Hunting Report

Thanks for all the fun words guys!! She is still on a high....

Yes Joe, this one has a huge amount of trash, as you call it. But the judge at the local feedstore contest still counted 15 points for their score of 140. Point has to be an inch long. He also said it would go 150 Boone and Crockett. Pretty good for this area and in the running for the "low-fence" part of the big deer contest. Low Fence means standard cattle/goat fences usually about 48 in tall. High Fence are the 8ft fenced game managed ranches.

She was using a Remington 742 semi-auto pushing a 150 grain bullet. Scoped
Is one her husband has had for years and years. Sorry guys....she is married... lol.....

Well, today was kind of fun. Stayed out all day and did most of the shooting with the Nikon.

Keeping these guys fresh on the hoof.



But these guys came out around 5:30 so the fun was on. One of the local ranchers turned a few loose a couple years ago and so now, we are starting to be overrun like has happened over in East Texas.

I will carry a semi-auto .223 out with me next time. The bolt action was a little slow. I think there were around 12 of the critters. They wouldn't stand still for a head count. And since this was my first ever heard of hogs, I forgot to grab up the camera first.



I was saving the factory fresh BeeGee fijii for a deer, but decided to try it out on these pigs. It made it through two of them and part of the third before I picked up a 471 that was handy and freshly sharpened. Both did a good job on these tough hides and layers of fat that was over a half inch thick in places. They weighed between 30 and 40 pounds.


I think I will stay in tomorrow.... This is a lot of work for an old man.
A nephew and his new bride will be here for the weekend. More fun in store!
 
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THE_LONGBOW said:
Family, Buck Knives, and Hunting it just doesn't get any better.
congrats to your daughter on the nice buck :thumbup:
PS I am going hunting with my son tomorrow
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Longbow.....feel free to stick a post here about your hunt!!!


I should also say that this is by no means her first deer. Just her largest rack. :D.
 
Buckaholic said:
Larry...was gonna mention how cute the gal is then I realized she's your daughter...so, never mind.
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She said she got all prettied up just so that big one would come out. :D

No wonder I haven't ever gotten a big one....lol..... Must be something to that. She has taken 9 and 10 pointers larger than any I have taken. For that matter larger than her husband's also.....

Just may be something to this bathing gig....:eek::o
 
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WOW, you guys have fantastic hunting down there! How much is a non resident license? :D Maybe I should just move! Nice deer and hogs Larry!
 
Man O' Man Larry...how'd you manage sure fine shots on three pigs out of one herd. How about recounting the story for us shot by shot if you have time.

And their nice young ones too:D. They should make some fine barbeque:thumbup:
 
Flatlander1963 said:
Man O' Man Larry...how'd you manage sure fine shots on three pigs out of one herd. How about recounting the story for us shot by shot if you have time.

And their nice young ones too:D. They should make some fine barbeque:thumbup:
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Well, the critters came out running, not moseying along like the deer do. I think it was 5 that went under the feeder and the rest went to the water vats. So like ole Alvin York would have done, I swung the little Win mod 70 Featherweight .223 to the one on the far right.

It went down with a head shot, but did squirm off into the brush to the right.
So the ones over by the water vats didn't really see that and stayed. So waited for a clear shot as not to put a hole in one of the vats, and took down the one to the far left.

That spooked them back over toward the feeder and I managed to hit the third one as he was moving into the brush behind the feeder, as by now they were all taking off for the brush. A 4th shot would have just been punching holes in bodies and I won't do that on something we put on the table. It was hard to count them the way they were scurrying all over the place, running, not walking, but there had to have been 10 to 12 of them. Still beating myself up for not using the camera first. got a little excited being my first hogs.

I did back the scope down from 9 power to about 4 to gain a faster sight picture. I will be setting up one of the mini14's now with a scope. My old eyes don't do good without a scope. I think with an autoloader I could have gotten one or two more.

There was one much larger one in the bunch, but never could get a kill shot on it without fear of putting a hole in the larger of the water tanks. Head was down in it drinking almost the whole time. And then couldn't separate it out after I fired the first shot and they all started scattering.

That little mod 70 is a tack driver with a very light trigger, so all I had to do was put the scope on my kill spot and it did the rest. Along with the lead nosed 55gr round.

I haven't been able to get into my email from out here yet this morning, so waiting on a couple of East Texas buddies to tell me if they know more about what kind of pigs these are. Their size isn't as large as what I hear about coming out of East Texas and other places.

They were 75 to 85 yards out. So easy shots.

all we are sure of, is that these things have two and possibly 3 litters a year of 8 or more piglets each. So will be easy to get overrun with them.
Two of these were female, and one male. I didn't check females but they both were both pretty round. Maybe I will take the "pigsticker" back out there today and poke around in there...:rolleyes:

Mom said that some of the ranchers are having to shoot them and leave them lay, everyone that will take and deal with them already have a freezer full. Its unfortunate, but there are no more natural predators to control them. At least they go back into the food chain.

as for out of state license, jump on the TP&W website. I am pretty sure that any property owners that lease out hunting rights, are happy to include hogs.
 
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Great Story. Here is a link from Texas A&M you might find interesting. Seems that you have feral hogs or hybrids. Article says the Eurasian (razorback) no longer exist in Texas as a pure breed. Anyway, read the article as it has a great deal of info in your new found game animal.

http://icwdm.org/Publications/pdf/Feral Pig/Txferalhogs.pdf

I'll be you had Mom and her mob. Had the males nuts dropped? If not he'll be real good eating. Meat from older boars are a bit gamey...some find it to rank to eat. Keep the pictures coming...this is great.
 
