Had a very fun weekend with Michael Sula and Seth Hall.  We caught 4 boars and 5 pigs total.      We hunted the dogs 3 different ways and caught pigs each  way.      Seth had heard about Tuff and was really excited to hunt with him but it was Gideon who he fell in love with.     Several of you probably know Seth Hall as one of the hosts on the Houndsman XP podcast.  He is also a wildlife biologist in New Mexico and thoroughly enjoys coursing jacks on the plains of New Mexico with his Salukis and greyhounds.     I had a fantastic time with Michael and Seth and really hope this weekend wasn't a one time visit from Seth.  No I'm not excluding my buddy Michael.  He has been coming hunting with me for a few years and his second trip this year already.  Always look forward to your visits my friend.  The both of you.
    Apparently i have reached the limit of pictures i can post so if yall would like to see the rest or more from future hunts this month then look at the Instagram or Facebook.

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If you would just show some respect for all of us and talk to us with honesty and integrity we could all get along just fine. I'd pat you on the back for catching good hogs like everyone else, just be honest and respectful to the other dogmen of the world , because in the end we're all just dogmen who enjoy the same thing Hunting hogs with dogs.

        Have i jumped on your post or is it you coming on mine.   What have I said to you on your posts that is rude?    Your coming on my thread and your the one who is rude and disgusting.           You are a liar.  I have presented your own messages on here in the past as evidence.    You claim one thing and swear to it but strangly i have presented  proof on here with messages you have sent me privately which are in direct opposition to what you have denied.       That makes you a liar.            Furthermore you have made statements about my dogs that aren't true.   I present tons of pictures as proof.  You then make some other claim and i again present tons og evidence proving your claims are wrong and you don't know me or my dogs or how i hunt at all.   You have a bias and hatred towards me.  You are threatened by me and ignored by me and you can't stand it.  You have a desire to be recognized  by me and your not getting it so you're coming on my threads spreading lies, stupidity, and insults and claiming im the one who is rude and insulting.       Since you refuse to stay off my posts like i have requested,  if I'm so disrespectful as you claim then show me whats so disrespectful on this thread that has upset you so much.                I'm sure your about to make claims ive previously already disproved with tons of pictures but go ahead.  I'd love to show the forum again how you are so full of hate towards me you can't be honest or respectful to me and are totally filled with jealousy.   If you weren't jealous you wouldn't be coming on my thread trying to run me or my dogs down and spread lies that are so easily disproved  by me time and time again.   Every time you move the goal post i score again on you.   Go ahead try to move it again with some claim of yours and let me put it through the uprights again

What part of the country do you hunt in, are you here in TX??

Those dogs would make excellent crop dogs, I know that for sure here in the DFW area, plus would be could for horseback hunting with all that extra leg

   Yes im here in north Texas.     Jacksboro / Graham area.   I hunt along side or close to the Brazos River  on my main hunting grounds.   I do residential work alond the edge of towns in the neighborhoods and in real small rural communities  when asked.    I have some local stuff here around my house thats not very close my main area i hunt.        I'm about 70 miles west of Fort Worth

A mite sensitive aren't we!

       Your real grown up too huh.    Trying to stir the pot like a spoiled child wanting to provake drama

There's a ton of hunters here catching the same giant boars consistently as you are and catching them in the open on their terms as you put with dogs very similar to yours and using equipment very similar to yours.They call them nighvision dogs or thermal dogs.My friend right down the road catches 3-5 a night solo in the fields I personally don't enjoy that type of hunting as much as I do hunting woods.My point is don't act like we're all fools because you're not the only one hunting like that with great success it's been going on here in south ga forever.I  am 100% sure your dogs are top notch and that you have also became a very efficient hunter but the constant statements that you make about how you're creating this new thing and all the dogmen for hundreds of years before you were idiots just gets under my skin.Statements like your going to eliviate the bulldog as a catchdog.You post pictures of your hunts with all these giant boars and no sows or pigs do you really think that we don't know your finding these solo hogs with those Gen 3 night vision goggles hanging around your buddies neck or the thermals I'm sure you own.Your buddy Josh at hairy holders never pretended like he didn't use those tools he sent video after video of him using thermals to me.Im not saying that it's a bad thing in fact it's probably the most effective way with dogs to eliviate large pigs from an area I can directly see the affects of that type of hunting in this area.I also believe that your dogs are capable of finding a hog and I'm sure they wind and relay like you say you obviously have a great handle on them and spend a ton of time with them.I know they're good dogs and you're a good hunter we're just not all as dumb as you think we are.

