Catch Dogs and Mules

[jpuckett]

How do y'all hunt hogs on mules or horses and handle your catch dog? I'd like to hunt this way but want to know how y'all do it. Some do a leash. Some ride the bulldog up on the saddle. Let's hear it.

[Bo Pugh]

I hunt with a old man that use to hunt off mules back in the day. He would use a long rope or long lead and the bulldog would learn to walk with the mule either right behind or under the mule. He told me it wouldn't take long for the bulldog to learn to not go around trees and bushes to stay on the same path the mule will drag them through tops and around the trees. But now days it's way to much modern stuff like rangers to have to ride a ruff mule all day

[Kid7]

Y'all are gonna think I'm full of it but its the honest truth. I hunt with an older guy that hunts horseback and his bulldogs walk loose rite beside his horse. Even when the dogs are baying. He gets 100yds and puts them on a lead from his horse and walks 50 yds then steps off, puts the bulldog between his legs, un snaps the leash and lets him go. He says just never send them to a hog or to a bay without getting off your horse and sending him cus they will start going when your riding along and they hear a bark.

[Kid7]

Here's a pic we were going to a bay and his bulldog walking beside the horse loose.



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[jpuckett]

Well mules a can go a lot of places rangers can't... And public land in a lot of states you can't have atv's or vehicles to drive through

[Kid7]

Well mules a can go a lot of places rangers can't... And public land in a lot of states you can't have atv's or vehicles to drive through

I agree I'd rather ride a mule or horse than a ranger any day. I think it's more fun, and you can ride one right up in the fire and they're handy to drag one out. Those horses and mules don't get flat tires, run out of gas, get stuck, and don't make as much noise as a ranger does 

[c dunn]

I start mine in the yard on a long line and teach them to come to me when I tell them to and then go to an e-collar.  I make them stay beside my lawn mower while mowing and beside me whatever I'm doing. Then I make them stay beside my horse. I do just like the old man Kid7 hunts with. I ride up to the bay get off and send my bulldog. It's nice to have a horse and bulldog, best of both worlds.

[LAhogger84]

Most people that hunt of mules or horses use running catch dogs

[justincorbell]

Well mules a can go a lot of places rangers can't... And public land in a lot of states you can't have atv's or vehicles to drive through

I agree I'd rather ride a mule or horse than a ranger any day. I think it's more fun, and you can ride one right up in the fire and they're handy to drag one out. Those horses and mules don't get flat tires, run out of gas, get stuck, and don't make as much noise as a ranger does 

I agree, except about the getting stuck part...........you come down and hunt the labelle area one time and you will understand lol, we have had to use one horse to pull out another on more than one occasion lol.

[Kid7]

Well mules a can go a lot of places rangers can't... And public land in a lot of states you can't have atv's or vehicles to drive through

I agree I'd rather ride a mule or horse than a ranger any day. I think it's more fun, and you can ride one right up in the fire and they're handy to drag one out. Those horses and mules don't get flat tires, run out of gas, get stuck, and don't make as much noise as a ranger does 

I agree, except about the getting stuck part...........you come down and hunt the labelle area one time and you will understand lol, we have had to use one horse to pull out another on more than one occasion lol.

Dam Justin I dont wanna be any part of that lol it's happened to me but not hunting related. Chasing a cow down a dry river bed that apparently wasnt totally dry. Don't have to worry about it much here tho we are just on a big, dry, pile of rocks. I guess I should hav been more specific. I'm taking about rocks and getting the ranger high centered

[justincorbell]

Well mules a can go a lot of places rangers can't... And public land in a lot of states you can't have atv's or vehicles to drive through

I agree I'd rather ride a mule or horse than a ranger any day. I think it's more fun, and you can ride one right up in the fire and they're handy to drag one out. Those horses and mules don't get flat tires, run out of gas, get stuck, and don't make as much noise as a ranger does 

I agree, except about the getting stuck part...........you come down and hunt the labelle area one time and you will understand lol, we have had to use one horse to pull out another on more than one occasion lol.

Dam Justin I dont wanna be any part of that lol it's happened to me but not hunting related. Chasing a cow down a dry river bed that apparently wasnt totally dry. Don't have to worry about it much here tho we are just on a big, dry, pile of rocks. I guess I should hav been more specific. I'm taking about rocks and getting the ranger high centered

I was just messin with ya, I know what you meant, and yes getting a horse stuck in the middle of nowhere is not a good feeling at all but i'll take the mud and mosquitos over the dang rocks /cliffs anyday lol

[jon]

I'd rather hunt off horse/mule anyday before a ranger. When I started in 96 we would ride horses but it was just bay n shoot no cds

[oconee]

Just make sure the bulldog won't catch you mount and then just snap the lead in the D-ring and go hunting.  He'll figure it out I'll promise you within three hunts he'll be leading right behind the mule.