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« on: February 08, 2026, 05:11:29 pm » |
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T and I made a round Thursday and hunted a whole place without seeing a thing so we moved and the dogs jumped a wad that headed for property where we can't go. T's young gyp turned a boar about 140 and they got him stopped and we sent his CD from a ways and caught him. The dogs were crunching bacon bits right and left . Friday we made a road trip way south and spent the day chasing shadows. The hogs would break the second they heard the buggy. 5 or 6 hundred yards and they were gone. It was a skunk. Today we went to a high fence that T has been trying to clear the last hogs out of. Man, I have heard tales about how hard it is to catch these hogs and now I believe it. They were extremely hard to find and they had their running shoes on. We had 8 dogs on the ground and managed to catch a piggy sow on 3 legs and a 40# shoat. The dogs caught up a bunch of little pigs. It was pretty frustrating. Time is getting short but it has been fun.
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The Old Man
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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2026, 06:02:51 pm » |
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Well it could have been better, but no one was cut up or killed, you did get out, and they were able to smell a hog. I always say if your gonna like it you gotta like it all, haha but I suppose it's okay to like some of it better than other.
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Cajun
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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2026, 07:46:33 pm » |
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Well WOW, You know it is not about the numbers but enjoying Tdogs company. Just out of curiosity how did y'all two ever hook up with you living so far north?
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Bayou Cajun Plotts
Happiness is a empty dogbox
Relentless pursuit
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t-dog
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« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2026, 08:17:04 pm » |
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Those weren’t great hunts but there were some definite high spots for me. My young gyps had several opportunities to trash the first place we went to but they didn’t. I left there feeling very confident that there were no hogs. They really hunted hard and painted the place. The next lace we went to, they hit the ground business minded and were baying in very short order. Because all the hogs we saw were in hurry to get to an off limits place, we called it pretty quick and we picked them up still wanting to go to the next hog.
I didn’t take any dogs down south, but the dogs there were out of our family of dogs. They bayed hard to bay hogs multiple times but we kept breaking the bays. Sooner or later the dogs are going to play out and several of them are still puppy soft. We only had one dog over 2 on the ground. The try and hustle was there so I was again satisfied with the dog work.
As for the high fence today, man these rascals are good. We catch hogs in there every trip, but the dogs always have to dig them out. It’s like they are ghosts. Usually the hogs we catch are solo boars or sows that ventured out solo to pig. There are no huge thickets but big enough that the hogs will bow out of the back door and when I say they are on a run, they can’t stretch out any harder. It’s speed against speed in there. While it’s sure enough hard, I’m glad I get to hunt my dogs in there because I believe it makes them better. Plus I MIGHT have figured out the hogs and their thought process after today. Next time we hunt it we will see.
This is hog hunting and not hog catching. I like hunting. Just catching the easy ones can be done by about anyone.
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WayOutWest
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« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2026, 10:40:21 pm » |
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Cajun, I judged pit bull shows for the ADBA for better than 20 years and I was judging in Liberty Texas and got to talking to him and left with his phone number. I came down that next winter and that was 19 years ago. He has become one of my closest friends. "But don't tell him I said that, he gets a big head pretty easy".
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