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« on: November 17, 2020, 10:01:13 pm »

Bored and wanted to start a topic that isn't talked about very much.

What do y'all consider cold trailing?

The other morning Hambone did some trailing that put a smile on my face.It may have been nothing special but to me it was impressive for a ol swamp cur.
We had a hurricane headed for us for the second time in a week so I called work off at 6am and my son in law says he has a boar hog on camera across the street at midnight.So I wake up Rowdy load up Hambone and Copper we head to the camera and about a mile before we get there we find a good track in the road where a single hog had been feeding on acorns in the Rd. The track looked about the size of the one on camera and I said I bet this is him and he came this way after he hit the camera.So I figured this was the fresher track it was just about 7am.Turned Hambone and Copper out and they smelled it.Mind you we're in one of our wettest years in history and the woods and swamp across the street are deep.So they ground on it for awhile and I be danged they were slowly working towards the camera I had it backwards.They got to the camera at 7:50 something 7.5 hrs since he was there.From there they trailed a half mile through a Cypress swamp thats 2-3ft deep and got to a big mosquito canal Copper got hung up at the canal but Hambone crossed it from there he went another half mile through hell and bayed him in the bed at 9am it was a grind 2+ miles and 2hrs from start to finish but I was damn sure proud.I know it probably ain't nothing special but it put a smile on my face.
I really enjoy hearing stories about trailing so let's hear some y'all.


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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2020, 10:53:30 pm »

That should put a smile on your face, hat's off to ol Hambone!
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2020, 11:01:12 pm »

That should put a smile on your face, hat's off to ol Hambone!

X2...that Hambone is a keeper and easy to look at as well...
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« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2020, 07:12:27 am »

X3 on the Hambone fan club. I'll bet he doesn't call any of his other fans.

I have 2 cold trailing stories but just gonna tell the one for now. This was about 20 years ago that this happened. I had a friend from Grapeland that was in good with a big watermelon farmer over there. It was the end of July or early August and terribly hot and dry. We had been to several watermelon patches that morning and not a hog sign at a single place. We finally got to a spot and had decided to just ride through and see if there was sign because it was getting pretty warm. We finally drove over A set of tracks. I had my old Clyde dog (half treeing walker half catahoula) and a full treeing Walker that I converted from coon dog because he was banned from competition for fighting at the tree. We decided to try the track even though it looked old. We dropped both dogs but you could tell it wasn't a good track. Clyde had a really good nose and even though he was only average speed in a foot race, he could flat push a track, pretty much at his full speed where most dogs had to work it much slower and he rarely over ran it or had to restart it. Anyway, they didn't act like they were smelling and made a little round and I called them in. I got Clyde and tapped the trail the track was in and hissed him on it. He stuck his nose in it and finally started off with it but straddling it at a snail's pace. They left on it and after about an hour of not hearing anything I got the old wildlife out and started tracking. I couldn't pick up the slightest signal. We decided 2 of us would ride one direction and the other 2 would ride the other and see if we could hear them. About 30 minutes later we met back up and the the other guys said they thought they could hear them but weren't for sure so we rode back down the county road to that point. Nothing, so we drove further the same direction and I was getting a  signal. When we got to within hearing, I could hear clyde baying but the walker dog was still 2 or 3 hundred yards behind trail barking. When the walker dog got there it got quiet then the race was on again. This happened about 3 or 4 times but they were circling around closer so we waited. We figured out that the Walker dog was busting the bay when he would finally catch up. He wore proof of it when we finally caught up. At 2pm and at 100+ degrees, we finally got a solid bay and the walker had gotten tired and convinced to back off and bay. The boar weighed about 225 with those 1 1/2 - 2" inch teeth that are perfect for any ninja. Like you Cracker, I was sure enough proud of ole Clyde.

