One bad dude

[djhogdogger]

Im going to leave out all the details because the story would be toooo loooong. But me, James, and Justin Corbell made a hunt and we had our arses handed to us last night by a big boar hog.

Here is the picture........ dogs show bayed up. We get to the bay and hear the dogs fighting the hog. We turned two catch dogs loose. A veteran, solid catch dog and a dog that is new to the game but catches hard and is very strong.

Both catch dogs catch, one on each ear and bay dogs helping the catch dogs. BIG HOG. James gets to it first and goes to grab a leg. He grabs the first leg which he quickly realizes that its too thick to get his hand around.

At that moment, the hog jerks his leg free and slings both catch dogs off and leaves all of our other dogs too cut to follow.

Now Im talking about dogs that have caught hundreds of hogs. Catchdogs that have never been slung off before. This is one bad sum beech!

Now its personal.  It may be two weeks before our pack is ready to roll again but we will be gunning for this hog!

Has anyone ever had TWO catch dogs slung off? I keep asking myself where did it all go wrong? What could we have done different?

 On a good note, the pup that we brought and the pups that Justin brought did well.

[T-Bob Parker]

Sorry to hear that Dinah! When y'all go for it again, I've got two more bulldogs I'll let y'all throw at him. Just get him ate up with bulldogs.

[Purebreedcolt]

Yep my ridgeback and my pit.  Didn't think there were many hogs that could do it to the ridgeback but about a month ago we. Caught one that every time I got close would run with them caught.  He threw or scraped them off and headed to the hills.  Have a game cam pic of the hog I think it was and yeah he is big would be mounted if and when I catch him.

[djhogdogger]

Sorry to hear that Dinah! When y'all go for it again, I've got two more bulldogs I'll let y'all throw at him. Just get him ate up with bulldogs.

 Yes Sir! Give us time to re coupe and I will sure give you a call. I would say about two weeks and we will be ready to go again.

[djhogdogger]

Yep my ridgeback and my pit.  Didn't think there were many hogs that could do it to the ridgeback but about a month ago we. Caught one that every time I got close would run with them caught.  He threw or scraped them off and headed to the hills.  Have a game cam pic of the hog I think it was and yeah he is big would be mounted if and when I catch him.

Well Im sorry to hear that it happened to you too. But honestly it makes me feel a little better knowing that we arent the only ones. Yes it takes a heck of a big bad hog to pull something like that off.

We have caught some sure enough big nasty boars, so when something like this happens it makes you wonder what else is out there! 

[goose]

dang sure a good one sounds like ms dinah....thats why my great grandpaw always told me its called fishing not catching guess the same applies to hoghunting and not hog catching....hope the dogs heal up good for yall

[Shotgun wg]

Had have? A big boar on the farm that is similar. Cut down and killed 9 dogs in 2 days. The vet said he had never seen dogs broke up so bad. As far as I know he has yet to be killed unless by rifle. Saw it in rice field while cutting and one of the guys tried to shoot it. Didn't find any blood so it may or may not still be roaming. If he is I sure want his head on a plate.

Sorry to hear about y'all's dogs. Hope in a couple weeks u can use him for a hood ornament.

[TexasCornBread]

I've got a real gritty strike dog that will catch Also I'm willing to throw him in the pack if y'all would like ??


TexasCornBread - If you can't Dodge it RAM it !

[TexasCornBread]

Also sorry bout the dogs hope all heal well And fast !


TexasCornBread - If you can't Dodge it RAM it !

[djhogdogger]

 Goose, that is true. We have had lots of hog get away. Just never with two catchdogs caught, a pack of bay dogs helping and a mans hand on the hog. But it sure got the old adrenaline pumping.

 Shotgun, wow. I would like to see that hogs head! Sorry to hear about that kind of wreck. I hope you get him one day. Im pretty sure that if we get this one, his head is going up on the wall.

 We have been seening a huge set of tracks for a couple of years now. Never encountered the hog that left them though. I have a good idea that it was the same hog last night.

 I left a lot of details out of my story to keep it short but one detail is that we saw this hog before we struck him.

 I think this old hog is smart. When we turned the dogs loose, they went into a patch of woods across from the milo field. They went into the wind. Which makes sense.

 About 500 yards down from us, we caught a glimpse of the hog as he left the patch of woods and went into the milo field. Which put him up wind from the dogs.

We drove down to where he crossed and tried to put a few more dogs on  his track but because of the direction of the wind, they wanted to backtrack.

Finally old Red, a dog that has probably 1000 hogs under his belt, figured it out and went after the boar. But if we wouldn't have seen him. HE would have gave the dogs the slip.

I have to hand it to the hog, he is smart and is probably why he is so big, and still running free.

[djhogdogger]

I've got a real gritty strike dog that will catch Also I'm willing to throw him in the pack if y'all would like ??


TexasCornBread - If you can't Dodge it RAM it !

Thank you for the offer. Im not sure if it will help. Our strike dogs will help the catch dogs too, so this hog had dogs hanging off of him everywhere. LOL, He is just one heck of a hog.

