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« on: February 09, 2020, 10:51:05 am »

Had a great hunt last night, one of the best hunts in a while. Last Sunday we hunted the river, after 8ish hours of hunting and the dogs swimming a good bit we finally got in real fresh sign and they wouldn’t do anything. I wasn’t sure if it was because of them being spunt, or if it was because I don’t have a true lead dog anymore and nothing is stepping up. A buddy of mine in the upstate said I could borrow one of his older females to help get Dum Dum’s sister and her daughter tuned back up, and get my pups going.

We hit a spot around 6:45 last night. Had Dum Dum’s sister Mine, her daughter Punk, my male pup Hopper, zachs dog named pup, zachs pup named Chalupa, and then my buddy’s older dog Baby Girl. Not 5 minutes in and the dogs show treed but we don’t hear anything, they’re only 100ish yards ahead of us. Get there and they’re stringing out an armadillo. They kill it and I put it up in a tree so they’ll leave it alone and we push on. That was the first armadillo I’ve ever seen in person, we don’t have many of them. I didn’t mind it, I knew it would be good to get the pups interested right off the bat.

Maybe 5 minutes after that the older female cuts a loop to our left, about 150yds and let’s out a few yips. The other dogs cut to her and they run a pretty good hog right past us, looked to be around 200lbs. There was a big water flat to our right. Probably close to 500yds of water, maybe more. There’s a deep creek that runs through there that’s probably 60ft wide and it sits in a low area, it’s all completely underwater right now. Definitely don’t wanna walk through there, might go from waist deep to a 20ft drop when you step off the bank. We wait a minute to see what the dogs do. They swim out 112yds and turn around and come back. We push on just a tad further and Baby Girl cuts back to the same spot she struck that pig and takes off. She makes a big wide loop, furthest point out being around 500yds. Well we are waiting to see what happens when Hopper and Chalupa open up 138yds away. They’re both around 12 months, Chalupa has never been on a pig and Hopper has been on one. They sit down bayed, steady chopping. Mine starts heading to them and they catch before she gets there. As soon as she hit it we started moving to them and when we are 60yds away I hear a pig caught to the right, out in water. It was a lot of confusion and we realized that it was the pig Baby Girl was running. She cut a big loop and had pushed it back to us. For some reason Mine left the first pig and came to this one and had it caught by herself in the water. Idk if the first pig shook them or what. Puppies were still around where the first one was caught. We start getting out to Mine and realize it gets deep and the pig is swimming away from us with her attached to him. Baby Girl gets there and they’re both getting pulled by him. Zach finally gets out to him and gets him killed, 250ish pound boar with some decent teeth. It was probably 100yds out in the water by the time Zach got him, over zachs head. He ended up losing his Garmin in the water We get out the water and decide to head back, we are freezing and soaking wet and so are the dogs. I was worried about them locking up, they were out in the water for probably 10 minutes swimming with that pig.

Leaving we walk the higher ground through some pines and Mine and Baby Girl take off to 178yds and we hear them catch. Pups get there and are caught hard, we get to it and kill it. Leash up the dogs so they can’t relay and walk back out. We were back in the truck at 8pm. Probably one of the best hunts we could’ve had for tuning the dogs back up and getting these puppies to know why they’re in the woods, I couldn’t have asked for a better hunt. That pup from Justin is really looking good, now I’ve got to get his sister on some. He’s the dog in the red cut collar with green tracking collar in the picture, that’s from the last pig. It was probably 80-100lbs.


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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2020, 04:26:33 pm »

Cant beat that!

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« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2020, 06:03:10 pm »

Saw a drop of blood in Mine’s kennel when a fed a few hours ago... she got a a nasty little poke under her chin, so I hit it with some vetericyn. She’ll be fine, all the other dogs were good. Overall it was a great hunt! I think relaying on a few pigs in that short of a time period really helped the two pups to turn on. Hopper was caught hard and Zach’s pup Chalupa (bred off my scooter dog) was baying tight and nipping on the pig. Running my buddy’s older dog helped us out a lot I think. She helped line a few of them out quick.


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« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2020, 06:35:06 pm »

Good hunt Austin...
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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2020, 06:58:29 pm »

Sounds like a good time... except for the freezing to death part haha!
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« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2020, 08:44:19 pm »

Thanks Reuben! Mike, that ride back was rough.... this spot is only 15 minutes from the house, everywhere else I hunt is 40-55ish minutes. Zachs truck doesn’t have heat and I was waist deep in the water and he swam, and it was down to 36 or 38 degrees so we were shivering the whole ride. I was mainly concerned about the dogs since last year we almost lost two catch dogs from cold water. When we got back to the house we got them dried off with towels and I packed the dog houses with fresh straw so they could burrow in them and stay warm.


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« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2020, 08:54:03 pm »


This is Baby Girl, my buddy’s dog he’s letting me borrow. She’s half black mouth half pit, he said she came from Florida and is around 7 years old. She did great last night, she fit in perfect with my other dogs.



This is Mine, under my thumb is the poke she got. Nothing serious at all but the picture doesn’t do it justice. It’s a pretty deep puncture and has a little bit of swelling. She’ll probably be sore for a few days. Vetericyn should have it healed up pretty quick.


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« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2020, 12:53:31 pm »

Sounds like good hunt

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« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2020, 01:18:34 am »

Sounds like an almost great time. You gotta breed some lab into them dogs for winter water hunts so than can bring the hogs back to ya. Glad they are working  for you

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« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2020, 09:39:19 pm »

T-dog, funny you say that... that’s actually one thing I like about my pups from Justin, they have a thick coat. Much thicker than my other dogs. I’ve only had a few incidents with heat, I’ve had more serious scares with cold water


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« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2020, 08:28:05 am »

That water when it’s cold can be a bad deal. Glad those dogs are coming on and helping you get back to where you were.
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« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2020, 07:21:01 am »

good hunt and yes, those young dogs have to learn the do's and the dont's. lol
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« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2020, 09:53:43 am »

Yeah I hunt around water almost everywhere I hunt so the cold water definitely gets me worried at times. Heat doesn’t so much because if it’s hot I’ll only hunt at night and I’ll normally be around a lot of water for them to drink and cool off. Everywhere around here is flooded right now too, the boat landing we hunt from us completely underwater. Parking lot is probably 8ft or more underwater


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