EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Lets here from you.

man its hard catching these things ,  i need some diff dogs.lol

I started around the middle of last year. My dad & cousins have been doin it for years. One day I decided I wanted to go with em now I'm hooked for life. They all work shift work & go during the week so I don't get to go as much as I'd like but when I do have the opportunity I'm there.

I hunt mostly weekends, if u ever want to tag along just holler.

I started maybe a year ago.

I just started. Still trying to train my strike dog.

I am new and had to restart. But so far so good. You can check my posts to see my prospects. I have 2 young dogs that are doing good. I am lucky enough to have a few friends with good dogs to hunt with. Here are my pups.
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 I hunt mostly weekends, if u ever want to tag along just holler.
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I'm still looking for the right dog to get me started, I have a couple leases I have permission to hunt here in South,LA but they are not big. The largest being 3,000 acres with most of them about 1200. My bulldog is catching good but I need a SHORT range find dog and probably 2 RCD to keep the hogs from running. Just don't have enough property to chase them for two miles ya know.
  
  Scott

I started about 2 1/2 years ago I have a decent set of dog. A good pit catch dog and a bmc gyp that is doin good has found me a few hogs,  and a cat gyp that was my first dog and she is a baying fool and has found me a few hogs, and a bmc male pup around 10 months. I hunt every chance I get but land is hard to come by down here by me.

Started going with others 6 years ago. Started getting my own dogs last year because when its hot and dry its hard to get folks to run on the farm to keep the hogs out the fields. Bought one RCD then found 2 throw away dogs and started working with them. They aren't jam up but will find one and put it on the ground from time to time. There is potential.

I started 2 years ago and still tryin to get a couple more decent dogs. Still learning alot about it every time I go out. But I didn't get to go near as much as I'd like

Lol....that ain't right....you could hurt a dogs feelings... :'(

I just started May 2012....hot times then, so I got conditioned to go late at night while cooled down. This has been my first winter, and I must say I had to swim when it was 40 degrees at 3 in the mornin(not fun, plus it was a pond that was about 10 ft deep and 30-40 yds wide) I learned then while watching from the other side of the pond with the spotlight how every minute counts. The 225lb boar was slingin our two dogs up off their feet, I was enjoying the show (like I was watchin TV) then looked next to me at my brother takin off his boots (they were his dogs gettin pounded)......then I realized this aint no edited TV show. I honestly almost drowned! Plus I understand- now that I have my own dogs - what a guy will do to help his dogs.
Here he is halfway in the pond still.
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This is me trying to keep him from sliding back in the pond, COLD and WET! (pictures do no justice)
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Also, I got for sarters a gyp YBMC (Bella, now 9 mths) that sure is turning out to be a great dog. I'm prob hooked on yella dogs over any other bcuz of her. Also, Machito (now 7 mths, a houndxcatxmt curxpit) that was given to me from a friend. He's doing ok, but the ybmc sure is makin him look bad in a few ways, but he will do. I will be happy if he lives to see 3 due to how rough he is. I think he is gonna make a good strike dog, so far he's got good hunt in him.
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Now I need a good catch dog, I learned the hard way when they had a bay on a simple walk in the woods (7:30 pm) in my back yard. It turned out to be a 45 min hunt, by accident (go figure there were hogs 600 yds from my back door). I had no knife, gun, or a good catch dog. If I had a catch dog, I would have caught that sucker! Plus my wife would not answer her phone to bring me my 110 lb "over kill-loudmouth-out of breath" AB....I went to sleep a lil depressed. Now I'm needing to add a good catch dog and I will be a lil more of a hog dogger!
Here is PLAN C...Macho at 5 yrs.
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staryed out bout 5 years ago started my own dogs learned most from here and meetin new folks around that been in he game and it been a hell uv a ride statyed a page on face book to start documenting my progress and out come since oct check us out sketchum hog dogs look us up

I started out about nine years ago, and im still learning .

I'm talkin more along the lines of guys trying to put a pack together.....brand new...lol

I am just waiting on Kevin to finish up his pack and I will just keep tagging along with him

My first hunt was November 2011 went a few times with friends in early 2012 and I picked the heat of the summer this past July and started buying dogs, bought a strike dog,and a few more started dogs,pups etc. and now I am fully hooked and finally catching some hogs with my own pack and having a blast.

Haha! That may take a while!

Gals too!! :) i started out just at a yr ago with some pups, learning a lot and didnt have a grown dog to help teach my.pups, they learned with me basically.  I run mostly at night, dont have a whole lot of places to go but love every time out.  Only fallen off a few logs crossin creeks.  Looking forward to runnin a few of these forests, so glad deer season is over!!  Only have a few buddies i go with, definitely not brave enough to go out solo, lol!!!  Its a great sport, got hooked several years ago thanks to a friend`s friend :)

where ya from ??

Well I picked back up hog hunting with dogs I guess a year and half ago now maybe 2. Had a deer dog for almost 3 now and got on this site to see what it was about because I missed hunting with my ole grandpa and runnin dogs and met Justin Corbell on here. Just so happened our old ladies knew each other from child hood so after him being nice enough to let us tag along I got back into it. Now 5 dogs later and a GPS, collars and good friends I'm in for life.

