Hello Flags!!!




thanks for the invite

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GWB

Welcome aboard my old friend.

Dang, look at what the cat drug in, LOL!!! Welcome compadre!!!

Howdy,

you and Flags, no wonder they let me in! LOL.



I'll keep a sharp eye pealed for you two!!!!!

Best,

GWB

Yep, they're not too picky on who they let in here are they, LOL!!!

We happen to be pillars of the community! :wave:

OK,

By way of intro......

a few hoglets I've come in contact with over the years







































Best,

GWB

Seeing all those hogs sure makes me miss hunting down in the brush country. It got so that I had a lot more fun shooting them than deer down there. There are a few in those pictures that have some huge cutters that could really open you up. This is the last one I shot with my .243 Sako down there in 2010 the year before my Dad died. I'm on the left, Dad's in the middle, and the guy with the moustache is a friend from north of Houston. I also shot this longbeard the same day with that .243. It's the only turkey I've shot with a rifle and it was opening day of that season.Attachment 28734

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It is Saturday afternoon. Hot and muggy outside. I'm sure I'm supposed to be doing something productive...

Nah.

So with that in mind......................


My most disappointing miss in the last couple years came about after a long hot September day at the lease last year. I had been filling up feeders and fixing things that seem to just quit from month to month.

I have a spot that is at the back of our lease. It is about 1.5 miles in off the main gravel road we use to access our hunting areas. The path to access this spot is just wide enough to get an ATV through. I'll park my ATV and walk the last half mile uphill as its too thick and steep to access it any other way than on foot.



I call it "The Cliffs" as where I sit is a sheer rock face that is about 100' above the floor of a 350+/- acre bowl. Directly below is a dry creekbed that runs in an east/west direction






If you look closely you can see the spin cast feeder. It's about 160 yds out, to the right of the dry creek bed.





I had been working all day in the heat and had let myself get too hot and somewhat dehydrated. IIRC I got out about 5 PM. This time of year one can see until almost 9 PM.

I keep game cameras set out from time to time and Had picked up pix of a group of javelina that would come in from time to time. IIRC I had a half dozen pix over a three month period. Guess they would range in and out of the area as they did not show up on game cam regularly.



I was jazzed as I've been on this lease since 2004 and had not seen the first Javelina.

It was about an hour before dark and I was glassing the bowl. Sometimes will see Aoudad up high near the tops of the surrounding hills. I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I lowered the glasses and got just a glimpse of the hindquarter as it entered the brush and was lost to sight. I thought to myself that was strange. Sure didn’t walk like a hog. I watched the area for a few minutes and went back to glassing. About 10 minutes later I caught motion again on my left at the same spot where the critter had disappeared into the brush. I put my binocs on it and damn if it wasn’t a javelin and not only that, a monster of one at that. The javelinas I’ve killed are usually mid 20 to low 30 lbs. This guy had to have been at least 60 lbs. He was a stud puppy for a Javelina. He was walking a game trail on the far side of the creekbed and I figured where he would come out would be about 150 yds. Too far for me on a freehand shot.
I was not in the most appropriate spot or position to make the the shot.

This afternoon I was shooting my Rem 700 KS in 300 H&H, zero’d for 200 yds.



I was on an incline with my feet about 12 inches below my butt. I tucked my shooting sticks into my boot tops in order to get a rest, but due to my quivering from the heat and dehydration taken with the “buck fever” I was experiencing I could not seem to get a steady rest.

He came out of the brush and I knew I had a small window to make the shot before he disappeared for good.
I couldn’t get a steady sight pix, but I figured this might be the only chance I got and I let fly. I didn’t hear the "whop" and I sensed that I shot over him. It takes almost 30 minutes to get down from my perch to the ATV and then drive to where the Javelina was when I shot, but only 10 minutes or so to scramble down the cliff, which I did. I looked high and low till dark for any evidence of blood or fur, but to no avail. I was elated that I had got the shot, but bummed that I had missed. I hate missing.
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GWB

Russian boar I got this spring. I used my Marlin Guide Gun 45-70 equipped with a Leupold VXII 2-7x scope, I used handloaded Hornady 350gr. RN bullets. Dropped right in his tracks.

New Zealand pigs taken with a savage axis 308

I killed this Hog last night in the Black Warrior Management Area, in West Alabama. I went to hunt deer and ended up killing it from the ground at 10 yards with my Remington R-15 VTR Predator .223 This is the first hog that I have ever killed.

Feb 19, SC hog, 150 lbs.

Figured I throw a few of mine in here and say hello!

Some nice wild bacon. I wonder what load made such a mess of the shoulder. That meat's not important unless you're making homemade spam.

I live down here in FL and there are a ton of hogs. A great place for a hunting trip if your looking to bag a few.

Here's one from AL last weekend...

Nice porker with pretty good cutters!

We went last March to S. Tx. but didn't do any good. We had a fun time though.

Everyone been seeing this story going around?




Photos of a boar with blue fat. Speculation around whether it's from copper mines near by or a dye that got into a food/water source. What are the group's thoughts on what it could be?

If that is real, I wouldn't have my hand in there. I hope they gave that to the game agency to have tested. What state is that from?

I shot one in the early 70's thats liver had a similar color. It was in California maybe 30 miles North East of Santa Barbara.

A Forestry worker came by as I was gutting it, we decided burying it and piling rocks on top was the best choice at the time. He supplied the shovel and even helped me dig, nice guy.

He suggested it was TB or some other disease. I was thinking maybe it had been drinking at some puddle covered in Blue Algae, which is a similar color (and poison).

They also make a Rat poison, poison Corn, that is that color (old school). Though they have changed the color to red recently (in the last half dozen years).

It really isn't unusual in the dry parts of California for small ranchers to poison Deer. The wildlife brings in disease and competes for food and water with the livestock. One reason they don't want you hunting their property is to avoid witnesses and evidence.

Found this which seems likely.

http://cahfs.ucdavis.edu/local-asset..._formatted.pdf

Some Exotics from a few years ago. Great off season fun with friends & family.

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My son & I only bowhunt so we set this Red Deer Hind hunt up during his Ill. & my Ia. gun deer seasons. He was the hunter & I went along just to share the time together & enjoy helping. Red Deer is excellent meat & that was what we were hoping for. A nice big ol Female Red Deer.. Well, you see the end result & we had a great time sharing this.. The meat we packaged shown is about 2/3rds of the total.. Awesome tasting (same as Elk)

For the table, I like to pick on the smaller ones. :biggrin:

Here's a few hogs I got down in Love County, Oklahoma this past weekend. The boar was taken while stand hunting and was right at 300 lbs, the 2 smaller sows were taken from a trap.

Went out with a buddy the other night. A sounder of about a dozen came into our pig pipe around 10PM. Three of them didn't leave under their own power …

Best of east texas thermal hog hunts 2017
 

A couple of months late, but I did get this one this summer. Not super huge, but I like the cutters.

Florida 2016.

Boar taken in East Texas.

Florida 2018.

Got a couple during daylight. Two sows. The one on the ground weighed 120 Lbs, the on on the utility vehicle weighed 100 Lbs.
May, 2020