EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Made a fine hunt today with some good friends off here. Jon(hoghunter71409), Casey(caseydejohn), and myself made a hunt this morning thanks to Jon's hospitality.

Dogs did what we wanted em to and found the big hogs on the place.  Caught two dang good Barr hogs this morning.  It was an eventful hunt and well worth the drive Casey made from TX to come hunt. 

It's all to much to type a big story but here are the pictures.

Some of the dogs!
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Here's the first Barr hog the dogs bayed.  Casey was ahead of me and Jon was alil behind us leading the catchdog and I hear Casey holler and hit a tree and here comes what looks like a bull yearling down the trail running from the dogs and we were right in his way.  He had me dead to rights but luckily he turned and went another way or I'd had been screwed. Definitely a stomach turning moment for everyone. I Thought my pokey dog was rough, guess he aint cuz he bayed and Casey's Hairy dog caught him and held him!

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Here's the second Barr. It would have a nice video of him being bayed and running the dogs.  He was playing king of the hill and really put the horn to most every dog on the ground.  He was rank for sure.

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Here's a few more pictures.  We all guessed the first Barr at about 310.  He was real thick and had a big neck on him.  The second hog went every bit of 330, he was a pretty long hog and big in his own right.  Both of these were a lot of hog and we are real lucky to have all the dogs make it even though some got the horn pretty dang good.

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Those are some hellafied hogs right there ! Ya'll should be eating pork for a long time.

I didnt know hogs had horns!!!  :o        ;D

Good hogs Ben!!

Mighty fine swine my friend... that second one is a donkey!

Real good hogs man!

Those are some damn good ones there!! Nice hunt guys. Love seeing big barrs like that

Wow! Darn nice!!!

Those are two studs ! Ole John's a pretty good Ole boy ain't He ?

Good looking Barrs fellas... They sure are nice!!!

     nice barrs yall got there

Real nice hawgs there. How did yall manage to get casey up that way?

You ain't kidding, I bet that was an exciting hunt! Nice pigs y'all!

I had a lot of fun Ben. Thanks for the invite, even if it was last minute.

Jon I hope your lil gyp makes it. It was nice meeting you.

Peach, it wasn't had to talk me into making the drive. All Ben had to say was they had good dogs, big hogs, and a place that wasn't closed down for deer season...

Dam Nice Hogs.

Yep casey that would be all it took for me as well..... Hint hint!!!

I had a great time man. I don't know about the good dogs part.

We had a good hog bayed Saturday night, but one dog had something on his mind other then the hog, so we didn't get him caught  >:(

 DANG NICE HOGS! Perty dogs too.  :)

Casey,

I think she is going to make it.  When I got home I realized that she had a poke up under her side; I could hear air coming in and out..I knew it wasnt good.  I immeadiately took off for the nearest vet that I thought would help on a Sundat afternoon.  She was nowhere to be found.  I then went to the local emergency vet.  The vet on duty is from my normal vet.  She told me that there were two broken ribs and half the lung had already collapsed.  I've been hunting this gyp for eight years; my throat went right to my stomach.  This gyp is not only a real good dog, she is my best friend.  The vet said the only way she would make it would be make the 2.5 hour drive to LSU or 3.5 hour drive to Mandeville.  Vet told me to expect $1500 or more.  I hauled but to mandeville (still in my hunting clothes, wet boots and all).  I left the emergency clinic at about 8:30 pm and made the 4.5 hour drive home.  I had only been home for a few minutes and the clinic called.  Surgery went well and much to the vets suprise, she was alreay up walking around like nothing ever happened.  This morning I made the trip back to pick her up and I took her to my vet to get her side fixed.  THey want to contiuue watching her chest cavity to make sure.

It definetly was a good hunt.  The club presidet called me today and asked when could I come back.  He said there are a lot more barrs in there just like these two.  He also wants the big boar gone.  I think this time I may bay and shoot!  I will be buthering hogs tomorrow night.

Ben,

We must have taken similar pics.  I'll add a couple of more:

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Just to add a little to the story...

We didnt drive the rangers 300 yds from where we parked the trucks and decided to turn loose.  Once we truned dogs loose, it was less than 15 minutes when the dogs showed bayed at 232 yds.  After the first barr was caught, dogs rolled out and bayed number 2 at 171 yds.  The number 2 barr did break but they stopped him again on the hill at 500 yds.  The funny thing is the lease is pretty big and we never went more then 799 yds from where we turned out at.  We never went more than 1000 yds from the truck.

Great Job and Nice HOGS!!!  I love it when hunts go that well.

Joey

Hell of a deal! good job men!

Dang good cutters  do yall  cut boar and let go  on that place

I take everything out of this lease that I catch.  Lease members dont want hog thier at all.  I've caught two boars and these two barrs in the last month.  I have one big boar left and maybe a couple of barrs.  No catch and release on this place.

Dang good hogs! Good looking dogs to

Damn Casey-BA-IV.

Looks like yall got in a nest of big'ens!!!!!  Hell of a hogs man . Tell ya what Casey ole Long Hair must have some heart to him to catch a big ole bad barr like that .


Real nice Donkeys Hogs there  .

Some traders must have started. Baring we have been catching some also.

The place to the far south of the lease has quite a few getting barred year round.  I'm sure some of the barrs leave the country based on the deer feeders spinning this time of year.

There just ain't nothing like catching a good Barr hog that you marked.  I wish I could catch a Barr just like either of these two wearing my mark, he'd be on the wall for sure!

Here is another barr hog from this past weekend (2/3/13).

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Caught with open mouth dogs!!!

Good Barr Jon. Me Ben and Eric caught a decent bar last weekend too.
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I enjoyed the weekend but man it was some tough hunting Saturday.  We left in the dark and got home in the dark and didn't tie a single hog.

Here's another picture to show his color, probably one of the prettiest barrs I've ever caught!

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Good Lookin Hog!

Good hog Casey.  Glad to see the young man going hunting too.  I've been taking my 5 yr old a lot this year and he is really starting to like it...except the briars!

Here is a pic of the hunting crew from the weekend with a sow we caught.

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We may be going back to the same place this weekend, there is another black barr that was running with the barr pictureed above.