Well I have been hunting for about 3 years now with dogs... I started getting puppies, and I started from the bottom up. Started my own pups, with help of one certain buddies dogs, now they can at least find a hog if it smells real bad, aint too far, and they just saw it cross the road  ;) ;) I am in trouble now... Have 18 dogs, which includes the beginning of "MY" dogs. I have tried buying a "finished" dog and had bad luck every time, either they suck or die. So I just decided I have dogs that will find hogs good enough for me, so I am going to manipulate what I got to make the dog I tried buying a couple times!!! I won't buy another dog nor will I sell a pup. I won't ask anyone to spend money on a gamble... No matter how tight bred a dog is there is still that chance they can throw culls. I am keeping 5 of my 7 puppies to see how they do, one is going to a hog hunting buddy, the other is at my sister's house for my nephew's first dog!!! I bought 2 yeller dogs a few years apart from puppies from a guy in Edna. He has damn good rough early starting dogs... One of them is my homie, the first dog I ever owned on my own. I hunted him for a bit, but he is suicidal gritty so he stays at home with the house and guards it. The second pup I bought from him I loved! I told myself never to love a hog dog, but dammit I loved that dog. She was amazing to me, and she died at 9 months old to some bull**** intestinal thing. All my other dogs were given to me, and man the free ones have been the best ones.... So if your also new start slow, I didn't, learn from people and more important LISTEN!!! It will go a long way.

I just started puttin a set of dogs together a few months ago. I have a 10 month old cat that seems to be doin real good. He bays good in the pen and has found two by himself "in the woods" and has helped bay several others. Its kinda funny for me to use the term "in the woods" cuz I live in West Texas and we really dont have woods....ha    Other than that I have a female pitt that will catch, two yella pups (5 months old), a cat gyp that has helped some but really hasnt started huntin, a brindle male bulldog (about a year old) that will catch in the pen, but wants to fight the other male dogs, and three just weaned prospects, 2 brindle curs, and a pitxdogo.   Im lookin to find a couple good honest strike/bay dogs. Nothin fancy cuz I cant afford a surenuff barn burner. Any advice will be appreciated.. Thanks, this web site has been alot of help to me.http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq87/rowdyrhinestone/IMG_5612_zps5c1a1d09.jpg

Cut-N-Shoot tx, right by Conroe.  Hence the handle ;)

10 4 aint from texas so aint know there was such a pla e  8)

Me neither til i moved here!!

I have been hunting hogs with dogs for about a year and a half or so. I met a few guys off of here some good and some not so good... I have made some mistakes with my dogs and ruined a couple that probably could have been real good dogs but I'm trying to learn everything I can from anybody I can and I have learned a lot from this site. The hardest part for me so far is finding good guys to hunt with not the kinda guys that find out you have land to hunt so they try and be your friend (because they don't have any place of there own) until they find somebody with more land to hunt then you. Right now I have 4 dogs I have a good catch dog, a 5 month old yellow BMC gyp,a big ol brindle cur dog and the ugliest brindle coyote greyhound looking dog that you have ever laid your eyes on but he's my best dog for now but a cull to some. But on the bright side I can catch hogs with my own pack that I raised and trained and put the time into not bought! I love hog hunting and I try to go every chance I get! I would really like to meet more people to hunt with I have all of my own gear a few places to hunt and a full ice chest. I'm free anytime during the weekends and willing to make a drive or you can come to one of my places I'm 29 married with 2 daughters from Cut N Shoot 936-525-0872 Cody

I'm a newbie. Bout yr and a half or so.

I just started recently within the last few months. I have always hunted but never with dogs. I have had my dog for 7 years and he has been the best dog I've ever owned, i bought him from the pet store for $40. Got into huntin with the dogs and  wanted to see what he would do so we threw him in a pen with a hog and he did great so we went out Sunday with a couple buddies and their dogs, which was mine and his first outing and he went straight to the bay and when we got there he was locked on the pigs face. Now I have also bought me a new pup and going to have some more fun!

what part of west Texas are u from?

I'm at Dickens which is 60 miles east of Lubbock.

started back up in 09 after stopping in 07...been through a few culls since in early 2010...but I have 2 decent dogs now and a pup coming on...and 4 pups that I haven't decided on yet...

i live in lbk but im in jayton pretty regularly if u ever need a hand I've got a couple dogs that need practice, call me or text , my name is chase8067733845

im brand spanking new !!!  hunted just about everything on the planet and fished all over the gulf of mexico but im new to the hog dog game and im loving it so far !  have a dogo that catches really well , a year old rough bmc thats getting better every trip , two 4 month old yella pups and a 3 month old ridgeback pup that i have high hopes for .  luckily my buddies have good dogs and are willing to coach me along the way .  ive found out that finding a good dog is tough !!!  this sight has really answered alot of questions for me thats for sure .

I'm new. Gotta hog hating nut grabbing pup that has been on two penned hogs and one in a field, that she chased back to me and I shot it.


Been looking to tag along (with my gas card)

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Ward

Started about 4 years ago with 1 dogo pup, then 6 months later got another one, me and my buddy hunted and got a few. Then picked up a little fl cur gyp and changed hunting styles a few times, now she's 17 months and has been keeping pretty consistant.
Got a half brother to her a few months ago, and just enjoying my dogs and tryin to spend some time in the woods with my family and friends.

rick oo ricky lol

Only my cousin and my mom call me Ricky, lol

haha  ;D

Been hog hunting off and on my whole for a while, but just recently getting started with my own dogs.

Started two black fridays ago. Bought a dogo for a pretty penny for my wife. Met mr. Mason and he introduced me to Clint Richardson. he invited me out to hunt and I was green. I was amazed on how the  dogs work together. then going every minute I can. just bought vest and collars and now I got a trailer