Professional looking job on those kennels.

Thank you sir

I have no doubt they’re going to hunt, like t dog said, just what style of dog they are remains to be seen. You know my work schedule Judge, you just say when.

Very nice craftsmanship Cajun.

In my limited experience I feel it’s better to catch those younger hogs and sows, the odds of the dogs not getting a bad injury goes way down. Not gonna lie tho, I’m pretty sure everybody likes getting those big toothy boars tho, myself included.

I feel pretty confident they’ll hunt, it might be armadillos or possums or hogs, but I’m not gonna blame nothing on Judge, he’s built like a bear and I’m just a Stickman. 

You’re right about being it being hard to start too many young dogs. I’ve thought about you and those two new pups several times. I’m real interested to see how they turn out for you. I have zero doubt about them making dogs just curious about their style. You did good on that whole kennel set up.


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I loaded them in the buggy yesterday for the first time to get them used to the program. We went to the 40 acres you see behind the kennel, I let the older dogs out first and Keith them in the buggy for a bit, then I let them out for the first time. After a little sniffing around they got excited and ran with the older dogs. The one kind of got unsure of himself (to be expected for a 4 month old) but Dan the red male was like a shadow to Chopper.

It’s gonna be fun watching them develop, I do like his long leggy look, he moved through the brush well negotiating in and around the briars. Chopper just runs thru them like a cannonball and gets cut to shreds, I’m hoping they lean more on the bay side of things, and only catch on command or what they can handle.

Those look real nice. They’ll be just right when you get about 4 dogs deep in each one.


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Thanks “T”, those two new young dogs double up in one box no problem for now. I’m trying not to collect too many dogs, I can only start so many pups at a time, plus my span of control is limited being a solo act.

Those look great. Are they portable?

They can be moved in and out of there, the one on the far right is a single box with a divider and it’s between the two stalls for the jagd’s. Or Jagd, I’m down to one now, that one I have screwed down but if it needed to be moved it can be done. All the others can be slid around or moved out no problem.

I used to sandwich the wood around my doors with a hardwood because I had some dang house chewers. I had a bunch of maple that I had had milled. I had a few that would eat the whole front of a house in no time. I had one so bad that I made an angle iron frame. She used to crap presto logs.

Haha, you noticed that one, yeah Chopper tore that opening up, I’m going to have to do what you said, he also ate some of the roof off of his. But the thick plywood has enough layers to keep the water out for now

Thanks Slim and Cajun, I was originally just looking for the blue barrels. Then I found this guy down the road who has stacks of pallets, barrels and boxes, as soon as I saw the boxes it was a no brainer for me. I modify them a little bit, prime and paint and they’re working good. I don’t know what a sheet of 3/4” plywood costs, but for $40.00 ea, it was “take my money” time.

This is before the boxes were added.

Thanks WOW

Since turkey season is in, and things slowed down a bit I got the two stall addition on the kennel done.
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Another fine hunt Cajun, you set the bar pretty high for the rest of us.

Teaspoon I don’t use a digital hanging scale just because I haven’t taken it upon myself to get one. I wouldn’t recommend the drag scale I use either. It is very inaccurate. I weigh them as soon as I catch them and by the time I drag them to an opening they have gained weight. It never fails, they start out around 180-200 and by the end of drag are about 280-300.


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T-dog, I previous to that hunt I had coon dogs, hog hunted with dogs, but the roar in the woods that morning was the loudest I’d ever heard. The man in charge of the group across the road called our man in charge to let him know that a big bear made it into our block. They dumped the hounds in behind him ad ended up baying him on the ground. One of the guys walked in and shot him but not before he killed one hound. Turned out to be a 450lb boar. I’ve got the pics laying around here somewhere.

I just ordered Simpirica, ticks are a bigger issue for me than fleas where I’m at. Thanks for the information in this thread

I need some prevention for me, I just pulled two out of me, one being a lone star tick.

Our lease was across the road from some huge cornfields, where the bears gorged themselves all night, then slid across the road into the woods in the predawn darkness. Opening morning found a line of trucks with dog boxes lining the road to keep the bears from crossing the road. Our group was being blocked out, we still had some success but the group that had the lease across from us who blocked the road had a slay fest.

Cajun, back in the 90’s when I lived in Maryland we went bear hunting down in North Carolina. I don’t know if you have any connections out there, but Lord have mercy there are some absolute monster sized bears in the eastern part of that state.