No hog hunter will sell a HOG DOG. Just my 2 cents
Sorry but you are wrong on that one, I have been hog hunting for a little over 10yrs and I just sold a HOG DOG yesterday to a guy off this site that has hunted with the dog and has seen with his own eyes what the dog will do...................... how do you explain that?
.........I understand that it is getting pretty dang hard to find a good dog these days with the huge influx of newcomers joining and dropping the sport, I think this has alot to do with the overall lack of quality in dog sales, hence the unhappy customers that unfortunentaly get the raw end of the deal that we read more and more about. I do however believe that true hog dogs can still be bought........just off the top of my head I know 2 guys that visit this site daily and both have bought their best dogs in the last 6-8 months........
At the end of the day, if you want to BUY a good hog dog you HAVE TO DO the homework!
May I ask why you sold the dog? Musta been something you didn't like about the dog unless you just don't hunt anymore.
I dont mind one bit, spoon is....well i should say was the #2 dog in my yard. I have 2 older males that are neck and neck hunting wise, smoke and spoon, when on the ground together they range Too far out for me from time to time......maybe not too far but further than I like...... on one hand its great because they hunt great BUT on the other hand i dont have big pieces of property to hunt unless I am invited, AND i figured out that if i run them one at a time they tend to stay at a range I like. Smoke is rougher than spoon and i like rough..... i consider both of these dogs to be good puppy trainers...hunted individually they have worked great with my young dogs. Another reason i leaned towards selling him is that I think in the right yard he would be the #1 dog and someone else could use him more than I do......now whether or not he will be #1 in the particular man who bought hims yard is not up to me to say....don't know what all he is workin with!
I said all that to say this, i honestly enjoy workin young dogs as much as I enjoy any other part of this sport and the other day I saw a young gyp that honestly excited the hell out of me, and to my surprise the owner said she was for sale.... She managed to find the 1 and only hole big enough for her to fit in on a large horse trailer and was 6' off the ground and in the trailer full of pigs and caught before we could blink......it was a hell of a sight!
Lol not that it was important to add to the story but i am comfortable knowing I can still go and catch hogs without ol spoon and i havent been this pumped about a young dog in a while.
You ever walked up to a kennel with a buncha dogs and 1 just jumps out at you from the get go for some reason? That is what she did to me, i didnt ask to buy her, he told me he would let her go.....so on the way home the other 1/2 and I talked about it and decided that we didnt need another dog so there you have it, spoon rolls out and new gyp comes in.
BTW i didn't mean to be rude in my first post.....shoulda said that I disagree, not that you were wrong, my fault.
