Had some ups and downs this morning, collared up dogs on my way up the first drainage, as soon as I passed the last house...well only house I dropped the boys to throw 2 up on the rack even though they don't really rig. Put dude and july up and finn started picking around on the edge of the road, had a buddy thats never been out with dogs before so I was explaining what was going on and what I thought was happening, then I said the stupidest thing that it was my absolute most trusted dog in the dirt and then he opened so I dumped 3 other males and the race was on...2 minutes later they have a skunk bayed up just getting absolutely covered in it!! Ok first 5 minutes he thinks I'm an idiot
I figured I'd road them the rest of the way in to air out a bit, same dog starts picking away again about a half mile up and the other dogs joined in. It was slow going for about 45 minutes and I kept joking they'd have another skunk in a minute, just then they turned up the speed and volume and headed in deep made a big swing at around 4 miles out and steadily were coming towards us across the drainage, ended up treeing a nice boar 500 yards from the truck, always amazing that with a face full of skunk juice that can still smell other things...can't be to mad at um though
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