Alright, I told you guys I'd have better news to report tonight. Forgive me if I make typos cause im beat down right now. Just got home about an hour and a half ago. Alright I'm gonna start this
I woke up at 6 and got to the hunting area around 630 to meet my friends who came down with two trucks full of dogs. I think we had 18 dogs total. About half of them were pups, all under a year old and were just learning to hunt. Most of my friends dogs are from his bull/hound line, there was a few catahoula mixes and a pure catahoula. Some airedale/curs. And a bunch of other dogs, a pure pit, pit/brittany spaniel (best dog ive ever seen or heard of). Anyways after I signed my name in the checkin box I seen someone had hunted the day or night before us. There was a lost dog at the check in box and we threw him in our cage after we unloaded the dogs (The owner came back for the dog and left a thank you note on the truck). About 10 minutes up the trail we had just gone through the first bamboo patch and we saw where someone had killed a pig the day before. There was still a skin and a head with the top ivorys intact. It looked like a nice 120lb boar judging from the size of the skin. My friends aged it to around 6 years old from looking at the wear on the adult molars.
We kept going praying that the dogs hadnt chased out all the pigs the day before. We went through a banana patch, crossed a small stream, and about 300 yards of buffalo grass, going through the bamboo we saw tracks of a good sized boar from earlier in the morning. right after going through the buffalo grass we noticed my friends bull/brittany was gone along with the other lead dog an airedale/cur. We heard a few yips from up above us and answered to the barks we took off running through waist high white ginger. after about 200 yards of this we stopped and listened, no more barks but we only had about 5 or 6 of the 18 dogs with us at this point. the dogs were out chasing somewhere and shouild have a pig pinned soon. Unfortunately slowly but surely the dogs started coming back, the younger pups coming back after about 10-20 minutes and the lead dogs coming back after about 45 minutes.
We kept pushing and crossed the main river, my friend fell in with his sks and almost dropped it. after getting up into the next rose apple and mountain apple patch there was sign everywhere. fresh diggings, cuttings, prints....we told my friend with the sks to wait at the river crossing on one of the main trails. Our other friend waited about 400 yards up the trail and me and my friend pushed farther with the 30/30. About 5 minutes past my second friend we heard the bull/brittanys patented "I found a pig" yip! It was coming from under a cliff face in a kukui nut flat about a 30 minute walk straight up some steep pali. I ran back to my friend in the middle with all the dogs we had with me and we pushed them a little ways towards the yip. All of a sudden we hear my friend on the radio "i just had a biiiig boar run straight by me" So we all ran up to him with the dogs and they couldnt find nothing.
We kept going, crossed the river one more time and came into another huge mountain apple patch. I pushed past all my friends and heard a bark from down the trail back towards my friends. Then I heard them tangle him up in the uluhe fern. he got away and worked his way up about 100 yards up a ridge and i could hear them tangle him again, this time I could hear a lot more barking and my friend yelling. I got there right after they stuck it with the knife, thing was still kicking and shoving dogs around. It was about a 200lb pig which is a full grown mature boar over here, had about 3" tusks really thick at the base and bright white. After we got all the dogs off the pig we were checking all the dogs for cuts, we though we checked them all and we got off free and then we saw Kahu. He had a 3inch L shaped gash in his throat and a 2" hole in his chest and a hole all the way to the bone in the shoulder. There was a steady flow coming from his neck and my friend grabbed it to stop the bleeding. After about 5 minutes it slowed and we layed him down. At this point I thought there was no way this dog was surviving. WE let all the dogs rest for about an hour and fed kahu some rice and the heart from the hog. We tied the pig into a backpack with its back legs tied to its front and I couldn't even lift the thing.
kahu was walking fine on 3 legs and his bleeding had stopped but his mouth and gums were still deathly white. my friend was sure the dog would survive at this point so We tied him next to the hog and kept pushing up the valley. About 30 minutes later we heard my friends airedale/cur chop...ar ar ar from up high again they chased the pig down, across the river, up the other side of the valley, down again, across the river and caught him not far from where he first ran. The same guy got there first and got to blade this pig too. Only two dogs had the pig caught at first and one of them had two small pokes under his mouth but they were small and the dog kept hunting. This pig was another boar, about 150lbs, 4" ivory. Biggest tusks I've seen yet on a boar. We got him gutted out and dragged to the other pig. From here it was a 3 mile hike across lantana, ginger, uluhe fern, hou bush, rocky rivers back tot he truck. We took turns carrying the two pigs out and it took us about 4 hours. The dogs chased again on the way back to the truck but never sopped the pig.
We got out around 4:30 and headed to my friends house for some cool refreshments and to do some pig skinning. All the meat is in my friends fridge right now waiting to get smoked and go into the imu. I cannot wait...ono
I took pictures but they're on a disposable camera...I have 15 more shots left on it but when I take them ill put them up for you guys...heres a picture of the valley I hunted...We were up past where you can see on the left though.
