A lot of guys don’t understand the thought process behind catching a bad hog like that, but when you do throw him, it’ll be a story worth telling!
Can you explain a little what you mean, cause I’m probably one of those guys who don’t understand lol.
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Not speaking on Bens behalf but what I think he means is if the same strategy and approach keep yielding the same unsuccessful results then it’s time to go back to the drawing board and rethink things unless you just want to keep losing dogs, hogs like him have already learned how things work when the dogs show up and has learned to use the strength of pack mentality to his advantage, in numbers dogs will feel more confident and it leads to over confidence, a bad hog will most times pick out whichever aggressor is giving him the most bother and zero in on it or has learned where he can go to stand his ground and make his fight to his advantage, to each his own but it makes me chuckle when I hear it see where people are against cutting game off at crossings and such as that, I 1000% agree with catching one fair and square, everyone has different definitions, mine is not using a pack of running catch dogs to lug one down to the point the laws of physics take over and he’s just out numbered or using a gun to cripple one to slow it down, I’m not perfect and have done both but don’t make it a practice or habit, but cutting one off at a crossing isn’t “cheating”, I look at it as a challenge and every time I get defeated I also learn more about hogs like yours, they expose their patterns and routes over time, thus “outsmarting” his opponent, learn to use that against him, if you know where his route throw a wrench in his gears, you’ll most likely surprise him and throw him out of routine, break his pattern and routine and get him out of his element he’ll have to rethink his strategy on the fly and that’s when they slip up, in your case it sounds more like 2 dependable loose baying dogs would make him hold bay, and a pair of catchdogs sent in from complete opposite sides of the bay from one another and have a rougher bay dog or 2 sent in if needed behind the catch dogs in case he breaks, even then that approach may not work and after several times of trying to catch him one way and no results time to change up strategy again, it’s these kinda hogs I LOVE, to me numbers don’t mean anything compared out smarting wise old boars like him, I’m about the challenge and feel more accomplished once I’ve won after being defeated time and again, than I do piling up the sows and shoats, everyone gets different joys out of different aspects of the hunt and that’s just mine...