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« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2020, 10:37:14 am »

“ I know it probably ain't nothing special”

I would respectfully disagree, in my opinion that is something special.
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« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2020, 11:26:44 am »

Cracker, I sure would be proud of ole Hambone too and T dog that was a pretty good story.
  This was a few years ago but I went and made a hunt with Chad H. He put corn out on a hog trail with a camera on it the day before at 3:00pm. When I got there the next day he told me nothing had been to the corn and we went to another spot and I turned Dancer out. She started coldttraiing and Chad sent two of his into her.  His came back and I told  him it was pretty cold. We decided to leave her and go hunt another spot but I turned Amber into her. We left and hit another spot without luck and Chad got a ding on his ph. It was a pic. of Dancer and Amber coldtrailing past his camera on that hog trail. It was about 7:30 am and chad said nothing had been there since 3:00 the day before and more then likely it was within a hour after daylight that the hog had passed. Anyway they were headed to the highway and we tried to catch them but Amber got across and jumped the hog.  That was the only time I have really had a camera to judge a really old track and that track would have been  been 16 to 24 hours old.
  All that being said conditions play such a important part and there is so much we dont understand about trailing conditions. I have seen dogs that struggled to trail a track that I thought were pretty good conditions and just fly on a track that conditions were less then ideal.
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« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2020, 12:28:21 pm »

I totally agree Cajun, scenting is crazy. I have seen dogs dumped out in a field where a group of hogs were crossing only to disappear before dogs could be cast. The dogs run over the track and never acted like they smelled it. They made a big round and came back in and the second they crossed the track the second time it was like they were crawling over each other to get ahead on it.  I don't know the reason for it. I don't know if they were just wound up and not paying attention or what was going on. I saw that same thing happen when a guy was trying to show a pretty good kind of dog once. The hogs literally crossed as we were pulling in the gate. He cast that dog and he never found a hog one. I know for sure he was a pretty solid dog but never acted like he smelled anything.

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« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2020, 06:52:19 pm »

T-dog whatever happened to old Clyde is he in any of your dogs these days?He sounds like a good one.

Cajun I remember that story that's some dang impressive cold trailing.

I have been around some really cold nosed hounds that my old buddy used to have he ran bear and hogs with his dogs were white cloud walkers and old smokey Blueticks I believe.They had the best noses I've ever been around but weren't very good at getting one stopped to bay imo they definitely weren't track drifters.I was hunting a quota hunt one time and he was coming later in the day he asked me to mark a few good tracks and scrub em out.So on the way in at 5am I found three good tracks and scrubbed em out.I went on and caught 6 or so hogs with my cur dogs and stopped for lunch.He got there at lunchtime and we headed to the tracks I marked and I be danged them dogs rigged all three tracks from the box we put one on each track and they all three jumped the hogs but we didn't end up catching any of the three.One of the dogs collars broke and he didn't get her back for a week the other two hogs ended up swimming the River and we caught them off.I ended up with one of them Bluetick gyps but she had a really small head and slipped her collar in the pen and ate it and ended up dieing.
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« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2020, 07:08:06 pm »

I owned a red dog outta Big E’s Boogie dog and Casey D’s Layla gyp. By far the best dog I have ever owned bar none. I started him as a pup and really track hunted hard at the time as a back story on him. His daddy was one of the coldest dogs around at the time.

I had a deer dog lease and passed up a big track at daylight I found waiting on a buddy. Well I rode 20K acres and didn’t find anything worth turning loose on and the buddy didn’t show, so I went back to that track at 2PM that evening, after it had been sprinkling on and off all day. Well I put Cobb on it and talked him into trying it and he trailed off real slow and worked that track for a good hour before I heard him booger bark, and it wasn’t long before he was bayed. It was a big Barr and me without a bulldog, so I eased in and looked at the hog and he caught my wind and busted and I got Cobb off with a bad hit to the stomach.  I babied him for awhile on that one.

Another time I went hunting with some guys off this board, and we located a track and couldn’t get anything to take it that morning.  Well Cobb eased off and disappeared and I knew he smelled alil on that track. I said let’s go find something else, he’d quit or bay it. Well we stopped three or four times in the course of an hour or hour and a half and he was still in some backwater trailing on the Garmin so I said leave him. We drove around and he popped up bayed, I killed the wheeler and sure enough he was baying every breath. I turned some young dogs to him, and it held and I got the guys rounded up and we walked in and caught and cut a dang good boar hog. That’s a memory I have because it was good fellowship and good dog work.

