Packed a few of me and Tim’s gyps around and got to cast them twice between riding yearlings yesterday.
1st cast they made em a sure enough 3/4 mile vuelta and come on back. I couldn’t find anything that said there was a hog anywhere around there. The 3 long yearling gyps Misty, Tiny, and Alley out hunted sketch and didn’t piggy back off her and that’s what I want to see from these dogs.
Tiny and Misty have been starting to strike hogs rounding out last year they finished really strong. Alley does really good sometimes but she’s almost a little too watchy for her own good. That’s why alley is not in the video of me leading dogs through them yearlings. Alley was at the trailer already, cattle and train freaked her out.
2nd cast sent them straight down through some yearlings into the river bottom. They dropped down into the bottom and crossed the river bed and bayed about 750 from the trailer.
I got down there and walked in, I wasn’t surprised when the 25 or so head In there went to rallying. Bayed many groups in this same spot over the years. Then here comes the train. I wanted to let them dogs work them hogs, dog break them a little if you will. I know I’m not there to kill but 1 or 2 so don’t want to blow the group smooth out of there when we can bring a full set of dogs back.
They hold them fairly well long enough for the train to pass, but hogs figure out I’m there and start trickling out the back. I get worked back around and manage to knock the lead boar down as he tries to leave. Sketch, Misty, and Tiny took another down river a few hundred yards then doubled back toward the tracks and were between the tracks and the highway that was enough for me to buzz them out of there, and call it a day.
Video ended up being pretty cool.
First cast
https://vimeo.com/1047816899
Bay
https://vimeo.com/1047719931Dogs are cow broke but cows are not dog broke
https://vimeo.com/1047817052Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
