Message #576298

[The Old Man]

That is catching like a really rough smart Curdog, I've known of a number of them that would catch at first contact, if the cavalry didn't arrive and the hog would stand they'd back up and bark until they heard or saw the boss coming and catch again.

Doc, I still favor Ol'Grip for the way I use one haha, we don't get many chances to catch one that isn't bayed. He did run one down that was loose and catch it "the one I had said he caught by the hind leg" and a few hunts ago he did miss a big sow that he had to come head to head with and got slapped but he ran it down and caught it within 50 yards, and  he got out ran on some he had winded but did not see, other than that he has batted 1000 this year and will be 2 yrs old in a few days, just barely got to start him last year due to back trouble I'd had. The first bay I used him on in Louisana he was slow to go , it was a single dog bayed and I had been schooling on him about staying with me.  He likes his job, this morning I loaded some dogs and left "wasn't going hog hunting" and my wife said he whined and howled for an hour until she went out and scolded him, he was heart broken that he couldn't go haha.