Me and Zach took 2 puppies and his young dog named Pup out this morning. This property has a road that’s a few hundred yards coming in to it, then it stops and there’s a trail. We always turn the dogs loose at the end of the road/beginning of the trail. Walking in my Betsy pup started winding and getting excited. We cut them loose and they took off like a rocket, 30 seconds later they all 3 started opening, a few seconds after that we hear a nice scream. They caught but the hog broke, went 30 yards and they had a good sow bayed in some thick stuff, backed up to a root ball.
I tried to coax them in to catching but they wouldn’t, the sow charged and they backed up a hair and I got a shot off. I tried to pop her right behind the ear, but was filming with my left hand and shooting with only my right hand. I tried to be quick while the dogs were out of the way and was shooting through leaves too, I ended up hitting about 4” low. We never shoot pigs so this was an on the fly decision since they weren’t catching. The pig broke another 20-30yds and bayed in another thick group of trees and vines. We started to them and then they caught again.
Zach ran in and legged her and I stuck her, been a long time since I’ve stabbed one. I usually let whoever I’m with do it so I can get a video. Drug her back to the truck and called it a day. Betsy is around 13 months old, Chalupa is 12 months, and I think Pup is around 18-20 months. Trying to get these young dogs going, we got out ran at night a few weeks ago in the same spot. I’m glad they’re figuring out how to stop the pigs
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