Craig,
I am real pleased with Annie, and yesterday was excessively humid. Definitely not ideal hunting conditions for dog or human
After we spoke, we got some fluid in her, she cooled off, and she hit a second wind and hunted a few more hours. Her and my other dogs have what it takes to find and stop plenty of hogs in most of the places I hunt, I just think we are outgunned on this property. Seems like I have had more dry runs than productive ones on these places the last month or two.
Chance,
heses dogs run wide they stop them 945 and 2025 and 1725 hogs with no problems now I don't now if you are familar with those hogs I have seen 10 to 12 hour race's up there with people cold packing them all day.
The Annie dog we are hunting has found and stopped several hogs in one morning off of 1725. She found them and rolled out on the next one before we were done tying. Last time I hunted the place that ties into this problem property, one of my dogs left out at 6:30am and never checked back in until after 11:00am and 90 degrees. He gave it a gallant effort, but there was not any pork at the end. He works a track slower than whats needed out there I think.
I know it takes different types of dogs to catch different hogs in different areas. I would not expect my dogs to perform in wide open west Texas the same way they perform in central Texas.
If you want to come give them a shot, then we will setup the hunt. Going hunting out of town this weekend, but we can set something up for next week one evening if you're game.