          Cracker please get off my posts.  It's pointless to talk dogs with you or show you things.  You have shown yourself very incapable of comprehending this style of dog and how i hunt them.    There is no cause for you to come on my posts and continue to argue or lie.  I have shown you to be a liar on here already through screenshots of your own messages.   Just post pictures of your dogs and share your stories and quit reading and looking at mine.  Thank you

             

Lol it surprised me the first time I saw my buddy throw the scraps from a deer he cleaned to his chickens, it’s amazing what they will devour


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      Yeah i often leave a couple quarters out for them.  Takes them about 2 days to pick a large hindquarter clean.  They really like the stomach contents but i like for the dogs to eat that. 

Pretty cool video of Pira slamming into this  boar on my Facebook and Instagram pages.     People get a kick out of my chickens eating more meat than buzzards so i added a picture of them helping themselves to the meat banquet also.    That bull terrier has some 3.5 week old bull lurcher pups she is nursing.  Still hit this boar like a train though.  No self preservationin her game lol.  You can hear the smack in the video lol.   Pictured along with her is Emmitt, my 10 month old bull terrier great dane cross.        I give the Pira pups the liver.    Some of the pups took to it some really weren't ready for it yet

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Man you have really been stacking them up this year!


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         Thank you.  Its actually been harder hunting this "season"  year than any other year I've been hunting.    However, i have been blessed with more ranches to hunt  which has helped.     Tuff has become a pretty fair finding dog.    I assume he is close to 1000 pigs this year.   That much experience is really evident when i leave him home and hunt my young dogs that are in their first season and won't really be mature physically until next season starts.  2.5 years ago pseudo rabbies killed every dog inhad but 2
  Onenof those 2 was Tuff and the other a pregnant female.        I have almost started over from scratch and just now within the last 11 days I have the litter on the ground that will give me my Tuff type dogs.      I've come a long way too.  Learning the habbits and changes in the pigs and learning the country and how to hunt it efficiently.   I have had my struggles but I've actually been so blessed that you would never know the trials I was going through.   I have finally come out of that and your seeing the evidence of it now i assume.  Eventhough the hunting is harder I'm fairing pretty good.   

The landowners gotta be happy with your success

    Thank you.    They do appreciate seeing me leave out the next morning with  pigs when they catch me out there if I have stayed the night. 

Nice cutters them dogs putting in work.


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   Thank you

Dean you won the dang hog hunters lottery!140+ square miles of the best hog hunting on planet earth Loaded with giant toothy boars.I've seen Zero Thickets,Cuttovers,Briar beds,Palmetto and Gulberry flats,Seas of Saw grass,Seas of Switch grass,Willow and Wax Myrtle swamps,Cane,Bay heads,cat claws,Soda apples,Brazilian pepper berries,Mangrove swamps,Hell Woods and Trees of any sort,Swamps,GATORS,Hunting Pressure.It really is cool to see such a difference in environments.  Congratulations on the win oh and glad to hear your now super human just like your super dogs.Lol don't take it to seriously I really am just messing around with you in good fun.Those are some dandy hogs and nice dogs like always nice work.

Now cracker don’t be saying nothing to ol brown streak bout him catching them big hogs like that cause you jealous - hell I’m jealous- I got a bigger wood pile to chop up in my back yard - hey man nice hogs and I know they working there but stay in your lane in your area - the dogs do look nice


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   Your on my post calling me brown streak and telling me to stay in my lane and in my area.   What are you 12?

Dean you won the dang hog hunters lottery!140+ square miles of the best hog hunting on planet earth Loaded with giant toothy boars.I've seen Zero Thickets,Cuttovers,Briar beds,Palmetto and Gulberry flats,Seas of Saw grass,Seas of Switch grass,Willow and Wax Myrtle swamps,Cane,Bay heads,cat claws,Soda apples,Brazilian pepper berries,Mangrove swamps,Hell Woods and Trees of any sort,Swamps,GATORS,Hunting Pressure.It really is cool to see such a difference in environments.  Congratulations on the win oh and glad to hear your now super human just like your super dogs.Lol don't take it to seriously I really am just messing around with you in good fun.Those are some dandy hogs and nice dogs like always nice work.

