They can run......

[Bryant]

Just out of curiosity, since your not tying the hogs alive why don't you gut them in the field to save yourself some work dragging them out?

[crackerc]

Bryant, I have done that in the past some, but they get so dirty inside and fill up with dirt, leaves, etc I don't do it anymore. Besides, I need the exercise.....   I usually can get my 4 wheeler close to the hogs, but didn't have it today as I only went for a couple hours. Like anything else, when you don't have it is when you will need it....
I actually prefer to catch and tie the hogs, its just tough to catch a boar hog with teeth alive, when its just you, one dog and two 9 months pups that don't know anything....

Monkey has figured out what he can catch and what he can't. I can tell you by the way he bays if its something he will catch or not. Since I don't have help 99% of the time, or a catchdog, the .22 does get put into use.......more than I would actually like.

Craig, if its 0 degrees, I am with you, stay home with the girls!! I like to have froze this morning and it was in the mid-20's here. Thats why I didn't go to the woods until lunch time...let it warm up to the 30's before I went!

[Cutter Bay Kennels]

Congrats Mark.  I am loving these temps.  Keep the dogs on the dirt.  They'll come around.

[lilmisshogdogger]

MAN MR. MARK YOU GOT IT GOIN ON OVER THERE, YA KNO IF I WASNT SO FAR AWAY, I GOT A GOOD CATCH DOG AND I DONT MIND WALKIN OR HELPIN DRAG A HOG, D@MN THE LUCK... IM PRETTY PROUD OF MONKEY AND HE ISNT EVEN MY DOG NOR A DOG I HUNT WITH BUT HE SURE SEEMS LIKE HE HAS A PRETTY GOOD NOSE AND SURE IS GETTIN THE JOB DONE! HOPEFULLY THEM PUPS WILL MATURE AND WORK OUT FOR YA, I KNO HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE PATIENCE THING, BUT THATS SOMETHING WE JUST GOT TO HAVE, EVERYTIME I GO TO GIVE UP ON A DOG HE DOES BETTER, SO I STAY ON THAT VERGE  ... ANYWAY GOOD HOG, GLAD U GOT EM.... SURE ARE ON A ROLL, KEEP IT UP!!!

[Mike]

Good story and good hog Mark!

[crackerc]

Samantha, if you were closer you and your catchdog would be welcome to go.

Monkey is actually a hot nosed dog, but he hustles all the time, rarely walks anywhere and just seems to be able to find hogs about everywhere I take him. He isn't afraid to hit the thick stuff looking for a hog either.

But he is short ranged so I walk hunt him. He wouldn't suit a lot of people but he suits the way I hunt anymore and I can take him and hunt small 500-1000 acre tracts, catch hogs on them, and stay on the place (most of the time). He also has a real good handle on him so I can control him well. This is a definate plus when you hunt alone 99% of the time.

The place I have been catching hogs the past couple months is a 24,000 acre deer hunt club that runs deer dogs 7 days a week, from Nov to the end of Jan, which is the only time I can run the hogs dogs there. These hogs know what a dog is and only the fast and/or bad survive the hordes of deer dogs in the woods. I feel if I can find and bay hogs there, the places with hogs that don't know what a dog is should be easy........   Okay, easier.........

Josh, I heard on the news about "possible" snow flurries this weekend?? Don't know if I will be hunting in that or not! I like the cool weather, but snow in Fla??

[lilmisshogdogger]

WELL AS LONG AS HE SUITS YOU MR. MARK THATS THE KEY.... DO YOU HAVE PLACES TO HUNT AFTER JANUARY?

[crackerc]

Actually I wil have more places to hunt after Jan 24 (when our deer season ends) than I have to hunt now. A lot of the private places are closed off to me during deer season. But after them running feeders for 3-4 months and no hog dogs, the hogs move in and are eating all their corn, so just as soon as deer season ends, I get the green light to take the dogs back in.

I need to get my young dogs going so this should give me the chance to do it. The place I am hunting now has lots of deer hounds and I always worry about my pups going to them and learning bad habits..........the private places don't run hounds and after deer season there won't be anyone else in there so its a great time to get the pups going.

[Cutter Bay Kennels]

Mark,

Give me a call if you get a chance.

Josh
352-235-1972

[lilmisshogdogger]

WELL GOOD DEAL, I WAS LIKE YAY DEER SEASON IS OVER, AND I GOT MY GARMIN, NOW ALL THE 4 WHEELERS ARE BROKE LOL O WHAT LUCK! HARD FOR A PO' HOG HUNTER TO GET IN THE GAME WITH OUT ALL THE ESSENTIALS AND I CNT GET NOBODY TO GO WALK HUNTIN REALLY SO ITS A LIL STRUGGLE RIGHT NOW FOR ME, I HAVENT GOT TO HUNT SINCE THE SAT AFTER XMAS AND IM HAVIN SERIOUS WITHDRAWLS! DIDNT HELP WHEN DAD WENT AND CAUGHT 4 MONDAY WHILE I WAS AT WORK ... O WELL AT LEAST HE GOT THEM DOGS N THE WOODS AND PUT THAT GARMIN TO USE. WE DO HAVE SOME BIG GRAIN FIELDS IM READY FOR, WISH GRAIN SEASON WOLD HURRYON UP!