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Our family owns a fairly-large farm in northeast TX & we have a "contracted hog trapper" out of NW OK, who catches the hogs & quarterly sends us a check for our piece of "the take".
(My late Mother called it: My Christmas Fund.)
We've NOT had a "hog problem" since "Rachel Anne & hubby" showed up & started trapping.
yours, tex
When I was younger you got a good trail dog(one that could stick his nose in a track and trail it)Most of the time we used some type of cur dog or hound they would trail stop and bay the hogs then the fun would begin.Some times we would bay the same group of hogs several times.As far as hog hunting I have no use for a pit bull some people use them for catch dogs but a good cur dog or hound will do the same thing.My favorite dog was a Plott and curdog mix.The cur dog would make the plott hound run a little faster.The plott hound had one of the best tracking nose around.
I had a little Jagdterrier (German hunt terrier) she was to 'hard' to have done this, she would have locked on the side of ones head and stayed til death, she weighed 15 pounds on a UPS drivers truck scale, I seen her kill a Coon one time that was 25-30 pounds by herself, She drug it up out of a hole, locked together face to face, a friend of mines plot and a black tan hound stood back and bayed while my little dog killed it! LOL, She was BRUTAL!
I know a couple farm Jack Russell's that massacre groundhogs. It is terrifying to see the come back proud as can be, blood red from front to back. Other than that, sweetest little things.
Just got back from a 2 day hog hunt 17 hours in a vehicle from North Dakota - cost 9 of us $100.00 a day (each) which included brunch, a bunk house, main cabin and a ride to and from elevated stands over bait. Price seemed more than fair but no one saw a hog during daylight hours and none of us had any form of night vision. Much like a deer camp - some days are good, some not so good relative to seeing game but always a good time to be had by all.
In my opinion one needs to have others pushing them a bit to increase your chances of seeing them. After watching a video on calling hogs - might give that a go if there's a next time.
I had a Catahoula Leopard female that I tried to make a coon dog of. She would catch coons on the ground and kill them before they could get up a tree. She was mostly white so the blood looked awful but she never got a scratch. She only ever treed one time. When I got there she came off the tree and came by my side. It was near dark and I couldn't see the critter well but it was light colored and its tail was longer than it was.