Evan
I woke up at 6 and got to the hunting area around 630 to meet my friends who came down with two trucks full of dogs. I think we had 18 dogs total. About half of them were pups, all under a year old and were just learning to hunt. Most of my friends dogs are from his bull/hound line, there was a few catahoula mixes and a pure catahoula. Some airedale/curs. And a bunch of other dogs, a pure pit, pit/brittany spaniel (best dog ive ever seen or heard of). Anyways after I signed my name in the checkin box I seen someone had hunted the day or night before us. There was a lost dog at the check in box and we threw him in our cage after we unloaded the dogs (The owner came back for the dog and left a thank you note on the truck). About 10 minutes up the trail we had just gone through the first bamboo patch and we saw where someone had killed a pig the day before. There was still a skin and a head with the top ivorys intact. It looked like a nice 120lb boar judging from the size of the skin. My friends aged it to around 6 years old from looking at the wear on the adult molars.
We kept going praying that the dogs hadnt chased out all the pigs the day before. We went through a banana patch, crossed a small stream, and about 300 yards of buffalo grass, going through the bamboo we saw tracks of a good sized boar from earlier in the morning. right after going through the buffalo grass we noticed my friends bull/brittany was gone along with the other lead dog an airedale/cur. We heard a few yips from up above us and answered to the barks we took off running through waist high white ginger. after about 200 yards of this we stopped and listened, no more barks but we only had about 5 or 6 of the 18 dogs with us at this point. the dogs were out chasing somewhere and shouild have a pig pinned soon. Unfortunately slowly but surely the dogs started coming back, the younger pups coming back after about 10-20 minutes and the lead dogs coming back after about 45 minutes.
We kept pushing and crossed the main river, my friend fell in with his sks and almost dropped it. after getting up into the next rose apple and mountain apple patch there was sign everywhere. fresh diggings, cuttings, prints....we told my friend with the sks to wait at the river crossing on one of the main trails. Our other friend waited about 400 yards up the trail and me and my friend pushed farther with the 30/30. About 5 minutes past my second friend we heard the bull/brittanys patented "I found a pig" yip! It was coming from under a cliff face in a kukui nut flat about a 30 minute walk straight up some steep pali. I ran back to my friend in the middle with all the dogs we had with me and we pushed them a little ways towards the yip. All of a sudden we hear my friend on the radio "i just had a biiiig boar run straight by me" So we all ran up to him with the dogs and they couldnt find nothing.
We kept going, crossed the river one more time and came into another huge mountain apple patch. I pushed past all my friends and heard a bark from down the trail back towards my friends. Then I heard them tangle him up in the uluhe fern. he got away and worked his way up about 100 yards up a ridge and i could hear them tangle him again, this time I could hear a lot more barking and my friend yelling. I got there right after they stuck it with the knife, thing was still kicking and shoving dogs around. It was about a 200lb pig which is a full grown mature boar over here, had about 3" tusks really thick at the base and bright white. After we got all the dogs off the pig we were checking all the dogs for cuts, we though we checked them all and we got off free and then we saw Kahu. He had a 3inch L shaped gash in his throat and a 2" hole in his chest and a hole all the way to the bone in the shoulder. There was a steady flow coming from his neck and my friend grabbed it to stop the bleeding. After about 5 minutes it slowed and we layed him down. At this point I thought there was no way this dog was surviving. WE let all the dogs rest for about an hour and fed kahu some rice and the heart from the hog. We tied the pig into a backpack with its back legs tied to its front and I couldn't even lift the thing.
kahu was walking fine on 3 legs and his bleeding had stopped but his mouth and gums were still deathly white. my friend was sure the dog would survive at this point so We tied him next to the hog and kept pushing up the valley. About 30 minutes later we heard my friends airedale/cur chop...ar ar ar from up high again they chased the pig down, across the river, up the other side of the valley, down again, across the river and caught him not far from where he first ran. The same guy got there first and got to blade this pig too. Only two dogs had the pig caught at first and one of them had two small pokes under his mouth but they were small and the dog kept hunting. This pig was another boar, about 150lbs, 4" ivory. Biggest tusks I've seen yet on a boar. We got him gutted out and dragged to the other pig. From here it was a 3 mile hike across lantana, ginger, uluhe fern, hou bush, rocky rivers back tot he truck. We took turns carrying the two pigs out and it took us about 4 hours. The dogs chased again on the way back to the truck but never sopped the pig.
We got out around 4:30 and headed to my friends house for some cool refreshments and to do some pig skinning. All the meat is in my friends fridge right now waiting to get smoked and go into the imu. I cannot wait...ono
I took pictures but they're on a disposable camera...I have 15 more shots left on it but when I take them ill put them up for you guys...heres a picture of the valley I hunted...We were up past where you can see on the left though.
Evan
