Couple friends and I made a two hour treck up to a friends property near Tehachapi to do a little pig hunt and to start training couple of young dogs. We got up early and split up a couple guys into blinds and I took my trusty dog Taro with two young pups onto hill side over looking Tejon ranch. Our first run didn't really get anything going even though my dog struck a decent track. Me and my 7 yo son gathered the dogs back into the truck and decided to go down the dirt road a little to another spot known to have a lot of beds. Just as we reached the spot, I see this HUGE black boar with shiny white cutters trotting across the road.
I yell boar to my boy and we bail out to let the dogs out. Taro immediately catches the scent from the wind and smashes through the thick brush towards the boar. I gather the pup on a lead so I can lead him down to where Taro would hopefully have the big boar bayed up. Immediately we hear Taro give a couple barks and a lot of squealing a grunting right after which usually means Taro has the boar caught. We try our best to get through the thick brush and figure a way down into the deep canyon.
Every few yards or so I keep tabs on Taro with the tracking collar to see where he's located. All of a sudden the squealing stop and we can hear brush busting down below us. I check the tracking system and see that taro is now chasing the hog back and fourth along a steep ridge that we just cant figure out how to get through. This goes on for about 40 minutes and unfortunately Taro returns tired and beat up. Now I have taken hogs in the upper 200lb range and this big boar easily topped those hogs by 2 to 30 pounds. Taro did a damn good job trying to hold the hog as much as he can without getting hurt so it was a awesome day even without a big boar down.
I yell boar to my boy and we bail out to let the dogs out. Taro immediately catches the scent from the wind and smashes through the thick brush towards the boar. I gather the pup on a lead so I can lead him down to where Taro would hopefully have the big boar bayed up. Immediately we hear Taro give a couple barks and a lot of squealing a grunting right after which usually means Taro has the boar caught. We try our best to get through the thick brush and figure a way down into the deep canyon.
Every few yards or so I keep tabs on Taro with the tracking collar to see where he's located. All of a sudden the squealing stop and we can hear brush busting down below us. I check the tracking system and see that taro is now chasing the hog back and fourth along a steep ridge that we just cant figure out how to get through. This goes on for about 40 minutes and unfortunately Taro returns tired and beat up. Now I have taken hogs in the upper 200lb range and this big boar easily topped those hogs by 2 to 30 pounds. Taro did a damn good job trying to hold the hog as much as he can without getting hurt so it was a awesome day even without a big boar down.