                    Thanks.   There is a reason why you don't see much of that in my photos.  It isn't because my country is so open and.flate like you might think.        Maybe i can approach this another way.      Do you find lots of pigs in wide open flat country or are the denser populations found in nastier country that isn't very accessible?      Yes there are crop fields where i hunt but the lot of the country you just described surrounds it.  You forgot the fences.  My dogs also negotiate about 18 fences on an average hunt.     What your seeing are dogs with the natural ablity to catch on their terms and they deny the pigs the ability to dictate where the catch takes place.    If the pigs could do the choosing all you would see in my pictures is just similar thick stuff that everyone else catches in.         I see no glory in catching in crap when the pig wasnt found there to begin with.   Efficiency and effectivenes is my game.    Dogs redefining what efficiency and effectiveness looks like.     Lot of people like you hunt my area.   They aren't able to catch pigs in the places my dogs do because their dogs are incapable of it with any kind of consistency.   I'm hunting right next to the Brazos river.   How many times you seen it in my dogs caught in the river?      I don't take pride in catching pigs where they dictate nor will i glorify such.       I don't  jump on you post and make fun of your dogs for taking a pig x amount of yards before you can get it caught.     Its just a different way of pigdogging.  I don't make fun of anyone on here because they are catching on the pigs terms.  However it sure seems foriegn to some to see what it looks when dogs are bred with the purpose of catching on their terms.              Since you dont believe me and you think my area is soooo easy to hunt and flat and open I'll leave you with this thought again.   Are large populations of pigs found in open flat country or does the natiest of places usualy have a denser population of pigs?     Where its mostly crops and little cover, not many pigs.      Just something to ponder on.    Happy hunting and I hope you have much success and few injuries

Nice hunt, Ive never caught more than 8 hogs in 1 hunt, a couple 6 hog hunts, that said after I catch 1 to 3 I try to catch dogs and get home early lol Over 40 yr old man style.

Where are you hunting at, not your spots, just general area?

            Lol heck I'm 43 years old.        I do eat and drink a lot different than most  which keeps me down around 175 and helps tremendously with my stamina.     I'll typically do about 15 minutes worth of leg exercises in the house once or twice a week  and same for upper body.    I feel like a young man and perform like one.    Before i made this lifestyle change i was struggling for sure and was 200 pounds which i didn't look bad but I sure wasn't the same health and stamina wise and had a lot more aches

Sammy Sanders come up for his 6th annual hunt with me.  He brought his two Tuff littermates.   We caught 15 total.  4 good boars 2 of which were big and rank.      Tuff tracked a big black and white very intelligent very rank and confidant boar .61 miles before finding and catching him.     Another toothy boar thought he would try his luck up in the middle of a woodpile. Notable mention was a tracking job on a boar that ended somewhere between 1 1/2 to 2 miles from where it was started.    In addition to the 3 littermates i run my bullydane pup with Tuff for half the hunt then swapped him put for Tuffs son Lugger for the second half.       Another fantastic and fun rememberable hunt with quite the adventure.     

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Caught 3 nice boars within about 15 minutes.    First time the dogs left the truck they all caught on 1 boar.  Was able to drive to that pig and get it loaded.   Soon as i got underway the dogs left the truck again.   Tuff caught his own big toothy boar while his sons Lugger and Gideon had another big toothy boar about 80 yards from Tuffs catch.

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I have not yet started to stockpile for the dogs, mainly concerned about us right now. I used to feed my dogs a full raw diet, and if times get hard I’ll feed them off of wild game again. I switched back to kibble just because of the time it takes to prepare and feed raw. Wormer and meds are what I need to stock up on. Potentially not being able to get puppy vaccines could be hard on litters as well.


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I realize most house and keep dogs differently than i do which contributes to the hassel of feeding raw for them.       I sometimes don't have to feed dogs for 6 days.   I usually feed every 2 or 3 days.          My feed cost is maybe $100 for entire year for 8 to 10 dogs.     Takes me about 10 minutes to process each pig i bring. I keep the dog food freezer full which has about 4 weeks worth of food in it for them and rest of the pigs go straight to the dogs.      I spend more time per year cleaning water buckets than i do feeding dogs.     I think people are silly and create so many of their own issues and hardships.       For the thousands they spend on kennels and dog food in 1 year alone they could have a better setup and system than i have but tradition is like a disease and so silly once you learn to see it through a hand to mouth concept and a self sustaining concept rather than a hobby concept and an drain on resources and $     
    I believe that if your dogs cost you much time or virtually any money at all to raise, maintain, and hunt your gonna have some hard decisions to make one day.    Even the transitions of life such as babies and family or layoffs force a lot of people to sale out do to the money pit they hace created for themselves setting in those kennels lol.       

