so much for bay and shoot.

Yea 71409 I get you but you are talking about but this is a completely different scenario. This dog was bayed, you didn't know where yours was. You're right, but it's not hard to prepare for weather. Hell my phone had a preprogrammed app on it that shows me the weather hourly. Not hard either to pack more than 4 bullets and definitely not difficult to understand that you take a pup like this into the woods you better have a plan B if you're going to hunt him alone. No human life is worth a dog, if the man was going to freeze that's one thing but to go home and write a story on the computer wondering if you're dog is ok seems a bit gutless to me. No one has to like my opinion and I'm not running anyone down.

I see a lot of people posting on here throughout the day, from in the field, etc but don't ever see a lot of pics of their "hunts or harvests". I, like you and many others, know people who catch many hogs and never even turn a computer on. I probably post about half of what I catch cause the kids like seeing it. Just cause you don't post a pic doesn't mean you don't hunt, BUT as much as some folks are on here and run their mouths you'd think you'd see something ever so often. Luckily, this story came with a good ending and a lesson learned.