Hazards of hog Hunting

You know man as a father,,,, I have raised my son to be in the woods... I really think he is a better woodsman than me sometimes when I was his age.. But Ive always worried about him running into things that can take a mans life in the situations we have all prob been in at sometime or another... Those of us that made it out ,, we call it luck or by the grace of god,,, but there is friends that I have had that they have actually lost their life doing what we call fun and what we live to do on the weekends...

the closest I have ever been to dying while hog doggin is in some back water off of Catahoula lake when I was swimming from tree to tree with a pistol around my neck after a Ole Yeller dog I had from a old man named Leroy Colts.. He had raised and hunted that line of dogs since I was a kid,, and I was proud to have one cause that male dog was a one man show... that old dog had a big sow bout 250 pds and he was riding her back like a saddle trying to drown her and goin further and further away from me... I will always remember when I swam over that trot line and watched it in slow motion hook into my pants leg... For those that don't know how hard it is to pull a hook out of blue jeans ,, don't try it while treading water...LOL>.. By god grace I was able to pull it out and grab the closest tree to do some praying ….. Water has taken plenty of hog doggers life from em… Yall be careful out there while we do what we love to do...