EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Something has been rolling around in the back of my head for a while and it is the question of why I hog hunt.  Personally it is because I HATE hogs with a desire like no other.  I really do not get all that worked up over a big set of teath other than a look and maybe a couple of pics then the hog is out of my mind.  Yes I like watching the dogs work but when it comes right down to it it all comes back to I HATE HOGS because of the damage they do.  What are some of the reasons some of you all hunt hogs and this is with dogs guns what ever.

I got hooked on watching working dogs with my blood tracker, from there it sort of evolved into hunting hogs.   I like the dogs, I like the rush when you hear a bay, and for the most part I like the people, along with the time in the outdoors.  They're pretty good eatin too. 

i hunt for many reasons. i rly like the rush when your dogs bay one up and espically when you send the catchdog. i also like it because there is no season, they are really good table fair, and most of all bein out in the woods with good friends having a good time

me personaly i like to hunt for the sport and i know hogs do alot of damage i still would not like to c them killed out i love to hunt them to much for that to hunt  theres nothing like hearing a bay and then here the pig squeal when the catch dog getts in there

All of the above but I don't think we're ever going to kill them out anytime in our lifetime or our grandkids lifetime ;D ;D ;D

When i was in the 1st grade i moved from her in Chambers county Tx. and moved to Colorado with my mom and step-dad , he was best friends with a big game guide and outfitter , he guided elk and deer hunts , and high mountain fishing trips , and he ran lion and bear with hounds , i spent almost everyday that i wasnt in school with this man , his name was Arlis Whitecotton , i got my love for trail dogs from this man , i love a good dog and i like big game , and thats all we have here is hogs , you cant run dogs on bear anymore in colorado , i moved back to Tx . when i was 15 , but i often think back about how lucky i was , anyway thats why i hog hunt , i dont hate the hogs , i hate fire-ants and mosquittos , later

Its my drug of choice.My Dad when asked why his son hunts hogs with dogs and just a knife always tells'em he could be smoking crack!No feelin like it.

There are so many reasons why..... but a few stick out, there is no greater feeling than hearin your dogs bayed up or even better yet seein them work... and its all about the adrenalin rush..bein in the woods, away from the everyday, and the commrodary of other doggers is yet another. I could go on but I think I covered the basics for myself.

I'm a natural dog lover and I love to see them work, and I have always loved the outdoors so its a great way to get both in at once, and honestly you can't beat the friends you make hog hunting.  The adrenaline rush and the stories are awesome, cuz whats hunting without the stories!

Pork. Its the other white meat!!!! ;D

Lots of reasons Ive hunted hogs all these years however, it turned into a way of life for me a long time ago. For me its mostly about the dogs and my time spent with them in the woods, training, hunting, and seeing the good ones turn out. Nothing is finer than seeing a sho-nuff hog dog work out sign, track, find and bay a hog in my book!!!
If it wasn't for the dogs I wouldn't even fool with them other than poking one or two with my bow every year for the freezer.

well i love dogs and like seeing them work, what really makes you happy when you get a puppy and train him week after week then the day he finds his own hog its like all you have been waiting for. i think the adrenaline rush really play a big part too. because your not just sitting in a deer stand hour after hour and nothin your at least watching your dogs work. just my 2 cents for the day ;D

   I've hunted dogs my whole life but it was coon hunting for years and I still have a couple hounds but to watch a dog with enough guts to go in and grab a big nasty HOG there is just nothin like it, and the rush of it bein just you and your dogs catchin this thing and killin it with only a Knife well that says it all. The first time I went it was like haveing a blood transfusion I can't get it out of my blood.

It used to be to catch hogs, an adreniline rush like no other. I still get that rush, but now it's I wanna watch the dogs work, not saying dry runs don't seriously piss me off, they still do, lol...but it's mostly the dogs, and I really admire what we're hunting, hogs are an opponent like no other, intelligent, mean, adaptable to their enviroment, predators, etc.

I just hate hogs they have cost a lot of people around here a lot of money, I have to repair about 6 large holes in the fence aorund my oats fields where they are big enough to let calves thru, also found about 5 turkey nest that some 30 lbs. pigs were eating the eggs, only 7 eggs left.

I have hunted all over the world and so far I haven't found anything like hunting hogs with my dogs. I used to run beagles for cats in Oregon and made the transition to Texas running my dogs for hogs. Theres nothing better than watching my dogs work and advance every time out, the rush you get when running to the bay and the excitement of the catch!! I love the dogs, the hogs for giving me something to hunt, and the God for creating the outdoors and everything in it for me to enjoy!! ;D

I enjoy all kinds of hunting with dogs.  Deer, coon, squirel, went bear hunting for the first time last year.  I enjoy hearing the dogs and watching them work, no matter the game.  Used to keep between 15 and 30 deer dogs. If you invite me to go possum hunting with a poodle and a stick, Ill go. But as some one stated earlier hogs are just my drug of choice. ;)

Because I am blood thirsty.

I have been hog hunting for about 8 years and love it. I like hearing the dogs bay, then the rush of sending a catchdog and catching the hog. I also enjoy starting young dogs and working them and when they turn out to a good dog it makes me alot more proud of them knowing i trained them

well, i'm a dog person myself.  i used to raise and train some labs and gsp's but my bird lease started getting way too expensive to keep, and the more and more people that got into duck and geese hunting i didn't have much in common.  they didn't have dogs, had no interest in dogs, unless they needed your dog to fetch birds cause they were too lazy to retrieve them themselves ( i did this when i was a lot younger and didn't have a dog yet).   so once i found out about hog doggin and went a few times i was hooked.  the BIGGEST plus for me is the majority of the people that do this i enjoy being around and BS'n with, and i get to have dogs for a purpose again other than companionship. 

