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 Monday was forecast to “not” be that hot, so I figures this was my best chance to get the dogs some woods time. I took them to the spot I’ve been hunting recently, I start walking and dogs are in three different directions doing who knows what. I get them all collected up and going in the right direction.

This place is rough, I can feel the briers slow cutting into my forearms as I push through it. All the dogs are out hunting, even that lazy bum Hondo, so I know the hogs are around somewhere. The ground is dry now, fresh sign is hard to discern, we keep pushing, the dogs keep working still no hog yet.

After a couple hours, 4 of them head out and Dan is off to my left, then I hear barking at about 270 give or take, then the sound of a shoat cracks the air. I start going to them and I see Dan coming, he ran past me straight to the action. I push bush all the way there. They’ve got one hemmed up in some vines and junk, I leg the pig and the three male dogs are playing tug o war with me and I ain’t winning. I maneuver to where I can make the stick and get it done.

On the way out there was a guy there from Texas of all places squirrel hunting. He told me just before we got to the road a group ran right by him, two big sows and a group of smaller ones. I just loaded them up and got out of there, I know they like that area and prefer to leave some seed there and not drive them out of the country.

It’s a great day to be alive.

Sounds like a good little hunt. Those dogs splitting up like that will put you in the hogs. They cover more ground and faster and in this heat of course that’s a good thing.

I have a young male, he’s almost a year exactly. He’s been doing really good and man he knows which end to bite and which one to bark at. So far he’s done everything I can ask for. I’m 90% sure he bayed his own hog but it broke before we got in there. I can tell you goes through the brush after a hog so hard that he knocks chunks of hide off his face. He looks like Rays twin.


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That's pretty strange there. Good boar though.

Been real slow for me/us . I just been enjoying this litter of pups around the house. 

Loaded Theresa Lulu Spoon king and Mary Jane this morning. Figured I’d let them use their legs. Hadn’t been any hog sign or any on camera lately. Drop em down at the big house and Theresa Mary Jane(first hunt for this young gyp. She’s out of some cowdogs around Bryan tx. Dads supposedly top notch) and Spoon loop out around the edge of the ranch, trailed through a couple neighbors and come bayed in far corner of a neighboring place on the other side of the ranch. Lulu and king were hung up on a track in the middle of the ranch and went to them when they went treed.

I got around there. Had to hoof it the last 300 to them for lack of good gates. Could smell a good boar going in. He broke on me twice before they finally held him long enough for me to get a safe shot(hard with 5 dogs around).

I shoot him first at about 15 steps. He drops and pops back up in seconds. I close about half the distance and kill him with a second shot.

I look down and at the base of this cedar tree I’m standing at I see gold between my foot and the tree. Bend down, and it’s the first .44 slug I shot him with. Some how. 8-10 foot closer to where I shot from, than the hog ever made it. Hot as hell, but in perfect shape. I don’t really have an explanation for it, other than bullets do weird stuff. He was quartered to me. I was aiming for neck, high shoulder. Best I can figure I missed the spine and blew through the top of his neck. Bullet never opened and somehow bounced off something and back towards me upon exit. Wild stuff









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Cajunl, they say it tastes like chicken lol. As country as I am I haven’t ever tried it.

NLA it’s something about those Louisiana hog dogs. Between your dogs and  Cajun’s dogs it seems there is no limit to their promiscuity.

Cajun I’m glad you’ve been getting to go. I was worried that your health might not be cooperating. I know you’re looking forward to this trip. I’m excited about my male pup and his litter mainly because of their daddy. Kerry crossed Outlaw’s littermate brother back to a nice plott female. The cross turned out good for them. They don’t place importance on all the same things as I do. Nothing is wrong with that. It’s just the difference in preferences. I had one and I just couldn’t like her. She was too different from my dogs. For example when I go out to feed I tell all my dogs “go get in your pen” and they know which kennel is theirs and go wait in it. She was a year old and still wouldn’t do it until I was a kennel or two away from hers. I had 10-12 wk old pups that were already doing it. She loved the sound of her own voice. I could tell her to shut up and the second I turned my back she would start again. I could start to her and she’d shut up and start trotting away and look back over her shoulder and bark one more time. So I put a bark collar on her and that worked until the battery died then she was back at it. It got to where I kept bark collars charged and when she went to barking I knew it was time to swap them out. I traded her back to Kerry for her sister and she was the same. I couldn’t do it. Then he borrowed Outlaw to breed back to another one of those females. I got a male and a female out of that. The male had to be put down because he got severely crippled by hogs. He was going to make a pretty decent dog I believe but natural selection got him as the Oldman would say. The female is doing good but I let another friend take her. She was better than the half breeds but still had some of those tendencies. She’s 100% going to be a hog dog it’s just a different style. They are what I would say are all instinct. My dogs are instinctive but they are also thinkers. My dogs will cheat a hog if they get the opportunity where the crosses don’t appear to be as prone to it. Just difference that I don’t really prefer. The plan is to make a half brother sister cross if they all work. Hopefully the ones being an 1/8 of the plott will be closer to what I prefer and go back to Outlaw on top and bottom. I wouldn’t call him a great dog but I thought he was really well rounded and good at everything that was important to me. He was also as easy to live with as a dog can be and that’s huge for me and how I keep my dogs.

I agree with your Bulldog type. I know they aren’t for everybody though. I hunted my female the other day for the first time since having pups. She did good but she was a little amped up. I had to talk to her a couple of times and make her get back but it wasn’t bad. I was still able to take both catch dogs to the bay off leash and under control.


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The Outlaw pup (Javi) is doing really well... I know he would be farther along if it wasn't for turkey season and then a month-long turn-a-around. I see him connecting the dots every time we make a hunt. He pays attention to us and the older dogs, not a lot of play for 10 month old pup.  He's definitely a pleasure to work with.

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.

They are all looking good i may need get some DNA pulled on him make sure he didn't come from over here lol

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I used to have some guys from Guyana that would pay $25 for an armadillo. I told them I could stand the smell of them. You catch a couple and put them in a pen they stink worse than a hog. They loved to eat them. I guess it was a delicacy there.

I had Ruby trained to retrieve to hand, she had a soft mouth. You woulda thought she was being you a dove.