Hogs do save their own...

I have been hog bit several times but not cut. I did post pics of a cajun guy that had both thighs cut. A 60 pounder down deep in some tall palmettos got after junior as he went in to grab the ears. It went 'tween his legs and as it did it tossed his head to each side and in doing so he cut junior's new jeans from knee to knee completely along the seam. Junior was sure he had lost his 'nads but figgered shock kept him from feeling pain. Lucky for us both (I would have had to tell momma:eek:) his little 3/4 inch razor sharp tusks just got the denim!:D
Brent
 
HogDogs

I have relatives in Palm Coast... I my wife ever manages to drag me down I'd kill to go Hog Doggin (If could try that she wouldn't even have to drag me down).

Looks like fun
 
I am in the far west panhandle, I have an open invitation to anyone to come down for a try... No fees whatsoever and no guarantees but we try...
Brent
 
hogdogs, that's a mighty fine offer of hospitality on your part! Ever wanted to hunt anything in NY? The waterfowl action can be pretty kick ass late in the season, but you have to time it just right for the foul weather days...
 
My uncle hunted pigs with dogs for a great many years and I used to go with him when I was 10-14 years old. He has since given it up, but those were fun years. We always went at night-time, and you never knew what you were going to walk up on when you heard the dogs barking. He usually had a collection of 7 or 8 mutts, varying from labs to bulldog mixes, german shepherds, and even a great dane at one point. He lost several dogs over the years. The great dane was before my time, but I remember him telling me she got her throat cut by a pig. :eek:

In regards to the shooting out of choppers, there are some farmers around here that do that. I have a friend whose family farms thousands of acres of rice, and pigs are a big problem for them. It's not so much about the pigs eating the rice, but it's the damage they do to the levee's that keep the field flooded. One night of pigs walking over the same levee can drain a field, and water is not cheap! Last year they hired a guy with a chopper to take out some of the pigs, and he flew my friend and several others around for a couple days shooting AR15's. My friend has an SKS, but if you know anything about how far the ejected shell's fly from an SKS, you would understand why they do not work in a chopper. My buddy said the rotors on the chopper were green at the end of the hunt, from whacking trees.
-Dan
 
Scrap, I am a pure bred southerner (born in Marathon Fl and daddy was a park ranger for Bahia Honda state park)... I don't much care for cold and now my mucked up left arm and hand is even more sensitive than ever. Water fowl hunting sounds like a blast but I would only do it from a hot tub!:D traipsing around in snow or even weather under 40f is torture to me...

Snipecatcher, Most of our hunts are at night as well and more than one person has opted not to go when they realize this means spiders/snakes/gators are a routine...
But a cool thing was when junior spotted an older spotted fawn trying to stand still and got nearly close enuff with the red light on to pet it... Yer right... you never know what you will in the dark....
Brent
 
Hogdogs

I've watched a few hogdoggin' videos and don't quite understand why the hogdogger tends to pick up the hogs back legs... Is it so the dogs can get at the hogs throat better, or so the hog can't run so good, or both or something else???
Do the dogs mostly just find/catch the hog and you shoot it or do the dogs usually kill the hog?

I know, lots of questions, I'd just like to understand the details.
 
Picture the old "wheel barrow race" when you were in grade school... You could run on all fours. But the running is over. we describe it as it is safer to grab the stinky end than the pointy end.
Most guys lift and then twist their arms and this quickly gets most hogs on their side so we can quickly pull off dogs and tie up the hog. If the hog is big enuff or tuff enuff to resist this a second guy reaches under and jerks the front leg opposite the side he is on and pulls it out from under him.
I know one guy who runs in from the side and literally tackles any size hog and flips himself over as you want one knee on the neck and one right in front of the rear ham and you hold the lower 2 legs off the ground. The legs are too stiff to get footing with the high side legs. At this point we tie all four together.

Dogs rarely ever get the throat and I would frown on it if it was made habit as I want the hogs as healthy as possible. Typically the catch dog will get an ear and to a lesser degree, the jowl. Snout biters not only damage the hog but are in a good spot for a bad ending...

Some "bay" dogs will catch any pig/hog but most have a sort of limit. The catch dog (bull dog) will never hesitate on any hog or you won't be able to trust them. No "re-biting" allowed either as it is risky to all involved including the humans. And we don't take guns with us at all... Maybe a .22 pistol for snakes, 'dillars and rabbit if in season... but that is less than one percent of the time.
Brent
 
So do you haul them home and fatten them up for later slaughter or sale? Or do you tie them up so it's easier to bleed them properly?
 
I don't try to keep them long enuff to increase the size just a week or so to let them be calm. Calm down then slaughter. It does give me time to locate a buyer. I can sell a live hog and butcher it free but I cannot sell butchered meat.
Brent
 
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