Wild Hog Hunting Information

Darden Hog Hunts will design a wild hog hunt to meet your physical needs and desires. You have the option of hunting in stands over bait, riding four wheel ATVs after the hounds, or fair chance still hunts. Use the weapon of your choice. If killing a hog isn’t your strong suit, catching one alive and hog tying the beast for re-location to another area is also an option. The most popular choice is to follow the hounds.

Bay dogs used by Darden Hog Hunts come in many varieties. These include cur dogs, walkers, plot hounds and catahoulas. The important thing is that these dogs are bred and trained to track a hog until it bays up, usually against a dozer pile or against a creek bank where it’s rear is protected from the dogs and it can turn and be ready to charge (and hook) any dog that gets too close to its razor sharp teeth.

Once bayed, and assuming that the goal is to catch the hog, two pit bulls or catch dogs are turned loose not more than 50 yards from the bayed hog. Rarely do the two catch dogs get to the hog at the same time. It is not unusual for the hog to hit the first dog only to find the second attached to his ear or cheek. At this point, the first catch dog latches on to the pig’s head from the opposite side. Two pit pulls on a hogs face tend to give one a measure of confidence when it comes time to hog tie the animal.

As a group of men encounter the hog bayed, some have the job of tying up the bay dogs to nearby trees to get them out of the way. Others hobble the pig’s front right foot to the back left and to do the same to the other two feet. Once the pig is on his back and hog tied, the pit bulls needs to be pried loose, chained up, and the snout is securely tied. At this point, the animal can be lifted onto a four wheeler and tied securely for transport to a mobile cage where he is untied and placed inside.

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