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« on: July 16, 2013, 05:18:11 pm » |
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"Pedigree indicates what the animal should be. Conformation indicates what the animal appears to be. But PERFORMANCE indicates what the animal actually is."
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« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2013, 05:33:05 pm » |
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So the Russian hog epidemic has been around for awhile it looks like.
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« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2013, 05:39:10 pm » |
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all them pics must have been photo shopped everybody knows them open dogs can't catch hogs lol thems good pics . yes we have had Russian hogs here for a long time . we just didn't have a bunch of lease holders and hunters turn them loose till as of recent . the bells branch ranch south of Waxahachie imported a bunch in to texas in the early 60's . them old men sure lived in a good time even with the depression and the dust bowl going on .
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« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2013, 06:24:12 pm » |
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So the Russian hog epidemic has been around for awhile it looks like.
History of the Russian Hog in the southern Appalachian mountains. In 1908 the Whiting Manufacturing Company bought a large tract of land in the Snowbird Mountains in Graham County, North Carolina. Within this tract was a mountain known as Hooper's Bald. Mr. George Gordon Moore, an American advisor for the company, was allowed to establish a game reserve on company land on Hooper's Bald around 1909. In 1911, a 500 to 600-acre hog lot was constructed, with a split rail fence nine rails high. In April 1912, a shipment of 14 European wild hogs, including 11 sows and 3 boars, arrived and was released in the lot. They each weighed approximately 60 to 75 pounds. They were purchased from an agent in Berlin, Germany, who claimed that they came from the Ural Mountains of Russia. The hogs arrived in Murphy by train and were hauled to Hooper's Bald by oxdrawn wagon. One sow died en route to Hooper's Bald. From the beginning the lot was not hog proof, and apparently some of the hogs rooted out and escaped and returned at will. The majority remained in the lot for eight to 10 years and increased in numbers. In the early 1920s, when the lot contained approximately 60 to 100 hogs, a hunt with dogs was conducted. Only two hogs were killed, but many escaped the lot during the hunt. The escapees became established in the surrounding mountain terrain of Graham County, North Carolina and Monroe County, Tennessee. Today Hooper's Bald is owned by the U.S. Forest Service and is a part of the Nantahala National Forest. |
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"Pedigree indicates what the animal should be. Conformation indicates what the animal appears to be. But PERFORMANCE indicates what the animal actually is."
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jimco
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« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2013, 06:39:05 pm » |
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all them pics must have been photo shopped everybody knows them open dogs can't catch hogs lol thems good pics . yes we have had Russian hogs here for a long time . we just didn't have a bunch of lease holders and hunters turn them loose till as of recent . the bells branch ranch south of Waxahachie imported a bunch in to texas in the early 60's . them old men sure lived in a good time even with the depression and the dust bowl going on .
Are they just some mixed up hounds halfbreed ? I find it interesting to not see any Plotts in the pics. The Plotts were being raised not far from there. |
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« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2013, 07:46:19 pm » |
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actually most of the dogs in the pics look like the earlier plott dogs before the hound infusion took place . the yellow or light colored dogs are most likely the buckskin plotts . and then there are the walkers and an English looking hound . but the picture of the men leading the dogs at night the two dark dogs with the white chest to me look all plott
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« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2013, 08:07:27 pm » |
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Yeah Robert....remind you of 'ol Bell?
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« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2013, 08:23:28 pm » |
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lol yeah they do . I still miss that old girl . heck she'd be 11 or 12 this year if she had made it past 7 .
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jimco
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« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2013, 08:27:16 pm » |
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Last fall when we were there they was a bear season in progress. There was Plotts all over them mountains.
I seen a lot of really good lookin hounds when we were hiking every day.
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« Reply #9 on: July 16, 2013, 08:27:57 pm » |
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Them some good pics jimco, thanks for posting the pucs n the info on how n where some of the european hogs were introed to the states. Its good to see them old pics.
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Look back at the pic of the hog charging the guy. I think I see Bigfoot in the corner.
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very cool pics , i like looking at them old pics
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I live 15 miles from Tellico Plains. A lot of those pictures are hanging in the Cherohala Market in Tellico Plains. I see more Russian in these mountain hogs than in any other hogs I have ever seen. Most here run hounds and shoot hogs. Rough country in these mountains, especially for this flat land swamper.  |
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Catchin hogs cracker style
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Thanks for sharing. I enjoy looking at the old hunting photos.
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all them pics must have been photo shopped everybody knows them open dogs can't catch hogs lol thems good pics . yes we have had Russian hogs here for a long time . we just didn't have a bunch of lease holders and hunters turn them loose till as of recent . the bells branch ranch south of Waxahachie imported a bunch in to texas in the early 60's . them old men sure lived in a good time even with the depression and the dust bowl going on .
Texas has had Russian hogs a lot longer then that. The Powderhorn Ranch started importing them in the early 1940's. They were brought in from the St. Louis zoo & a animal exporter that got hogs from Europe. That is where most of La. Russian hogs come from, they were imported here in the early 70's & they came from the Powderhorn ranch. actually most of the dogs in the pics look like the earlier plott dogs before the hound infusion took place . the yellow or light colored dogs are most likely the buckskin plotts . and then there are the walkers and an English looking hound . but the picture of the men leading the dogs at night the two dark dogs with the white chest to me look all plott
You are right Halfbreed. That is what a lot of the early Plott hounds looked like. Great pics. |
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Very nice pics, thank you for sharing them with us. Just think, 50, 60, 70 years from now someone may be posting pics of us saying "look what these crazy fellers did for sport".
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Those are awesome pictures. Thanks for sharing
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