can one dog bay a hog

[TBICE]

i just bought a black mouth cur dog and he is a silent dog on track a bays good in a bay pen can he bay a hog in the woods by his self? thanks

[halfbreed]

some hogs will stand and some won't . i've done it with two many a time . but the dog will have to be some kinda dog to do it alone . jmo

[mountaincurs]

Ive seen a few really good dogs do it, youll have better luck with 2 or 3. Now heres a question for some folks, buddy of mine and i have this conversation all the time. ive got a dog and hes got a dog that can stop and bay hogs on their lonsome, both will put teeth on a hog to stop it but bay real loose. obliously some hogs just bay and some never seem to but i think there is somthing to it. yalls thought on a loose baying dog or a tight baying dog? ive got both and some that are all catch and as long as they actually stop the thing i dont care but food for thought.

[doghunter]

Absolutely one dog can do it but it has to be the right dog.

I find sometimes one good dog will bay more hogs (often in there bed) and not make them break as much than a pack will. I once had a big leopard dog that was fast, bayed as well as you wanted, hunted hard and always looked good. But I started counting the hogs that ran out of the country with him compared to some of my other dogs that seemed to just sit down and bay. After counting how may hog he bayed to how many he ran off I got rid of him. The man that got him loved him and breed him to everything that would hold still, he made quite a name for himself but he was used mostly in a pen because the man was up there in years and like I said he always looked like he was doing just what you wanted him to do.

So at the end of the day you have to grade your dog’s skill level in the woods some make the cut and some dont even if the look like they do everything right.

In response to mountaincurs. I use to hunt a place just under 40,000 acres mostly fields, vegetable farms or cattle. Not much thick other than palmetto’s the boy I hunted with worked on the ranch and was always on the lookout for hog sign. One day he found a good track and we hunted that area it was a strand of trees about 100 yards wide and surrounded with open fields or vegetabel farms. We jumped that hog off and on for the next three months. Every time he would leave out to the north and we would see him big red boar hog. About 2500-3000 yards was another very large ranch and that is where he would head. We tried everything to stop him short of shooting at him when he crossed the feild but as soon as we bumped him it was a foot race in that open country. One night we pulled up to the same head and the dogs bayed solid. We had a German Shorthair pointer and a Cur puppy on the ground (the same two dogs had jumped him many a night before). We let them bay for a few minutes to see if he was going to break and then turned the catch dog lose. I always wondered what made him bay up that night and every other night he had rockets attached to him.

I do beleive some dogs push a hog into breaking and some dogs just comand the attention of the hog better for some reason but sometimes it may be the hog that is reacting differently for what ever reason.

Good Hunting

[12-GAUGE]

To answer your question, YES! If your dog can't find and bay a hog by itself, get a better dog. A lot of hogs will not want to run near as bad with just one dog on the ground.

[broncobilly]

I would say it depends almost as much on the hogs and the country as on the dogs.

Most dogs can bay up some hogs by themselves.

Some dogs can bay up most hogs by themselves.

No dog can bay up every hog by himself.

Good luck

Bill A. Brockman

[halfbreed]

thar you go bronco just put it in a nutshell for ya !!.. now we talking sows with little piggys or big ol bad boar hogs . had an ol cat that could do it all find bay an catch but man he sure took a beatin .

[TBICE]

Thanks for all yalls answers I'm going to take him out this weekend he is just now getting to no me and I'll let y'all no how he does

[willyk]

One dog will bay a hog fine in the woods. The only thing that MAKES a hog run is a dog trying to catch and cant hold the hog. A hog is going to run until he is ready to find a bay and fight plane and simple. Open or silent, tight or loose does not matter its all about if the dog has the drive to stay with the hog until it decides to stop and fight.

[txswamphunter]

yes one dog can bay a hog , if the dog knows what he is doing