Okay, you guys have heard from both Noah and Dave. Now its time for the TRUTH about the Sunday hunt....
Dave and I went last Monday to our honey hole and got two nice boars that we had to shoot, since we didn't have half a dozen bulldog crosses on the ground at one time to catch them. That said, here is the truth about our hunt with Noah.
Dave and I were going on Friday, but got rained out. Dave went down Sat while I was at work and looked around. He called me and said there was sign of a big hog made since the rain. I had invited Noah to go with us last Friday, but he had to work. He said if we go on the weekend, he wanted to go. We got rained out on Friday, and after Dave called me on Sat I called Noah to see if he could go Sun Morning. When I told him Dave found sign of a big hog, probably a big boar, did Noah want to go, I believe his words were HELL YEAH! So we made plans for Noah to meet me in the morning.
We got there and the hog had been back Sat night or early Sun morning. It looked like a real good hog from the tracks, so I asked Noah if he wanted to sacrifice...err...I mean HUNT his dogs first..
He turned out Snapper and Chubs and we headed towards the big swamp where the hogs usually lay up. The dogs acted like they could smell a track and left. They made a big loop, going out about 300 yards on the Garmin, then came back by us. We headed down along the edge of the swamp, the dogs went back in and one bark, then caught hog. Noah turned the bulldog loose and we all rushed in. This is where is gets interesting....
Noah was the first to the hog and he grabs a front leg and winds up on the hogs back. Well, Dave and I had never seen this type of manuever used to throw a hog. We figured it must be a north central Fla UFC way of doing things, so we watched so we could learn something. Dave was taking some pics, I popped some popcorn and pulled up a log to watch. After what must have seemed like a looonnng time to Noah, we noticed he was still riding the boar, but wasn't spurring too much, so we deducted points. Then we noticed he was sort of sliding towards the hogs head (I mean teeth), and that means his tender regions were getting closer to the teeth also.
After what happened to my Spur dog last Feb and this past Nov, Dave and I both knew what a hogs teeth could do to that area of your anatomy. So Dave and I had a quick conference about whether either of us REALLY wanted to have to sew on Noah in that particular area. The quick answer was no, so I decided I better put down my bowl of popcorn and go help him.
We finally got the hog off his feet, Dave put down his camera and popcorn and came and helped with the dogs. And that is EXACTLY how it happened folks....
Poor Monkey didn't get to bay this hog, as he was locked in my dogbox, half a mile away. He may be good, but he isn't good enough to bay hogs half a mile away from the dogbox....If anyone has a dog that can, I sure would like to see him do it. We did turn him out about 1/4 mile away, but after the wrestling/UFC grudge match, the smell of burning popcorn, 8 second buzzer,us driving 4 wheelers in and getting the hog out, taking pics, etc all the hogs must have vacated the area as he never struck anything.
Since the hog was tied (and mad) we decided to call it a day and get him out so he could be untied.
But we hear rumours of a bigger badder boar in the area, this one is said to be spotted...so we will be back!!
a few pics I took.
