL. It made two pits and an AB into baydogs cuz everytime they hit it tossed them into the air over the corn. Hince why I like legger catchdogs now. I think that he would hit them when they jumped for an ear and would both toss and cut at the same time. He put my whole pack out of commission for 3 weeks or so.
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: S_J_KENNELS on February 22, 2012, 04:23:30 pm OH and if you made a fist you could put it in the track and not fill it. I have seen some hogs down in the salt marsh country while working cattle we thought were yearling angus calves until we got closer.
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: James Ket on February 22, 2012, 04:38:43 pm Would love to see the video shane if you find it. We definitely need to get together and hunt sometime. If it is a hog we are going to save this place for the TDHA hunt, if we dont get it, you will have to come up and run with us sometime.
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: SCHitemHard on February 22, 2012, 06:24:49 pm just get a cow broke dog and a straight cow dog. your answer will show itself >:D
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: hoghunter71409 on February 22, 2012, 07:40:03 pm I know one way to find out????? Turn loose a very good finished cur dog that wont bays cows. Work the fields, are thier other cows or hogs around?
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: Wmwendler on February 22, 2012, 07:44:04 pm I'd say its a cow track but be sure and post pictures if you prove me wrong.
Waylon Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: FORREST on February 22, 2012, 07:58:58 pm There's cows on the place yes, but they aren't in the pasture he saw tracks in. Plus this track goes up to a fence and same track is on neighbors on the trail thru fence. My thought is that its a good boar maybe 250-275 and his track looks bigger in tha mud than it really is. Good hog no doubt tho
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: WILLY on February 22, 2012, 08:31:20 pm If it was hog tracks you would see dewclaws in the mud..
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: halfbreed on February 22, 2012, 09:07:42 pm his thumb is on the dew claws in the first pick . we had a hog in waxahachie placed bigger tracks in the mud than that . and i ain'i gonna lie i would prescout the back side of the farm and make sure he wasn't around before i turned out . that was before i started using a cd just the curs and hunting by myself . i seen him several times as well as my neighbor . looked like a yearling bull in the pasture . his back rub on the telephone poles was 42'' high . and as you're sitting there typing just open your hand and look at it the track ain't all that big . but it is a good hog . i can smell it ;D ;D
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: Cutter Bay Kennels on February 22, 2012, 09:17:49 pm his thumb is on the dew claws in the first pick . we had a hog in waxahachie placed bigger tracks in the mud than that . and i ain'i gonna lie i would prescout the back side of the farm and make sure he wasn't around before i turned out . that was before i started using a cd just the curs and hunting by myself . i seen him several times as well as my neighbor . looked like a yearling bull in the pasture . his back rub on the telephone poles was 42'' high . and as you're sitting there typing just open your hand and look at it the track ain't all that big . but it is a good hog . i can smell it ;D ;D Halfbreed, Read his first post again. The first pic is a normal sized "good" track. That is not the track in question. Here is a pic of a track I found out there that is smaller. Then the other tracks. What are your thoughts. (http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p174/Jamison559/ae28a578.jpg) Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: skunkhounds on February 22, 2012, 09:22:04 pm im gonna have to say its a cow track
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: Silverton Boar Dogs on February 22, 2012, 10:07:18 pm I have made a living tracking cows ;) thats a cow track
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: Jonathan Barth on February 22, 2012, 10:21:23 pm I have made a living tracking cows ;) thats a cow track I agree Mr Paul, looks to me like a yearling... as to thisThere's cows on the place yes, but they aren't in the pasture he saw tracks in. Plus this track goes up to a fence and same track is on neighbors on the trail thru fence. My thought is that its a good boar maybe 250-275 and his track looks bigger in tha mud than it really is. Good hog no doubt tho there are some yearlings out there that think about as little of fences as a boar ;)Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: Wmwendler on February 23, 2012, 07:46:35 am I have made a living tracking cows ;) thats a cow track I agree Mr Paul, looks to me like a yearling... as to thisThere's cows on the place yes, but they aren't in the pasture he saw tracks in. Plus this track goes up to a fence and same track is on neighbors on the trail thru fence. My thought is that its a good boar maybe 250-275 and his track looks bigger in tha mud than it really is. Good hog no doubt tho there are some yearlings out there that think about as little of fences as a boar ;)After a second look I would put money on it being a cow track. A cow that ends up in a different pasture knows how to get through a fence, so I don't find it odd that it went through the fence. The two peices of a cows hoof curve inward towards each otehr and a hogs do not. You can clearly see this difference between the first picture of a normal hog track and the other Big track. Waylon Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: wranglercurs on February 23, 2012, 07:51:22 am DANG they both eat put a dog on it. If its a cow it aint supposed to be there. RIGHT? Ill get my saw cleaned up an head your way.lol
I myself have seen just some cow tracks. ITS A COW.. Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: Lance on February 23, 2012, 08:03:27 am MOOOOOOOOO .
Title: Re: Cow or hog Post by: James Ket on February 23, 2012, 09:14:06 am Lol u guys are funny. I'm not worried. We will run the place and see what happens. There are plenty of good size for sure pigs out there. If it turns out to be a pig we will know and if it's a cow prolly will never know cause hes probably been put back where he belongs. I'll have to talk to the rancher and see if he had any cows get out. Thanks to all for the input. It's fun to see everyone's thoughts and opinions.
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