First off I want to thank Noah for the invite to come up and hunt with him. The ranch is a pretty place and the people with us were good people.
Second, I want to say that anyone that "thinks" they are in good shape needs to go on a hunt with Noah and Lee!! I think they were finding the hogs ahead of the dogs.....they stayed that far ahead most of the time....
But I DID warn Noah that my fat dogs were out of shape .......and their owner too!
I kind of think Noah set me up though.....
I have THREE females in heat at my house, and Monkey is a blubbering idiot right now. He gets me to leave my truck at someone elses house, and when we get to the woods he wants me to put Monkey on top of HIS dogbox, which has 1-2 females in heat in it, and have Monkey ride next to his 100 Lb male Dogo.......on top of the box that contains the females in heat!! Any of you that know Monkey know thats a recipe for disaster!!
Noah did try to put me and my dogs on hogs while it was still cool in the morning, but they have been hitting this place hard and my dogs just couldn't get a hog going. Finally Monkey pulled out and left. He was gone for the better part of an hour, by himself, and we drove closer to where I had tracked him. I started blowing my real loud whistle that I use to call my dogs out as he wasn't barking, as far as we could tell, but he was still a pretty good ways from us. He finally came out to the road we were parked on and his head, chest and shoulders were covered in blood where he had a hog caught for some time. We just couldn't hear him.........and I am one of the few that doesn't use a Garmin.
Shiner got real hot real quick, but I hope she makes a full recovery. Its not good to see a dog stagger around with no control of its back end, fall down, and not get up when its 90+ degrees and temps are rising..................
Noahs other dogs did real good but he isn't kidding about the catch and roll stuff! I gave up trying to hang with them and just walked in. I am 51 years old, wearing snake boots and a backpack that weighs about 30 lbs. There is no way I can hang with those two guys running through the woods and I will be the first to admit it. Maybe 20 years ago, but not today!
I still had a great time and hope I get invited back. Maybe Monkey and I can get on the treadmill for a couple weeks and try it again....
