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.

Thank yall, These sorry old pot lickers get lucky and run down some old poor blind hogs some times.

Ill be there a little over 2 weeks. Im not taking any dogs. Too much logistics.

I can't wait to see the country and dogs. It is a bucket list trip I been wanting to do for a long time.

Back at it again. In our south zone, the thunder chicken season is finally over. This is the last weekend for all the rest of the state. Hunting wiith my regular S Fl crew.

My dogs are pretty soft after the layup. But we pull in the gate about 4:30pm and see a group of small sows and and shoats out in the fields. So obviously we start the afternoon with pretty high hopes. We get the dogs and buggies unloaded and get after them. Send a couple  dogs in the head we saw the hogs and get 3 good boars and manage to stay away from all but 2 of the small pigs.  2 of the boars over 200#. 

Get them loaded and head to try another head to woods. Send two dogs in and in a few minutes one has a pig caught and one has another bayed. Going to the other dogs I see a real good white footed boar hog cross the road and go into the next rough block. Kick two cur dogs on him. They run him about three hundred yard and have him caught in the ditch but he was roughing them up pretty good. I guess the soft dogs got tired of running it! lol . Run to catch him and he is a real nice boar. Go back to the other dogs and get the two they had.

We load them all up and its good and dark now. Hit another head and catch 2 more decent boar hogs and pick a couple more off before we call it at about 11pm.

Ended the day with 8 boar hogs and 1 sow. And a couple smaller shoat pigs that I turned back out. 3 of the boars were good fat boars over 200# a couple more not far off.

Got a few more weeks of hunting to get the dogs hard. Then I am going to fly half way across the globe and try some hog hunting in Australia.


Happy Easter and thanks for looking.

I envy all yall in crawfish country. I miss a good crawfish boil for Good
Friday!

Lynel

Sounds like a good training session. That is how I like to work young dogs also, just turning out hogs to them in the woods. They seem to be on the right track.

Did I miss where you lost the Dogo?

Ive always had fixed catchdogs. I had a female I really liked and tried to breed her 4-5 times to different males and she never took. I guess it was a sign I dont belong in the bulldog breeding game! lol

Good luck with yours.


Lynel

Ive never used his stuff. But all the guys I know that have deer hounds do. They all love his stuff and give good reviews.


https://thebestdogproducts.com/pet/

T dog I switched to Simparica from the Comfortis. It works on the ticks also. I was starting to get them pretty good as of late. When I was doing the comfortis I only had to do it once a year....sometimes less. I just started the Simparica 4-5 months ago. So far so good and no ticks.

I never had luck with the conserve. I gave up on it and gave my buddy the bottle. He had the same results. Most using it are under dosing.



I order the Simparica. You can find it without a Rx online if you look.  I order the biggest mg pill and cut it into half. Comes out to about $10 a dog and do it once a year to every 6 months depending on conditions.

If you do the math (I wont bore the board with it! lol) you have to give a dog 125ml of the conserve to equal the recommended dosage of a 65 pound dog of the active ingredient (spinosad). So a 32 oz bottle is $150 and you only get roughly 7 doses-----$21 a dose. Comfortis gives you the dose without the filler for same $$.

Mike, it was an enjoyable listen. It sounds like you hunted a time or three! lol

Tell us about them old cur dogs. I know you said what you had couldnt reproduce. What were they? Where they scatterbred cur dogs or just the line of dogs the hunters aged out?

Ive spent a lot of time with these old cur dogs......but this plott dog thing can create an itch on an old hog hunter!

I am not a mechanic. But I had an older yamaha top end rebuilt.  You can just rebuild the top end and not have to do the bottom in. They will have to open it up to see if the rings damaged the cylinder.  Cost depends on if you take it to a shop or to the dealership.

My neighbor had his yamaha viking top end redone last year after low on oil. It cost him around $2500.

Man we are just in the right place at the right time! The cur dogs are doing the heavy lifting.....but he is a hand.

Thanks everyone for looking at my sorry pics. I enjoy seeing everyone hunts and share a few of mine.