RIP Larry the Lab

[JABIII]

One of the best hog dogs that I have ever hunted with was shot and killed on a hunt in the Wateree Swamp last week. People need to understand that dog hunts for hogs aren't deer drives. The only people that need to be carrying guns are the dog's owners. Everybody else can either stick them with the blade or go along for the ride and watch. Too many great dogs have been shot on bayed hog hunts. RIP Larry.

[Turd Ferguson]

RIP Larry

[PBiz]

Accident?

[LabLuvR]

Damn bubba I hate to hear that! WTF happened??

[JABIII]

Yeah is was an accident. Larry was the lead dog in a pretty good pack of dogs. They usually don't let random people carry guns on these hunts because people tend to get worked up when the hogs bay. They were hunting someone else's tract and there were too many random people with guns. A recipe for getting dogs killed.

Hogs are about as dangerous to humans as turkeys but the average guy invited on a hog hunt shows up looking like Rambo with all the artillary he is toting. What always happens is that the hog is bayed in some thick area and the guys move in all pumped up like he is going to get charged or something.

When the hog is spotted he loses all sense of the dogs. The bay dogs usually get shot when a bullet does a through and through although I have seen people miss and hit dogs as well. The safety of the dogs is paramount. If you are thinking of your own safety because of a pig then you don't need to be toting a gun in that situation. Bullets at close range do funny things.

Hogs are easy enough to kill from a treestand where everybody and thing is safe. Hunting with dogs is about the dogs baying or catching. The kill is anticlimatic and should always be left to the knife for novices and the guns left to the dog's owners. You can get all the fun and excitement of the hunt from just following the dogs...

[BigBrother]

Originally posted by JABIII:
Hunting with dogs is about the dogs baying or catching. The kill is anticlimatic and should always be left to the knife for novices and the guns left to the dog's owners. You can get all the fun and excitement of the hunt from just following the dogs...

I agree.

My first hunt, I was strapped with the 45. Going in shoulder high pines, chest high briars and listening to 4-5 hogs that the dogs dont have ketched...kinda gets the blood pumping.

I recognized very quickly the hand cannon was out of place and could get a dog or tnt shot.

As far as the anticlimatic part...I realized that shit after the knife was in...I started slowly re-tracing my steps and thought about having to drag a 300lb hog back through it.

[mudeagle]

JAB I hate to hear that. Sorry for yalls loss. RIP Safety First.

[Mallard Masher]

Sorry to hear about the dog, but why would someone want to go on a hog hunting with just a knife and put themself in danger. If the hog is bayed than his blood is boiling and whatever get close to him he is going to turn on. I have seen this same type of thing happen deerhunting. You can't blame someone for wanting to carry a gun if they have never been and doesn't know what is going to take place. Again, I am sorry to hear about you dog!!!!

[DRDUCK]

THAT SUCKS JabIII, the whole deal sounds like a bunch of first timers. No hog or dog or anything else is worth that.
kinda like Duck Huntin, the thrill is in the chase and the rest is gravy.

Again, THAT SUCKS!

[redhead25]

Mallard Masher,
Try to understand what JAB is saying. If you are that afraid for your life that you have to tote a gun and start shooting because the adrenalin gets the best of you or you have to start shooting randomly out of fear for your life, then you have absolutely no business being there in the first place. The guys I have hog huntwed with pretty much forbid a gun at all. I do know what JAB is talking about though. Nothing makes you uneasy as getting you normal group together to go to an special "invite" hunt and show up to find the "invitee" has rounded up some of his buddies to go hog hunting with you and they look like they just stepped out of Wal-Mart with the Taliban supplying there ammunition. But what can you say when you are on their land? Sorry to hear about that JAB. It is one thing when a dog loses his life doing something he love versus losing his life cause some jackass is too scared and fires randomly.

[Mallard Masher]

I understand totally what Jab was saying. I don't see nothing wrong with them caring a pistol to protect themselves, but I do have a problem with someone just taking random shots and not knowing what is beyond or between him and his target.

Like I said before, I am sorry to read about the death fo this dog that was doing what he loved to do. I totally understand how the owner must feel about the whole thing.

[stretcharmstrong]

Damn Jab I hate to hear that bo.

I don't think the issue is as much someone carrying a gun as much as it being what sounds like an issue of someone not having the restraint to wait for one of the doggers to say where and when to pull the trigger/stick the damn pig.

My bud and I carried a side arm and asked if a long gun was needed...no long gun needed so we had a damn fine time and listened to everything the doggers graciously shared.

no excuse for poor judgment.

again Jab I'm real sorry to hear about your loss man.

[fastalker]

rip