Traveled to McCook last Thursday to do a little hunting of some hogs that had never been dogged. They had never seen a dog but they certainly knew what a pickup and rifle was. We were hunting in a 1200 acre bloc of crp that was surrounded by cropland. The hogs were coming out in the crops at night and wrecking havoc. All we had to do was drive on the downwind side of the desert willow thickets and when the dogs would bark(usually Quirt) let them go and it wouldn't be but a couple of minutes we were bayed. Let catch dogs go and catch the pig. No breaking, running or anything. Not even any thorns to mess with. In all we caught 15 hogs with the largest being a 175 lb boar. When I left Sunday morning all the dogs were sore footed, including me.

Here is what the country looked like.





The rig






some action shots











I didn't get any pictures in the willow thickets because all you see was bushes.

One day I'm gonna have to do a dog-hog hunt with a knife or spear.

And I can't quite explain it, but I do love seeing those dogs up-armored like that.

what do you do with them once the are caught?

Awesome work!!

love that hogdoggin

Great job duckman!!!

Posted 01 April 2010 20:04 Hide Post
(what do you do with them once they are caught.)

I eat what I can and give away the rest.

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love that hogdoggin

I started doing this 25 yrs ago. I am 65 yrs old and I intend to keep it up as long as I can. However, if I think I am a liability to the dogs, I will quit.