3/10/19

[Slim9797]

Got together for our normal Sunday hunt. Old man Jamie, Tw, my uncle Cullen, and myself. Hunted on our side of the road for once. Got a pretty late start around 10:30. Was already getting warm but that’s never made a difference to us anyway. Kicked out my sketch and rocky and Jamie’s punch and boo dogs. and hunted along the creek where we had seen a big sow with pigs few days earlier. Nothing. Then went and hunted Wendy’s bottom, dogs are giving it hell and we just ain’t got around hogs yet. We hunted 2 more spots where there any other day would be a hog or 2 laying and dogs were hunting like good ones should and still nothing.

        Finally we head way to the back and turned them into the 10 acres of death. It’s a big netwire swamp we keep hogs in but for last 3 years the fence has been down. They get over there and sketch pulls out west. Goes about a half mile west in to a big rank draw in the neighbors. We go around to her. She’s 200 across the fence and we just wait. Not to long and she barks once. Then for 10 minutes she walks in a big 30 yard circle. Up out of the draw back down in it. Finally she lets out a second time and the others go. They get in there and finally stand that ole boar hog up and go to cussin at him. Me and Tw go and kill him. Pretty good boar.
     
        We swing around back behind the big lake and cast em back out. Boo and rocky winded a group and bayed them. Big sow broke out of there and they all lined her out and took her a few hundred yards and bayed. Tw and my uncle killed her. By this time we’re hot, the dogs are really hot and have done put down 25 miles each. Everybody is ready to call it except rocky. He relays back north, hits the group of hogs again. Takes them about a half mile back into that old hog pen and corners a shoat way up in the top and bays him till we get over to him. Real proud of him for that. Coming 2 year old and he’s figuring it out on hogs and cows....

    I also got to take one on sketch’s pups along for the ride on this hunt. I threw my little male I call Radar in the box and just let him ride along. I try to rotate them around and If im going to fix some fence in the evening or something I’ll grab one and just pack them around. Let em run around the pasture and see and smell and hear all the things they don’t get to in the kennel. I think it helps big time with handle and just making a good dog in general. You do it with them now and when you start to hunting they won’t be so over whelmed with all the new sights and sounds and smells. After the hunt I showed the pups their first hog and they did just as I figured they would at 4.5 months old. All the more excited for them to get a little more age on them so we can start using them.
   
Boar


Radar and Sketch

Baying group
https://vimeo.com/323261763
Sow
Rocky and shoat
https://vimeo.com/322857236
Pups seeing pig
https://vimeo.com/322860641


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[t-dog]

Sounds like it's going your way

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[NLAhunter]

Good hunt them dogs working good for you

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[Mike]

Good hunt Slim. I like to let my pups run free as much as I can... when they start disappearing for an hour or so... it’s time to put them up haha.

[Slim9797]

Good hunt Slim. I like to let my pups run free as much as I can... when they start disappearing for an hour or so... it’s time to put them up haha.

Mike when this litter hit about 7 weeks old and we still had all 11. Me and my uncle both were really wishing we could have kept the whole litter and let them grow up wild on the ranch till about 8 months old, realistically it was out of the question, we got to much equipment and chemicals and everything else around all the time. We do let the 4 we did keep out and run around a couple days a week, if we’re working around the shop we will turn them all the way out and they can roam as far as they want to, and if we’re bowed up we Atleast turn them out into the yard which is plenty big enough for them to run around and play. Soon enough I’m sure they will be baying the roping steers behind their pens and we will have to start keeping a little better eye on them. I’ve raised a good handful of pups up, and it’s always fun, but now that these are something of my own, that I bred and raised. It’s a whole different mindset. I’m excited


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