Another solo hunt

[Hollowpoint]

I took the dogs out yesterday morning, got to the first spot and got into a coyote that got the young dogs all spooled up, we continued on our loop checking for nothing. Load them up and make a short move to a spot that has sign it it from time to time. I walk them down the road 150 yards and there’s fresh rooting, the four of them scatter in the block of timber.

A few minutes in and my jagd Chopper starts yapping, he’s about 280 and moving parallel to the road we’re parked on. Garmin shows my cat gyp April hustling his way quickly, Pete is next in line doing the same. I go back to the truck and see Dan is still left behind but he gets to the road as I drive by. I only had to go a few hundred yards and I’m close enough to the dogs I can hear them barking.

I grab my backpack and leads and start their way, Dan now hears them and is making tracks. I get closer and I can hear two voices, and the pig grunting, I know it’s not a baby but not a monster. I get to them and it’s a young boar about 100 give or take. Chopper and April are baying and Pistol Pete and Disco Dan are hanging from his ears.

It was a good moment for all of us since it was the pups first successful hunt, I can’t wait for winter time to get here. Stay cool everyone.

[WayOutWest]

Way to get it done. A good experience for the young ones

[Judge peel]

Good deal bubba looks like your team is heading in the right direction

[t-dog]

Man those pups are really making nice looking dogs. I like the fact that they are independent and fan out to hunt. That’s usually how our dogs hunt. I think you find hogs faster that way and I also think you miss fewer. One thing I’ve learned to watch with the independent, competitive young dogs is where they are. I’m a firm believer in not just hunting but hunting in the right places. Some young dogs will cause themselves to be out of place and miss out on hogs because of it. It can become a habit and an otherwise nice pup will set itself back because it missed out. Usually those pups are lead dog types and the competition they conjure up in their own mind between them and usually an older more experienced dog is what causes it. I have seen those type pups get to a point that they almost give up and quit hunting because they don’t feel like they can beat the older dog. Two things I do if I notice this is one I don’t cast the older dog, sometimes I don’t even haul the older dog depending on the severity of the rivalry. Second I make sure the first few times I do that that I set the young dog up for success by casting it in the right places and allowing them to get bayed first. This is a confidence booster and pretty quick the pup will be hunting the right areas and forcing the older dog to step up its game.


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[Cajun]

Good hunt for the young dogs n like said they are maturing and making good looking dogs. I was sure glad to see someone post on here as it was getting pretty boring. I am laid up right now so I appreciate any thing to read.

[NLAhunter]

Sounds like good hunt good for the young dogs

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[Hollowpoint]

Thanks for the compliments guys. T dog, I hear what you’re saying, I watch where they are and they’re usually packed up for the most part. I have a feeling there was more than just one hog in there. It seemed like they were all following the best tracks that suited them. Unfortunately for my program, I don’t have what I’d call an older experienced dog with the exception of my jagd.

I will keep an eye on it in the future, I really enjoy watching them put the pieces together and get one stopped on their own. I was  proud of them. I estimate from the time he got the track started to where they caught him was about 500 yards give or take. My goal is to have some dogs that if I go to the woods, and there’s hogs in there, that they stand a decent chance of getting one stopped. This old man still has a lot to learn.  Cajun, hope you get to feeling better.

[Judge peel]

Hollowpoint I think your on the right track we all can still learn the day you stop your done

[t-dog]

Hollowpoint I think you’re doing real
well by the pups. I didn’t mean sound like I thought that was happening, just something I really started to pay attention to personally. I don’t think your pups are going to be shy about putting teeth on them. Hopefully they’ll get smart before the alternative. Does your little cat gyp come from a biting ( hogs lol) line of dogs?


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[Hollowpoint]

No worries fellas, the catahoula comes from a gentleman that’s older now and has his dogs in the bay pen circuit. He showed me a video of her with another dog in a pen when I got her from him. She didn’t get rough at all. But that hog was a large Marge too. Now those two brothers are not much for baying, Pete was there first and had it caught before his brother Dan got there. You don’t really see the bulldog in him,  it he’s got that attitude in him.

When I first started hog hunting in Hawaii in 1990, the guys I went with all ran silent rcd’s. That’s what everyone I knew had for that terrain so I’m sort of accustomed to that. I’d prefer they back up and bay, but if they’re going to get rough I’m either going to have to be there quick or hold them back. Once it cools down I’ll have them in those Aussie style running vests.

[Hollowpoint]

I had a thought while I was making my pb and j, I do believe that cat gyp will put teeth on one enough to stop it, but she will back up and bay. I don’t know if you folks know catahoula family lines or not, but her mother is LC out of Calamity Jane and Clyde. Her daddy is GT who is Clyde’s brother. I don’t know anything about the different  catahoula lines. If any of it rings a bell feel free to chime in.

[t-dog]

There was a time when I knew a little bit about the cat lines but I haven’t kept up with them in several years. It will be fun to research those dogs though. She’s a pretty gyp. It doesn’t make her a hog dog of course, but it sure doesn’t hurt lol.

Cajun, I hope you’re on the mend. Watch those kennels close. I might slip in down there with one of these border collies to infuse into those striped hounds. I’m a years time you could be running the purdiest brindle ring necks in the swamps.


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[cajunl]

Sounds like a good hunt and the young dogs are doing it. I havent had any registered cat dogs in a long time. But I used to know a bunch of the lines.