The nearest hunting feat you've seen by a dog

Yrs ago me and my son was hunting a wma with a buddy of mine... I didn't know the lay out of this wma too good and was riding around looking for sign. We ended up turning my old dog and one more out and they struck and caught a big sow pretty quick,,, after my son killed the sow ,, they rolled out and ran one across a big draining ditch and into a block of woods that's was gonna take me a while to get there.. When they showed bayed on the garmin and I wasn't about to make my son swim this ditch since he was only about 10,, it took me about 25 minutes to get to em by this other road... As I turned on to this road ,,, I met a truck with hog dogs coming out,, they never stopped so I kept goin to where my garmin said my two dogs were.... Now they weren't showed bayed in the same spot but now they were on the road that I was going on ,, so I knew that it was odd that they left the bay,, since my old male dog would kill a small hog ,,, he would claim it and stay with it until I got there all the time... When I rode down the road and seen em ,, I slowly pulled up too em but only my other dog was running up to the truck,, my old male dog was still laying in the grass.. I thought he was cut down at first but he had no cuts on him when I picked him up ... Upon lookin closer I seen his top buckle on his cut collar was busted and blood was under his cut collar with a hole in his neck on the top . he was in bad shape ,, couldn't hardly walk and he was having a hard time breathing so I went straight to the vet...... When they took x rays of him ,, they found a splintered bullet from a centerfire pistol that had split into and went and lodged in the bottom of his lungs and rib cage. The only thing I can figure is that those guys had heard that bay and went in and shot the hog while my male dog was caught on him ,,, the bullet went thru the cut collar and into him,,,, That ole dog made it thru that and healed up to catch more for me.. He lived to be 15 yrs old...