EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Went last night with my buddy Seth and some of his friends. Hunting 4,500 acres of grain outside Sinton. Have been having some trouble getting around to hogs cause it has been so wet so me and Seth saddled the horses to go. We make a loop around one good spot and no dice so we had about 2 miles back across the road to another side. Sketch and Baby hit a boar hog out in the field and he broke back dang near underneath our horses and lined out down the turn row and we took out after him. After about 200 yards he tucked into the over grown fenceline and dogs caught him right there. Managed to get a rope on him and drug him out a good ways until I got off and managed to get him killed with a case knife waiting on the boys on the wheelers with the big knife. Probably a 150 lb boar hog. https://vimeo.com/337104922 (https://vimeo.com/337104922)
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After this we went. Tied horses out, put some dogs up and roaded dogs towards a spot where sketch had hit a hog 2x and both times the hog was in the same spot and broke and ran the same pattern. Sketch picks his track up off the burn and heads into the grain. Strikes him at about 200 yards and here he comes, hit the spot light on the road and see a good hog cross and had the jump on sketch, sketch blows through and sticks the track, I don’t know who did what different, the hog, the dog, or us... but it all lined up and sketch put the pressure on him, run him down and put him in a tank. I had to go swimming and thankfully he didn’t have any shanks but we got him caught and killed. About a 200lb hog. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190519/343422fba0f8da47aac7c01a1ba7a840.jpg) I was pretty proud of sketch for that, that little leopard dog has probably seen the better side of 80 miles on her feet between Thursday night, Saturday morning and Saturday night and she didn’t show any sign of letting up. My little gyp pup out of sketch has been getting to see some country and a few hogs and she’s coming right along too, she was there for it all last night.  We called it a night after that, had a lot of fun. Good dogs, good friends, and good horses. Can’t ask for a whole lot more



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Sounds like a fun hunt!

X2 on fun hunt...

Awesome job, sounds like a good time!

That's awesome

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It was sure a good time. Hadn’t hunted horseback in close to 3 years I bet. Just picked up 2 different good sized places down here in south Texas and luckily 1 of them shares a fence with our place where my buddy keeps his horses, so hopefully we make a somewhat regular thing out of it.


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Good hunt. Grain season should be in full swing next few months, perfect to get some more miles on your gyp pups.


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Sounds like good time

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Yessir we should have no problem getting around hogs here for the next few months. Pups will get plenty use. I personally am not the biggest fan of hunting grain fields for certain reasons, but it certainly is a good time of year to get young dogs around hogs. Just got to keep an eye on them and make sure they don’t develop a few bad habits I think hunting grain early on can set them up for.


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Yeah I’ve never hunted much grain. I know it can be tough and sometimes they will hardly ever bay in it. Just run for days. Any hunt during the summer are a plus though, so you do what you can. Take the good with the bad I guess.


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Always makes me feel better hearing other folks say it too!

I think grain sets a dog up to become pretty comfortable walking over a little older track because they can probably hold out and hit a smoking hot one in next few hundred yard. Me, I want my dogs to grub on any track they can physically smell, find the short end, push it and go get bayed. If they don’t posses the ability to line it out, I’m okay with that, but they better at least try like hell. I think it can also knock a lot of bottom right out from under a young dog before he can ever even show you he has any. It isn’t a rare deal for a hog to get way ahead, dogs lose him and have to find him all over again in the grain. Pups probably ain’t gonna have the stay power to stick him out and keep hunting him. They’ll lose him the 2nd or 3rd time and probably come out of the field. Too many of these situations I think will really hurt them. These instances I think matter mostly when you got a 1-2 year old dog that’s on the bubble, where he’s trying to come on and the next couple months and what he gets to see in that time is going to make or break him. At 7 months to a year old where my pups are at. I think any way you can put hogs on the ground in front of a them, is a good thing


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Grain isn't my favorite to hunt either. My approach to hunt it is a whole bunch different than when I'm hunting most other places. It's the one time when I do put several dogs down at a time and they usually have more bite. The reason I do that is because one, it's hot in there. Little to no wind gettin there. I'm not gonna let ole porky get comfortable and run circles and get the dogs hot before he decides to pull out and head for the river or whatever. I'm gonna put pressure in there and force him to make a mistake or get caught or bayed as quick as possible. Another reason for that approach is that if there are several hogs in there, it's real easy to get brushed off on a fresh one over and over. So I give them fresh dogs to look at as well. Another reason is it is impossible to be quiet going to a bayed hog in there. So the more I have singing the louder they are, cover noise lol. It's probably not for everyone but it works for me. I learned it from an old man that hunted the stuff religiously. I don't know that I ever went that we didn't catch a pile of hogs. There are things to watch and appreciate about the dogs working but baying style is not one of them. FOR ME, it's about productivity and not much else when hunting this stuff.

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