Damn, Rattlesnaker! I think you post these photos just to make me jealous! Great pictures. Looks like you had a great time, congrats.

We had a really good hunt. We caught 7 hogs in one morning hunt and another two (not in pictures) the day before. The pictures with the dogs on the hog don't really do justice to the size of that hog. He weighed over 200 lbs but he looks like a small pig in that picture. When I walked up to him, he turned his head and slung 2 dogs a good 3-4 feet in the air and bounced them off of that net wire fence. I thought they were going over the fence.

Rattlesnaker:

Damn, man! Some great pics! I'm green with envy. The DRSS hunted in Crowell, Texas this past April and we only bagged two bad boys. We need to come hunt with you next time!

Congrats!

Dude from this and your other post you are a hog killing machine!

We had one that got away from us though. Right after I killed the boar in the picture with the dogs on him, the dogs took off after another boar hog, even though I could tell that several dogs had been cut. You can see the dog on the far left with a cut on her right front leg in that picture. They quickly bayed up the other boar and when I went into the brush they caught him. However, because 4 of the dogs had been cut by one of the previous boars and we'd been hunting them hard for about 6 hours now, I was worried that they wouldn't be able to hold him for long. I was right, as he started slinging dogs off in both directions as I walked in to face him. He tossed a couple of dogs at least 10 feet. Then he broke and ran right by me before I could get a shot off. I ran out of the brush to the road and watched him hit a net wire fence at full steam and just plow through it like it wasn't even there. Another guy was standing right there and he took a quick shot at him but didn't hit him. We stopped the dogs from going after him at the hole in the fence because we were worried about how bad some of them had been cut. These dogs won't always quit a hog when they need to. Luckily all cuts were OK and we stiched them up and they'll be ready to go in a few days.

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Rattlesnaker:

Damn, man! Some great pics! I'm green with envy. The DRSS hunted in Crowell, Texas this past April and we only bagged two bad boys. We need to come hunt with you next time!

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We primarily hunt with dogs and occasionally spotlight them in open fields at night. We don't do much rifle hunting for hogs. If I see a hog in the field, and I have the dogs with me, I'd rather turn them loose and let them chase him down and catch him than shoot him with a rifle. Of course rifles in the brush are useless 99% of the time.

We killed 6 more hogs last night out in the same sunflower field. About 10 more got away from us. No pics.

Danm good hunt Rattlesnaker. I've been hunting hogs for 10 years now here in Central/South Texas and while I've killed a bunch of hogs I've never gotten one with nice enought teeth to get mounted. That's a major goal for me right now, I'd love to get a nice tusker for the wall.

Nice work !!

Rattlesnaker:

look's like u had a great time.

nice dog's

Rattlesnaker, I grew up hunting coon, fox and coyote with hounds in north texas and seeing your pics brought back a flood of memories. We hunted coon with plotts, redbone, walker and some bluetick, and ran coyotes with july, trigg, and walker. What kind of dogs do you hunt your hogs with? It looked like a couple black and tans and several july hounds in the pics. Also, just out of curiousity where are you hunting? I mostly hunt hogs now on the red river, living in Wichita county puts me right on it, but we mostly spot and stalk or hunt off stands. Are you casting your hounds before daylight or at dusk? I know this heat is hard on the hounds. We also hunted off mules for coon the last few years we hunted them.
Enjoyed the pics.

Good luck and good hunting;
Eterry

Rattlesnaker

Dang cool pictures.
You have some great hunting grounds there in the big lone state of yours.

I would like to hunt hogs in Texas one day.
Hunting in the day and Walker Texas Ranger life style at night.
Big steak and Tex-Mex side orders

Thanks for posting those great pictures.

I got some new knives that I will test with Juan Pozzi next time I go there.

Cheers,

André

Eterry,

The bloodline in most of our dogs is primarily blackmouth cur, with a small amount of hound. But none of them have more than 1/8 hound in them. A hound can run a hog for 5 miles and that makes hunting tough for many reasons. First, you had better be hunting on a very large place or have permission to at least get dogs from all of the neighbors. I won't go on to a neighbors place unless I have permission. Hounds have incredible drive and stamina but that means they can run forever. They also bark so much on trail that the hogs have a tendency to just keep running.

I hunt almost exclusively in south Texas. This time of year we take our dogs out early in the morning, say 4:00 am. We will hunt them until about 9:00 am but by then it is already getting hot. In the past, we've hunted off of horseback some but there are so many places that a horse can't go. Generally, these hogs run to the thickest, thorniest part of the ranch before they decide to stop and fight.