Things you have seen while roading dogs

[mark]

Unreal's post about roading dogs got me to thinking about the funny things i have seen them do traveling down the road. Lets hear some stories!

[coastrangecathunting]

i have seen bobcats cross the road 2 different times while the dogs were roading . dogs seen both of them and never caught either one.

jc

[LarryBeggs]

When I was a kid I was asleep in the front seat. I woke up and saw a guy run buy the open passenger door. Right behind him was a cow elk. I turned around to see the 250+lb man scale a steep clay cut bank. Dad had a gun and was ready to shoot the elk to save Pat but the elk decided it wasnt worth the effort and veered into the brush. I turned around to see Perry Ash standing on top of the dog box of the truck in front of us waving a hard hat around and hollering. Down the road in front of us Buddy Smith was chasing the dogs down the road as they were chasing another elk. No people,elk or dogs were hurt. Quite the seen to wake up to. Take care Larry

[South Texan]

Mark,
Somewhere around 15 years ago, I was roading the dogs cat hunting on a friend of mine's place one night. I had been hunting 2 or 3 hours and hadn't gotten anything started. I noticed a little lemon spotted gyp I called Penny come trotting by my door on the drivers side carrying something in her mouth. Her head was up in the air, wagging her tail, just proud as could be that she had found something. What ever she was carrying looked black as she went by. I thought it was a leg off of a black hog. She would go down the road 75 to 100 yards in front of me and lay down chewing on this thing. She would lay there till I roaded on by, then in a little while, here she would come again and go by the truck, get up ahead and repeat the process. She done this three or four times. Every time she would come past me I would look to see what it was for sure she was carrying but I never could tell for sure. After about the fourth time I finally told my hunting buddy, I had better get whatever that is away from Penny, so she'll get her mind on her business. I stopped and scolded her, she dropped it and cowed away from it, I walked over and picked it up and to my surprise it was a billfold. I opened it up and looked inside, as well as I can remember, I think it had $3 and a guy's driver's license. I had never heard or seen of this guy. I got on the phone and called my friend of who's place I was hunting on and told him what Penny had found. He said a few days before the boss's daughter's boyfriend was down at the ranch and they had went horseback riding. He told me it must of slipped out of his pocket as they were riding. He told me they had looked everywhere for that thing. But that was my first and last billfold I have found while hunting. Odd things do happen. Robbie

[JakeG]

I was bOxing the dogs one winter and had a 3\4 black tail buck step out in front of me. His neck was all swollen and when I pulled up on him he just lowerd his head and stuck his horns in my grille. I figured I was going to need a new radiater but he just picked his head up and stiff legged walked down road. He thought he was gonna whip a Toyota I guess.

[al baldwin]

More years ago than I care to remember, a friend and I roading one female on a ranch at night. The female came running up the road, dove under the rig, a buck deer was chasing her. That deer pranced around the rig sevaral times in a very aggressive matter. We thought were going to have to shoot the buck, every time my friend tried to get out to load the dog, that buck would charge right up to the door. Eventually the deer wandered off we loaded that female & changed hunting grounds. JC I doubt very few hounds men have been lucky enough to catch every critter they have seen crossing the road while hunting dogs. For sure not myself. Thanks Al Baldwin

[mark]

I was roading dogs in June one time and the dogs were up ahead aways and around a corner out of sight. All of a sudden dogs were coming back around the corner at me in high gear tails tucked to there chins! Right behind them was a full growed cow elk with her hair pointed the wrong way makn passes at any dog she could get in her sights. I had put the tailgate up and the dogs that cleared it got on top of the box, the rest were under the pickup hiding. That cow made a half lap around the pickup and jumped up on the bank blowing and snorting a storm. She gave up after minute and went in the brush. Must of had a calf close. It took awhile to get the dogs to road after that. I seen dogs run Ooff banks, run into trees, into each other HARD, fall down, you name it. But its always a good time just watching how they work and key off one another.

