Message #431506

[collars and cutters kennels]

Hello fellas my name is Matt Noviskie I live here in Bellville, been hunting now for 12 years I have a good set of dogs I would think. I know this whole Barr thing has got out of control . I have talk to some guys that hunt for Barr s I see where they are coming from, it is tough both ways. Down here where I'm from I hunt for farmers, hay fields, rice fields , and cattle country, all hogs I catch either come out alive and sold to my buyer or dead ! I do have tons of great land to hunt. I work for the local electric coop so when I puttin power to these big places I sure am trying to find another good place to hunt. I am thank ful for all the places I have to hunt. I do understand about how all the fellas that are hunting the Barr country it's tough going out their hunting all day and you come up with Barr hogs and can't turn them in. I do understand that.... I wish I could catch a good Barr hog one day, but it's also hard for us guys down here to catch anything close to compare to a good Barr, I know a lot of folks that don't hunt contest for that reason and they have jam up dogs...  I think we all have good dogs or else we would not be on this site. This year I hunted a lot contest because I was in Josh's trail... I lost to cole by 10 lbs fair and square for hog dogger of the year. It was a lot of work but lots of fun. I met cole Sunday and a very nice guy he is. I also met Van Dorn he also a very nice guy, them boys just have good dogs and they hunt their a$$ off just like I do. My team and I did great this year, we didn't get first in any contest but we did get 2nd in fatboys contest 3rd in east Texas round up and 2nd in Tdha. I am a honest guy and I can truly say me and my team hunted by the rules and won by the rules. We passed all poly test in our contest that we entered. The only thing that kept me from winning the Tdha contest is that one good Barr cole turned in.. It made me sick but he won by the rules.... The east texas round up we also lost by barr hogs but my team and i took it and were very happy with 3rd place. Out of all contest tdha is the one I wanted to take first.. It will be tough for my team to take first with Barr hogs but I will keep trying. The last thing is let's all stick together this sport is very important to all of us so we have to get along to keep doing this great sport!!!!! I would like meet more of yal, I do understand both sides with Barr hogs but Im not one to fight about it.. I'm here to make friends and hope to hunt with alot of you one day.