EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

With most of the land owners and club pastures requiring hogs to be killed before removal.

Just curious how many ole tush hogs are still keeping the old tradition alive of Catch-Cut-Mark-Release.
We have to stick a few but for the most part attempt to cut-n-mark I figure to attempt at preserving this sport as long as we can. As vodoo as it has become around here ...it kinda tickles me to see a fresh marked hog getting cut back loose for some good sporting on down the line.

My mark is left ear low knotch and right ear high notch with full tail left. GOTTA HAVE A HANDLE LATER!   :laugh:

Let's here who still works hogs the old way and if you like........ share your mark.

Enjoy. 

i mark em with a few slits in the hams when i smoke em . lol blackmask we ain't never gonna run out of hogs . but when the powers that be see a bunch of marked cut hogs runnin in the woods . there will be trouble ahead  . just my opinion on the matter .

Lol well uh kinda don't do no marking or no formal marking anyways.

There are 2 places where we still cut mark and release, both are near sour lake, we cut a v in the lower left ear and take about 1 1/2 off the tip of the right ear. 


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We will cut and doc the tails in some spots we hunt. But the places wher they won't em gone we kill everyone caught

When you have the right dogs you sure as heck can run out of hogs.  ;)

I am a reformed catch and killer. I've seen a huge peice of land with endless numbers of hogs get cuaght out and its no fun when that happens. There are several places where we will not mark them. But in the pines I like to put a deep v. It's real basic I know, but everyone else gets crazy with theirs so why not just keep it simple.  ;)

Crop and a upper 7 in both ears

ha ha yeah i know about running out of hogs . the farm land around me when i was in waxahachie was barren of hogs by me and it was a proud day for me and the farmers took 7 years to get it done  lol and when i left to come to east texas guess what in three months time they was just as many came back as when i started  lol we ain't gonna run out of hogs  might have to hunt a differant spot for a while but that's huntin .

I cut and mark alot of small boars. The big ones are worth to much money at the game ranches and thats how I've helped to pay for dog food for years. I always try to let the land owner see me haul off the big boars and some sows when I can and that helps alot. I mark my Barr's with a big V in the top of the right ear and I tip their tails but leave more than enough to grab ahold of for when I catch them again. Theres been times when a tail was all I could grab.

I used to cut and mark alot of hogs and I never caught one back. I caught one here by the house a couple of months back that was cut and marked and I have no idea who did it. We have gotten alot of big nice places to hunt over the years because we would go in and clean them out. What we didn't catch would move and never come back in any numbers if you hunted it every now and then. It's not as fun as when you started but they will recomend you to other ranch owners who wouldn't let people hunt it before.

 I live in La. But when I'm huntin in God's country(Tx) I take them  All Out !

It used to be really neat back when everyone around here marked.
Never failed somebody across the county would call you up and tell you they knocked down a big Barr with your mark in its ear with a certain color pattern that you actually recalled catching as a small shoat years before on the other end of the cou

We have caught a few with our mark but plenty of others that I recognized their marks. Not to many folks seem to do it anymore around here. Most of the young hunters I have came across up here dont know how to work hogs and seems to blow their mind when you start cuttin and marking right before you give them a boot in the rear.

Quarter size circle top right ear

Theres a few boys in labelle Fl who use that mark.

I nip the tip on the right ear and split the left about an inch or so. 

Most of the places I hunt they have cut and marked hogs for over 100 years.....I try to make it another 100.  ;)

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I agree. I have cleaned a many of ranch out. If you have a place to work them then I say work them. If not do what you have to do.

I've got three marks registered to the family that dates back in the early 1900's.  There ain't nothing better then marking hogs.  I'm just carrying on the tradition the ones before me lived with.

I use a swallow fork, upper bit- swallow fork!

I've marked hogs with all three marks but I like this one, it stands up nice and I'd like to catch a huge Barr with it for the wall one day!

Im lucky enough to hav a ranch of my own that USED to be baron of hogs. Now there are about 15 barrs with a lucky 7 upside down in the left. I see one or two here and there and see signs of them. But havnt hunted it but a few times. I had to kill one and the others i turned loose again. I came to the conclusion that im not going to hunt it til i run out of hogs on my other spots. I promised mom that id never sell the ranch. So hopefully ill always hav hogs to chase

It's common in Glades and Highlands county. Gary Clark and his crew use it also up around them tomato packing plants east of Bradenton

over bit on the left and under square on the right was my folks in florida .

West central louisiana---crop& hole in left ear, crop in right,half tale.

ive caught some that had fire brands on their sides. took me a while to understand that someone marked them hogs

Wow, now that's different. Must be the Amish. Those sneaky devils letting all them hogs go so they don't have to have a hog "barn raising"

We have been marking them since I can remember tip the left ear 2 notches in  the right ear also every hog that we catch not on our property we fire brand them and turn them loose on our place.

Been a long time since I've caught or seen a marked hog in good Ol east Texas. I dock the tail and notch the left ear on the FEW places I'm aloud to work em. Used to see and catch marked hogs regularly "back in the day". My grandpa had two marks registered with Polk county. I need to research and see if I can find out what they were.

havent seen any hogs maked in the old way but have caught a couple in traps that have had ear tags in them.....just wounderin when yall work ur hogs do yall hit them with wormer or anythang befor they get turned out?

Nope.

Mark, cut, and release if in the woods. Mud will do the healing.

If they are penned ....usually Mark, cut, and spray with burned oil and diesel. Will kill lice and body bugs along with assist healing their rear and keep flies and larvae out of fresh wounds.

If they ever get fly larvae in cuts around head in summertime..it will disorient the hogs and they stumble around until they cannot walk.

Wormer is to expensive round here and would prob give a woods hog a belly ache anyway. Haha.

i only worm what i keep in the pen thats if i have any left over from the cattle

I don't have a formal mark but i tip the left ear and tip the tail (try to leave enough for a handle).....

Crop right swallow fork left. Used to mark cows same in open range.

2 V's side x side on the right ear to make a "W" just use the last name initial.. O0

I used cow tags one time on about 40 barrs. I wrote down the weight, location, & date. A also did a few that were not cut. I kept it to myself and just sat backed and listened. Every year I hear about a hog that was shot and had a cow tag. I did it to see how far they would travel and how quick they would pack on the pounds. I was suprised to see how far these hogs were being killed from the original location for sure. I also here about I saw a huge hog but didn't shoot it because it had a tag and I thought it was a pet.

Crop in both ears!! Sometimes we leave the tail long, sometimes cut it all off!! We Barr as many as we can.. The more you cut, the more you'll catch

me and my buddy use double underbit in each ear and dock the tail on barrs and leave the tail on the sows

hanson , tell more about your experiment , how far did they go ? how much did they gain ?