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!

Long breaks

Sorry that I haven't been updating like I should. You guys haven't really missed much except a couple good teeth and several pigs. I promise that I will get back in to it this weekend. We haven't been hunting on Sunday's on account of church, and the same will be for this weekend. I hope that I have a great story for y'all and some even greater pics!!

Just a few random pics of what y'all have missed :) Remember, these are all separate mornings!!

Sawyer's newest pet, Dots :)

Chiwa was proud    of his two hogs!! So he decided he should ride in the front :)

 She wasn't too fond of him being alive :)

Crazy water-filled weekends

I'm not going to waste any time with these stories because it has been a long rough weekend.

Last weekend: Saturday we caught one big barr right off the bat. He cut Whitey DEEP on the cheek. Today was the first day he's been remotely able to hunt since then. We caught 2 more little pigs later on, but Travis was alone when he caught them, so I have no stories for them.

After our long morning we headed to                                                Stockton for the Wild Hog Round-Up

 

 

Sunday was just as rough. We had some long runners, but finally ended up with two. We caught the big boar in a briar thicket. He tried to put us out the dog business, but they're tougher than he was.

 

 

Yeah.... he's cool

 The briars tried to eat Henry ALIVE!!

 

This weekend was not any better.

Saturday ended up being just me, dad, and James. We ended up with 2. Stopped hunting and was back at the truck by 9:30. Our first bay was in the middle of a slew and dad was wet and miserable lol so we called it a day early.

We had to rig :)

 

And today we ended up with six, but I only got a picture of our first boar we caught this morning IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ALLIGATOR POND!!

 He doesn't look very big in the pics but he was about 120 pounds.

 





Weekend of Mother's Day

First of all, let's just begin by mentioning that I graduated college this Friday! Kinda a big deal lol

Anyway, Saturday was a day of remembrance... Started with a large crowd and ended the day with 5. First hog we got on was long winded in a thick THICK briar thicket. He ran for at least an hour and for some reason my favorite bay dog, Tanner, just dropped off my tracker... turns out she ran the hog straight into the run and must have kept him bayed in the middle of the Tombigbee for at least an hour and a half. Needless to say, the water drained her of any and all energy. The next bay was a quick and pretty easy one. It took both bulldogs, but we got him down...

Our last catch was the most eventful... We emptied the dog box. I mean we weren't really planning on catching anything else, so why not? Bad idea. Dogs bayed and it was on!! 200 yards in the dogs bayed a decent boar with teeth about the size of the one pictured above. I was going back for a bulldog when someone released him for me. If any of you have paid attention to my love of my dog you'll know that that upset me a bit, but it is what it is. He CANNOT swim. They were bayed in the middle of a chest deep slew. Of course he caught and so I had to go in. I made it about halfway and an asthma attack took over me. There was no bottom to this slew. The more you walked, the deeper you sunk into the mud. It was hard walking anyway because there were logs and who knows what else under that nasty water. There was nothing I could do but hit my knees and try to catch my breath. About that time a random dog came up behind me and stepped on my legs... scared me to death!! I thought he was an alligator or something. Henry had the hog. Charlie came to me and I was trying to hold him up, but still hadn't caught my breath. I ABSOLUTELY HATE HANDING HIM OFF TO SOMEONE ELSE. This time I didn't have a choice. Henry got scared for me and turned the hog loose. I got scared cause there was a loose hog in the slew with us. Anyway, the hog ended up being killed and Henry came to me. He took Charlie from me, handed him off to someone else, and he helped me back out to dry land. Little did I know that WHOEVER had taken Charlie off had stuck him under the water to make him turn loose. You talk about a mad wet hen?? Yeah, that was me!

Anyway, the split group of us caught two more, but I don't know the stories behind them...

Here are our group pics :)

Henry and his youngest daughter, Aubrey

Me and Dad

Me and James

Me and Aubrey (in her snake leggings lol)

And then there are these pics.... I'm a little concerned about us....

Mud hat!! :)

 I don't even know... Haha

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday (Mother's Day) was pretty calm. We ended up with 4. Simple easy bays and quick too!

Some may call us old dumb hicks, but we don't care. We have good clean fun and feed our families (as well as many others) in the process.