Not Your Average Pig!
Backwoods Hog Hunters were hard at it tonight. It seems that everyone is having problems with hogs ruining their bait sites and food plots. Mr. Hochstetler shall not be on that list any longer, aleast for a little while longer!
Stopping by Allens General Store the other day, Mr. Hochstetler found out that we're hog removers. He talked a bit with Brian and set up time for us to come remove a trouble hog that had been on the lose for about a year. He informed us the feral hog had torn up pretty much a whole corn field right by himself, and was well on his way to getting about 2 acres of a soybean field.
Well being the good samaritans that we are, we loaded up a couple of bay dogs and hit the road! The plan was to bay this big boy with two dogs and let my late Papa's 22 long rifle do the talking.
After walking around about 30 mins. where Mr. Hochstetler thought ole Porky should be living, we just couldn't find him. We decided to go ahead and make the last bend around the field. I looked down at my Garmin tracking system and watched the dogs leave the country. Leaving the country for us is anything past 400 yards. If they go past 300 yards we start getting ready by stepping up the pace. Cause usually at 400-450 yards we have bacon! With that being said, the dogs are now at 450 yards and bayed. BAM!!!
While fighting the briars and bobwire, Mr. Hochstetler and I made our way to the bay. We were just a little worried that it may not be the 450lb hog we had set out after, only because in the direction Zoey and Maye were tracking, there was a goat pasture!
After 5 mins of fast pace walking we arrived to find that is was ole Porky. He had aready cut Zoey, but just could'nt get away. We jumped yet another bobwire fence and everything went as planned. Another " Big Hog Down!"
Stopping by Allens General Store the other day, Mr. Hochstetler found out that we're hog removers. He talked a bit with Brian and set up time for us to come remove a trouble hog that had been on the lose for about a year. He informed us the feral hog had torn up pretty much a whole corn field right by himself, and was well on his way to getting about 2 acres of a soybean field.
Well being the good samaritans that we are, we loaded up a couple of bay dogs and hit the road! The plan was to bay this big boy with two dogs and let my late Papa's 22 long rifle do the talking.
After walking around about 30 mins. where Mr. Hochstetler thought ole Porky should be living, we just couldn't find him. We decided to go ahead and make the last bend around the field. I looked down at my Garmin tracking system and watched the dogs leave the country. Leaving the country for us is anything past 400 yards. If they go past 300 yards we start getting ready by stepping up the pace. Cause usually at 400-450 yards we have bacon! With that being said, the dogs are now at 450 yards and bayed. BAM!!!
While fighting the briars and bobwire, Mr. Hochstetler and I made our way to the bay. We were just a little worried that it may not be the 450lb hog we had set out after, only because in the direction Zoey and Maye were tracking, there was a goat pasture!
After 5 mins of fast pace walking we arrived to find that is was ole Porky. He had aready cut Zoey, but just could'nt get away. We jumped yet another bobwire fence and everything went as planned. Another " Big Hog Down!"
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