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SPYPOINT is great as long as you don’t expect consistency out of them. That has been my experience running 4 of their cell cams last 6 months. When they work they’re great. When.


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I have a crew cab 06 z71 Colorado with the 5 cylinder. Sadly it’s an auto with electric 4Wd but I have been used it like a truck ranching and hunting and it’s still going. Been mighty good to me. On 2nd motor(my fault) Front clip has been replaced 3x from 2 deer and an oilfield gate that wasn’t supposed to be closed, I smoked at about 40 one night trying to cut a running hog off from the river.  Here in about 2 months I’ll either be ready to sell it or build it.


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That’s what I have been told t dog. Hoping it plays out that way. She’s a neat dog none the less.
  It’s Fun poking fun at Dean but Form4Function/blackstreak. If you see this I’d genuinely be interested on any insight you have into this type of cross. Think she’s 1/8 game bred pit. Maybe 1/4 but I’m pretty sure an 1/8. Supposedly out of successful coyote dogs out of Kansas. One of these days I’m gonna put the leg work in and make the phone calls and find out exactly where she came from.

She’s earned a spot here, but I’d love to get her to a point where I could just take her on the truck and go ride feed bunks or skirt some fields and catch hogs consistently.


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Yessir it’s a smaller track 1300 acres but have permission to get dogs on all the places around it (none of them have been dogged either) so in total there’s about 6500 acres I don’t have to worry about dogs getting on 20 minutes from the house


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Those are the places you hunt the tough country for years to get. My partner has about 6k out his front door and I’ve got 4k at my work that’s 5 minutes from my house. You can make some dogs in that country. Good hunting man.


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I’m got a 7 year old gyp had 10cc put down her back every 4-6 months since a year old. No affect on her besides no fleas or ticks.


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Pickin on the handicapped! Lol sounds like she did good. She sounds like a fun dog.


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Thomas, she is a fun dog! A very useful tool used in the right situation. She is not a bulldog though by any means. She does catch. And she is safe. It’s just different. No way to explain it, just have to hunt with one.

 Emphasis on the “Sight” in “Sight Hound”. She is a building block in my opinion. I just had the chance to get her sister who is supposedly doing well like her. I passed. She needs a touch more catch, and a pinch more hardness crossed in.

 Set lizzo up to succeed and she will, set her up to fail and you will probably find out that’s what you did. Shes young yet and I am being critical on a dog I’ve got no business owning.


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Read rumors of real one out hog dogs on this board for years. Proud to say I own one I think lol. Serious note had some time to kill yesterday afternoon waiting to lock my bosses place up and do the evening feeds for him so I could go home. Swung by the house at lunch and grabbed Lizzo and Mickey. They hung out at the pens for a little while processed the handful of cattle we had in. Wrapped that up and headed to a little Mott on a hill hogs like to lay in. Ain’t far from some of our feed bunks. Lizzo didn’t hunt much and I wasn’t sure what to think as this is first time I’ve ever asked her to hunt for herself. Pick up and headed to the river bottom. Had a wallow been active in bottom of one of our traps against a big stand of blood weeds the hogs seem to love. Kicked her down on the wallow. Immediately could see a difference in her mentality. She knew there was a hog somewhere. Hissed her through the fence and In about a minute she was caught about 100 yards up the river. Went in there and she had about an 80 lbs 3 legged boar caught. Flipped him, tied him, changed him. Went and put dogs up and then parted ways with mr tripod. Hope to meet him again one day. Proud of Lizzo, really wasn’t sure if she could do it, or cared to. Little Mickey even got in there and gave some barks while I was tying the hog.
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Sounds like a good hunt T dog. It’s sure enough been damp these last couple weeks.


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Unfortunately momma has lost 3 pups. All females. She’s doing her damndest, but she’s got a few bad tits and I guess there just wasn’t enough to go around.
 Seems she’s down to a manageable 7 and is taking care of them. This weather surely hasn’t helped. She’s been moved into the garage in a crate the last few days. Not ideal but the weather just isn’t playing fair. She’s got one left that is bit smaller but I’m helping him along with a bottle as I can. Seems he’s doing good. If we can get them all to the 2 week mark this Sunday I think we will be in the clear. Tough deal as we were hoping to move to all females between me and my two hunting buddies. Luckily Rhett and Tim have a litter on the ground a bit older than these out of some good dogs and we got plenty stock to raise to keep us where we want to be come next spring. I think I’ve got my 3 picked barring any of them demanding they stay here as they get closer to weaning. Last 2 females are the sure enough bigguns of the bunch and they will be staying here.



