Good Sow

I’ve seen a select handful of open dogs bay hogs on that land, but it’s rare and leads to a long race that I couldn’t ever shut down with young dogs. I watched an old finished dog that was open run a pig for 12 hours before he was finally called off. Those pigs are dog smart, my mentor hunted there 5-6 days a week for 10-12 hour hunts. He trained dogs for people and did guided hunts for a living so he hunted like a job. As soon as they hear a dog bark they hit the river and will zig zag back and forth trying to lose the dogs. Running silent dogs that catch have much better results there. I would rather shut the pig down in 500 yards than run it for 3 miles through the swamp and across water.

I think most of it is due to how hard and often those pigs have been hunted for 10 years, but I’ve seen quite a few people leave there empty handed, and they had good dogs. It was the biggest property I had to hunt but by no means was it my favorite. I can go some places and catch 2-3 pigs in an hour. That’s pretty good for around me. That place on the other hand, you would have to hunt for 6-8 hours to kill a single pig sometimes. Plenty of pigs there, they’re just smart. The property was so big too it was hard to find where they were.

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