4/5/08...ft.bend county

[nightowl24]

i got in touch with a guy that runs his dogs in ft.bend county on the weekends. took me about an hr or so to get out to east bernard, but it was well worth the drive. we cut out just before dark and about 50yds from the truck we hit a hog. all the dogs are hammering, we send the catch dog and all you hear in snorting and grunting(no squealing). we legged the hog, drug him out live and put him in the pen. now when we first got the hog we knew he was a good sized boar. we guessed around 200-250, later when we got him in the trailer and looked at him later that night compared to the sow we got, we was a lot closer to 300+. didn't have big teeth and only chewed on the catch dogs ear.

after getting on that first one no more than 5-10min into the hunt we decided to go ahead and walk some more to try and get another one. about an hr or two later the dogs got on another. every dog we had was hammering so we sent in the catch dog. this time we could hear the fight well before we were close to it. as we got in, we could smell this boar before we were able to get to him. none the less the hog broke and ran the dogs to the river. sye and on of the guys young dogs tried their best to stay with him and to trail him up when the other quit, but we didn't him. we were about to go home, but decide to make another loop the opposite way, it paid off. about 30min to an hr into our loop the dogs got on a group of hogs. three sows and TONS of piglets. we had a two black sows and a blonde colored sow in the group. the dogs worked good together. they had them all circled up, when the catch dog got there it broke. the blonde sow ran to a small creek and the black sow cut out. we got the smallest of the group(she went around 150 or so). as we got the sow tipped we are all(me and three others)grabbing piglets. then we had to drag her about 200+yds to where we had brought the truck to load her up.

it was good hunt. got on a big boar to start the night and finished up with a good sized sow. dogs worked real good. sye hunted good, he was right there with the experienced dogs. he'll only get better with time. he was at every bay, this time and when the hogs broke he was right there on their heels(well at least in seeing distance..lol). my gyp is still coming along slowly. she'll get out, but she isn't hunting yet and she didn't open at either bay. as we were dragging the sow out she started biting and barking at the caught hog. i didn't want to strap her for messing with a caught hog cause she was showing intrest and barking, just need her to do it when the hog isn't tied...lol.

all in all it was a real good night. the dogs worked good and seen hogs. sye got some more experience on him as well as kristen. sye didn't try to catch these hogs, when the catch dog got there he then pulled some fur...heres the boar we got...my mother in law has my small digital camera, so all i had was my camer on my phone...not a lot of light so i had to take the pic in two sections...didn't get a pic of the sow...

[longshot]

Josh,
Glad you and Sye were able to get on a few hogs. Somthing sends up a RED FLAG when everytime you send the catch dog the bay breaks and there is no caught hog to show for it. Sounds like the bulldogs was missing to me.

Keep us updated on how your doing. I like to see the progress
Longshot

[nightowl24]

[longshot]

Josh keep it up and Sye ought to do you proud. He just needs a few hundred hogs under his belt, thats all.
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[nightowl24]