I never got to breed him, and he probably wouldn’t have produced as good as he was, but he died at 4 after being gutted as a puppy, baying countless big hogs off tracks and being a winding machine. He’s one of the few I really truly miss.


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« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2020, 07:46:22 pm »

Red dog was a looker BA-IV.  I felt the same way about Clyde. I still miss him.

Those are all good stories and impressive. They’re the kinda things dogs do that make me enjoy it. They are kind of things that I enjoy watching even more than actually catching a hog honestly. Of course when they do a feat like that I want the reward of catching the hog for them but it really is as much for them as it for me.

Cracker ole Clyde is in every one of my dogs. I have a pup that’s about 4 or 5 months old. Little jack a$$ is oozing with personality and as smart and hard headed as you can stand one to be. He’s probably a dud lol, but ole Clyde is in his pedigree 11 times in one generation. I got my fingers and my toes crossed.


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« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2020, 07:56:52 pm »

Impressive stories some times it's crazy on them tracks and different scent conditions you put em on one you think they should smoke it and they can't do nothing with it then another day they smoke one that you really didn't even want to fool with  that's a good looking red dog ba-iv sounds like a good one to

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« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2020, 01:54:33 pm »

Lol...  all you guys with cur dogs know  that it  aint suppose to be possible to use cold trail in the same sentence Grin ,, sure are proving that it aint so... LOL...I wasn't never lucky enough to find a cur dog to be able to do those things fellers... Yall were spoiled...
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« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2020, 04:20:33 pm »

I’m gone jump on this one with y’all
But mine ain’t near as good as y’all’s I’m sure
I’ve had a several hunts that stand out but this is my best cold trail I remember

One Sunday morning couple boys wanted to go- I weren’t all into it cause we had a pretty good Saturday morning and caught several... they talked me into it and I said we will go try “ol three legs “
He had a reputation around here . He had been shot and dogged several times to just keep living.

I thought to myself self this gone be a joke although I had good confidence in my dogs at the time-
I was hunting two Red dogs - male and a female
Ol Red and Jesse - they passed about the time I joined this board but hunted ol Red many years as he lived to be 13 and Jesse didn’t live me bout 4 years before she went out doing what she was pretty good at anyway....
I told them boys we only turning loose if the big hog crossed the dirt road - they said ok
Well sure enuff “ol three legs” crossed and I know for sure it weren’t there the day before but one truck had been over his tracks- not a road used that much and not really clear when the hog came across but put Red and Jesse down and could tell they could smell it but no great - just waited ..... 30 minutes they had only got bout 100 yards and I said to the guys wait here they didn’t go a 100 yards for nothing let me push it a hair- well I got to em and it was like they understood me cause I had done this time and time with them on numerous occasions just track hunting - well the left 200,300,400,500, on and on 900 , 0.5
This is a cotton field and they got out of the field at about 850 and went into a big bottom with big creek

I told them boys they got it but I don’t see em crossing the creek with it - the creek was about .85 from us and the hogs almost never bedded on our side of creek- they got to .85 right at the creek and I was watching Garmin like a tv- showed Red in the Creek then showed Jesse in the creek- they crossed y’all I told the boys - I said if they go several hundred more and make a right bend down the creek might better head there way - well took em awhile they never stopped kept easing away from the creek and looked like they was bending to the right kinda like I wanted em to- dropped communication then at bout 1.2 - so we headed to em and got in bout line where I dropped em at - we still in the field - couldn’t get em- could t get em picky for crap- we went down in bottom and finally got em- picked up they were 750 from us headed straight Down the creek - they headed for his bedroom - they keep going and we now start following em - we had been on four wheelers we get on foot and take the bulldogs with us . We get within 500 of them and they have not said a word yet- these dogs trail silent and bark when jumped- at this point I’m getting pretty excited and don’t remember how far they were when I heard Ol Red let out his ol locate baaaaaaawwwwwwllllllll with followed chopping and Jesse was right with him like normal with her  high pitched hhoowwllls with many chops to follow- I said I be dang boys they got him - they showed sitting down on the garmin- Let’s roll boys and it started pouring rain bout that time - which was ok cause it was pretty warm- then he got rope put on his feet- it was a good but sad day - good hog good dog work no cuts everything safe but end of the “ol three legs “ story   This hog had killed several dogs in his day a lived through a few rifle shots but I had to take him out - farmers orders

