MADE ANOTHER ROUND TODAY

[The Old Man]

Took the mules and were going to hunt down one creek until it tied in to a bigger creek and then hunt up the big creek in some big country but didn't make it that far. Dogs struck hot just away from the truck and ran a short 3/4 mile race and bayed a little sow, we caught and tied her down and left her there,  on the way to them we had saw another sow about the same size run by us that was white, first white wild hog I'd ever seen in here. We recast the dogs and struck right away, there was lots of sign in the oaks where they'd been turning the leaves over after the acorns, turns out after a mile and a half race they bayed the white sow, it took us about 45 minutes to get there because we stopped and talked to a landowner about going in there and catching the hog, never had one run over in that section around more houses, when we got to them she was up under an undercut creek bank and tree roots in water almost swimming deep for the dogs, they weren't bayed very hard as they were nearly hypothermic, in fact they'd came out of the narrow waterhole and were humped up shivering while bayed. When I rode up they went back in the water to the hog. When the catchdog caught the sow the other dogs came out and we tied them back leaving the catchdog caught, I had dummied up and didn't attach a rope to him so I could reel him and the hog in, but when the hog would try to move Ol'Grip was pulling her towards our bank and he finally got over close enough we could pitch a rope around both their heads and get her caught without having to get wet. Went back and drug the first hog out and with them both loaded up we came home and got the younger dogs and had a training day on one of the sows.
I was busy with all that was going on and missed an opportunity to get some neat video of the way we caught that hog but oh well, I need a dedicated cameraman haha.

[HIGHWATER KENNELS]

Yeah man. Sounds like y’all got the same colored hogs we got.  The ones that run anyway.  Lol.   I thought them blooded hogs were suppose to always bay quick at least that’s what someone lied to me about.  Hehe.  Fine dog work.


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[Cajun]

  Good round Clue. Sounds like y'all still have some of the oldtimer landowners. Some of these Yuppies out of new Orleans come in and buy a few acres and think they own the rest would have a cow if your dogs got on their property.

[The Old Man]

You know that sow was white, and had a little curl to her tail but her nor the black one "that looked for conformation and size etc" to be her littermate appeared to be from tame hogs for a few generations, I guess in this day and time Russian influenced or straight Feral wild for several gens all run. The hogs up and down the creeks here typically run, that 3/4 mile race is a short one with the exception of baying a set in their bed. I actually prefer the running Russian influenced hogs, not a numbers guy and had rather bay and catch one tough one off a cold track, that after jumped ran a good big fast race, and maybe broke bay a time or two than 4 or 5 easy ones. I like to catch those old outlaws. Hogs are not as thick here as in some places and the thickets make it possible for hogs to stay out and run if they choose to. Have hunted some where it is more open timber where dogs could push them up out of that long trot in the thickets and  could usually run the air out of one that had a head start in 20-30 minutes. I did enjoy hunting the marsh last year with Cajun and his gang it was fast paced action for the most part good running for the dogs.

Have any of you guys ever had dogs get dangerously cold from being in the cold water too long??  I saw one pass out years ago after standing bayed in ice cold water but it lived and more recently saw one die. I think when the real cold blood from their extremities gets back to their heart it can shut it down, I had to watch a video once about people that had been in the cold water too long and that was how it worked on them.  Lots of times if it is in the twenties and at night when we catch the dogs they will have ice in their hair.

[The Old Man]

In all the years here I'd never had hogs run into that section, normally when struck where these were they head up the creek without crossing a road for several sections of country where no one lives and there aren't any roads through there. I was worried about it today but fortunately we knew the fellow that owned the land within 100 yards of the bay and he was acquainted with the fellow landowner where they were and he led us in there on his four wheeler, I was grateful and he had a big time watching us catch that hog and tie it on his wheeler haha. There are 4 or 5 houses scatterred around that mile section owned by folks I don't know.

[t-dog]

Old man that sounds like a good hunt and good dog work.

We made a round this morning and the last boar was in the creek. As soon as we caught the hog the dogs were humped up on the bank and spent. Dogs that would normally have caught out under the circumstances were baying. I myself believe that’s because of how cold the water was. I have been in the river when it had ice on it, out of necessity not by choice. I can tell you that it absolutely sucks the oxygen right out of you!


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[BA-IV]

Them dogs seem to be rolling. My lil gantte gyp found her first hog today. She’s been on a few, but this one she struck, ran, and bayed on her own!

[The Old Man]

BAIV, it should be "mostly" downhill from there, her brother and sister here are hog and bear crazy.

[NLAhunter]

Sounds like good hunt good dog work

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[l.h.cracker]

Good hunt Clue,I never paid cold water no mind because I'm from Florida but I will dang sure be on top of it now after loosing my dog to it last week a good stay put dog stays put whether they're cold or not and it can and will kill one after a long enough period of time.

[Austesus]

Sounds like a hunt that got real western towards the end! Haha. As far as the cold water goes, I almost had two dogs die on me a few years ago. If I remember right it was October or November and it was 43 degrees that night. The dogs caught a little boar in some shallow water (maybe knee deep) and had him for about 30 minutes before me and my buddy Zach got to them. I was friends with another guy during that time (not anymore, that fella has burned bridges and ruined his name with local guys) and I was borrowing two RCD’s for the hunt that night. His dogs were real poor looking and were pretty bony. I was using them some because I was short on a catch dog, and they were nice hard catching dogs. He got them from a friend of mine that had trained them and when he got them he just didn’t take care of them at all, never wormed them. Well because it was in the 40’s that night I actually thought it was a little warm compared to what it had been. We had an hour walk back to the truck dragging that pig, and an hour ride to drop those two catch dogs off. I got to his house around 7am and opened the tailgate and both of them laying down and cold to the touch, unresponsive. I thought they were dead. I beat on his door until he woke up and got them some warm blankets and tried to massage them to get some blood moving. One of them woke up after an hour or two. The other one was in a coma for 12 hours before he finally came out of it. Opened his eyelids and you could touch his eye and it wouldn’t move or twitch, we thought he was brain dead. Both dogs went on to make a full recovery after a few days.

I take the cold much more seriously now. That night I didn’t put straw in the back of the truck because it didn’t seem real cold, but those two dogs were on one side of the box and I had 4 or 5 on the other side, the others were all fine and I figured that they would all be just fine huddling up for the ride. Those two just couldn’t take that cold with them being in such rough shape. Looking back I should have never taken those dogs hunting like that, but I was a young hunter and it was a learning lesson. I was feeding them a big ration every time I used them because I felt bad just seeing their condition, but I never thought the cold would hit them that hard.


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[The Old Man]

I'm guessing that if these dogs hadn't backed out of the narrow waterhole they would have died, because they were really really cold anyway when I got to them. We are always concerned with heat and if you haven't had any experience with it you just don't think about the cold water. If the dogs are dry there just isn't much danger for them from the cold but when they are submerged in the water that changes pretty quick.

Though I had never laid eyes on him nor  had anything to do with his lineage I sure hated to hear about Ol'Hambone.