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« on: October 24, 2015, 01:46:07 pm » |
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I have been hunting the same 11 places for 4 years now and it was nothen for me to go catch a boar hog where ever I went but for the past 6 months I have been wearing thes sows and pigs out like there is no boars this is my  U think dogs get hung on one or the other cuz my little cousin can bring his dogs and we will catch a boar or two and mine seem to go for the sows witch either way i don't give a number 2 sow or boar but was just woundering why this is Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Reuben
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« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2015, 02:09:45 pm » |
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back in the early 1980's when my brother and I first started hog hunting we caught mostly sows and shoats...when we first started out we trained the pups on shoats and sows because they were easier to handle...in the meantime a hog hunter my brother worked with caught big boars on a regular basis...we put a big boar in the bay pen and next thing I know we were only catching big boar hogs...maybe it was coincidental but I think not...
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« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2015, 02:58:23 pm » |
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I would say more then likely that just what the dogs are picking up first
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« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2015, 03:39:04 pm » |
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I see your point Reuben do you start on shoats and then when they mature throw them in with a boar? Can't hardly see throwing a pup in a pen with a big boar
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Pwilson_10
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« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2015, 03:42:38 pm » |
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U can put them on the out side cracker and that hog will fight the fence and they won't never get touched
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Reuben
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« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2015, 04:08:10 pm » |
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LH...
years ago I made the mistake of training the best dog I have ever owned by teaching him to bay and catch shoats...the first big boar he met in the woods almost killed him...he stopped and fought him three times before he was cut down for a while...
My idea at the time was to give total confidence in the pups...that was a big mistake on my part...
IMO training pups on shoats is the way to go...if they start catching out then put a bigger shoat that can teach them some respect but we want to keep the pups in the game...once they are big enough a bigger boar is ok...but we would cut out the bottom tusks on the boars on account we were training and did not need an accident to happen to one of our young dogs...a couple of good whacks from a boar will teach a young bay dog to defend against that...
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« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2015, 05:22:26 pm » |
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Reuben I think ur right cuz about two years ago I had a big hog in the pen when all my dogs were younger and I cut and turned him loose and then when I went huntin that was all I was catching and I was always not able to hunt cuz every time I went that's all I would catch and they would put me out for awhile ant then I got two shoats to train some little pups with and let them grow up there both boars but there only maybe 75 pounds and now that's all I catch but I'm damn good at it hahaha
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« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2015, 09:09:54 am » |
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I've never heard of a dog preferring or only catching just boars or just sows. i run rig dogs and a lot of times we will wind boars or barrs before we would a sow.... of course because they are stronger smelling.... but we still catch a lot of sows as well. Maybe your boar to sow ratio is down? that's why your catching more sows or boars? interesting topic. Never really heard of this |
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Pwilson_10
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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2015, 09:16:13 am » |
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Makeemsqueal to be honest I think they really do chose one or the other cuz like I said my cousin can bring his dogs and we catch boars in the same spots I catch sows but it seems like mine only go for sows witch is good for the land owner cuz I have knocked the heard numbers down but damn I want to catch some teeth every once in awhile
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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2015, 09:20:07 am » |
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I have seen deer dogs that seemed to prefer one sex over the other. I have taken my dogs to places and depending on the area we started in would influence what we caught. Certain areas seemed to be higher numbers of sows and shoats while other areas boars were more common. These occasions were more common during the pigging periods.
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« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2015, 09:20:56 am » |
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I like catching sows ain't nothing wrong with teeth you just get to high five a little harder. Sows are harder to find any way less smell takes a better nose lol
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Reuben
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« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2015, 09:42:57 am » |
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Years ago I saw an ad in the Houston Chronicle in the hunting section. ..the man was from the San Antonio area...he advertised meat hunts and trophy boar hunts...so I had to call him and asked him how he did...he said he trained a pack on sows and shoats for his meat hunts...he trained a redbone to only run big boar by shocking him off of sows and shoats and only allowed him to bay a boar in the bay pen...
He sounded ligit to me...he wanted me to go hunt with him...but he was 5 hours from me so never made It...
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Pwilson_10
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« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2015, 10:04:35 am » |
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Reuben I think ur right it's just crazy when u know for a fact that boars smell a lot more then a sow u would think that's what they would pic up on first but maybe sence I'm so crazy about dogs trashing maybe sence I got two shoats in my bay pen that's what they think there suppose to go for I may do some experimenting and get me a boar and put him in there and let my older dogs bay it for a few min and then take them hunting were I been seeing boars on game cameras and see what happens
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Reuben
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« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2015, 10:11:38 am » |
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Do that About 3 times and you probably will see a difference real quick...post the results on here...
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Training dogs is not about quantity, it's more about timing, the right situations, and proper guidance...After that it's up to the dog...
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Pwilson_10
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« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2015, 02:53:45 pm » |
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Will do Reuben
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« Reply #15 on: October 26, 2015, 09:57:47 pm » |
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Crazy how certain dogs prefer different tastes.
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« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2015, 04:26:07 pm » |
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i guess i would call my dogs bisexual  i was told by an old dogman that used to drive and pen hogs that he had a surenuff hog dog that when he bayed a big boar and either too far from the house to carry out, too big to cut by himself , or looking for a certain bunch of hogs he would call him off that boar . he did this enough that he got to where he wouldn' hardly bay a boar . i guess that dog was like me , as he got older and smarter he didn't like to work for nothing  |
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