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Thanks for the reply, it’s a very interesting project you’ve got going on. I agree completely about the economy. My wife and I are hopefully about to move to 130 acres if everything goes well through closing. Property already has some trails through it but I’ll get some equipment out there to cut real roads before we get our house put up. Wanting to grow more food and have some livestock as well. We’ve discussed the collapsing economy and our dogs and I’ve already decided that if it comes to it, I’ll cull everything but the best couple of dogs that I can use for meat hunting instead of hobby hunting. I’m trying to get away from most people, and become even more self sufficient.


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       I wish you the best with you new property and  home.       I have been interested in seeing how the dog owners are going to respond to future events and shortages.   I think some are stockpiling good food but even that is nit self sustaining.   Wormer, antibiotics, flea and thick meds, water, medical supplies, etc all things dogs like pig dogs will require.    Much discussion could be had over this dreadful topic but seems most people still have head in sand

 Depends on the dogs.  These young males I'm hunting will cast 6 to 800 yards at times and come back and go again off 8n another direction if i head that way.     Other dogs will cast 2 to 400 yards.    All of this is in no sign.  I have acquiree about 144 square mile area so i tend now not to walk much.  I just cast them mainly.        If it takes me a long time to get to a dog its not a huge deal because for 1 i try to breed for a dog thats capable of holding and controlling 300 pound boar.   I don't  really hunt a dog thats maxed out on  what it can actually control at 160 pounds then hope the 240 ppund boar he is caught on doesn't work the dog over.   I breed for a dog that can comtrol a huge 300 ppund boar and when he is caught on that 240 pound boar he is fine and isnt out of control and just attached to the boar and isnt maxed out and burning through his stamina trying to maintain control.              2nd I hunt 2 dogs or 3 but prefer just 2.    If one has a long hold time, when i get the first catch taken care of that dog then will assist the other dog.      Or they are both caught on same pig for a while or when i get there the other dog will be qith me and catch and secure the pig.    Just this past hunt i had a double catch on big boar.   One catch down in a mesquite thickent in a big bottom and the other up on top in a more open area.    Got to the catch in the mesquite thicket first and killed thst boar then headed to the other dog.   Other dog wasnt at this catch so i knew he was caught elsewhere.  Garmin showed him another 600 plus away.  No sound just him holding his own big toothy boar.   When i finally got close i seen one of my young dogs come back from sesrching for more pigs and hooked up for the assist then the 3rd dog got there and assisted.     Benifits of having 2 dogs is on the long hold times that boar isnt pulling away from two  of these dogs even if they are numb.      Also when you just have 1 or 2 dogs on a boar like that the catch is settled and the boar doesnt really fight much.     The fight really only occurs for the first minute and is only really intense for the first 20 seconds or so.    So a dog thats 30 inches and has a lot of stamina can hold and relax and maintain control for a little while.            I hunt year round.  Middle of summer won't find me or the dogs at home wishing for cooler weather.    For heat tolerance, stamina reasons, and power reasons, i absolutely will not add any to my line of dogs.   I already have a little stag blood in them i had to breed away from.       Not saying they don't make some awsome dogs but the limitations that come with them and their crosses aren't  something i want restraining me.  I'm breeding for a better dog that redefines the boundaries and limitations of what a catch dog can do.  I want to breed for raw natural physical talent and true form for function.    I can't use dogs of poor stamina and expect to the same level of performance  and testimony of 0 deaths and 0 heat strokes and only 2 vet visits in the throughout my career of hunting these type dogs year round.   If you want to go beyond the norm you cant breed normal number 2 lol. 

Gotcha, what type of breeds and dogs are you running?
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      Just my old wolfhound stag pit cane corso blood.  Hunting generation 4.   Gen 3 is the shorter casting dog.  Gen 4 was bred back to the wolfhound based longdogs and thus hunts a little different. 