[Warner5]

I was roading an old female and a few pups. The old dog was up front, the young dogs were dicking around behind the truck. So I urged them up the road. Those young dogs went burning past my door at full speed, when they reached the old female they knocked her for a loop. She instantly looked back at me with that" your not gonna get a damn thing out of me for the rest of the day look ". All day long she didnt turn her back on me or those pups. All I can figure is, The old dog thought me and those pups were in cahoots and some how it was my fault she got blind sided by those pups. Females? . John.

[Warner5]

A guy went hunting with me once and he owned the 1st shocking collar I ever seen. I was about 17 and the dogs were roading good when a deer crossed. Being trigger happy this fellow gave his dog a zap, his dog came flying to the back of the truck and loaded up along with my dog. All the excitement prompted a little dog fight up on the box so this guy gave his dog another good zap. Well, what happened next will forever be with me. When he hit that button his dog blew shit all over him, and their was nothing solid about it. It was so bad this fella started puking, then I started puking. I made him ride the box back to his truck. We never hunted together again. That was a shitty hunt. John.

[Unreal_tk]

Damn John that's a story there. I don't have alot of stuff yet. My Ruby dog last year got double wheeled by my truck and lived.... then a month ago I was on the four wheeler and got her again.... she has a habit of stopping randomly right infront of the rig. Needless to say she treats a rig with respect after the last one.

I saw two cats this winter cross infront of me, I caught the tom. The other cat was a female or kitten, it had hunted like crazy in the area and I could never find the "out" track.

[LarryBeggs]

Johns story reminds me of another one.We werent roading we were boxing but it was funny so I will tell it any way.We were lion hunting and 5 of us had piled into an old suburban.There was sparce snow and we had thrown the dogs on top of the suburban hopeing for a strike . We all had our heads out the window looking for tracks when one of the dogs cut loose and peed.I was sitting in the back seat and watched it run right down the back of my uncles neck. We never did get a lion going that day but we sure had a good laugh at uncle Kirks expence.Along with getting to here a good race these kind of old storys are what makes hunting hounds fun.Brings back a lot of memories.Good post Mark

[mark]

I was hunting with a buddy of mine that hunted alot of birds. He had a lab that he never could get to soften his mouth up on birds. We dumped the hounds one morning on a bear hunt,and right when the last dogs cleared the box i looked up and saw a mama grouse and her chicks in the middle of the road in front of the pickup. The dogs were all over and somehow never noticed all these little chicks that could barely fly,except for a young walker female of mine. She made beeline into them and they were trying to fly but could only get off the ground a few feet. She jumped up and grabbed one of em out of the air,i let out a loud NO and she dropped it. We were both suprised when the little guy was able to fly off. Well i had alot of fun with my buddy for along time about having softer mouthed hounds than his labs.

[007pennpal]

We found a guy about ten years back that was truck broken down and disabled in the legs not able to walk much. He had been 4 days without food. It was well snowed in area that we barely could travel. He seemed a little bit going crazy from it. He ate a half eaten sandwich out of my trash bag. Only food we had. Honestly if we didn't go that way, he probably wasn't coming out alive. We dropped him off at his families house to take care of him.

[box rocker]

One time roading the dogs going up a deep canyon I had a big group of turkey chicks fly across the road. One 10 month old pup took off on them going up a steep bank. At the time I had no shocker so I jumped out of the truck and ran up the hill yelling. At about 300 yards I could hear nothing so I walked down loaded dogs and sat for a minute than got out the blue box and it said the dog was right there thinking the dog was hiding grubin on bird I called more, nothing. Walked up the hill blue box in hand about 50 yards past where I stopped and there was the dog stone dead with a turkey lodged in its throat. Seemed she had bittin off more than she could chew. Damn shame, she ran to catch.

[Budd Denny]

Had a fisher jump rite out into the middle of the pack, three old dogs hauled ass to the truck like they were being fried and two hounds that new better got zapped and I let two four month old pups run it for a short race but they couldn't locate it and i watched it tree . Had them bay turtle during the nesting season a few times, just glad they never nosed the snappers.