I've got several places that I can hunt that are basically managed trophy hog properties... bunches and bunches of big toothy boar and barrs.... doesn't matter how good your dogs are, you keep droppin' your dogs in the middle of this type of hog regular and you chit is gonna get wrecked. Needless to say, I refuse to run my dogs on these spots.... To quote Arnold, "so you peeked the bunch of us up and dropped us into a meat grinder..."
..... not my dogs.
Reminds me of a good conversation I had with a respected friend a few wks ago... I was tellin' him about a bad hog I'd run into down is way that had boogered me a little... When I asked him if he was plannin' on tryin' the same hog to "show me how it was done"... he quickly replied "now why the hell would I go lookin' for a fight that's gonna leave my dogs wrecked even if I win it?".........
Have to admit, the answer caught me by suprise....
He went on to say, "I've caught every "bad" hog there is to catch, and I've got nothin' to prove to nobody"... "If I happen to get on a bad one, I'll catch him... but I don't go lookin' for them no more because I like my dogs... takes too long to rebuild..."
I like catchin' big hogs as much as anybody, but for now.... Call me a puss(just not to my face
)... but, I'll continue to kill the bad ones...
.... please, God, tell me that's not "maturity" I feel slippin' up on me.....
