Hunting for your dogs or hunting for yourself?

[HOGDOGGERSPC]

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[Reuben]

It’s about Hog dogs first and catching pigs with hogdogs...if I didn’t have Hog dogs then I wouldn’t Hog hunt...

[Goose87]

I hunt for the love of dog work and hogs are my main game of choice because of the challenge and the danger factor on good hogs, I like doing things that make my ticker tick a little faster and scare me, and the fact they can be hunted just about year round, and my cur dogs hunt for themselves because they love working, they could
careless who hauled them to the woods they just want to go find hogs or cattle and bay it, my running walker crosses hunt for me and operate off a strong desire to catch game but mostly to please me and get praises, the happier they see the master the more determined they are to do a job as good as they can, this attitude was actually a trait strongly bred for by the man who created that line...


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[jdt]

i'd rather see a couple of young dogs work and work right than to win any tournament in the world . i've killed a ton of hogs , i like watching dogs work of any kind , rabbitt coon squirrell cow hog bird  or any kind . 

[t-dog]

I do it because I love to watch my dogs work first. That's what drew me into hog dogs originally. As time progressed it has also become about the time and memories made with family and friends, and my dogs fall into both of those categories as well. I enjoy every hunt but I think I get the most satisfaction when I watch them really have to hustle and dig out the hogs as opposed to them being bayed before i can get the catch dog vested. I enjoy catching hogs with a good handling  catch dog. I'm not a "competition" hunter although I have done it. I would rather measure my dogs against other people's dogs. Not to prove who's better but to see if they are what I think they are, be it my curr dogs or my bulldogs. Yes it's more fun when your catching hogs but I get pleasure from the hunt even on a dry run, those happen once in a while. I'm fortunate that I'm able to have confidence in my dogs that if they hunt a place and don't  find anything that its because there's noghing there to find, not that they just couldn't locate it. It's the same with my catch dogs, if I send them into a bay, I don't worry or wonder if they are going to get the job done. Those things are very satisfying to me and are the reasons I do this.

[justincorbell]

for my dogs 100%. I have changed over the years, it used to be 100% about catching hogs and I was always ticked off when I didn't. Over time my outlook changed and so did everything else. Now days there is not a single thing I enjoy more than breeding, raising and working puppies, I am more proud of a 7-10mth old for finding a baying a 50lb hog than I ever was when one of my grown dogs would bay a big hog. Over the years as my outlook changed and I started having alot more fun....oddly enough I started catching more hogs.

[DavidTBH]

Its funny i saw this thread today. I went on a dry run yesterday. Not lack of hunt there just wasent anything around. And it got hot pretty quick. But at one point we hit a pond to cool down and the dogs were at wet and wild just having a blast in this pond. My pup ellie may was runing in circles around the whole thing. It was worth getting out of bed just to see some dog work then see em play hard!

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[DavidTBH]

Having fun

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[hoghunter59]

I am the same way, I love to be in the woods number one and see a dog that I’ve raised turn into a hog dog! Love to watch them work, catching a pig is an added bonus!

[jdt]

if i had a good easter egg dog there would be alotsa kids with empty baskets 

[Slim9797]

for my dogs 100%. I have changed over the years, it used to be 100% about catching hogs and I was always ticked off when I didn't. Over time my outlook changed and so did everything else. Now days there is not a single thing I enjoy more than breeding, raising and working puppies, I am more proud of a 7-10mth old for finding a baying a 50lb hog than I ever was when one of my grown dogs would bay a big hog. Over the years as my outlook changed and I started having alot more fun....oddly enough I started catching more hogs.

I would have to say the opposite. I do 100% hunt for the dogs. I have been taken in by a few seasoned guys because that’s the truth as they see it. But as time has elapsed that I’ve been hunting, I can definitely say I used to have a lot more fun MORE OFTEN when I first started catching hogs. I believe it was because I had 0 expectations. I had never seen another mans hog dog go hunting until probably a year after I got my first set of puppies with 2 friends. I didn’t know what a good dog was. I didn’t know what a good dog did and didn’t do. So as far as I was concerned back then catching a hog was catching a hog and we caught quite a few. I got in with a man who had some nice dogs, and he gave me advice and a decent dog or 2 and showed me that there were definitely better dogs to be had out there. I started culling and doing things a little different. Then 1.5 yr ago I got a hold of a gyp that changed everything for me. She has since passed but she if nothing else left me with one expectation I didn’t have before owning her, And that was heart. That gyp would give it to me 100% every time I put her down. She had bad days like all dogs but rarely ever did I question whether I got the bed she had on that particular day. These days that at the minimum is the standard around here, A dog that will run themselves into the dirt before they quit. When I don’t get that out of dogs these days i leave frustrated. I’m able to recognize that trait along with others nowI feel, where as 4 years ago when I started, I was not. So me having fun has nothing to do these days with catching hogs, but whether or not I leave the woods believing my dogs gave me their all. The fun part for me is when I believe all the hard work and long days and nights are paying off. And I’m a right here right now kind of guy when it comes to that. Monday I can confidently tell you I have dogs I like. Friday I could be on the fence about culling everything. All depends on that dog that day.


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