Really nice pictures Dean, and your program looks like it’s producing well. What are your next steps with your dogs as far as breeding goes? Is your end goal to tighten everything up in to a new line or breed of sorts? I know you’ve got several different breeds mixed in now, what’s your long term goal? It sure looks like it’s going well for you


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   Thank you and great question.   I will be narrowing my focus more towards the wolfhound and bullterrier based blood going forward.    It's outperforming other blood and i have been blessed with some awsome connections to both breeds that have some of the best specimens of the breeds out there.  My wolfhound connectionis a dream come true.    I can not create a breed or type breeding of this type of dog by myself so no I'm not motivated to creat a true type or breed.    I've got a couple litters here now.  Probably the best I've ever had.  I'll keep about 3 from both litters and probably move seversl dogs over the next year making room for these pups I'm keeping.   These pups should be some of the best and hardest dogs I've ever produced  but by no means a finished product.   Combining the 2 next year will be where I want to be.  I will slow down after this year and only have 1 litter a year of my bread and butter type dogs.     I have a side project I'm going to create for a particular market.  I aim to knock the pit off his pearch as the king of catch.  These dogs would catch fire but in all honesty i believe the economy is about to lets say see a correction.   If that and more I see on the horizon comes to pass then you can forget hobby dogs and hobby hunting.       Even I'll stremline down to just my form for function dogs at that point.         If i can get sold what i have on the ground now and about to hit the ground I'll be extremely grateful.   My side project can melt away if needed i don't care.   I wont reveal what it is though because i want to capitalize on it in the beginning and not have others claiming it was their idea or they started it first etc etc.   

How far out do they hun in general, and what do you do when there caught and your 30 min away from them?

       Depends on the dogs.  These young males I'm hunting will cast 6 to 800 yards at times and come back and go again off 8n another direction if i head that way.     Other dogs will cast 2 to 400 yards.    All of this is in no sign.  I have acquiree about 144 square mile area so i tend now not to walk much.  I just cast them mainly.        If it takes me a long time to get to a dog its not a huge deal because for 1 i try to breed for a dog thats capable of holding and controlling 300 pound boar.   I don't  really hunt a dog thats maxed out on  what it can actually control at 160 pounds then hope the 240 ppund boar he is caught on doesn't work the dog over.   I breed for a dog that can comtrol a huge 300 ppund boar and when he is caught on that 240 pound boar he is fine and isnt out of control and just attached to the boar and isnt maxed out and burning through his stamina trying to maintain control.              2nd I hunt 2 dogs or 3 but prefer just 2.    If one has a long hold time, when i get the first catch taken care of that dog then will assist the other dog.      Or they are both caught on same pig for a while or when i get there the other dog will be qith me and catch and secure the pig.    Just this past hunt i had a double catch on big boar.   One catch down in a mesquite thickent in a big bottom and the other up on top in a more open area.    Got to the catch in the mesquite thicket first and killed thst boar then headed to the other dog.   Other dog wasnt at this catch so i knew he was caught elsewhere.  Garmin showed him another 600 plus away.  No sound just him holding his own big toothy boar.   When i finally got close i seen one of my young dogs come back from sesrching for more pigs and hooked up for the assist then the 3rd dog got there and assisted.     Benifits of having 2 dogs is on the long hold times that boar isnt pulling away from two  of these dogs even if they are numb.      Also when you just have 1 or 2 dogs on a boar like that the catch is settled and the boar doesnt really fight much.     The fight really only occurs for the first minute and is only really intense for the first 20 seconds or so.    So a dog thats 30 inches and has a lot of stamina can hold and relax and maintain control for a little while.            I hunt year round.  Middle of summer won't find me or the dogs at home wishing for cooler weather.    For heat tolerance, stamina reasons, and power reasons, i absolutely will not add any to my line of dogs.   I already have a little stag blood in them i had to breed away from.       Not saying they don't make some awsome dogs but the limitations that come with them and their crosses aren't  something i want restraining me.  I'm breeding for a better dog that redefines the boundaries and limitations of what a catch dog can do.  I want to breed for raw natural physical talent and true form for function.    I can't use dogs of poor stamina and expect to the same level of performance  and testimony of 0 deaths and 0 heat strokes and only 2 vet visits in the throughout my career of hunting these type dogs year round.   If you want to go beyond the norm you cant breed normal number 2 lol.