Post by ike on Nov 1, 2009 22:36:13 GMT -5
The box blew up on this young boar, but there wasn't any tracks on the road so I walked upwind forty ir fifty yards and there that track was. When I say the box blew up I mean all six dogs were in the box.......
A good boar track that had melt in it and frozen, and the question was how old? We had the dogs up on top on this rig, but the rig indicated a day or two old track and the question came should we dump?
I thought I'd show off Griz just a little, a five year old that came out of my old blue Ryan dog. This photo of him rigging was of that big, old, boar track pictured above. When Griz gets those long legs a moving a bear or lion is in alot of trouble!
I took a hunter out Saturday and rigged a nice 4 1/2" wide boar with the dogs in the box, six inches of snow on the ground and the bear had not come to the road. Walked off and found the track, measured it and decided the boar was in the same area and of the same size of a bear we'd caught and turned loose in September on dry ground. My hunter said he'd just as soon not kill a bear if it wasn't a big one, and we'd looked at this bear and called it 220 to 240 and a four year old boar, so we drove on.
I put the dogs up a little later in the morning and rigged and cut a nice boar over five inches wide, only problem was it was melted out and frozen and probably a day or two old. You know how a guy always thinks or hopes a bear or lion didn't go far and made a kill or climbed into den right? Well, my experience has shown me that seldom does that happen. And dumping on that big boar track was a mistake.......
Well, us hounddoggers always get weak and stupid when it comes to big tracks so I shipped those hounds around 10:30 AM. We cut in behind the dogs around 2:30 PM and could hear them cold trailing ahead of us in a place minus roads. Ten miles later we got back to the truck and no dogs or bear. We did get lucky and picked up three dogs after dark on a road, then wheeler twenty miles in on Sunday and walked another seen to pick up two more dogs, still no bear. We picked up the last dog where we kicked them out around 2:00 PM today and made it home before dark. To top it off ol' Ike feels like he has a little rig sittin in from all that four wheeler and walking stuff.
Now the young boar was a killer and catchable, and the old boar wasn't, so don't ask me why a hounddogger isn't smart enough to drive on............
ike