Closing the Season with a Bang

Saturday was a pretty good day. It was our last day for this season at Woodsbluff Hunting Club. We started the morning off by running one hog about 70 or 80 pounds off in the river. What we didn't see was the alligator swimming right for our dogs. Dale unloaded 3 shots at him and went under. The dogs came halfway out when the gator resurfaced. Apparently they thought he was hog and they went out headed straight for him and he was headed straight for them. Dale shot 5 more times and the gator went under again. This time he was under long enough for us to get all the dogs back and I'm assuming he got a pretty good meal out of that hog.

We hadn't really seen much action from the time of the first hog till about 9:45. Dale and Tanner's dogs went on a run and they left us to go try and get them back. We hadn't been alone 5 minutes when all our dogs bayed. There was no squeal so we sent Jase in to them. Dad went in right after Jase and I gave him a few minutes grace period in case he needed Charlie. I never heard him call for Charlie, but I still never heard a squeal. So, in I went. Got in to the hog and he turned out to be a pretty decent hog.

It wasn't too long after we left that hog that the dogs bayed again. This time we were 900 yards and they were baying in the road. So, wide open we headed that way. We were going so fast that Dad drove right by the bay. Tanner stopped right at it and sent his bulldog in to catch. He was still a big hog, but he didn't have much teeth.

We called it a day after that. We hope to get in one last weekend at Blue Rock before we have to put the dogs up for deer season... but who knows?

We didn't run dogs Sunday, but we did catch a big boar and a sow in a trap that had been tearing an oat patch up...

There are 12 hogs in those 2 pictures... we got a lot of them out of the woods with those 2.