Man, I am sorry to hear that. Hoping for a good result however narrow the chances are.

Thomas got a boar the other day that looked brindle. Have y'all ever gotten one of them?

Hollowpoint, I hear ya.

I have heard Sid tell a bit different version of that story. Lmao, but he put himself in the right place to "fall" onto those briars.

With all the complaints about the younger generation it is nice to be reminded that there are good ones out there.

Sweet deal right there!

I got word from my sister that my Dad passed last night. I was trying to get back there before he died but I didn't get enough warning. Dang pneumonia worked fast. I pretty much got my love of dogs from my Dad. Him and his brother had greyhounds and hunted fox with them in the NW corner of N. Dak. This was in the 50's when I was just a pup on into the early 60's. They got retired or culls off the track down in Rapid City. They usually had an older 4 door car that they took the back seat out of and would drive the dry prairie potholes until they jumped a fox. I usually rode in the back hanging on to that round strap on the back of the front seats. The dogs and I all looking over the front seat for the fox. When they jumped the passenger would open the back door and those dogs just exploded out of there. They had a couple bigger males that were faster but the smaller females were more agile and made first contact. If they happened to get to a badger hole they had a roll of barbed wire in the trunk that they run down the hole till they heard the fox growl and then they twisted the wire up till they could pull one mad as heck fox out. There was a $2 bounty on them and it kept them in gas. Thanks for letting me ramble. RIP Pop

That's a real good outcome for that hunt, those dogs are hooking up.

That looks like a real good start considering they tried to shoot them out of there.

It sounds like you just made the best of some strange situations.

This was an extremely good years hunting for me. I left last year with a ton of doubts about whether I could do it again but I am beat up, tired but I still believe that I am going to come back because I don't get to experience the commaraderie, the ability to see a young dog start to crank it up and the bonus family I have in Texas. Semmes, most of the year I don't post too much because I don't have a bunch to ad but I do appreciate each and every one of you that add to this board. I left Rockdale this morning about 8 and I pushed the truck and camper pretty good and I will sleep in Mesilla NM. tonight and Casa Grande Az tomorrow and Vegas Friday night.

Today T setup a last hunt of the year for me. We caught a decent boar pretty quick and then got into sows and pigs. Caught 10 I think. We butchered 3, 2 for me to take home and one rotisserie sized pig for T's neighbor. We had some dogs show out real well today. And to top it off we got to roll through the McDonald's drive through with a load of hogs.

Cajun, I judged pit bull shows for the ADBA for better than 20 years and I was judging in Liberty Texas and got to talking to him and left with his phone number. I came down that next winter and that was 19 years ago. He has become one of my closest friends. "But don't tell him I said that, he gets a big head pretty easy".

T and I made a round Thursday and hunted a whole place without seeing a thing so we moved and the dogs jumped a wad that headed for property where we can't go. T's young gyp turned a boar about 140 and they got him stopped and we sent his CD from a ways and caught him. The dogs were crunching bacon bits right and left . Friday we made a road trip way south and spent the day chasing shadows. The hogs would break the second they heard the buggy. 5 or 6 hundred yards and they were gone. It was a skunk. Today we went to a high fence that T has been trying to clear the last hogs out of. Man, I have heard tales about how hard it is to catch these hogs and now I believe it. They were extremely hard to find and they had their running shoes on. We had 8 dogs on the ground and managed to catch a piggy sow on 3 legs and a 40# shoat. The dogs caught up a bunch of little pigs. It was pretty frustrating. Time is getting short but it has been fun.

Cajunl, he was so sick I couldn't even give him a bad time. He's good again so you can pour it on. Lol It has been a real good year for teeth and we've had 2 more we didn't get pictures on.

Deputy Dawg and I made a short round late morning today since T was under the weather. We took 2 young gyps of T's and a young male of Deputy Dawgs as well as the older male of his. T's Dilly gyp bayed a pretty good boar and the other 3 dogs went to her and they had him back into a hole. We had brought the Deputys young catchdog alone and he showed out real well. He went right in the hole and swallowed an ear. Deputy Dawg had to crawl on his knees and grab a leg. He pulled them out just far enough that I got a knife in him. We let the dogs roll out but we didn't get another found before we gathered them up and got out of there.

My hat's off to you for getting after it in that cold. Well done.

Your twin had his hands full trying to get through the bs.

Hollowpoint, you might want to look for a briar spray.

I think I will just keep my mouth shut on this one