To me, the first thing you need is someone to go with. Hoghunting with dogs is next to impossible alone. Of course there are guys who do that, but it is a dangerous sport and two are better than one. Then you need to decide what you want i.e. what type dog you want. There are good ones of all breeds don't let the bsers tell you different. By type I mean things like silent or open on track, long range or short range, handling, etc. If I were you, I'd try to find someone who you could learn from and listen to them. From personal experience, you'll have a hard time finding a dog that suits you that is for sale. If you start with the  best young dog you can find and by that I mean the best well-bred pup you can find, the whole process will be simpler. Don't waste your time on junk. If you can't find anyone to run with at first, get you some small pigs and get the pup to barking at it. I like to get pigs that are big enough to keep the pup baying instead of catching. After that get a pig and tie a drag on it and turn it loose then let the pup find it. Make it easy at first then start making it harder as you go. If you do this enough, he'll learn to find his own and hopefully continue to get better. Shortcuts are costly and usually set you back time and money. Of course this is just my opinion and I'll be the first to admit I don't know everything. I'm 52 and still learning.   

Have caught several and they never settled down, I use diesel on the corn to stop it. There's also a carrion bait you can get from that hogsnare company.

He hasn't forgot just go huntin and he'll show you. I got a redbone the same way hadn't been hunted in 3 years. I kept her for 3 or 4 months before I ever tried her. I didn't figure she was nothin but a bullet dog or she wouldn't have been free. She treed a coon by herself the first night I took her and that was the best dog I have ever coonhunted. She was fixed, she never barked on the chain and it didn't matter if you hunted her every night or every 6 months ,she would tree a coon. And she did not run trash. I'm bettin that ol blue dog would go right out and tree one. If he ever would.

There's always two or more ways to look at it. How about on the negative side, it's someone who got all their hoghunting knowledge from looking on the net and learning all the right things to say. A few giveaways are: finished dog and the dog is less than a year old, always got a good dog for sale- jam up bay dog strike dog, leader of the pack, been finding their own hog since he was 1 month old, $100. Been thinkin about breeding my ybm,cat,german shepherd,poodle bird dog, pit to a korelian bear dog.  Got a litter of pups for sale out of proven stock(ybm,cat, german shepherd,poodle, bird dog,pit x korelian bear dog -$300 a pup. Well , you get the picture.
  Then on the positive side or maybe it's the truthful side. It's someone who has got old and fat and all their good dogs are dead and they just lost heart after old Nigger died (never got a pup out of him to carry on with). They enjoy gettin on here and seeing what those young bucks are doing and if they are really gonna carry on the hunt and fight for the right to keep on doing it. And man look at them good lookin dogs and wish my good huntin buddy hadn't died. Wish the huntin buddy I raised coonhuntin and hoghunting hadn't moved so far from home after he got out of the Marines. An old fart that keeps a couple dogs just in case he gets a wild hair to get off the net and go to the woods. But ends up fallin asleep in the recliner before he can get his boots on to go. Oh well had a good dream about  Nigger and Do and Stubb and that old bulldog Mo. Man what a monster we caught -510 lbs! Good huntin boys.

It depends on what your goal is. Do you want to train baypen dogs or hunting baydogs? I know you can do both with one pen, but here's the problem. If you train baypen dogs, the baypen is usually real clean like an arena. They have plenty of room to run and get away from a hog. Truthfully you are training your dog to bay real close to a hog. Nose to nose gets the big points in the baying competitions. In a real hunting situation that's almost never the real case scenario. Only you can know what you want to do. Best one I ever built was in the woods with bushes and briars and a creek running through it so I didn't have to worry about watering the hog. I built it 5' tall out of what I had available. JMO   

3 yo treeing walker male. Started on coons but might work on hogs. 903 240 1644 hogbuster007@yahoo.com Dog belongs to friend of mine(that's his phone # and my email). I've never seen the dog and have not hunted with him. The owner is 16 and just needs to get rid of the dog. Mabank,Tx. 

