Hog hunting with dogs?

Done it several times.

Tracking collars and cut vests.
Cur dogs and catch dogs.
Ride on side by sides till the curs bay one. Then chase the catch dogs and kill piggy with a knife.

Primal, intense and fun.

Nothing like seeing those big catch dogs work.

Any reason for not carrying at least a pistol to kill the hog with?


I am not very familiar with hog hunting.

Ok. So you just hunt them and run the dogs for the sport of it.


Do the dogs ever chase something they aren't suppose to instead of a hog?


I guess no ooncerns for bears or sasquatches then.

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What kind of catch dogs do y'all use?

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American Bulldogs.

Amazing beasts. Beautiful to see them work. Most of the curs could probably catch but it's risky getting them cut or killed.

I use to do it more regularly. The guy who had the dogs has downsized. I have no need for them really. I haven't had a population worth hunting with dogs in 5-6 years. He had pit mixes & Bulldogs that people have away. A good trained dog won't go after anything besides a hog because that's all they know to hunt. When they get into the small pigs they'll break the necks & keep hunting looking for other hogs. It's actually quite interesting to watch them work. You get a bunch of untrained dogs & they will start running deer. I let a guy (I knew he had shitty dogs) run his dogs 1 time and they started running does through the swamp. I was nice about it but he has never hunted again.

We used to do it all the time at our place, it was a kick in the arse. Had them running alongside the truck until you heard them bay one, then you let go the pitbull to grab ahold of them. Someone went in and grabbed the back legs and someone else would stick a knife behind their shoulder.

Unfortunately one of the few times my pops went out with us one of the dogs pushed a nice buck across the road and was hot on his trail. He put an end to it after that.

Pretty much sums it up. We run Blue Lacy dogs to trail and bay, and then Let the Dogo's catch. Good thing about the Dogo is they can also run a good distance without being to winded by the time to catch comes.

They are good at what they do, and pretty much fearless. Great family dogs also. Kinda remind me of a boxer when it comes to family.

We use dogs with some sort of hound in them so they'll run better where we are the hogs will cover some ground. It's usually catahoulas mixed with plot or walker as bay dogs, no vest for them. They have tracking collars on and we usually stay in the ranger with the bulldogs, but try and stay semi close. The 2 pits both have vest on.

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So most of you who stick the pig on the spot do so while legging the pig? Y'all don't even bother with typing it up? Y'all flip it and stick it and just let it bleed out while your knee is on its neck holding it down?

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I've gone a couple times with a friend who has dogs. That is what we did, grab and stick with knife, throw on back of 4 wheeler and take back to camp and skin.