Welcome to Team Wild's Xtreme Hoggers. This week we're back in the vast expanses of Texas
and trying to keep the feral hog population under control with our good friends over at
L3 Outdoors. And today, is a special day for pig hunting.
I'm standing here today with Daniel Cases. Daniel works for us and runs his own, he runs
the northern addition to L3 Outdoors. So basically he covers north Texas, has his own dogs, his
own crew, and all that stuff up there, and me and Krystal run south Texas down here.
The crops just got planted and this is like opening day of deer season for pig hunters,
you know. This is the upmost time where the farmers are going to take the most, absolute
most financial impact from the pigs.
Absolutely. So I know you've got a good hunt planned for us. What are we looking at?
We're looking at, right now we've got some budding crops, everything's cut so you'll
be able to see with the night vision and the flir and stuff like that. Everything is covered
in water right now from the irrigation because they're really irrigating that seed, trying
to get that seed germinated and growing.
So we've got standing water out there right now?
Standing water, and if it's not standing water it's just sloppy mud. You know, from the irrigation
running all day. Rob's my better dog right now, he seems to be doing a lot better than
the other ones. So we'll team them together if we can, try to get them within three to
four-hundred yards of the pigs where they can smell the pigs and send the dogs to the
pig that way they can out run him in that mud and muck.
The team head out through the thick mud in the darkness on the lookout for hogs. They
haven't been out log when the trusty flir thermal imaging scope picks out a heat signature
in the field.
Alright, what we're doing is, we just pulled into our first field for the night and we've
scanned a couple of other fields but this is the first field we've actually stopped
in for the night. Now, we've got six to eight-hundred yards out in the field right now is a really
good boar, we can see him on the flir. Daniel's got the flir. We're going to put the dogs
on the ground and hopefully we put the dogs on the ground and start walking towards him,
they'll pick up his scent before he hears us sloshing through the mud.
Yeah, right now our wind's good. The wind's good, we're gonna grab the dogs and basically
just walk them right into it until nature does its job and they get going.
Alright so, we've just cast the dogs on the boar and we're getting to them ASAP.
They let the dogs go and they're on the bore. Daniel and Josh make a run for it across the
field to catch up with the dogs. Daniel's got a huge hog but he can't hold on. It's
a beast of a pig that almost gets away.
Daniel's in there again and he has it, but the hog is putting up a really good fight.
He performs what should be a fatal blow, but the hog is so full up and pumped full of adrenaline,
Josh places a second blow into the opposite side. The hog doesn't get far before he drops
and passes.
We're standing in the middle of a crop field, as you can see there's a pivot behind me.
This is an irrigation pivot on a farm field and this is that planted corn that we've been
talking about in other videos. This big boar was out here feeding on this planted corn
and it's still got corn kernels on it. This is one of those pigs, you know, like a lot
of people criticise and say "we'll why'd you catch him with a dog instead of just shooting."
Well we can't shoot it, I mean we're standing in six inches of water and there's no way
you're going to sneak up on a pig in six inches of water. It's going to hear you tromping
through that stuff.
Sloshing around, yeah.
The only thing you can do is rely on the dog's nose and rely on that dog's speed. I mean
we turned those dogs loose from 400 yards away, you know. You can't make a shot at 400
yards but we're super excited we got a bore now and that's the thing we live for. Right,
Daniel? We have dreams at night about this.
It's all we do.
That's another huge hog out of action in South Texas and plenty of damage saved on the nearby
farm, but, the night isn't over yet. The boys get to it, and are on the track of the next
hog.
We're tracking this pig and the dogs just rolled out, we can see the pig in the field there.
I've got them on the flir and they're headed straight for it.
We gotta go, we gotta follow these dogs up. We're tracking this pig and there's other
pigs moving in the field as we're tracking this pig so we're gonna put the dogs on it.
Come on, Daniel.
Again it's a big one, and the dogs are on it. Daniel's first in there again, and he
grabs the hog by its back legs. The hog kicks and fights as Daniel struggles to hold on.
So Josh plants the fatal blow and the hog passes quickly. Its nerves continue to twitch,
but it's definitely passed.
That's two, two in the same field.
Two big hogs in one night for the boys at L3 Outdoors and it's been highly successful.
That's two good boars, only in a matter of minutes. Minutes. That's where the dogs come
in. They roll these big boars like this.
With so much action in a short space of time, it's not just the dogs that are panting. I
think these boys have earned themselves a pint.
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