Post by Crazydog on Feb 15, 2005 0:52:27 GMT -5
I have a question??? We hunt this one place that EVERY time we go we bay up huge groups of hogs. At least 60-100 hogs every time. They just won't break up. This land is mostly open country with very little brush at all. The dogs find and bay them up usually within 20 minutes out of the truck. You hear the dogs bark, then all you can hear are hogs grunting. The sound of the hogs drowns out the dogs barking. It sounds pretty spooky. My husband lost my pup (future leader of our pack) at this place and when I went back the next morning to look for him I walked up on a huge boar hog that had no fear of me at all. This hog was the largest hog I had ever seen in the wild. He had teeth that were about 3-4 inches out of his mouth. He stood waist high to me and I am 5 foot 10 inches tall. he was huge. He walked towards me and after I crawled the tree he layed under the tree. All I had was a cell phone with me. After about 30 minutes he got up and walked about 20 feet away from me and I crawled down and high tailed it back to the truck. I was only about 300 yards from the truck. On the way back to the truck, I saw about 20-25 hogs in the open field behind the truck. They paid no miind to me at all. Never ran at all. Just looked up adn then went about their business. These hogs never run and they never break up till the dogs catch one, thenn the group moves alittle farther away and stands there. We can not go there without more help than just me and him cause we get so tired of tieing hogs. We tied 14 in one night in 45 minutes there. All the hogs were in a 100 yard radius. The group never left that night either. We fianlly called our dogs off and left. We were exhausted !!! The land owner farms rice there and he basically feeds the hogs. We hunt it every night in grain season and catch hogs everynight. This is the only place that I have ever seen taht was like that. We went out last night and caught a sow that weighed approx 250 pounds 10 minutes out of the truck. We tied her, loaded her and was home in less than an hour and a half from the time we left our house. Granted it is a 15 minute drive from our home one way. It is the weirdest thing. The hogs have no fear and we have been hunting this place going on 3 years now. They never have split up. Guess they never will. Good thing our catch dogs honor the bay first. No littl ehogs either. Mostly 75 pounds and up. WAY UP ++++ Just wondering if anyone else is having this problem. Brandee
