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« on: February 04, 2018, 08:33:31 pm » |
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Hunted yesterday on the Pearl River WMA and caught a good eating sow and had to beat other groups and their packs of land sharks to the rest of our bays so we decided to hunt by the house this morning, it came a hat floating kinda rain storm this morning just before day break on top of raining all night, it was around 8:30 before we kicked any dogs out, went to a road leading to some chicken houses that had a heavily used hog trail crossing it and sent a few dogs down it, after a little trailing they jumped a wad of hogs up out of their bed, two gyps bayed a good boar next to a pond and we sent the catch dogs and sealed the deal, 2 others were rolling on with another one, after several hours of running and several miles later after a missed opportunity with a green bulldog they get set down and were spitting that sweet southern swine stopping music out, it took us over an hour to find the land owner whose land they were on and get permission to go in, we slip in a there and send the anchor, he makes a solid catch but the boar had it on his mind he wanted to leave, he drug the bulldog about 50 yds before the bay dogs could help him get it stopped, I was going to video the catch but had my little boy with me and when the hog busted out I went back to get him out of the tree I put him up in.... One hog was about 225, and the other was 280 or so might've been pushing 300...        I'm really excited about the future for these young dogs, the most experienced one on the ground today was an older gyp with around 4 years of hunting and the rest have been being hauled the last year, what made it an even better day aside from catching two good mature boars was the fact that with the exception of 3 every dog on the ground today was raised by me and my little boy, that I've placed in the hands of some close friends that I hunt with regularly, and 2 of the 3 that I didn't raise were the result of my sons grandfather putting the crosses together that are directly behind those two gyps, it's been a truly gratifying day seeing a lot of thought and time that goes into a plan coming to fruition.... My buddy with his bulldog, he's green as grass and this was only the fourth hog he's ever seen or caught....  |
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« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2018, 09:22:59 pm » |
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Good hunt. What are those young dogs out of. They all look pretty uniform.
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Goose87
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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2018, 09:32:37 pm » |
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An old cur gyp I've raised and hunted and a running Walker male a friend of mine owns, the 3 red ones are all belly mates, can't really see her but there's a little black gyp in the photo that my bearded buddy is holding, shes pretty nice herself and I've got some pups off her mother and the same sire to the 3 red dogs, other gyp the young man with the white ball cap backwards is a 2nd cousin to the little black gyp....
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« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2018, 09:43:58 pm » |
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That’s a true hounds mans dream and you are well on your way and there’s no feeling like watching a pack of hounds that every one was born on your place produce hogs time and time again. Congrats to you and keep up the good work!!! I miss being able to tie hogs and bring them home. Thanks to AGFC we can’t move one alive!!
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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2018, 07:11:35 am » |
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Sounds like some good hunts.. and good hogs!
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Big Game Joe
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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2018, 07:44:35 am » |
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That's two nice boars Goose. Congrats on doing it with dogs that you bred.
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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2018, 07:53:34 am » |
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Good looking red dogs!
That yeller bulldog looks nice too!
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« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2018, 12:38:37 pm » |
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Heck yeah... sure puts a smile on your face when the dogs you've bred and raised turn out. Good boar hogs!
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« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2018, 02:20:45 pm » |
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Good hogs bud
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Goose87
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« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2018, 04:49:35 pm » |
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Good looking red dogs!
That yeller bulldog looks nice too!
That son of a gun is a stud, we've caught quite a few with him right by himself, and have been catching some good hogs, knock on wood he has a smooth style of catching and hasn't been cut to bad and has caught some toothy hogs this last year, sure wish we could find out where he came from, he belongs to my buddy and he got him from his nephew who has been in and out of jail and trouble and we don't know where he got him from, I got a gyp I'm waiting on to come in to breed him to, I was going to make the cross this summer but already had my hands full with two litters.... |
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Goose87
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« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2018, 04:52:53 pm » |
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Thanks y'all, it really gives a fella a whole new pleasure to hunting, not only just the dogs but the two young men who hunt with me frequently, they've been following me to bays since they were waist high and now I'm the one following them and now my 4 year old is with us most of the time, it truly does make my soul smile whenever I sit back and take it all in when we're all in the woods together....
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« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2018, 05:20:45 pm » |
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Goose, that is definitely the kind of bulldog that needs to be bred. Easy going with a good catching style goes a long way to enjoying the hunt. It is too bad you don't know the background but in the end it doesn't matter.
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Goose87
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« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2018, 06:07:08 pm » |
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Goose, that is definitely the kind of bulldog that needs to be bred. Easy going with a good catching style goes a long way to enjoying the hunt. It is too bad you don't know the background but in the end it doesn't matter.
He is a pleasure to hunt with, the only thing I can knock him on is the things his owner lets him get away with which isn't his fault and he's not my dog and I don't buy his feed so I keep some thoughts to myself, he's always whimpering in the box and will bark going down the road, it's nothing to bad but a pet peeve of mine that I won't tolerate or put up with in my box, I got a pretty good idea of where he came from and am in the process of getting in touch with the guy who might have bred him, my buddy got him when he was 6-7 months old and he had already been back yard scratched and was a little hot, he nipped that at the bud real quick and now he doesn't offer or try to get hot though we don't let the opportunity get presented either, good lord willing and the creek don't rise he'll have some offspring on the ground before long.... |
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« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2018, 07:48:42 pm » |
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Good looking pups & hogs Goose.
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