I had the pleasure of talking to the real hound man plott again on the phone this weekend.

While talking to a very inspirational plott, I decided the best way to dispatch an onery tusker while being persued by the critter

is to just run by plott and let plott have his way with the crazed critter with his stick knife.

And, hope plott scores instead of the hog scoring.

That is, if there aren't any easy climbing trees or a ladder closer than plott.
Plott has been hanging out with the famous AB, a true death defying adventure character right out of the dime novels. I can imagine those two rascals, I mean, gentlemen, tag teaming a big tusker

amid a pack of buzzsaw toothed hog dogs with wolf pack attutude.
I can imagine their conversation. Plott says to AB, "Man, that was a blast! AB, you wanna go get stitched up to stop all that bleeding, or what"? AB says, "Your ain't much to look at either, with your shredded carcass. Hey, I just found your ear on the ground by my foot. Just hold still, I'll have it sewed back on before we get on the next chase before dark".
AB carries a lightweight first aid kit consisting of two big harness needles and several feet of catgut. AB's skill with field stitching has no equal, I hear from good sources. On their last outing, he played a joke on plott, sewing plott's ear back on upside down. Plott just laughed and had AB rip the ear off and sew it back on correctly

before their next hog chase a few minutes later.
One time AB sewed up plott with the stitching scar saying, AB WAS HERE!

Included was the old WW2 cartoon "Kilroy was here !", along with a map of Texas and the American flag. Plott said that sewing job cut into a whole half hour of good hunting daylight.