caught a good one this morning

[muddawg]

290 lbs., 2 inch cutters and 2 .5 inch witters.

[Bucktales]

Now thats a whole lot of bacon. Congrats.

[deerslayer11]

I wish we had more of them around here. They are slowly getting closer to where I hunt.

[muddawg]

We can fix you up with some nice russian grade pigs to turn out. LOL

[flhuntress]

beefy lil guy....congrats!!! ;D

[scooter]

Nice hog, did you catch him with dogs? I notice he has small ears and they are not cut or bitten. Looks like he was not caught by the ears. I see blood under his chest. Was he trapped?
Scooter

[muddawg]

I can guarantee he was caught alive with dogs. If you have good dogs that stop hogs fast and you ain't skeered of a hog and get there fast yourself you don't gnaw the ears off if them. There was a bulldog caught on the chest and that is where the blood is from. You should have seen his nads and booty hole. We don't trap, we don't shoot em. we catch em all live with dogs. All that shooting em mess is for sissys and the faint of heart. LOL All our traps have 4 legs and teeth. Our dogs aren't usually on a hog for more than 2 -5 minutes before we have the hog thrown and the dogs off it. All that ear chewing off it caused by dogs that have to chase em a mile or more from the hunters before they stop em, hunters that are scared to go in on a hog unless there are 4 or 5 catchdogs on it, and hunters who leave the dogs on the hog until it is completely tied. Soon as we leg a hog folks start getting the catchdogs off and we are usually within 100-200 yards of the hog when it is caught. Also a good catchdog don't shake and tear a hog to heck and back, He catches and holds without ripping. There was bulldogdog on each ear, a dog on the chest and one gnawing the rear end on the hog. Heck, we can catch 10 lb. pigs and our dogs won't kill em, they just catch and hold em. It's called GOOD DOGS.

[scooter]

No need to be all defensive about it. Well it sounds like you are hunting in an area where the hogs are thick and you can walk up close to them with dogs that catch, that is if you are only 100 to 200 yards from them when the hog is caught. Unfortunately the places that I have hunted in my life you have to have dogs that hunt and go find a hog or trail a track. That my friend is a dog that hunts. I always laugh when people tell me they have dogs that hunt, when truly they have dogs that go about 100 yards and catch a hog. Unlike you I do not have a catchdog, nor do I hunt with a gun unless I am by myself. My baydogs are my catchdogs, they are plotts and catahoulas. They work together and bay a hog until the dogs are ready to catch.

[bayedsolid]

I know that I'm new here...and it would be nice to remain a while....but there was no way I could pass this one up even if it means this is my one and only post. I'm a hog hunter....always have been. Being a hog hunter, I know just what goes down when you catch hogs so I can't be BS-ed about doggin hogs. I'm not knocking the boar, as it is definately a nice one, but Muddog, you must be 5'-1" and have a serious case of little man's syndrome. Where do I start???

If you have good dogs that stop hogs fast and you ain't skeered of a hog and get there fast yourself you don't gnaw the ears off if them.

What does gnawing the ears off of them have anything to do with having good dogs...or being scared--I mean skeered-....or stopping them fast??? I catch hogs all the time by myself with sometimes just one bay dog and one catch dog. They're stopped quick and I don't let the catch dog go until I'm less than 20 yards away. I've yet to catch one with ears as pretty as those with dogs on them less than 30 seconds. Who are you kidding?

Our dogs aren't usually on a hog for more than 2 -5 minutes before we have the hog thrown and the dogs off it. All that ear chewing off it caused by dogs that have to chase em a mile or more from the hunters before they stop em, hunters that are scared to go in on a hog unless there are 4 or 5 catchdogs on it, and hunters who leave the dogs on the hog until it is completely tied. Soon as we leg a hog folks start getting the catchdogs off and we are usually within 100-200 yards of the hog when it is caught.

Hell, where do I start?? First off, if a dog is chasing a hog for a mile or more they certainly aren't chewing it's ears off. Second, I've never met a guy that is a serious dogger that does this all the time be scared of a hog. Third, it doesn't take 4 or 5 catchdogs to chew up 2 ears on a hog. It takes 1 dog about 1/2 of a second. Once they bite an ear....even for a split second....the thing is torn up. Don't believe me??? Just get a quick bite on the hand from a dog and look at it. It doesn't take 4 or 5 catchdogs half an hour to tear your hand up now does it? Fourth....if you are usually within 100-200 yards of a hog when it is caught, you are running straight catchdogs. A straight pit or bulldog out of the pound will do better than that and I guarantee the ears are going to be a little marked up. Fifth---you are 100-200 yards from the hog and it takes you 2-5 minutes to get there? Hell, I can cover 1/2 mile on a bad day in 2-5 minutes. What are you doing?

Also a good catchdog don't shake and tear a hog to heck and back, He catches and holds without ripping.

Where do you come up with this stuff?

There was bulldogdog on each ear, a dog on the chest and one gnawing the rear end on the hog. Heck, we can catch 10 lb. pigs and our dogs won't kill em, they just catch and hold em. It's called GOOD DOGS.

So you mean that you have 4 dogs running that are capable of stopping the biggest and baddest of the boars, yet they'll all just gently hold a piglet the size of one of your dogs heads without tearing it up? I swear...it's posts like these that make me want to find the creator of the internet and kick him square in the nuts. I do appologise to everyone else for coming on here like this with my first post but I just couldn't let this go. I suppose if he was just full of it I might just move on but his God complex was choking me out and I couldn't believe that he was getting away with it. I didn't know that being a hog hunter made you such a badass. I've been missing out all these years thinking I was just a regular guy.

[scooter]

Bayedsolid,

You are right on the money! That hog was not caught (at least by the ears) with two catchdogs or four. Posted pictures of a hog caught and tied are just pictures. The pictures allow the opportunity for a writer to create a story. I often wondered why nobody else repied to this forum. I thank you for answering and I appreciate your honesty, I always admire a man that can tell it how it is.

Scooter

[muddawg]

That hog was caught and tied using 2 track dogs and 2 catchdogs. I haven't trapped a hog in years, haven't shot one in years and I've hunted hogs on and off since 1978. Yeah, we run rough track dogs, my track dog will catch anything under about 150 lbs. by herself and like I said, we are usually within a couple minutes of the dogs when they catch cause we keep up with them using the tracking unit for direction. There's always some smart azz though that tries to discredit you. Between me and my brother, we have caught 13 boars this year around or over 200 lbs., doubled up on several hunts, only had 1 die and he drowned after he was caught and we were trying to get him out of the creek. We don't take a gun either, don't need to. Here's some of the DOG CAUGHT boars from this year, and they all have their ears. Proof is in the pics.

This one drowned in the creek while trying to get him out. Killed one dog and sent another to the vet.


Two boars caught one night


Another double header on 200 + lb. boars


Another good un!


This un killed a dog and cut up 2 more. Pic of him in our holding pen.



This one weighed 290 and is a pic in our pen after we caught him.


This un weighed 290 also.




1st big un we caught in January

[hunt4fun1]

Good pigs bro!!

[Bucktales]

Ok, I'll ask the dumb question, there's not much hog hunting in Michigan. So you catch yourself a hog, and you tie him up. You take him home, put him in a pen, then what? Im assuming you butcher them? Im told you cant beat it for table fare. Why not shoot them in the field?

[muddawg]

We sell some big boars to hunting preserves but 90% of what we catch we end up turning loose near the house to keep the populations up. We will eat a barr if we catch one or a young boar up to about 120 lbs. and they are great eating. We make sa8usage out of big ole sows. We turn loose all the russian hogs and eat the feral looking hogs.