rough dogs making hogs break. need help

[boarboy]

He is my best dog at the time being but I have two gyps that are as rough as him maybe ill just hunt the three together which I haven't been doing I have a small pen might throw a hog in there and let him bay on the outside

[buddylee]

yea i got all that stuff after the first time he got cut the first time but he wont hunt with a vest on i do run a cut collar on him

Put the vest on in the yard and let him wear it for several days. Mine get used to a vest in a day or 2.

[tuskbuster]

know a old retired 30 lb c ur dog that will find bay and  and catchif you are down with him ,no matter the size, but you have to be there,eqauls smart dog

[M Bennet]

if hes catching and letting go , the hogs break. i my self have a pack of 3 bmc that catch right off the hood or when the hog stopps hes caught. get some wieght on his head and butt and it should slow him down or stop him .
i bet if you put one more rough dog with him that will hold a hog he will do the same or he should . but one rough dog that bites and let go will most likely break bays and make your hogs become runners .

[pltx ken]

im confused maybe its the bud light talkin but from what i just read you have a hog as a main dog thats 450 pushers and has knives like a jap chef.... if you have a rough DOG then its best to vest him up and let him learn

Why you always got to be a smart ass? Answer his question or stay off the feed.

[SCHitemHard]

maybe you didnt see where i answered it

 

[PLP]

Typically any dog u hunt  with ur rough dog will become rough. I had a good dog go almost straight catch after hunting with my friend that has rough dogs. If hunting rough or RCD is not your style then consider trading him or selling him on the other hand if that's how u like to hunt then build your pack around him like the others have said. In my opinion and to answer your question I'd have to say that yes a loneranger catchy dog will make hogs run, and if they run once and get away then they r twice as hard to catch the next time.  You either hunt rough or u don't like it that way. The guys that I know that have rough dogs catch a lot of hogs, but they also keep a lot of dogs because something is either cut,pregnant or dead all the time.LOL. It's not my style keeping rough dogs but if people know u hunt that way they will a lot of times give u good dogs  or at least sell cheap enough just on account of them being " too rough".

[boarboy]

thanks for all the imput guys i think yall have givin me all the info i need. im gonna build my back around him and just take a bull dog for back up

[riverbottomhoghunter]

if hes as rough as you say and you are around big pigs like you say i would run a vest on him.

             yea x 2

[T-Bob Parker]

Golly! That's awesome, I don't think I've
Seen a 450 pound hog since back in FFA! did y'all catch him and get him on the scales? I've cuaght alot of hogs and less than a handful ever went over the 325-350 mark, if I had a 450 pounder around my
Neck of the woods I'd throw every dog I know at it.


As far as him being rough, poop or get off the pot as my pawpaw would say, meaning if you
Don't like that style don't hunt it. I had three curs earlier this year that were reasonably legit dogs and I could catch plenty of hogs withem BUT I flat won't keep a dog that makes a habit of getting itself cut. The fellas that got them dogs
Are plenty happy with em and I'm happy for them, but
I wasn't feedin no dog that I don't like.  Different strokes for different folks, don't take my opinions to heart, they're just my opinions.

[T-Bob Parker]

A quick search of this forum revealed that the 2012 TDHA hunt tourney heavy hog winner was 320 pounds. I personally saw that hog and he was a freaking monster as well as the one in Chance Wards trailer and one other whose trailer I didnt recognize. Three truly massive hogs and the largest was 320.

The rest of my search results revealed several other statewide hunting contests were won in the heavy boar division by hogs in the low 300's.

I honestly hope I didn't create any hard feelings and I need to watch my smart mouth sometimes, but in all seriousness, hogs over 300 pounds are true trophies, 375-400 pounders are incredible freaks of nature and all these 500 pound boars that I hear about from teenagers and the like are honestly rare as hens teeth. I posted a thread called I need proof a good long while back and while it got lots of responses by members of the most visited and highest rate of membership hog hunting forum on the web where supposedly
Everyone on here is a hog hunter and catches tons of hogs every year, I didn't see many 500 pounders pictures on there. If yours was 420 pounds, then I honestly believe you and congratulate you on a world class hog.

Please, like I said, I don't mean any personal harm to you, nor am I saying your a fibber, I just don't want more kids thinking there's 500 pound hogs around every bush.

[justincorbell]

Dang this thread came back from the dead......someone is gettin bored lol


"the sun is shining somewhere in texas" -Jason Boland

[txsteve85]

Go get you some Bennett curs to help him out!

[BA-IV]

Every farmer from the East coast on down to the west coast has a 500 lb monster on their property.  The truth is it turns out to be a 150 lb hog. 

A hogs weight is hard to judge and unless you've put a bunch of big hogs on the scale then probably most are over guessing the weight.  Another thing I've seen, hogs look way bigger at a bay, they tend to shrink when they're tied, and when a hour or two has passed and you untie him and cut him loose, he's not even the same hog that you tied 

[Hamilton_hogger]

Your just in tha wrong part of tha woods t-bob because there ARE 400-500 lb hogs where im at and have caught a few.  And will prove it soon as i can figure out how to post pics.  Apparently your are csllin them a liar if you want to go ad far as showin biggest weight on some of these "hog huntin contests" 
and i aint bashin tha contests either they dont havr em arounf here.  If they did you boys would sre sone big hogs.

[T-Bob Parker]

Your just in tha wrong part of tha woods t-bob because there ARE 400-500 lb hogs where im at and have caught a few.  And will prove it soon as i can figure out how to post pics.  Apparently your are csllin them a liar if you want to go ad far as showin biggest weight on some of these "hog huntin contests" 
and i aint bashin tha contests either they dont havr em arounf here.  If they did you boys would sre sone big hogs.

First off, where do you read that I called ANYONE a liar?

Second, I'm not sure wether your mad at me or if I should be mad at you or what because I read your post several times and still can't make hide nor hair of most of it. Please explain.

[ironheadknls21]

KICK, KICK, KICK A DEAD HORSE.............

[BA-IV]

I wouldn't worry about it all! 

Pictures speak for themselves so let's see them, 400lb hog is impressive to say the least my man. I'd love to lay hands on a few myself, but they just don't make em very often and I'm not that lucky 

I'd love to see the pictures though, if you can't post em, I'll post em for you.

[Crossstock]

All I run is rough dogs... He'll I think this yellow dog I have came out of m Bennett's yard... He's rough as hell paid the price this morning got cut pretty good... He catches everything and size doesn't bother him.. My lead dog is hit or miss one day he bays a shoat and the next day he is hanging on a big hogs ear... And this morning he decides to bay and left river to fight the hog alone..... But I'm looking to buy one more rough baydog.... I also have a 1/2 unicorn 1/2 pit that's almost ready to help them... So don't make the mistake I did and not run enough rough dogs all you will do is get a dog killed... Good luck

[Hamilton_hogger]

Sorry man no hard feelings guess i just took it wrong my apologies i did email ba1v some pics though maybe he will post it