I don't think they hurt anything if you leave them on. One older guy from Kansas told me they take them off up north because of hunting in deeo snow(a problem we seldom deal with in Txlol). But here's a twist for ya. My Dad swears if a dog has dewclaws, they can't get rabies. Idk where he heard that but I don't think so.lol 

It cost $100 a team  up to 4 members per team. There are 2 divisions trapping and general. Trapping division allows trapping and killing by any legal means. General is killing only by any legal means and excludes trapping. There is also a big hog division which costs $50 to enter but you have to also be entered in one of the other divisions to enter the big hog part. Best thing is look it up on Wulf's website. That team in Center is hard to beat ( Ithink they had 240+ hogs last year). We came in second and were a good ways back I think about 160 or so but I really can't remember. !st  is $5k either division. @nd is 2500 and 3rd is 500. Big hog is guaranteed $1500 for first . It could be more as first is figured on 50% of entries , 2nd is 30% and 3rd is 20%(based on # of entries. It's different from previous years. e.g. last year they paid $500 / day for most hogs brought in by noon. Needless to say there was some controversy there. Most of it was due to the store's "insider" connections. But they did away with all that.

Had a man in my church who was bad allergic to it. He saw an episode of Mythbusters that showed to use vodka and rub it on the rash. He had got into it and he sent his wife to buy the vodka LOL but he swore it was the real deal. He usually would break out in blisters but by the next morning you couldn't even see where it had been. I've heard other people say it works too. I've never had it but I know it is miserable.

That's what got me going. Been doin it the old way for a long time.I like the hounds and the music they make. Listening to the oldtimers and trying to enjoy their past hunts and learn a little along the way. Had a good friend that could tell them stories better than Jerry Clower. He could sound out the hounds individual voices while telling the tale. Boy he could make you feel like you was right there with him. Daddy said he thought Willie remembered every dog he had ever owned and all of Daddy's too.  Willie Fladd thanks for the memories. We always said we was going to record some of his stories and never did. You guys oughta think about that before your good storytellers are gone. Not many people can blow them ol cow horns. Went to a garage sale one day and the guy had an old truck horn. Well it looked like it would blow just like the cow horns. The man wanted a buck for it but he said if I could blow it he'd give it to me. Well that was easy. Still got it too.lol 

Some of you mentioned never seeing the post in question. That's because we have good moderators. Thank you guys(moderators) for a good job and I might add a thankless and probably underpaid job lol. Maybe you should  remind us occasionally what it entails, because I take it for granted myself. Thanks again that I can get on here with my 7 yo grandson (who got to go hunting with me last night and see what a good coondog can do). And i don't have to worry about what he sees. I do see where some try to push the limit with the letters. I got my mouth washed out with soap a few times and I got the message.

They'll drive a coon dog plumb crazy we have treed them but they're bad to jump out or cross over .

If you're going to do it yourself, get the repair manual(chilton,etc) for your truck and go by the book.

Muslims buy land next to a pig farm then demand the farmer move or sell the pigs

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You hunt in Texas?

I'm kinda new to this no bark collar concept on hunting dogs. I've heard of them for a while. Just wondering if it affects them barking while hunting or not. I use hounds and I want them open all the way.What's your experience about this? I have no preset notions but I am a little leery.

Young Bluetick.Coming 2 yr old. Worked on caged coon. He is coon crazy. Sire is Gr Nt Ch. Have papers. No time. $200  Also have a 3 yo mule. Been broke to ride. Needs more handling. $500    hogbuster007@yahoo.com 903 681 6031

Got a couple of young blueticks and a black and tan. Just getting them started good. Near Athens. Started coonhunting with my Dad as early as he would take me. I am not prejudiced toward any breed if the dog will tree a coon. Prefer a dog that hunts with me . That is one that goes hunting hard but if it dont find one within a reasonable distance will come and check back in. Had enough dogs where I needed a helicopter to stay with em . That aint fun. Just arent that many places around here where a dog can go a mile and still be where you can go get him off a tree(legally).

Look up Chief AJ . He got a site that's pretty cool . Hunting and fishing slingshots. Has videos of slingshot kills.

Pretty hard to get people to trust you when the world's eat up with people wanting to sue at the drop of a hat. Landowners are worried about liability. Had a guy tell me that after he was hurt on the job and the comp ran out, his lawyer told him if he could prove just 1 %  fault of the business owner that he could have a case. That's ridiculous to me but it leaves a a slim margin of error. If we get hurt on a guy's property, he is wide open and subject only to whether or not you decide to sue. Don't seem right but everybody today wants something for nothing. jmo