close calls

[setxhogmaster]

i would like to hear some stories of some close calls or of some real bad hogs

[dub]

I was running to a bay and real 300+lb hog was running away from the bay. It is amazing how fast you can think. There were no trees to climb and nothing to even get behind. I started trying to figure out if I could jump over the hog. But that was one big hog and those cutters were big too. I figured my only chance was to put my boot right between his eyes and use his head to help me jump because I did not think I could shove his nose in the dirt. Just as I thought I had my timing down to step on his head he saw me. He did a quick double look and turned off of the path. I had to stop and collect myself before going to the bay. That is how I figured out how to jump over big hogs. I ended up using it in a pen and know it works but I will always wonder if I would have pulled it off that day thinking on the fly.

[Kid7]

Had been hunting a spot for a while it was hot and we were tired so we head bk to the truck. End up striking a big boar at the edge of a grain field on out way back rite at dark. We were already only 40 yds away from him just had puppies loose good dogs on a lead. Well un snap bulldog and as son as I let him go the hog breaks. He goes to a creek and the bulldog catches up. We get there and I dive in and he goes under. i get out of the water and hes behind me and the bullfodogs behind him. Luckily the bulldog caught his bk leg and wen he spins he gets an ear. Goes bk in the dadgum water. wade is rite behind him and took a face plant in the water.I finally get a leg and pull him up on the bank and get him tied. Roll him over and there is a 5ft cotton mouth underneath him!!! I jumped 5 feet and took off I hate snakes. Go get the truck and load dogs and go get the hog and take my 22. Get there and no snake. We thought.... I reach down to grab the hogs legs and in between his belly and his leg that snake is coiled up blended in with the mud. I shoot the snake. Ok. So we load the hog up and leave.
 Wen that hog was on my tail comin out of the water I was huntin a tree but couldn't find one. Good thing that old bulldog got a leg and spun him. And also glad I saw that snake before my hand got to close. Wat could hav been a horrible nite ended up ok in the end.

[Lance]

About 6 or 7 years ago we, Sam Jones, Dean Durham, Randy Bumpurs and I bayed a big barr on the edge of a slough. The curr dogs we were running then would catch most hogs so we left the bull dogs at the trailer because the brush was real thick where we were hunting and I hate leading a bull dog off a horse in thick brush. He was bayed in a green briar thicket and was fighting hard. He was really working the dogs over good because they were catching but we could'nt get to them before he would break and run. He would only run 50 - 100 yds. and they would catch him and shut him down and then he would start wrecking dogs again. Once he broke across a small opening and I lined him out to rope him and he cut back underneath my horse and took his legs out and we cut a couple of good cart wheels. He ran a couple hundred yards and the dogs had him bayed in a shallow creek . We were trying to get a rope on him but the briars were to thick and when he broke he came right at me. I was back peddeling trying to get away from him but my spurs got tangled up in some briars and I fell on my a$$ right in front of him! He ran right over the top of me and never touched me! I jumped up and he turned around and came back at me. I climbed up on a blowed over tree and he was underneath me jumping up and trying to get to me. I would of never thought a fat barr could jump that high. The dogs were putting the heat on him so he broke and went back to the creek. We decided that Randy and Sam would stay there and Dean and I would lope back to the trucks and get the bull dogs. When we got to the trucks we could hear the dogs baying so we just cut the bulldogs loose and they took off. When we got to them Randy and Sam had just flipped the hog and we helped them tie it. The hog stressed out and died before we got him out but we weighed him on the scales at the feed store and he weighed 402 pounds. He wrecked our dogs but they all lived. He is still the biggest hog I've ever caught. I've got his skull European mounted on my wall and it has alot of sentimental value to me because it was one one of the last hogs Randy was in on catching before he passed away.

[Gabriel B]

I was huntin a real thick place with just me and one of my friends and we bay a huge group on the edge of the tree line 500yds infront of us, we walked up to about 200 and kicked the bulldog, well it was dark and hogs broke in every direction. Well one of the gyps rolled out and I could hear her yippin so my buddy caught one dog that ran by  him and while I'm tryin to find the bulldog I turn around and for some reason that's still unknown my friends runnin sh**less across the field away from me. I heard brush breakin infront of my and figured it was my bulldog comin back, well I went in and am fightin the briars when I get threw and a 250lbs boar is about 10yds infront of me, he charged, and I jumped and landed on his butt but fell off and as soon as he came to turn back around for me the bulldog grabbed him on the ear! Thank goodness.

