good sow in the ice

[make-em-squeel]

Dropped my 2 18 mo old dogs  Saturday in the ice. They made several 5- 900 yd loops that made me happy, about400 yds away we heard them killing shoats, by the time we got there they had a nice 100-150 lb sow bayed, dogos caught. They hung around for a few minutes and rolled 922 yds away from the truck (did not want to make that hike) after about 30 min of letting hunt  I called them in loaded up turned collars off etc and was about to go home. 

Buddys dogs had a 60 lb shoat caught bloddy ice etc on the edge of a half frozen pond close to the truck, got to them and when it saw us it took off swimming, dogs were like thats to cold so ran on frozen side to cut it off but instead of getting out it swam under the ice and drown, it was 17* out and I dont usually feel sorry for a hog that was a horrible cold way to die lol. Then got back to the heater and a beer. Fun hunt I was glad to see my 2 range out by themselves as much as they did.

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[t-dog]

Sounds like they did real good. I think that’s the first I’ve heard of a hog going under the ice to escape. I can tell you from experiences that when you get in water that cold, it’s sucks the air and the energy out of you.


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[Hollowpoint]

Sounds like the dogs are doing good, they’re ranging out pretty far for young dogs. I hate being around any form of ice when hunting my dogs, it’s dangerous for everyone involved.

[The Old Man]

  It sounds like your 18 mo old dogs are pretty much made, I'm always concerned with the ice. I guess not too much though because we hunt when it is frozen and or starting to thaw. Guess I'm not intelligent enough to be intimidated.