 

[M Bennet]

some times when thangs happen like this , it always puts me back incheck and reminds me what can happen to the best. young or old. the power of these animals is so miss judged. just the flick of the head can through a dog 12 feet. and when you see that you think dam. sorry for yur luck and hope you r dogs heal up. now you just have to out think him. good luck on him next time.

[justincorbell]

yesterday was a shocker for me, I know that. I was actually closer to the bay than Mr. James and Mrs. Dinah but due to where I was standing I couldn't tell what was going on where. I could hear crashing all around me it seemed like. Mr. James and Mrs. Dinah were leading in the cd's nd I tried to slip in to see what we were dealing with but I could never line out where exactly the "bay" was because once I got within 20yds it got really quiet with exception to the 2 bulldogs running in. That hog never made a single sound and I think that most of the dogs were caught before the cd's even got there. I have seen their dog, red, get whooped on pretty good a few different times by bigger hogs and never even check up but when I saw him last night I honestly thought he was gonner. That hog beat that poor dog up one side and down the other. I was right behind James when he legged the hog and honestly it all happened so fast that I didn't get a great look at him even tho I was maybe 4' from him. when that hog jerked from james he about fell over and when I say that hog left out, I mean he LEFT OUT. the dogs that could still stop him tried to but it was no use. Every single dog that I looked at seemed to be cut somewhere with exception to the 2 cd's wearing full protection. I know I said it last night to Mr. James and Mrs. Dinah and I'll say it again here, I don't know what exactly the deffinition of "getting wrecked" means but I will that was the worst I have ever seen a pack of dogs get cut down on a hog.

Out of all the bad that happened last night I can say that there was still an upside to the hunt. That boar hog may very well be a barr or a partial barr this mornin because their 7mth old "tracker" pup had a mouthful of nuts when we got to the bay . I know that hog is hurtin, i followed blood probly 20+yds from where he left until I turned around to help out with the dogs.

I brought 3 dogs with me. My old dog "smoke" my younger gyp "bonnie" and my 8mth old pup "worm"  it was his first time in the woods ever. I have very high expectations for this pup, he is out of my best dog an 8yr old named "smoke" off of Mr. Witherspoons yard and an old gyp named sue sue that Mr. Witherspoon owns. It's an understatement to say that he did not disappoint, he ranged out with the other dogs over 700yds multiple times and was at the bay when I got there.  I could have asked for him to do any better for his first time in the woods. I am looking forward to see him progress this next year. Bonnie did really well for not being hunted in almost 5mths.....(she had a litter then I went on a turnaround) she was at the bay also and was covered head to toe in blood but much to my surprise she didn't have a nick on her. Smoke is still ignorin me this mornin because I never even turned him out last night lol.

Anyway I'm done ramblin. In short I had a great time and it was good gettin to meet up and hunt with the Psenciks again, they are good as gold and their dogs aren't far behind em. The pups did great and the dogs did their damndest to make it happen but such is life sometime. happy hunting to everyone and hapy new year!

[justincorbell]

Sorry to hear that Dinah! When y'all go for it again, I've got two more bulldogs I'll let y'all throw at him. Just get him ate up with bulldogs.

T-bob im thinkin that may be the best approach at this one. he was a stud.

[jimco]

Hate to hear about the dogs getting wrecked up but Dinah and Justin that made for some good reading. Can't wait to hear about how
y'all finally get him. I have no doubt y'all will. I detect a real sense of determination coming from Dinah's post.

[Lacy man]

Well hate to hear y'all dogs got cut up but glad to hear all the pups performed good!

[justincorbell]

Hate to hear about the dogs getting wrecked up but Dinah and Justin that made for some good reading. Can't wait to hear about how
y'all finally get him. I have no doubt y'all will. I detect a real sense of determination coming from Dinah's post.

I have a good feeling that that ol hog is gonna get caught sooner or later

[t.wilbanks]

Put some REAL Catchdogs on him and leave the BLUES  at home!!   

Just kidding, good luck on getting him... 

[Noah]

Now THAT is the kinda hog that keeps us coming back!!!     Hope you get that sucker!!!

Only had it happen once just like that, beat two veteran CD's to a pulp, slung the cur dogs off and hauled ass... That moment was burned into my brain and I have never forgotten it.  We got lucky and caught that hog, as I sent Shiner's momma to him and she caught him long enough for two of us to get aholt of him.

THAT is what my Bucho dog is for, just that type of hog.  A big/tall hog can carry even the best smaller CD's off into the sunset if they're front feet can't touch the damn ground.  Bucho's big ass is overkill on 99% of all hogs he gets sent to, but for hogs like this... priceless  

As well, the hog that did that to us was EXTREMELY smart... those seem to be the ones that do chit like that as they almost seem to understand what happens if they do not beat the dogs.  Don't realize how bad it feels to get beat until it happens, no worse feeling!!  GET'M!!!!

[justincorbell]

Put some REAL Catchdogs on him and leave the BLUES  at home!!   

Just kidding, good luck on getting him... 

There wasnt a blue dog in the bunch mr. Smarty pants!