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Here they are. 2nd pic is whats left. Freaking shavings. What was I thinking.


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Good luck with the pups slim. If the work as pretty as they look and follow in their progenitors steps you arta be set up good.

Thank you sir. She had 10 and we are down to 8. Runt didn’t make it through the first night and there was a 2nd that was about 2/3 the size of the others that expired yesterday. Really sucked. For first time, ignorantly, I made the brainless decision to grab a bale of shavings from the horse barn at work and put it in her welping pen. I think it is what cost me for sure the 2nd one if not both. Beat myself up pretty good after fighting for an hour to keep the 2nd alive. Not forsure it’s what happened, but sketch is a great mom so either she knew something was up and they weren’t viable, or I made a mistake with the shavings. 39 pups now and knock on wood she’s gonna wean 37 of them if these 8 make it.

Sadly I’m a huge gyp man. I’ve gotten along with them better, they’ve made the better dogs in this blood it seems, and I just always seemed to pick them. The litter was split at 5 and 5 and both she lost were females. The remaining 3 ain’t leaving, and looks like we’re keeping some males for ourselves too instead of sending them to buddies and other dog men we foster relationships with to really test these dogs. Part of it, but sucks none the less.


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I’m not gonna quit having those stay put, do what it takes types. Places have gotten smaller and will continue to. Technology though has improved and so if my dogs get on a place they shouldn’t be or gonna get into trouble, I’ll mash that tone button and reel them in. If this president gets his way it won’t matter for any of us if we have a 5 minute or five hour dog. This country is doing its best to become third world like. My nephew and several more officers were in a gun fight last night trying to execute a search warrant. The suspect and another officer were both killed. Makes hog dogs seem pretty irrelevant in a sense. I say this not to high jack the thread, but just to feed into the insanity out there and we gotta be careful especially if we find ourselves somewhere we might or might not be 100% ok being. If you don’t have a handle on your dogs it’s probably a good idea to change that if for nothing else but the safety of us and our dogs.


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We certainly aren’t shortening our dogs up any and I swear by the tone button and having dogs who understand what it means. That’s one of my biggest things about the mentality I want my dogs to have. Need to be focused on the hog and the task at hand, but also keep their Witt’s about them enough to sense all the other things going on around them. Such as me crawling in there and setting up for a shot over them, or toning them out because they’re somewhere we can’t go do our part for them.

 We have done our part to make sure we have good relationships with land owners, and a good reputation as young men in the community in general. The day before a hunt I am liable to make 10 different phone calls to people to let them know we’re in the area. Seems these days as small town kids who have done some growing up we find people that used to turn us away in highschool, now calling, asking us if we can come put some pressure on the hogs.

Around the precon yard I manage here, I have over 4k acres blocked up, it is probably somewhere between 20-30 land owners. It’s a lot of work to make sure you communicate with that many people effectively enough to stay in good graces with everyone, but if we don’t do it. We’d be sitting at home wishing we had somewhere to go.

I guess what I meant by my above post was in country with enough hogs, if you’re simply trying to get young dogs kicked on and going the right direction. Understanding what we’re asking of them, I’d have to say I feel a caught hog, and further more multiple in a day or short time frame, can do more for a young dog, than catching one or 2 a week at the end of mile(s) long races. We know what our seasoned dogs are capable of and love when they go and remind us and we get to latch hold of a good hog after a long race, just feels like sometimes we didn’t accomplish as much when the dust settles if the year old pups got left behind or fell out half way through and didn’t get to see it from start to end. Once you get them sure enough going and they flip that switch. Then comes the fun part “how good are you?”

I am still after a kennel full of “you hear them bark, we’re gonna see the meat at the end” dogs.  Hopefully this cross is another step towards that.

