swifty
01-19-2004, 01:39 PM
I just got back from my hog hunt on Broughton Island near Brunswick, Ga.
Broughton Island is a 3300 acre uninhabited island .It was once a rice plantation. The house has fallen down, the rice mill is still somewhere on the island and the hogs remain. They feed off the roots of a tall grass that looks like saw grass to me. We, two men 4 dogs and me took a boat over to the island. As we approached the island the dogs really started to bark. One fell out of the boat and had to be fished out of the bay. The dogs were hysterical in a barking frenzy as we landed. They took out across the saw grass with us in hot pursuit .The mud was a black sticky goop that made running impossible. As we approached a water filled ditch all **** was breaking loose on the other side of the ditch in the tall saw grass. We wadded the water that was waist deep for me. As I stumbled to the other side, I could hear the pig squeal over in the grass. I found the hog held down by the dogs in a ditch. We got the dogs off .The hog stood up to shake and I shot it. Distance was about 6 or 8 feet. They wanted me to hunt some more days for more pigs. I had a nice 200-pound boar hog. I was cold and wet and had about all the fun I wanted. The dogs seemed to be fine except one has a cut on the shoulder were the boar got him. The catch dog was a 100 pound American bulldog He was a real sweet dog .He rested his head in my lap as we road back to the mainland .The handler had a plastic stick that tapered on one end. He used it to slip between the Bulldogs teeth to pry them off the hog.
Back at the farm, they skinned the hog and placed it in a cooler for me.
They host dog and wild hog “Rodeos” at the farm. They turn a wild hog loose in a large pen and the dogs loose. It is a timed event to get the hog hemmed up without actually biting the hog. Biting and holding onto the hog will cost the dog points. Prize money given for the top dog is $500 and a jacket with Southern Wild Hog Association Catch Dog Champion in large white letters across the back. I image the hog ends up as barbeque. There were a pile of oyster shells and beer cans left over from the last competition. It must have been quite an event.
As I left, I was looking for my buddy the bull dog .He was sound asleep covered in mud and seemed the picture of happiness.
Broughton Island is a 3300 acre uninhabited island .It was once a rice plantation. The house has fallen down, the rice mill is still somewhere on the island and the hogs remain. They feed off the roots of a tall grass that looks like saw grass to me. We, two men 4 dogs and me took a boat over to the island. As we approached the island the dogs really started to bark. One fell out of the boat and had to be fished out of the bay. The dogs were hysterical in a barking frenzy as we landed. They took out across the saw grass with us in hot pursuit .The mud was a black sticky goop that made running impossible. As we approached a water filled ditch all **** was breaking loose on the other side of the ditch in the tall saw grass. We wadded the water that was waist deep for me. As I stumbled to the other side, I could hear the pig squeal over in the grass. I found the hog held down by the dogs in a ditch. We got the dogs off .The hog stood up to shake and I shot it. Distance was about 6 or 8 feet. They wanted me to hunt some more days for more pigs. I had a nice 200-pound boar hog. I was cold and wet and had about all the fun I wanted. The dogs seemed to be fine except one has a cut on the shoulder were the boar got him. The catch dog was a 100 pound American bulldog He was a real sweet dog .He rested his head in my lap as we road back to the mainland .The handler had a plastic stick that tapered on one end. He used it to slip between the Bulldogs teeth to pry them off the hog.
Back at the farm, they skinned the hog and placed it in a cooler for me.
They host dog and wild hog “Rodeos” at the farm. They turn a wild hog loose in a large pen and the dogs loose. It is a timed event to get the hog hemmed up without actually biting the hog. Biting and holding onto the hog will cost the dog points. Prize money given for the top dog is $500 and a jacket with Southern Wild Hog Association Catch Dog Champion in large white letters across the back. I image the hog ends up as barbeque. There were a pile of oyster shells and beer cans left over from the last competition. It must have been quite an event.
As I left, I was looking for my buddy the bull dog .He was sound asleep covered in mud and seemed the picture of happiness.