[TrueTeXanHogDogs]

One weekend hunting in college station, my buddies and I had caught one hog while getting very little sleep. It was the sunday of that trip and were just running the last bit of energy out of the dogs. The dogs lit up (three pups in the mix) and we thought we had one. The next thing I see is all my older dogs coming back to me with their tails between their legs. The pups were still barking like they had something bayed. Next thing we know a steer comes bulldozing through the brush and tries to take us out. Im guessing the pups got the hint because they came creepin out of the woods. Within the next five minutes the dogs were baying again. This time my experienced dogs did not come back to me. Low and behold, they were all attached on to a barr hog that looked like a propane tank on legs. He was close to 400 (no scale, but a damn good judge). Hes tied and the dogs are back at the truck because we are going to drag this sucker out of the woods by hand. Creek bottoms and rain washes proved us wrong. My buddy looks to me and says "im going to cut one of his ties and were going to walk him out of here like a dog". Before i can say are you f***ing kidding me, hes halfway up the other side of the dry creek yelling "RUN". I turn to see my other buddy sprinting in the opposite direction looking for a tree. And here i am, like an idiot, watching this barr get to his feet. I turned and ran as fast as i could uphill looking for a tree. As soon as i jump and hit the tree i feel my foot clip his back as he tossed his head and made his way the hell out of there, with my genius buddy sprinting behind him yelling "get the dogs". This is prolly one of the funnniest stories i have to date, but like anything you had to be there. 6 months later while hunting that same place we somehow by sheer luck caught him again. This time knife wounds kept him from getting away.

[BA-IV]

Lance you oughta post a picture of that euro mount!

[Lance]

Here ya go Ben. He's the top hog skull. The bottom is also a good hog I caught. My friend had just finished a bunch of mounts and took this pic and sent it to me. I thought it was a pretty cool pic.

[justincorbell]

one night in the middle of july we bayed a pack of hogs on a grown up levee in labelle texas, on was side was a big ditch about 25' wide and the other side was a huge reservoir, both FULL of alligators, my buddy ahd a good mag light on him and we must have counted 30 sets of eyes in the water........ anyway we are running/ breaking thru the tangled mess on the levee and the hogs all broke, he went to one bay and I was heading to another, I had a mini mag light that was goin dead but I could still see enough to realize that the brush in front of me was moving straight towards me fast, I stood still as I could and next thing I knew here came the herd......I side stepped the first couple hogs and tried to do the same on number 3 but he was BIG, I'm not exactly a tall or limber fella and my right leg only came up so far.....that hog hooked the bottom of my right boot as I tried to get out of the way and sent me rolling straight off into the reservoir........I guarantee that you ain't never seen 250lbs of man sprout wings and get the hell outta the water as fast as I did..........I will tango with hogs and alligators but tangling up with an alligator in the middle of the night is where this cracker draws the line! my buddy was on the edge of the bank about 40yds in front of me and couldn't control his laughter.....you woulda thought it was the funniest thing he had ever seen.......We ended up catchin 2 hogs and gettin back out of that area in tact but I was one nervous dude when I hit the water lol.

Another time I was hunting with the same guy but we were at my lease in Nome Texas, anyway we were night hunting on horseback (best way to hunt, period.......just an FYI haha) anyway we were easin down a road that an oil company had just pulled the mats off of so it was a bit muddy, anyway we were about to the end of it when we noticed the dogs were gone (pre garmin) so we eased down a bit more and found a fresh set of tracks. we stopped and waited on the dogs, about 10 minutes later they opened up and then went quiet then opened again much closer, we were about 40yds from the bay when they finally settled the hog. They were bayed up in a thick tallow/ palmetto flat. We eased in with out a bulldog or a gun and found the dogs fighting on p.o'd boar about 150lbs, he was a rank little thing fighting the dogs and workin em pretty good, we couldn't ever get close enough to him without him spinnin on us....I was just to the left of my buddy both about 6' from the hog when he said im goin for it....apparently that hog spoke english because at the same time he said that the hog charged us, keep in mind we are in some thick thick chit....well my buddy pushes off of me and grabs a little pine to get out of the way, I fall flat on my arse and am back peddling at about 100 mph lol, I couldn't see worth a dang but I just knew he was about to tear me up, about the time he caught up to me david got ahold of his tail and we got him caught........I'm pretty sure this was the second funniest thing he had ever seen because he was in fits laughing so hard that the hog dang near got away from him.........I have to admit it is pretty durn funny but at the time I just knew i was about to get castrated by a ticked off boar hog