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[Slim9797]

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[t-dog]

Looking good. The blue pup looks big compared to the others.


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[Slim9797]

Looking good. The blue pup looks big compared to the others.


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He is beefy for sure lol


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[WayOutWest]

Good looking batch of pups.

[Slim9797]

Been real slow for me/us . I just been enjoying this litter of pups around the house. 

Loaded Theresa Lulu Spoon king and Mary Jane this morning. Figured I’d let them use their legs. Hadn’t been any hog sign or any on camera lately. Drop em down at the big house and Theresa Mary Jane(first hunt for this young gyp. She’s out of some cowdogs around Bryan tx. Dads supposedly top notch) and Spoon loop out around the edge of the ranch, trailed through a couple neighbors and come bayed in far corner of a neighboring place on the other side of the ranch. Lulu and king were hung up on a track in the middle of the ranch and went to them when they went treed.

I got around there. Had to hoof it the last 300 to them for lack of good gates. Could smell a good boar going in. He broke on me twice before they finally held him long enough for me to get a safe shot(hard with 5 dogs around).

I shoot him first at about 15 steps. He drops and pops back up in seconds. I close about half the distance and kill him with a second shot.

I look down and at the base of this cedar tree I’m standing at I see gold between my foot and the tree. Bend down, and it’s the first .44 slug I shot him with. Some how. 8-10 foot closer to where I shot from, than the hog ever made it. Hot as hell, but in perfect shape. I don’t really have an explanation for it, other than bullets do weird stuff. He was quartered to me. I was aiming for neck, high shoulder. Best I can figure I missed the spine and blew through the top of his neck. Bullet never opened and somehow bounced off something and back towards me upon exit. Wild stuff









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[WayOutWest]

That's pretty strange there. Good boar though.

[t-dog]

Sounds like a good little hunt. Those dogs splitting up like that will put you in the hogs. They cover more ground and faster and in this heat of course that’s a good thing.

I have a young male, he’s almost a year exactly. He’s been doing really good and man he knows which end to bite and which one to bark at. So far he’s done everything I can ask for. I’m 90% sure he bayed his own hog but it broke before we got in there. I can tell you goes through the brush after a hog so hard that he knocks chunks of hide off his face. He looks like Rays twin.


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[Hollowpoint]

This pups all look good, I’d feed them. Ya’lls boars seem genetically predisposed to having big teeth, I’ve got one here from down that way and he’s the toothiest one I’ve got. From what I’ve encountered, I see bigger bodies and shorter teeth up here.  That’s not to say they aren’t in the area, I know they are, maybe I’m just catching the dinks.

[Slim9797]

This pups all look good, I’d feed them. Ya’lls boars seem genetically predisposed to having big teeth, I’ve got one here from down that way and he’s the toothiest one I’ve got. From what I’ve encountered, I see bigger bodies and shorter teeth up here.  That’s not to say they aren’t in the area, I know they are, maybe I’m just catching the dinks.

Teeth is probably 75% age in my opinion. I hunt lots of high pressure areas(this tri-county area is high pressure)  so I feel like we don’t catch many big or toothy hogs. Theres just no big country around here where hogs can be left alone. When we do get around an older boar, he will have some teeth probably.

Pups are growing into them selves. They’ll bay the grown heifers and calves around my house already at 8 weeks. They are little opportunistic predators around the house. Mean as a sack of snakes too. I still have all 5 here.

Freeze branded misty and spoon myself a few weeks ago. Not a clue what I was doing. Had 2 dogs branded years ago. Watched a YouTube video and read a few forums and gave it my best go(dry ice and alcohol)Verdict is still out. Here’s Misty’s, maybe somebody with experience can give me some insight as to how it’s healing. Spoons is a good bit more scabbed up still. I think 3 weeks it’s been now. When i originally did it, I thought spoons would take alright and that I probably didn’t get misty long enough. Today I don’t know lol. I’ll get a picture of spoons brand and the pups tomorrow evening.



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[t-dog]

Slim I’ve freeze branded a few dogs, horses, and cows. Naturally it a different hold on time for each. I used liquid nitrogen though. Usually on a dog the hold time was about 6-8 seconds depending on how thick the dogs hide was. Getting the hair off is a big deal, where there’s not even any stubble if possible. Then the purest alcohol to clean it. I’d rub it pretty good to get any oils and dead skin of. I made a template out of cardboard that the outer edges of the brand would almost touch so that I could put it up to the animal and move it around to where it fit best and I was going to be able to get the whole brand to make contact. When I figured out where that was I traced around the template with chalk and then took clippers to it. Right before I put the brand to it I would spray it with alcohol again. Making sure the animal can’t squirm or run away from you is huge too because it’s super hard to get the iron back in the same exact spot. When you pull it off, usually the brand will whelp up or raise within a few seconds if I remember correctly. Like I say, that was with the nitrogen though. I have a tank that I would go get nitrogen in but pour some over into a styrofoam cooler to freeze the iron. I cut a slot in the lid for the handle to stick up through and wrapped a towel around the handle where it stuck out to hold the cold in the cooler and keep the nitrogen from evaporating. I’m sure you know but if you hold it too long, the brand will look like a hot brand. It will kill the hair follicles instead of just the pigmentation. That’s what they do on animals that are white usually.
You can on this one that I should’ve rocked the brand around better. Because of the muscle there, it the brand wasn’t held firmly enough against him on one side to take.


This one took better. These were a couple of the first ones I did.


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[Slim9797]

Young Maverick hit me up yesterday evening asked if I had some time and a place we could go hunt in the morning so I told him come on.

Went and hunted some feed country on the edge of town I’d been baying some hogs in lately. As luck would have it hogs weren’t where they’d been. About 9:30 we found a lone track from a decent hog on a pond. A couple places away from the feed bunks. Dogs tried it but couldn’t get it worked out through the brushed up cattle.

We had called it and were at the trucks. Popped box doors and lulu misty and amber made about a 800 yard half circle way up around some bunks on the hill and set into a neighbors and bayed. We start up the hill to them and catch about 40 hd coming down the hill. We run and gun on them a little then before tryin to go to dogs bayed in corner of Mott they found them in.
 Got to them, seen they had a lead boar and he broke south. They carried him 500 or so and put him up in a stock tank against the county road. Took me half an hour to get the call back and okay to go to them, finally did and Mav sent goose to them.  Goose got there, they went for a little swim, hog tried to come to me and they snatched his ass up as he come out of the water to me. I grabbed a leg and stuck the barrel of my .44 in his back and ended it. We decided to call it instead of being greedy and going after the other hogs we sent to the bottom.
Boar is better than picture show, 210ish probably. Pretty rotund for being no longer than he is.

[t-dog]

Glad to see amber is doing good


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[Slim9797]

Amber is a nice gyp. I know Mav likes her as he’s already asked me if he has access to a stud if he wants to breed her next year.


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[Cajun]

Good hog Slim.

[WayOutWest]

Good hog , but he looks bigger next to you compared with Maverick. Lol

[Slim9797]

Good hog , but he looks bigger next to you compared with Maverick. Lol

Haha, I do have years of practice of making hogs look bigger than they are.


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[t-dog]

I think he was calling Maverick fat. That wasn’t very nice. We don’t post hogs with Deputy Dawg behind them even if they are big because they aren’t going to look like what they are.


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[WayOutWest]

Don't you be starting number 2 T.

[Slim9797]

Mav ain’t fat, he built like a boar hog. Carries the weight where it counts.


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[t-dog]

Lol that’s not at all what I was doing. I was giving the option of alternative phrasing!


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