Puttin' Plenty of Meat in the Freezer

Saturday was a busy day. We didn't catch any monsters, but we ended up with 4 on Saturday and 5 on Sunday. There's not a really an elaborate story to any of it, so it'll be mostly pictures. We never let any meat to go waste, no matter how big or how small!

Aubrey putting in some hard work pulling that hog out!

Practicing her cheerleading with out home-made pom-poms... had to use some hog legs lol

Big boy from Saturday

Eats just as good as all the rest

The boys are focused on those barking dogs

Nothing better than fresh tenderloins

Big girl from Sunday... Cleaning hogs is getting to be a routine experience for us these days.

Even the littlest ones don't go to waste

Snake one of two from Saturday

Piglet from Sunday

Snake one of Sunday

Big momma from Sunday

Sunday piglet

Giving Aubrey tying lessons in case of Emergency!

It's all about family and friends! If we can feed some folks in the process then that's even better!!

Chiwa to the rescue!!

I moved to Gulf Shores this weekend, so I almost didn't make it to the Sunday hunt... ALMOST!! We decided we'd make a quick run to Blue Rock. We put Hound Dog, Whitey, Chiwa, and Rick out on the ground and make a quick trip out to the field. Next thing we knew, they had made a bee line to a little side patch, and out came a decent sized hog while the boys were running another one. So, I put my girl Tanner on the ground and away she went. 5 miles later we caught back up with them. The boys had jumped the track they were on and got in with Tanner. They had him bayed solid about 120 yards from the ranger. When I heard Henry and ever body make it to the hog I started calling dogs off. Tanner came back and Whitey too. I saw Chiwa and then all of a sudden he took a hard turn to the left and about 5 minutes later he was bayed again. I didn't know what he had so I sent Tanner and Whitey too him. Caught hog number 2! Never saw Chiwa and 20 minutes later he finally stopped the third one and was bayed again. We finally found a place to cross the slew and sent Rolo and Tip to him. Caught hog number 3!!

This is the first black boar from the field.

 second relay hog

 

 This is the third relay hog and what the kids had to go through to get it :)

 Me and Chiwa and his two hogs he bayed alone!

 After all of that excitement died down, we bayed one more time before we called it quits... about 200 yards through a briar patch, but the reward was worth it.

After this bad boy, we called it a day so that I could finish packing and make the move to GS. Hopefully, there will be more hogs to come next weekend.

Good Hog :)

Nothing major has really happened since I last posted. I will admit that we had a few skunker days. However, this hog deserves a post. Two Saturdays ago we bayed a decent hog with two of our seasoned dogs and about 6 puppies. As good as his teeth were, we only needed to use Jase. He is learning but he's not Charlie quality YET, but he will get there!

We also caught another black boar with pretty god size, but he didn't have any teeth on him.

We called it quits with those two on Saturday and ended with 3 pigs on Sunday.

No matter how big or how small, we don't let anything go to waste!!

This right here is what it's all about ladies and gentlemen. Family!! Family first! They were celebrating catching the spotted hog. We were all pretty proud of each other and our dogs!