As for the shooting Thomas, I saw the headlines when I woke up for work this am. Heart breaking. I know Dillion through mutual friends/acquaintances. I love a good small town LEO who is out there for the right reasons, he sure seems like one. Hate he had to be apart of an event like that. Everyday it’s another headline make me truly think I won’t ever have kids. I can’t hardly stand this world anymore. Certainly not anything I want to bring children of mine in to. Not a world where I don’t even think I can protect them from someone who wishes to do them harm.

  I just wish everyone would leave everyone the heck alone. As long as you arent taking from or hurting someone else, I don’t care what you do. Don’t shove your beliefs and opinions in my face and I promise not to shove mine on you. Even if I think mine are better lol.

Mellman stock is a solid line of dogs. Can be real goofy if they change hands more than once or twice, but they’ve got nose and bottom for sure, hardly any grit unless crossed over something else.

He has her parents(she’s off a father x daughter cross) and they are pretty nice. His dogs and mine did real good for us when we was hunting together. Was more than happy when he offered one. Their kind of bottom will get you in trouble if you aren’t careful. Atleast in my area where big acreage is all but a thing of the past.  They get a mile out of your permission around here they could be 8 places over.


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I’ve seen some dogs with that blood pull some hogs straight outta their butts when the hunt was about over with. We hunted hard all day and couldn’t move anything, then all of a sudden she decided to cold trail off some tracks that were there that morning and bayed a good boar in his bed alil over a mile away and we stayed in hogs with the relaying. I’ve also seen the bottom you’re talking about, it’s something I require in my dogs, or at least use to, now I could care less to run one 4 plus hours, much less from daylight to dark.

Yes sir. I am of a similar opinion just because we are fortunate enough these days to have a decent hog population in a lot of the country were running now.

Love catching the hard to catch ones, and we can get it done at times, but sometimes the numbers and getting a little bit easier hogs caught does more for young dogs I feel, and the country is just getting harder to have those no quit, take them as far as they want to kind of dogs.


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Mellman stock is a solid line of dogs. Can be real goofy if they change hands more than once or twice, but they’ve got nose and bottom for sure, hardly any grit unless crossed over something else.

He has her parents(she’s off a father x daughter cross) and they are pretty nice. His dogs and mine did real good for us when we was hunting together. Was more than happy when he offered one. Their kind of bottom will get you in trouble if you aren’t careful. Atleast in my area where big acreage is all but a thing of the past.  They get a mile out of your permission around here they could be 8 places over.


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Finally got to go put my hands on Tracker. He is his mommas son through and through. Unfortunately weather didn’t allow for a hunt but we’re gonna get his momma and him together when she gets back in the woods from having these pups. Had to take Shaw down to Nathan who has tracker and pick up my gyp pup from him. He’s got a some dogs go back pretty deep to The Mellmans stock. 
She’s sharp as a tack and pays attention to everything. She went to work with me today. Got to ride and doctor yearlings with me and was chained up behind me at the chute while processing. Had 400 lb yearlings stepping all over the top of her and never flinched. I’m starting back from square one but I am about to build me another set of dogs for next year between her and sketch’s litter.


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Walked out the house this morning to smoke rolling out the kennels. Sketch dropped some heat the the pressure change last night. 61 days since first tie. Had just spit out number 8 or so when I left for work.


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Tracker has made a dog down in Kennedy county for my buddy Nathan, here’s a recent pic from him. SJ is right up the road in Wilson county making a hand on cows.
 To my knowledge the rest of litter number 2 has been killed off. Litter number 3 has 3 left alive. They’re all on cows. Ones in Willow Springs, Tx working for Fritsch Cattle Company. 2 are down in the Valley out of Hebbronville working on the East Foundation as cowdogs.

   Litter number 1 has 3 still alive. 2 are cow dogs. A male and female. Brian Adams in Lexington has Scooby and the Clay Iselt has Tiggy around Giddings, and If you’re ever at La Grange or Round Top farm and Ranch and you see a real pretty yella gyp lounging around the store. That is the owners gyp and she is a truck dog. He used to hunt her daddies line of dogs back years ago with my uncle.
Gonna try and get some current pics of all these dogs.
And the best news of all is it looks like sketch finally took again and we’re looking like I’ll have a litter on the ground around may 10. Fingers crossed whatever she has is healthy, she can raise them all, and we can get em to their 2 year old year to finally see just how good they can be on hogs. Time now to HURRY UP AND WAIT.


 


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