Seems to me that you are either a dog person or not.....as for me...I AM. I have had the drive to pursue and either catch or kill some kind of critter for as long as I can remember....it's part of what makes me....me. I have always loved dogs and I've had one for as long as I can remember. I have hunted deer since I was about 14 and I've taken a lot of them ....and a couple of very impressive bucks for the southeastern U.S. But come on people....deer hunting doesn't hold a candle to hog doggin'.....IF.....you are a dog person.....if you aren't, then you probably enjoy deer hunting or some other pursuit as much as hog hunting with dogs. Not a thing in the round world wrong with that at all....not a thing,....BUT,....in my humble opinion.....nothing can compare to hunting with a big game dog if you are a true, dyed in the wool dog person. I'm guess that there are varying degrees of this....I'm pretty sure I'm on the high side of it though.
I've hunted big bucks in NM, TX and here in AL....killed 2 very impressive mule deer in NM and I'm going to Utah to hunt the Paunsaugunt in early Nov. where some mighty large mule deer reside,....but none of this campares to hunting hogs down in southern GA where there's a lot of them and we kill a bunch every year. I enjoy wild hog meat as much as anything I put down my neck......and we eat a lot of deer too....but hog is better to me. Deer are fun until I can run a hog.....my dogs have my heart.....simple as that.
