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The Old Man
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« on: January 18, 2026, 08:06:03 am » |
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I have pondered the bay busting with Curly, he's been part of 5 or 6 hog bays recently and has yet to flush a hog, not counting those shoats squirreling around in the briars. I've been paying attention because it's been different, I think maybe he has caught solid and hard for awhile and when he turns loose they just aren't running off. A couple of times when we were a long time getting there he would be baying but the hogs ears would be all marked up. If they were close we'd hear a squeal and or grunting he'd still be caught. Whatever is going on I would rather he'd back up and bark at a standing hog. And if he tries the wrong hog he will add data to the natural culling process.
A long time ago I was hunting a pair of Plotts together and they began to wreck a few hogs, I was aggravated with them and had decided I couldn't hunt them together. One evening a fellow came by and told me he had saw some hogs cross close to home, so I grabbed them and turned them out where he told me they'd been. They ran over a good ways and bayed, I was walking to them listening to the music and got to a big field and was able to see them a couple hundred yards away, there were 3 hogs backed up to an old wooden lot with the 2 dogs about 6-8 feet away just bowed down baying, the dogs weren't picking at the hogs at all. Very rare thing to bay one where you could see it and 75 ft behind the old lot there was a brushy draw. I was just easing along there listening and watching when, with no apparent cause one of the hogs broke, the dogs ran up beside the hog each got an ear and after the hog stopped they each switched to a front leg just above the hogs elbow and were jerking on it. I saw they weren't catching unless the hog ran, and they somehow had learned how to quickly cripple one. Those they had wrecked had been broke down in the front end.
Hunted in Texas with a dog that gutted every hog we bayed, under the flank in the soft part of the underbelly. All that to say that dogs under use sometimes learn odd or uncommon things.
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