Message #435423

[Cajun]

Nathen, we had a tracking collar on this one boar & this hog liked to travel. we had him on a 12000 acre hunting club & we have found him as far away as 12 miles & across a good size river. Every time we put dogs on him, he would head back to the hunting club but you talk about a educated hog. He would run thru cows, run straight down a dirt road or run thru a herd of sows & shoats. He defitently learned how to slow a dog down or get them off his trail. We caught him three times & never bayed him after that but he was a good pup trainer. We would run him sometimes 7 or 8 hours & pull the dogs off when he would try to cross a highway. a deer hunter finally shot him & called me to return my collar.lol One thing that did amaze me, he bedded up alot near houses on the edge of the hunting club. Once we jumped him in a empty lot next to a house, once in a overgrown ditch by a hard road. We thought he had been run over, Then we jumped him right next to a dairy barn where this farmer milked cows twice a day.
  We also had one on a barr & this hog never traveled hardly anywhere. He was always in about a 2 mile square block of woods.