Message #149696

[BA-IV]

Well I gotta lil story that goes along on this thread...Me and my Brother in Law went hunting on horseback last summer, with one loose gyp I had.  He was riding a mare he just picked up and I was putting some time on a big dun gelding that was green.  Well my gyp finds this pig that couldn't weigh over 7 lbs so we caught it and tied it up, and being the smart one I am, I figured I didn't need to tie his mouth shut cuz he wasn't big as a minute.  We'll we're headed back to the house, and I have this piglet looped around the saddle horn calm as can be.  Well my brother in laws mare gets curious and eases up by this piglet and sniffs it as we're easing through the woods, and darn't if the pig didn't bite the horse on the end of the nose and commence to squealing.  Well the mare went crazy and as soon as she made her first jump, the gelding I was on, green, started jumping, and he knows he can jump and get alil air under him.  Well I grabbed the pig in one hand and held on with the other.  Needless to say I held on for about 20 to 25 seconds, before he threw me into one of those nasty briar patches, all the while Im holding the pig.  Landed flat of my back and jarred every bone in my body and somehow the pig cam untied, ran up my arm and across my face nipping at me as he went.  Took me about ten minutes to get outta the briar patch, and another quarter mile walk to catch up to the gelding with my gyp laid up underneath him keeping him company.  That was the last time I packed a hog out on a saddle, now I usually drag em out or cut em and turn em loose if I'm aways away from the house.  Just figured I would share this, Im figuring there's more stories than just mine of some bad experiences.  The sled seems like a pretty good idea though.