Noah,
I think I may have posted these before, but here are a couple of pics of the barr that cut Monkey down last summer. Me and one buddy were two hours from home and Monkey was the only dog we had with us. Monkey left us and bayed down in a bad thick creek bottom. The hog broke as we were literally crawling into the bay and went about 200 yards then Monkey went to baying again. Dave was on one side of the creek and I was on the other. I was about 100 yards away when i heard Dave shoot, he had a pistol with him. Then I heard the hog break, knocking down trees and brush, then I heard Monkey bay again. In a few seconds I heard Dave shoot again, then it sounded like Monkey was getting killed, he went to squalling and screaming, then Dave shot again. Meanwhile I am about to kill myself trying to get there.
When I do get there, Monkey is on the ground covered in blood and so is a big barr. Dave had shot the barr 3 times with a .357 at less than 30 feet and hit him all 3 times and he still wrecked the dog.
We carried Monkey out and went to working on him. Finally got the bleeding stopped, put him in the dogbox and went to get the hog. Both of us together couldn't move the hog. We had to run a long rope down through all the thick stuff to the hog and try to pull him out of the creek bottim with Daves 500cc 4 wheeler. Dave drove and I kept having to swing the hog around big trees, palmetto roots etc going uphill.
Finally got the hog to the hill and got him to the truck. Monkey was out so we gutted the barr (it was around 90 degrees) and I headed to the house 2 hours away.
Got home and another buddy came over to help. We got Monkey in his pen and cooled down (he was awake but couldn't walk and his gums were as white as could be). When we went to clean the hog both hams were full of bite marks and blood where Monkey was applying brakes everytime the hog tried to run.
Barr weighed 205 on my scales, gutted. Monkey paid a price for being that rough on a hog, now he has wised up some. He will still put teeth on one, but on those 200+ lb hogs he isn't as crazy as he once was!
I told you on Sunday when he bayed it sounded like a big hog, he has a different bay on a big hog than a small hog. Here are a couple of pics of "Monkeys Hog".
And you guys that don't know Noah, he is a good young guy that is serious about his hog hunting. Lots of interest and one I predict will be around for a long time in this sport.
Noah, did you and Lee go check out that other place Sunday night? Just curious if you had any luck.
