Thomas, Your bulldogs really favor my line of bulldogs that I have had for 20 years or so. We favor the bigger bulldogs that are leggy, but built. Hate to hear about your Outlaw dog. It is sure hard to keep the good ones but glad you were able to get one out of him.
  We have been hunting some, not breaking any records for sure. Have not gone the last two weeks because we are getting ready to head for Wisc.

My buddy Joe Hudson bred the Chief dog to one of his females(Shamrock) and I was lucky enough to get a male. I call him Joey. He has just been running loose and I finally took him and another 6 month old female to a friends 300 acre pen. With some other young dogs they ran about 13-14 miles. Not bad for 5 month old pups.
  About a month later I took some older dogs with Joey and Maple(2 6 month pups) back to the pen. We turned loose at 5:30 and they jumped pretty quick.  About 10:00 I toned the dogs in because it was getting hot. They had 18-20 miles on them.I had a collar on Joey but forgot to turn it on. I was afraid to tone Maple in because then we couldn't track Joey. A lil over a hour  Maple gave out but we could hear Joey going on with it. I went ahead and toned her in and she had 25 miles on her. We spent the next 2 hours trying to catch Joey but he wasnt giving it up.I told my buddy I would just come back in the morning. He spent another 45 minutes trying to catch him and he gave up. He came back that evening with 5 of his dogs to run. They rigged while he was going in and about 2 minutes later here comes Joey trotting down the road to the barking dogs. He scooped him up and turned his out. Well he had to put a shock collar on him to shut him up because Joey wanted to get to those barking dogs. He called me to let me know that he had caught Joey. We both figured that Joey had to of run a minimum of 35 miles. That kinda of impressed me.




 

Good dogwork and a good hog to boot. Sounds like the young gyp has got what it takes. It's always impressive when a young dog starts doing it on it's on.

  Anyone know how to contact Dewayne Loosier? If so have him message me please.

Thats a really good hunt. We are supposed to have a wet summer so hopefully we can hunt all summer. Turkey season just ended Sunday so we should be getting out pretty soon.

Looking good. Almost ready to go to the wooods.

Good looking dogs and a lot of history behind them.

T dog the coldest track I put on I will let you figgure out how cold it was. A good buddy Chad told me he was coming in town and he would put some corn out. He put corn and a camera out at 3:00 pm and I got there the next morning around 6:30 am. He told me nothing had hit the corn so we went down a little bit and turned loose on a hog trail. My female Dancer was opening a little bit but I could tell it was really cold. His two dogs came back and I said we could leave her and go hunt another place. I turned another dog to Dancer and we went on. 1/2 hour later his phone dings and he has a picture of those two dogs trailing past his corn and camera. He says Mike nothing has been there since I put the corn out the day before Chances are that track was made the morning before withing a 1/2 hour of daylight making that track around 24 hours old. They did jump the hog but ran it across the highway on another club.
   Now not all my dogs have that kind of nose and for the most part I really dont need that cold nose of a dog. I have put down on tracks and other dogs didnt want anything to do with it.

No offense taken here. You have to use what works for you. If I only hunted hogs and had a lot of them I would stick to curs but since I like to bear hunt when I can I have the Plotts. Also other then the Marsh we are not hunting in areas with large hog numbers so we rely on tracking and the dogs rigging. We also cast in places we believe hogs will be. In fact we hunt hogs about every way except walk hunt. The only walking I want to do is after we get as close to the bay as we can and then walk in. Also the fact that I like to hear a good cold trail that turns into a race or bay. With the hounds I am assured that those hogs know what is coming. lol

That looks great. Sadly with laws changing cutting boars and making barrs out of them will be a thing of the past. I understand with Farmers and Ranchers wanting the hogs gone and gthe newer generation all they know about is killing hogs but the times we caught and tied everything, making Barrs and releasing sows is becoming a thing of the past. I guess I am a dinosaur living in the past. One thing I have noticed is No. La. still practices the cutting of Boars and releasing them.

T dog that is basically how I have deer broke my dogs for years. I just put a short leash around the deer's neck and attach the dog and walk off 20 yards and start burning. A few time of that and they do not want anything to do with a deer. I have had a couple over the years that knew the deer was shocking them and they would latch on to the deer no matter how much I was shocking. They knew that deer was hurting them and they were going to give it back. Still broke them but they were of the mindset, you hurt me, I am going to give it back to you.

Good hunt with a lot of action. Do y'all typically hunt without a catchdog?

Those are some fat hogs. How has Dash progressed?

How many of y'all are stopped by Turkey season? Blows my mind. Just as we get the dogs in good running shape in Feb. and March we have to lay them up for turkey season.

  Larry Smith, Andy Becker and I went over and hunted with highwater and his son Wes. Had a great time but didnt get many pics. Got a couple of good videos that Highwater took but I don't know how to post them. You cannot get treated any better then the way Highwater and son  will treat you. After hunting Friday Highwater fried up a bunch of catfish and I am here to tell you, I have never tasted better. Him and his gracious wife Jamie really make you feel like family.
  Friday we caught a sow and several pigs. Saturday we caught three boars and Wesley went in and caught one by hand. Andy told me it was because his girlfriend was watching but I dont know about that. I have never seen a better hand in the woods. Just had a great time with great people.

Sounds like a good hunt. That Nap time is starting to feel pretty good after a hunt.

are those plots wide open on a track?

   They sure are. The black hog on the log, we turned 6 Plotts loose and the were open trailing right to his bed and has a solid bay up.  Now the hog that killed the dogs, we ran his but for 5 or 6 hours before he bayed. I believe the reason he was so hard on the dogs, the bayed him in a ditch next to the road and they couldn't get out of his way. He broke out of there when we were coming up and went 450 yards and bayed again.

Good running. Those shoats will wear a dog out

These are some hunts in March. Had Andy Becker , Larry Smith, Charles Gainse and his Grandsons and also hunted with Scotty Needham and his father in law Steve. we have gotten on some good boars and have had a lot of dogs cut up. Yesterday with Scotty Needham, Larry Smith and Andy we got on a real nice boar and he bayed right up with about 5 or 6 Plotts on him. Hard to believe because this place is known for running hogs. Caught him(hog on the log) and Scotty had a race going. dumped some Plotts into his race and we ran this hog for hours. Finally got him stopped and caught but it came with a cost. He killed my Primetime dog and one of Scottys. One of Scottys dogs died later that afternoon so this hog cost us 3 good dogs. Between Larry, Scottys and my dogs is like a War zone Veterinarian hospital. March has been hard on us. We have never lost 3 dogs to one hog before. The hog on the log went about 250#, The two last pics, are of the killer hog and he went 275-300#.












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Hate to hear it Slim. The only consolation is you have h ad her quite awhile and she has produced very well for you. Normally the goods one are gone well before their time.