Old boar

Hollowpoint your dogs sound like they have made hog dogs. They will continue to get better with experience but they’ve figured out their style and they know what they are there for. Keep feeding them hog tracks. I’m glad that hog didn’t have the teeth to hurt anything. We don’t carry a side arm but we keep a 30/30 on the buggy for the mallard wannabe’s. I keep a couple pair of handcuffs on me and they have saved my not so bright self. I caught a boar about 230ish the day after I had a plate and screws put in my left wrist. I was solo with two bay dog pups and a GREEN bulldog. It was full blown summer and dry dry. Those pups bayed the boar and out of reflex I sent the bulldog. I was just exploring a spot and letting the pups get out while worked on the bulldogs handle. He caught and as soon as I grabbed the hog I knew I had made a mistake. We had a heck of a wrestling match for what seemed like the rest of the day but was probably 15-20 minutes. I didn’t have the ability to throw him with one arm. I didn’t have the ability to stick him with my broke arm while holding a leg with the other. The bulldog was tired and hot. The hog was hot and MAD. I was hot, tired and wondering how I was gonna do this. My knife was kicked out of my bad hand and stomped down into the dry creek bed sand so deep I couldn’t find it. Then I remembered I had hand cuffs. I pushed him into the bank, reached over and cuffed the opposite front leg and was able to get him over then used my knee to push his hind leg up close enough to cuff it. Then I snapped a lead to the cuffs and ran it up over a root high on the bank to keep his feet up. I got the bulldog back and dug my knife up that was easily a foot deep and stuck the hog. I got my cuffs off and myself and all 3 dogs went to a pond and laid in the water for a while. Those cuffs were a blessing! I don’t mean to hijack your thread, just an example of how they helped me. We don’t carry a gun on person for several reasons. Many of our land owners allow us to hunt because we don’t shoot so they don’t have to worry about cattle, people, or deer being shot. The other part is that every now and then the dogs get on a spot that we just can’t get ahold of the landowner and we had to go get dogs. If you are caught in there they could press trespassing charges on you but if you have a firearm on you it gets way more serious. That isn’t as much of an issue now with being able to tone dogs but it could happen still.

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