Last minute night round

What a great hunt on this second sow! Ran her about 2.5 miles. Smokey cold trailed off a corn feeder and went 200 yards up into a man eating green briar thicket and bayed. We opened the doors on the dog box and sent more bay dogs to the party. When the other dogs got to the bay the sow broke and ran. The first time she broke she ran a big circle, about 800 yards one way and then back, before Smokey found her again. We opened the doors again and sent the reinforcements to the bay only to have the hog break and run when the dogs arrived. The second time it broke bay the sow headed out straight and moving fast. The sow ran straight about 1 mile and then turned along a big creek. The sow would of got away, but the one thing she didn't plan on was that Smokey was still on her trail. The garmin showed him treed along the creek 1.2 miles away. We headed to him. Along the way we picked up the yeller blacks that were headed his way. We stopped at 500 yards from the bay. We left the bay dogs on the terex and we snuck in with the catch dogs to about 50 yards. The catch dogs didn't give her an opportunity to run. Great hunt.

YBM, you forgot to say that Smokey is the dog in picture with the russian sow.
I hope I don't run the legs off Ol' Smokey trying to train those yeller blacks.
I am very proud of my "pale face cull".