whats the best time to go hunting

[Peteywlisomhogdawgs]

whats the best time to go hunting like from midnight til it starts getting hot or late in the evnings

[KevinN]

Summertime...definitely nite hunting. I use to start at 11-12 at night. But this year it's been 3-4 in the morning. Thats usually the lowest temp your going to get and it Still gives you plenty of time to hunt (5-6 hours) before it starts heating back up.

[T-Bob Parker]

Use a trail cam to figure out when the hogs are moving best on a spot then go an hour or two after that until they change their patterns

[BA-IV]

Anytime I get a chance to go is the best time whether 25 degrees or 105 degrees I'm gonna drop a dog.

[Peteywlisomhogdawgs]

we use game cameras alot but it seems to never fail they always change there pattern when you  decide to go catch them espically if its a boar hog or you catch a totally different hog than you have own camera that happend to use monday night i carried puppies to catch a bunch of shoats and we bayed a pretty good boar hog he whooped our butt pretty bad then own the way back we bayed the shoats and caught two so i guess my puppies got a good lession

[Judge peel]

Whenever ever my wife says get boy go on out of here

[BigNoseKate]

Lately for us if its a cooler than usual morning, that small window has been 3-5am. I see no sense in pushing dogs... To me that's a senseless way to lose good dogs and for what reason? Also, if the weather is cool enough to hunt w the moon, that's the way to go!!

[Easttex91]

If I'm not at work it's a good time

[t.wilbanks]

Lately for us if its a cooler than usual morning, that small window has been 3-5am. I see no sense in pushing dogs... To me that's a senseless way to lose good dogs and for what reason? Also, if the weather is cool enough to hunt w the moon, that's the way to go!!

Ol Yeller bayed hogs and cows during the day in the summer time with no problems... 

[t.wilbanks]

Threads like this is where I like to hear from the old timers and others that sure enough use their dogs as tools day in and day out...

I doubt the men who work their dogs on stock as part of their living just quit during the summer or worked stock at night...

[BigNoseKate]

Lately for us if its a cooler than usual morning, that small window has been 3-5am. I see no sense in pushing dogs... To me that's a senseless way to lose good dogs and for what reason? Also, if the weather is cool enough to hunt w the moon, that's the way to go!!

Ol Yeller bayed hogs and cows during the day in the summer time with no problems... 

Ha!! Yea, I don't believe everything I see in movies.

[Shotgun wg]

During summer on the main place I hunt I have had my best luck after midnight. With the majority of time the best hunting being after 3 am. By daylight if u haven't found em u more than likely aren't gonna. Unless u find them in a corn field. This isn't saying I may not run across a sounder at 12 noon 50 yards off the highway in the shop yard. It has happened. This year tho lots of folks I know have been doing well at daylight till about 9. Myself not so much.

[LoftinCattleCo]

It's been hit or miss in Setx for us... But I try to be in the woods by 5-6 am and hunt til 10 or so or 7pm til whenever.. Even on the trail cams I have set there's no consistency with the hogs now that its warmed up.... But on another note if I gotta weld pipe 60 &70 hrs a week during the hot summer.. Mister you better believe that I expect them dogs to earn their keep also wether snow is on the ground or you can fry eggs on a pine stump.

[hillbilly]

From midnight to 5 is when I been startng and hunt to 9 or 10

[justincorbell]

Threads like this is where I like to hear from the old timers and others that sure enough use their dogs as tools day in and day out...

I doubt the men who work their dogs on stock as part of their living just quit during the summer or worked stock at night...

I know what you mean, I see alot of people on here that frown strongly on working dogs during the summer and while I see what they are saying I can't say that I agree with it completely, regardless of who says what I strongly believe that it all boils down to conditioning ......... My personal dogs are not conditioned to the hunting in the heat due to my work schedule so naturally I do not hunt them during the day in the summer time....thats just common sense BUT there are guys on here who use their dogs 24/7/365 with out issue. The man that my dogs came from works cattle and hog hunts year round, 4+ days a week every week and so do his dogs, I have asked him in the past about the heat affecting his dogs and his response is that he is out there working and his horse is out there working and if they can than his dogs can and will to........it all boils down to common sense in my opinion.....I wouldnt bring one of my dogs out there to work with him and his dogs during the middle of the summer because they simply aren't conditioned to it but to say that he is wrong or ignorant for using his is simply asinine.

[Bonnie_Clyde]

I like your style BA -I V, its always time to work the dogs the true cowboys like Ben Jordan and the ranch hands down in South Texas will tell you the same dogs have to work when no matter what the temperature is or they don't need that dog!!!

[Bonnie_Clyde]

I run oil wells all day and run across more hogs crossing in front of me around 10:00am till noon.

[hoghunter71409]

I think the best time to go hunting is after a rain.  I'll hunt anytime of day and year, don't matter (wont hunt the swamps and bayous with gators in the summer).  Summer hunts must be places where there is at least a small amount of water.  I hunt an all plott pack, these dogs have no quit and don't come back until I go and get them.  This is a dangerous situation in the summer months.  My dogs wont just go a couple hundred yds and come back. 

[Bonnie_Clyde]

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[BigNoseKate]

I sure hear a lot of what some of you folks are saying.... And JUST passed some Amish headed from beeville back to their place via horse and buggy. No matter how you look at it some folks rely on their dogs, horses etc.. to make it through day to day.

As much as i wished i could run dogs to make a living i don't. (Darn-it) so i really couldnt even begin to fathom what all is involved w all of that but would love to learn.

Conditioning is a very good point, but also prob the style of hunting you do is a factor, for example, some of our friends run cut vests on all of their dogs bc they run a rough pack. Type of field or brush may also be something to consider, regarding how thick it is and how much of a breeze the dogs get or don't get. And water on the property DEFINATELY helps, minus them big lizards that come w most of the water around where we hunt.

I guess the things to consider are never ending!! But common sense for your dogs is what it all Boils down to! There's nothin I love more than a day hunt bc I absolutely LOVE to watch the dogs work but still durring this time of the year, it's too dern hot for our pack!!!! I would hate to lose a dog to over heating, so night time it is!!