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Title: lost old zeke Post by: jdt on November 06, 2018, 06:34:46 pm we don't have wild hogs here , i do mostly cowwork . zeke was out of the last cowboy x sue cross that clue made and was my best dog . you could drive yearlings with him 1 day and catch a ton bull the next . anyway a guy said there were 3 hogs loose around some gravel pits that nobody would claim . said 1 was a monster and the other 2 were about 250 . i figgerd theyd wind up being about half that . i lined up some amish boys to help and we turned loose last fri , my 11 year old woke up that morning with some kinda fever and couldn;t go to school , it musta been hog fever or swine flu or something like that but he was all better that evening . lol
zeke and minnie got bayed about a quarter off the road and we eased in to"em the little hogs weighed maybe a hunderd and the other was a beast !i buthered one last year that weighed 805 and i'd guess this one at 850 easy . it was 2 hamps and a white hog , i roped the little hamp and tied him down , them got a rope on hogzilla and started for th road he was so fat that after abou 20 yards it just slipped right over his head . then he got in some thick crap and we had to get down and crawl in trying to get 'em roped . igeuss zeke got impatient , when he cuaght that hog he got rooted and smashed into the ground . this hog had 4-5 inch cutters ! when zeke got up i caught him and checked him out , he was cut but not to bad . about that time they hollerd that they had him caught n tied to a tree . i said we better turn him loose and get to the vet . we couldn't have got him out without a pair of mules anyway. not where he was at without a chainsaw . zeke died sunday evening . we got whooped pretty bad but that hogs days are numberd ! Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: Mike on November 06, 2018, 08:20:54 pm Dang John... sure sorry to hear it. I hope you get that big sucker.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: jdt on November 06, 2018, 08:35:27 pm thankyou mike . i aim to have him out alive , his head on my wall , his nutts in my skillet and his sausage in my freezer .
Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: Judge peel on November 07, 2018, 05:04:06 pm That sure does suck fella. Sorry to hear it
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: C L on November 08, 2018, 09:55:37 am John,
I am very sorry that you lost Zeke. He was a really good dog. Charles Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: jdt on November 08, 2018, 09:16:36 pm thanks dr. long , i'm going sat morning and i hope to find him . i hope somebody will be there to take pics so i i can give the rest of the story with proof .
the good news is i got 3 pups on the ground out of him and larry , and 2 stud fee pups coming out of a son of a cowboyxsara male . Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: Goose87 on November 09, 2018, 06:47:54 am Hate to hear that JDT, sure hope you get some strings on his feet, although it sounds like you might need some logging chains for hobbles...
Did you ever determine what killed him, bad internal injury? Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: jdt on November 09, 2018, 01:20:46 pm yeah goose , he was bruised up pretty bad inside . i wasnt surpried , i didnt figger he'd make it to the truck .
Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: jdt on November 13, 2018, 06:16:40 pm more news... a deerhunter killed 2 more close to where these were a couple a days later . and this weekend a supposedly sure enough wild hog was killed 4-5 miles from there ... business is picking up .lol i was wondering what we was gonna do all winter between cow jobs ha ha .
Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: Goose87 on November 13, 2018, 09:53:05 pm Where exactly you located JDT...
Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: jdt on November 14, 2018, 12:00:00 pm paris tn .
Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: make-em-squeel on November 15, 2018, 07:51:21 pm gotta love those clue a dogs ... im about to get a pup from 1 of his gyps
Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: c dunn on November 28, 2018, 09:51:15 pm I love my Clue pup. She’s a natural. She’s not a year yet and works cattle like a grown dog. Really listens and has a pretty good handle too.
Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: jdt on November 29, 2018, 07:17:19 pm yessir , he's a real hand . and he'll be the the first to tell you he didndt make them dogs what they are , he just keptem good . from the folks he got'em from .
in my opinion he's done that and more . i took 2 young dogs out to help a guy gather his forest service cattlle in the mountains of se oklahoma . i was sent on a hunt up a holler between 2 mountains to look for cattle . went a goood ways dogs hit a track and left , these dogs had never seen a hog .i said to the other 2 we'll bay cattle in a minute . sure enuff after we peed and got a dip of snuff we could bareley hear the bay . i was kinda proud of my young dogs as they had not been used a whole lot . started towards them and seen a few hogs slipping out , got to the bay and they had a younger sow bayed in open woods . wahtced for a little while and thought i might just rope her and mark her for him . she broke twice and then the last time i called'em off and went back to cowhunting . last year on that same deal with the same young dogs i drove cattle back 6-7 miles and put them cattle thru a 8 foot wire gap by my self . i aint that good of a hand , thats just raising them to be big enough to work and then relying on genetics . Title: Re: lost old zeke Post by: jdt on January 15, 2019, 05:42:52 pm well i heard the dam deer hhunters killed the rest of them hogs and left them lay .what a waste of meat , iwish i could go back in time and go get a pair of mules and a chainsaw and flashlites and got that joker out that night . he was bigger than the hogzilla that was shot in ga . would have made between 4 n 500 lbs of sausage after being barred and healed up . that would have fed alot of people .
live and learn i geuss . i've lost more dogs to hogs than most of ya'll and i don't hog hunt that much lol |