Sometimes I wonder why I do this sprot But it is a lifestyle that I will do till I die cowboying and hog hunting go to gether for me I keep a good set of dogs around all the time I love to breed my dogs and see my blood line work on cows and hogs.There nothing like standing in the saddle and jumping in on top of a hog. I don't HATE them I try to keep them going in the wild on my pesonal places.Know I hate DEER they get in my way and most deer hunters not all of them have no reason to be hunting with aa gun  I own my on places and have alot of deer they are like hunting cows they stand there and look at you very stupid.there is nothing better than watching a good dog work.

I hunt hogs do to the fact the mess up all my pastures and they get into my feed bunks and waste everything possible. I also have had cattle hurt from hogs rutting in the fields and also watched them kill and eat baby calves. I guess the main reason is I get a kick out of them I would rather hunt hogs than kill 180 class white tails, but the main reason is the people and friends I meet that are all caught up in this sport like I am I don't think you could meet a better bunch of people that hunt hogs with dogs.

1.)  I hunt with dogs because I love to watch the dogs work, love to see the battle, and love to see the dog victorious.  Kinda like a Gladiator match.....MAY THE BEST BEAST WIN!

2.)  I'm also a RIFLE nut and have a passion for tactical shooting...no practice is better than shooting hogs.


3.)  I am a trophy hunter plain and simple.  Shoulder mounts, skull mounts, or just photos to add to my collection are an addiction....makin' memories!

4.)  Marinated wild hog backstraps over an open fire....cut 'em with a fork....OH YEAH!!!!!!

Dogs, woods, adrenaline, and mostly good people.  Just makes more sense than any other hunting to me.

Joey

The dog work...

Dogs......Thats why I hunt.Dont have nothing against hogs,even though they tear up alot of our country.Thats what we have to run,so thats what I run.Its all about the dogs for me.

I really enjoy watching good dogs work. Producing good dogs and because I am such an animal lover I try to do my part in lowering the blood pressure in our porcine friends.

cause the chicks dig it   ;D

I like to hog hunt with dogs because it is an adrenaline rush and there is nothing like hearing the dogs you trained and cussed doing what they are sapose to do. I have always liked training dogs to hunt weather it is hogs coon or just about any kind of animal but none of it compares to hogs.

ADRENALINE

^^^^^^^^^ what yall all said,,
      hi my name is dexter and i am a hogdog junkie
                   :D :D

Its all about the dogs. I like raising my own dogs, starting them and seeing how good they can get. I hunt 1 or 2 dogs out at a time so I can tell what a dog is capable of.
Also I like when my buddies dog comes back and mine is bayed somewhere by itself.....LOL
I would just as soon catch the hog and release it (cut if its a boar) but some of the places we hunt require us to kill the hogs.
I think the hogs get a bad rap. They have been here in Fla for over 400 years and cause far less damage to the environment than people do.
I managed ranches for 13 years, had 500 cow/calf pairs and never had a problem with hogs bothering livestock. Yes they rooted the pastures some, but they have been doing that for hundreds of years and haven't permanently hurt anything. Rain, cows walking over the rooting, etc will eventually flatten it back out. Its no fun to drive over with a  tractor at times, but hey, they were here first!!

  As you read this you can see hogs are hunted for alot of different reasons and most all will amitt there is a adreniline rush too it.Mine is like most others being in the woods with your dogs watching them work,then to me its the rush catching and tieing the hog and it doesn't always have to be a trophy. Even when I want to kill a hog I catch it first.  I've done this for years and some times I fill like I have to go, for ever the reason may be.It gets in your blood, its my sport of choice, I love it, thats what I look foward too.

some one needs to hold a big hog dog super bowl. You see the dock dogs and sporting dog challenges on television. What if we went to a big place like the Alamodome or Astrodome put a dirit floor in and make a bay pen and like the terian we run in and have a real life contest as if we were in the woods. This could help people understand what we do and create a better image for us hog doggers. This was an idea sounds like it could be a exciting thing to do.

i dont think it could be explained any better than that.........one of the proudest moments of my life was the first time me and my buddy went hunting and he left his dogs at home.......I had amos and joker (rest in peace). When i heard amos open up and joker hit right behind him i had a smile from ear to ear.........it still to this day makes me grin. there is no drug on this earth that can give you a high like that!

living in the country here in oklahoma my whole life i have hunted and killed every kind of game we have.
when was a kid i always had a hound with me every time i went to the woods ,squirrels in the day coon at night.
in the summer when i would leave out of a morning i would have my fishing pole and a single shot 22 and my dog was ready and waitng a the door. my parents would have to honk the horn on the truck to get me back to the house for supper.

after a few years i would just as soon watch a deer walk as shoot it, not shure what happend i just lost interest.

i went to college took a break from hunting.

after college i had been gathering cows with dogs for a few years and was havin fun.

then i discoverd we had hogs in oklahoma  ;D  so i loaded my horse and my cow dogs and went and caught my 1 st hog , and man i was hooked it was like someone had set a fire in me all i wanted to think about was catching my next hog.

hog hunting fit me like a glove i love to train horses and dogs as well. so it was on.

i guess what i like the most is raising a set of pups and training them into good dogs.( hopefuly)

well that would have to be second the best is grabin a big ole hind leg you cant hardle reach your hand around, now thats why i hunt.

Training animals is what it's all about for me, learning from them and helping them reach their full potential.  I also love the idea of breeding better dogs.... evolution in motion.