Hi guys,
My name is Wes. I have been a hunter all my life. I mainly do falconry now, but I have a few Airedales that I like to hunt. We pretty much just go out and hunt and have a good time. No specialty at all. Last hunt my male, Reese, caught something about 700yds out and came back all bloody around the mouth, but I have no idea what it was. I have a female that is about a year and a half and she will get out a distance too, but again no real direction. I have a young female that has a lot of the same breeding in her as my male and her name is Kit.
Reese saw some shoats last year in a bay pen once and went nuts, but I didn't put him in the pen. Kit has seen some small shoats once and the older female Twix has never seen one.
First up was Kit. We put her in the pen and she immediately bayed up on about a 75lb shoat (I guess that is still a shoat?) and did a really good job according to the hog dog guys. She had a blast.
Then they put a 150#sow in there and told me to get my male out and he never slowed down and hit her in the rear and caught. We put that sow in another pen.
Next they put a 170# boar in with blunted teeth. I got my older female out and put her in there and she charged the boar and it just ran right over her. She didn't care for that too much and was overwhelmed. I was pretty disappointed, but I probably did her wrong I think.
Then they told me to get my male back out and let that boar teach him a lesson and see if he would bay after it roughed him up a little. My male hit that boar so hard that is sounded like someone hit it with a baseball bat in the head and was caught. It was absolutely immediate and they told me to come get him off the pig. That was a little intimidating for a first timer to be honest. I had a hard time getting Reese off the hog too. Anyway everyone seemed really proud of him. I sure was but for you guys this is probably lame. Anyway, I will be reading around on here some and trying to learn. Not sure if I will get serious about hogs or let it be an occasional thing as I know this can be a rough sport on dogs and I am pretty fond of them. By the same token was glad to see my male was pretty rough like an Airedale is supposed to be.
Have a good one and God Bless,
Wes
My name is Wes. I have been a hunter all my life. I mainly do falconry now, but I have a few Airedales that I like to hunt. We pretty much just go out and hunt and have a good time. No specialty at all. Last hunt my male, Reese, caught something about 700yds out and came back all bloody around the mouth, but I have no idea what it was. I have a female that is about a year and a half and she will get out a distance too, but again no real direction. I have a young female that has a lot of the same breeding in her as my male and her name is Kit.
Reese saw some shoats last year in a bay pen once and went nuts, but I didn't put him in the pen. Kit has seen some small shoats once and the older female Twix has never seen one.
First up was Kit. We put her in the pen and she immediately bayed up on about a 75lb shoat (I guess that is still a shoat?) and did a really good job according to the hog dog guys. She had a blast.
Then they put a 150#sow in there and told me to get my male out and he never slowed down and hit her in the rear and caught. We put that sow in another pen.
Next they put a 170# boar in with blunted teeth. I got my older female out and put her in there and she charged the boar and it just ran right over her. She didn't care for that too much and was overwhelmed. I was pretty disappointed, but I probably did her wrong I think.
Then they told me to get my male back out and let that boar teach him a lesson and see if he would bay after it roughed him up a little. My male hit that boar so hard that is sounded like someone hit it with a baseball bat in the head and was caught. It was absolutely immediate and they told me to come get him off the pig. That was a little intimidating for a first timer to be honest. I had a hard time getting Reese off the hog too. Anyway everyone seemed really proud of him. I sure was but for you guys this is probably lame. Anyway, I will be reading around on here some and trying to learn. Not sure if I will get serious about hogs or let it be an occasional thing as I know this can be a rough sport on dogs and I am pretty fond of them. By the same token was glad to see my male was pretty rough like an Airedale is supposed to be.
Have a good one and God Bless,
Wes