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[Slim9797]

Hogs had been getting brave around the cattle company, With that cold weather last week I was seeing atleast 4 different groups during daylight hours almost every day. When I start knocking groups of hogs off feed bunks at 9:30am after the feed tractor comes through. It’s time to go run them around a little and knock them back off my feed Bill a little bit.

 Carried sketch and Curtis the 2 old heads, and Shaw, Roach and gidgit. All pups 1-1.5. Plan was I knew right where hogs should be laid. We’d go slow. Cast to every group I could get us close to and we’d kill what we could off the group and when they started to really travel. Get dogs back and go try another group.

7:15 am Saturday fog was thick and I figured we were late to catch them in the bunks as it had warmed back up. Well I was wrong. Had hogs in my shipping barn when I went to get my quad as guys were collaring dogs at the shipping pens.

Sent Curtis Roach and sketch to a boar hog leaving bunks going through 2 loads of cattle I had lotted to go on trucks this morning. I was sure we were going to bay him in the one of my trap pastures. Wrong. He got the jump on em through the yearlings and 3+ miles and him trying to dump them on 2 different groups, they finally were standing on his head in what I can only assume was his home, we caught him in a nest. 150 lb made for running sucker I don’t think any of us got a picture of. Picture of track he made. We started him up top.


Glad we killed him, but sketch come up with a minor limp that would progress throughout the day, from what I now believe to likely be a broke toe, and put way more miles on old man Curtis than I planned on him having by lunch. Let alone the first hog.
Went back to the trailer and let them water and rest a half hour.


Next we headed to the railroad as I was pretty sure it was a group laid there. I was pretty wrong. We casted, they leave towards the river, hit the river and get about half way across the G3 bottom when they open up. Bayed. I’m there first and try to video as they have a really good boar perched on top on the river bed and they are looking up the bank at him. He sees me and try’s to break. About 80 yards is all they let him make it. Rhett and my brother catch up with one of the rifles. Hand it to me and I put an end to it. Finally a good boar out of here. I figured him around 240.  Been seeing him since Christmas.
   

https://vimeo.com/796035960





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[USA1stNate]

Nice hog. Good thing your dog only ended up up with a broken toe. The video was a nice touch.

[Cajun]

  I get way more satisfaction when those dogs finally stope a runner. would rather do that then 5 easy ones but that is just me. Nice job by the dogs.

[t-dog]

Nice hunt. Sounds like the old timers still got it.


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[Slim9797]

Tapatalk deleting half my post again…
Long story short we got smoked 2 times after that. Immediately after that big boar being our fault not the dogs. 2nd time he was running from the jump. We dropped on top of him. He ditched everything but sketch In about a mile and she carried it 4.5 in almost a complete circle and lost it. We reset. Phone call from man who bought my bosses old place which is still connected to us. He got in from Houston seen the damage and called to extend the invite after being Leary the evening before on the phone.
  We went right over. Casted on the creek where I’d seen hogs all week. 100 yards they’re bayed on the fence line. 2 sows with 2 litters. Shoot the bigger sow. Other hog breaks. Pups go to killing pigs and we send my brother and Brady after them. Me and Tim see a sow break across the open along the county road probably 300 from us. I jump in the bed, tell him to drive. We get within about 80 yards as she crosses the road. First time ever I send lizzo 20 my young greyhound x pit cross solo on sight. I’ll just say that was the coolest thing I’ve gotten to see from a dog in a long time. Caught pig before she made the brush.
Regrouped 2 sows 2 piglets. Back to trailer. Let’s go get Anne. She’s in heat but we will put all the males up and ask sketch for one more with Anne and gidgit. We should be able to kill hogs. Lunch swap dogs. Get back 4:30 load dogs make the blacktop trip across the river to the town side and cast from town. Should be a set of hogs down there. On the FM road about to cross the river. Big hogs in the bottom rooting. Hit the ditch  grab Anne and sketch. Free cast em to where that hog was. 400 or so off the road. It’s a whole group. 30 minutes later we’ve made a full circle down the river. Up the hill. Across the hill. Back to the river and back down it. 4 big sows. Lizzo smoked the 3rd one down the hill. 3 piglets in a neat pile from gidgit. Hunt over. Let’s go home. We were soaked. Final count was 12 or 13. Math is hard. Good day. Pups got lots of exposure and showed promise. Old dogs really showed some sand. Landowners were happy and so was boss man.





https://vimeo.com/796516828

https://vimeo.com/796291207

https://vimeo.com/796290298
Greyhound going on one

https://vimeo.com/796289408

https://vimeo.com/796290034


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[Slim9797]

Tapatalk deleting half my post again…
Long story short we got smoked 2 times after that. Immediately after that big boar being our fault not the dogs. 2nd time he was running from the jump. We dropped on top of him. He ditched everything but sketch In about a mile and she carried it 4.5 in almost a complete circle and lost it. We reset. Phone call from man who bought my bosses old place which is still connected to us. He got in from Houston seen the damage and called to extend the invite after being Leary the evening before on the phone.
  We went right over. Casted on the creek where I’d seen hogs all week. 100 yards they’re bayed on the fence line. 2 sows with 2 litters. Shoot the bigger sow. Other hog breaks. Pups go to killing pigs and we send my brother and Brady after them. Me and Tim see a sow break across the open along the county road probably 300 from us. I jump in the bed, tell him to drive. We get within about 80 yards as she crosses the road. First time ever I send lizzo 20 my young greyhound x pit cross solo on sight. I’ll just say that was the coolest thing I’ve gotten to see from a dog in a long time. Caught pig before she made the brush.
Regrouped 2 sows 2 piglets. Back to trailer. Let’s go get Anne. She’s in heat but we will put all the males up and ask sketch for one more with Anne and gidgit. We should be able to kill hogs. Lunch swap dogs. Get back 4:30 load dogs make the blacktop trip across the river to the town side and cast from town. Should be a set of hogs down there. On the FM road about to cross the river. Big hogs in the bottom rooting. Hit the ditch  grab Anne and sketch. Free cast em to where that hog was. 400 or so off the road. It’s a whole group. 30 minutes later we’ve made a full circle down the river. Up the hill. Across the hill. Back to the river and back down it. 4 big sows. Lizzo smoked the 3rd one down the hill. 3 piglets in a neat pile from gidgit. Hunt over. Let’s go home. We were soaked. Final count was 12 or 13. Math is hard. Good day. Pups got lots of exposure and showed promise. Old dogs really showed some sand. Landowners were happy and so was boss man.





https://vimeo.com/796516828

https://vimeo.com/796291207

https://vimeo.com/796290298
Greyhound going on one

https://vimeo.com/796289408

https://vimeo.com/796290034


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[t-dog]

Sounds like that was a real good hunt for sure and Lizzo sure sounds like a fun dog.


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[Slim9797]

Thanks guys. Was a good hunt. Gidgit, Shaw, and lizzo really seemed like they took a their own steps in the right direction.


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