Yall talking about great dogs over here.....and Im just trying to get a good one?!


In all honesty. Ive had some very, very, very good dogs. BUT
Ive yet to have my great dog. The closest thing I had got crippled up young. Still was a very very good dog.

That said Ive only seen 1-2 truly great dogs. Of those ones I have seen.....when bred always seemed to produce  below average dogs, even when bred to good dogs. Dont know if the expectation was too high on the offspring or discouragement from the owners? But it is funny how that works sometimes. Do yall see the same?

Tdog I got the eating about perfected....still working on the hog hunting part.

I was planning on breeding a gyp this year. The way they came in heat it would of been slap when I was gone out of town. I would like too next heat cycle. I am hunting 3 littermate sisters that are 4. Good thing about owning all females I have just about any pick of males. LOL

Dash the Plott hound bayed the red hog solo. He can do it solo pretty consistently at 18 months.He has a long way to being a finished dog though.
He went a half mile or so out hunting on saturday. I heard him baying and man i was proud. Haul butt over to him and he had about 20 head of cows bunched up pretty as could be. I was'nt too proud then! LOL

Made a good hunt with my old buddy. We dodged a bunch on rain and thunder. Hunted when we could, eating good food and cutting up when we couldnt.

Ended up with some good ones in the trailer. Caught a few smaller hogs that were cut and freed. We hunted hard...when we found them we didnt miss many.

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I built mine off a samurai frame. Old flat fender jeeps and samurai are/were a populat buggy platform for years. The huge palm beach style are popular now with the sxs. I like mine cause i built it with dog hunting solely in mind. It is slow and ride like an angry mule, but the dogs wind like crazy from it and it goes anywhere! lol

I got him covered!

Tdog a lot of places the bears outnumger hogs.  I have a spot with 3 different sow bears. 2 have triplets and the other has 4 cubs. In my area I probably see 2-3 a week. There is no shortage.

We passed a law on the ballot basically putting all wildlife decisions under the game and fish dept. It opened up the opportunity to pass this hunt. It has been a long time coming. It helps to have a pro hunting/fish governor

Mike, I could care less about ever killing a bear. I am just glad to have the opportunity of chasing them with some trashy old hog dogs!lol With such a small harvest number it is going to make it incredibly difficult to draw a tag. And the Anti are already pushing to buy the tags up and not use them. But I am glad it is a start. I can get this old Plott hound doing what he was bred to do. By next year we will be firing on all cylinders!

Hate to hear it Mike. I know it is hard to feed dogs and not be able to get after them in the woods. But I know you will good as new after it all! We just passed the bear hunt....so maybe I can get you to do a road trip! 

Sounds like a good hunt and the young dogs are doing it. I havent had any registered cat dogs in a long time. But I used to know a bunch of the lines.

Them Tigers are building a powerhouse in baseball.

Mike it was 3 1/2 from Orlando to Dallas and 17 hours from Dallas to Sydney aus. With about 3 hours or so layover at the airport. You lose a full day goign over because you cross the date line. Makes for a very long trip. lol

Tdog.

It was watered down or else we would of caught a couple hundred! LOL. The dogs over there seem to have a lot of collie, heeler and kelpie blood. Makes a lot of sense as most of the country we were hunting was sheep country. It was a lot of crop land. So the dogs are more of a winding style dogs. They also use very few dogs. Most only own 2-3 dogs max. So the dogs were pretty versatile. I was in mostly crop country with some of the highest pig density in the country. So they did not need big running dogs. It is an huge country. With my short time there I saw very little as far as hunting styles. But did see different terrain. Out of the crop country there seemed to be not a lot of pigs.

Lots of critters I was not keen with to say the least. Emu, Kangaroo, Pademelon, Wallaby, Wombats, Echinda to name a few.

The people there are absolutely wonderful and could not be nicer.

Finally made it home from Australia. Was an incredible trip around the globe. Met with some strangers that are now good friends. The country is absolutely stunning around every corner. Saw hundreds of kangaroos and wallabies. We hunted over the weekend and I believe we ended with 22-or 23. My hosts absolutely did everything to put us on pigs. Some pictures. They dont do the country justice.

Tdog you would of loved it…..collie in most of the dogs there! lol

Summer is about here. It is hot and dry. We are going through a good drought here and it is tough going. Went last weekend to the swamp woods for 3 days to focus on really putting some miles on my young dog. Caught some smaller hogs and a good Bar about 160ish with the curdogs.

Let them rest a few days and went to the ag fields. They are done harvesting for the year. It is super day and has all the gators up and moving. Picked up a  few around the lagoons before dark. Seen a big boar run in the lagoon and he dumped us off on sows and pigs as he went out the back with the plott in tow. Ended up losing the good toothy boar.

Went yesterday as they were calling for a little rain. I run the feet off the plott so he is going to be laid up for a while. So it was  cur dog time. They did their thing and ended up with 2 decent boars about 150 ish. The bayed in the worst spots. Cut and released.

Probably last hunting pics for a month or so till I get back hunting OZ.

Thanks for looking

Lynel

Mike,
Sadly it was a matter of time. A lady about 5 mile from me got scratched up last week. They have one more meeting in 2 weeks. Then Vote on the season in August. I hate someone lost a life. BUT, Hopefully push this state in the right direction! I need to come, freed and water and clean someones dog pens for a while in SE la and get me a plott bear dog!

I wish they would do something about the gators. One got a lady this week too. I almost lost my plott and 3-4 other dogs yesterday to gators. I mean they were watching and swimming down the canals just daring the dogs to touch the water. The hogs were even wary of swimming the canals for them. Ive never seen anything like it.

Hijack away. He is a big houndy looking dog. Big Ears and big bawl mouth.

Luck didn't last

Went again last night with our regular crew plus one more. A’s brother. Hog catching luck was going strong. Started about 4:30 and send my cur dog and  plott into a set of woods. It took them about 10 minutes and we stayed in hogs till the end of the hunt. We quit about 9pm because we ran out of room to put hogs. Ended the night with 16. One huge barr hog I believe bumping over 300 and a good boar hog with probably 2 ½” of good teeth.

The good luck of dog was ended. The boar hog walloped one of the cur dogs good in the neck in the jugular. Luckily I was right on top of her and able to get her and the bleeding stopped. I believe she is gonna be ok.

I took a few pics of the dogs. My picture skills are terrible compared to others on here lol! Including the plott. He is a very big, long legged, long eared houndy looking plott with a big bawl mouth.

Thank for looking

Lynel

Finally over and time to get after hogs!

Nothing big, ended up with one decent sow. Ended up with 6 for a quick Monday afternoon hunt. Dogs did good and they are as glad as I am to get back after them. The Young Plott is really getting his feet under him and caught one of the smaller sows out solo tonight. No one better let him know he is a hound, because he is casting, relays and show good stock sense like a good cur dog! Lol
Not a lot of dog pics today but a few of the pigs caught.

Thanks for looking

Lynel

That looks sharp. I was going to ask you about the dog houses. They are nice and dont break the bank.