While getting ready to go the next morning, we would be baying boars with dogs (no catch dogs just chasing an baying), Waddell began to explain to me why he wasn't worried about getting cut up by a big ol' boar. "T-bone, I'm not nervous cause I don't have to out run the boar... I just have to out run you." And I thought me and Waddell was buds.

Pete was up first and we got on a good boar after about 30 minutes. The only trouble was that the dogs ran him into a brush top and mannnnn everyone was on pins an needles at this point. The adrenaline was high as some of us crawled on the tops, but the exciting part really didn't come until the hog ran under us! Whew!!! We continued into a creek bottom and Pete made a great shot on the boar... he only went about 10 yards.

I was up next and it only took the dogs a redneck second to find another boar. He was bayed about 400 yards from us in a ditch. Johnny, our guide, told me I was going to have to get close to him to make the shot in the ditch. That didn't really make me feel too comfortable, but I didn't want to act like a little sissy and all.

As I am slipping up to take a shot, I look everywhere trying to find a tree that I can jump in, cause them dang hogs will charge your little rear after you shoot 'em. The boar eventually gives me a slight quartering away shot I take it and then we all scatter like quail.

We got two down! Redemption for Ken.

It's now Waddell's turn and the dogs do their job again and bay up a big, blonde hog. This hog ran us all over those mountains. We finally got on it in an open hilltop and Waddell made a great shot. Turns out that pig was a huge longhaired sow.

We began making the long walk back to the truck and the dogs got on another boar. Burley was up now and it didn't take long for him to fling a broadhead through the pig. By now we are getting a lot more confident and at ease at what's going on.

We broke for lunch and went and visited Ken in the hospital. We told him we were putting the hurt on the hog population. Poor Ken looked rough but was on the mend.

When we got back we got two more that afternoon, Pete took one and Ashley Malone got one. So that's six hogs in a day. Not a bad day at all, not to mention a whole lot of bacon to fry up.

It was a good time and a different way of hunting hogs. Heck, Waddell was having so much fun that he stayed an extra day and took two more of them rascals!

I will keep ya'll updated on Ken and the DVD.

Yours in pork chops,
T-Bone