My property is surrounded by Foster Timberland property where there are 3 related hunting clubs. Here is the middle part of the signs/flyers I've posted:
Here's a picture of Swimmer in a creek. His coat is fawn colored, and his muzzle and underside are white:
And here's a picture of him hunting with his dad and brother. All three dogs are shown at the bottom of the image pulling on a boar the dogs and I got on public land around 4 in the morning. Swimmer is in the middle, and his white mask is shown.
This boar stuck my gyp. It had 7 inch cutters (see below). My gyp is fine now, and still hunts, but believe me, cut collars and cut vests will not keep your dog from being stuck. They are cut resistant, not puncture proof.
The dog at the back is Blackie. He was taller and weighed more than dad shown there. About 2 weeks after this photo, my dogs found a large boar bedded down in a hiddy hole inside a large briar patch, late in the afternoon. Black stood in the boar's doorway barking and wouldn't move. He got hit so hard his stomach herniated. I got overworried and took him to a 24 hour vet I did not know. They repaired the hernia and sent him home the next day with 6 different meds but told me he could not keep water down. Black died that night. It broke my heart.
My dogs love to hunt. I'm so glad I spent so much time in the woods with Blackie and Swimmer. I still hunt at night, but I carry a Savage Hog Hunter in .308. My hunting revolver is backup. My dogs found this fat boar in a marsh hidding in 7-ft tall reed grass this past Monday night. My dogs aren't catch dogs. I have to go in and take the hogs with a brush gun or revolver. It's risky. I do it because my dogs were born to hunt this way and love doing it. I want to get Swimmer back.
If someone can help me get Swimmer back, there's a $100 reward and I'll also give this mounted boar trophy. These are from the boar that stuck my gyp. The cutters are 7 inches long.
