Friday I met two guys who I had met on another forum to go scout the ranch I hunt for Saturdays hog doggin hunt. They met me after I got off work and we headed out to the ranch. I went to all the spots where I normaly see hogs and no sign nowhere. I was very disappointed. I told Mike and Scott that I had one more spot to look at. So we jumped in our trucks and headed to it. We were about a quarter of a mile from it when I hear BANG! BANG! I look out my mirror and Mike and scott are standing next to their truck pointing their guns down this gulley.I stop my truck and get out. Just as I do a hog about 125 pounds runs out of the gulley and betwwen our trucks and runs into the orchard. I yell that a hog just ran into the almonds. They yell back that they just shot 2 hogs. I go over to them and they say they saw 8 hogs come out of the gulley, and that they shot 2. we find the first on on the hill on the other side of the gulley. He is about 60 to 70 pounds.
We go about 600 yards and find the other one in another block of orchard. As we go up to the 2nd one, we see the other six laying down about 100 feet away in the orchard. They saw us about the same time and high tailed it out of there. The hogs were bedding down in the gulley.This was about 5:30 pm. Unheard of! The hogs normaly bed on the property west of where we were. The owner of that property doesn't allow hunting, and the hogs know it. Normaly when the sun rises the hogs head west,The 2nd hog was just a little bigger. I cut both stomachs open and they were full of almonds. Seems the hogs are staying close to their food source.
The next morning we start just as it gets light and let the dogs loose. Mike's uncle Steven had a German Shorthair, a Catahoula, and a Mountain Cur. His friend Lu had a German Shorthair gyp and a Catahoula crossed on something that no one knew what. And I had my 1 year old Catahoula Buck. Steven, Scott and Lu stayed with the dogs and went up and over a hill. Mike and I, being of heroic proportions ( we're fat)Chose to walk around it. As we came around we see a hog around 150 pounds come out of the draw on the other side of the hill that the dogs went up. And then it ran in front of us about 25 yards away with Steve's GSP right behind it. I didn't shoot as I wanted to see the dogs catch it. The hog ran into the orchard and got away. When Steve caught up to us he was laughing. He said his GSP actualy pointed the hog before he flushed it. We didn't get a hog, but I had a great time.
We go about 600 yards and find the other one in another block of orchard. As we go up to the 2nd one, we see the other six laying down about 100 feet away in the orchard. They saw us about the same time and high tailed it out of there. The hogs were bedding down in the gulley.This was about 5:30 pm. Unheard of! The hogs normaly bed on the property west of where we were. The owner of that property doesn't allow hunting, and the hogs know it. Normaly when the sun rises the hogs head west,The 2nd hog was just a little bigger. I cut both stomachs open and they were full of almonds. Seems the hogs are staying close to their food source.
The next morning we start just as it gets light and let the dogs loose. Mike's uncle Steven had a German Shorthair, a Catahoula, and a Mountain Cur. His friend Lu had a German Shorthair gyp and a Catahoula crossed on something that no one knew what. And I had my 1 year old Catahoula Buck. Steven, Scott and Lu stayed with the dogs and went up and over a hill. Mike and I, being of heroic proportions ( we're fat)Chose to walk around it. As we came around we see a hog around 150 pounds come out of the draw on the other side of the hill that the dogs went up. And then it ran in front of us about 25 yards away with Steve's GSP right behind it. I didn't shoot as I wanted to see the dogs catch it. The hog ran into the orchard and got away. When Steve caught up to us he was laughing. He said his GSP actualy pointed the hog before he flushed it. We didn't get a hog, but I had a great time.