I went back that afternoon as I had been thinking out the hunt and took garmin back down there and measured out from the dirt road to the creek to cutover to his bed - right at 2.1 miles
 Not bad for my ol potlickers

I do know and believe conditions have a lot to do with hunting and seems they were right that morning it when things like that happen you can’t take it away from them just enjoy it
I will always miss them two dogs they weren’t the best but they were consistent and I like tht

I like all y’all’s stories hope u like mine here is “ol three legs
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« Reply #14 on: November 19, 2020, 05:02:56 pm »

Ben and Muddy, Those are the kind of coldtrailing stories I like, with a hog on the end of them.
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« Reply #15 on: November 19, 2020, 07:49:38 pm »

Heck yeah, those are good stories.


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« Reply #16 on: November 19, 2020, 07:56:55 pm »

Muddy I remember when you caught ol 3 legs, Red and Jessie were dang good dogs.

BA-IV I have heard that Boogie dog name in several of y'all's dogs on here y'all still have dogs that go back to him? Cobb sure was a good looking sucker dogs like that don't come round every day.
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« Reply #17 on: November 19, 2020, 09:57:08 pm »

I had a friend that some of the Palestine Tx area guys might remember. His name was Bo Henry and he was truly a pleasure to know and hunt with. No had a yella dog that he called Gator. When I first moved to Palestine Bo Henry and Gator were the only to names I heard anytime hog hunting was mentioned. Ole Gator was a local legend and deservingly so. I always wanted to measure ole Clyde against other good dogs so whenever I heard about dogs like ole Gator I had to hunt with them. Well I hunted Bo down and I introduced myself. He was about my fathers age and we hit it off real good. He invited me to go hunting the following weekend and of course I said yes. He took Gator and I took Clyde and my other dog Clyde, Clyde #2 was younger but already had the name when he was given to me. I always felt like that commercial when people asked their names... my names Darrel and this my brother Darrel and my other brother Darrel. Anyway they made an impression on ole Bo and we became regular hunting buddies. One day we went on invite with a young man that had permission to hunt a different place. The fella had been complaining about a boar running deer off his feeder. We cast ole Clyde and Gator and they left. It was still pretty hot before bow season and real dry up in those old iron ore hills. They were both beating up an area not far from the feeder so we just eased that way. Finally ole Gator came in and said the hell with it, no hogs here. There was on set of tracks on the road through the place and a pretty decent hog at that. Ole Clyde would push it a ways and then come back and push it again. Finally Bo said catch him up Thomas and let’s go on over and cast again so that’s what we did. They both left and after a little bit Gator came in again. We waited and Bo asked where Clyde was so I tracked him. I said well he’s right back over there where we saw that track. We get back over there and I saw him come back out and restart but he wasn’t discouraged, that ole tail was up and popping from side to the other so I knew he had it in his nose and on his mind that he was gonna find Mr Hog. Bo and the other fella said let’s go somewhere else this hog ain’t here. I said nah he’s here give ole Clyde a little bit longer. About 15 minutes later ole Clyde had kicked in his front door and was telling it. Bo looked over and just grinned and then said well Gator!!! Then looked back at me and said THOMAS hehehe that SOB was hell bent he was gonna find that hog. I’d have bet money that hog had moved ughhhh weeee hehehe! That was a pretty neat thing to watch and it sure made me smile. And yes we caught the hog.


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