Thanks for that link. Looks like there is a huge amount of cross breeding going on here.

Here is what a friend in East Texas said:

"Just looking at pictures, I'm thinking they are the usual feral hogs found
on most of the ranches. At 40+ pounds, they're probably less than a year
old, or not much more than that. I'm positive they're not Pineywoods
Rooters. The snout isn't pointy enough and they're built different. The
coloring is a crossbreed. I know Duroc is a reddish color and Berkshire is
usually black with some white.....also the Hampshire. I've seen pics of a
Russian boar that was a reddish-orange color. Anything other than that, I
don't know. They should be good BBQ'd if they're that young and fat. Can't offer anything more but maybe a local might be helpful.
I do know they can have three litters of pigs a year and can devastate your property."

No, the nuts hadn't dropped on the bore. Were still up inside when I opened him up. So they all will be good eating. hopefully. We will probably salvage the backstrap out of a larger boar and discard the rest. Will see. won't take long to figure out what is edible or not.

Thanks for the info!!!

Maybe the Hawkeye will get into some of this action as he will be hunting about 25 miles or so north of here in another week or so :thumbup:.

One huge concerd now is the pigs devistating the turkey hatch. Our quail have already dissappeared and we have traps out trying to control the coons and possums.

Now I have to go out and figure out what I am going to do with that big old skunk that is in one of the traps right now.... I just kind of eased away yesterday when I found it.....lol.....

later guys....gotta clean up around here
 
Hey Larry. They look just like the wild hogs we have up here in East Texas.;)
They should eat real good. I will do the same to any I get into.The old timer's that trapped use to pour gasoline on skunks to help with the smell.:eek:
You can shoot them in the head or blow them all to bits but they will still smell.:eek:I have read where some place on the hip or somewhere would paralyze them where they cannot spray.But it has never worked for me.:barf:
We have been having the skunk problem around the camphouse also.Guess
I have to bring my traps also.Good to hear that the BeeGee Fijii , worked
good on them Hogs.:thumbup: Hawkeye
 
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Larry, yep, these look just like the feral hogs that we are over run with in central Texas as well. We hunt on about 1350 acres on a river bottom and it is simply unbelieveable how numerous they are. And if you have never observed the damage they can cause, it also is unbelieveable. Last year, we had a five acre oat field that they tore into one night, and the results reminded me of craters in Viet Nam following an artillery barage. They are usually very skittish, but I happened to blunder into an old mamma sow with a litter one day and she was extremely protective; I was not carrying a weapon and was happy to have escaped intact. Ever since that time, I have never ventured far away from camp without some sort of firearm. The young ones in the 30 to 40 pound range are very good to eat, but my daughter who is a vet absolutely insists that I wear disposable gloves while dressing them; seems they can also carry numerous diseases.
 
Well,
1. Back when I was a college boy working on becoming a wildlife
biology grad-u-ate. I wish I could have run across a hunting
girl like that or a pre-vet girl with a dad that had hunting spots
and Buck knives and was a hunter.
Big houses and fast cars did nothing for me. (I did find one
with a dad that had 800 acres, but he and her brother keep
every square foot like a golf fairway. They do make good hay)
2. I would wear rubber gloves to clean a hog also. Get the ones in
the animal care section of farm stores that go almost up to your
elbow. I also like the "hog filet" method. Don't gut'em just cut
off the legs and backstrap without breaking the inside to the
organs. ANYONE who would release hogs on new land ought to be
horse whipped on the public square........
3. Some of you know what I am talking about with this picture but
it gives you and idea of the size of the task cleaning a elk.....
can make for a long day....the older I get the heavier they seem.
4. Nope wasn't me, all I had was a (later rangefinded) 400 yd
shot right at dark thirty and it was starting to spit
snow. Thought it was 300 and shot under.

300Bucks
 
300Bucks said:
can make for a long day....the older I get the heavier they seem.
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Or by the looks of the photo, a long night in this case!! Seriously, deer are beginning to make for long days for me; I can't imagine what an elk would take. :eek:
 
Tin Sue said:
Larry, yep, these look just like the feral hogs that we are over run with in central Texas as well. We hunt on about 1350 acres on a river bottom and it is simply unbelieveable how numerous they are. And if you have never observed the damage they can cause, it also is unbelieveable. Last year, we had a five acre oat field that they tore into one night, and the results reminded me of craters in Viet Nam following an artillery barage. They are usually very skittish, but I happened to blunder into an old mamma sow with a litter one day and she was extremely protective; I was not carrying a weapon and was happy to have escaped intact. Ever since that time, I have never ventured far away from camp without some sort of firearm. The young ones in the 30 to 40 pound range are very good to eat, but my daughter who is a vet absolutely insists that I wear disposable gloves while dressing them; seems they can also carry numerous diseases.
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Tin, your daughter is right!! Their having a huge problem w/ them in TX.. Three liters a yr.is correct, 113 days each after breeding. DM
 
With domestic hogs 3 liters/yr are not possible. For after the 114 days we farrow them(pigs) usually 4-5wks then when the sow cycles in we AI or breed her back.So, near 295 days for two liters. But in the wild they'll breed and ween earlier. So keep your Buck knife on your hip and the rifle sighted in.DM
 
Well,,,me again. Took the nephew out Sat am and then got in my stand.

A 10 pt came out way over on the left and mosied around for an hour or more. Not a real wide rack. Then an 8 pt came out over on the right and grazed around for an hour or so.

The 8pt is watching over his doe's.


Then the 10pt decides to come a visiting and the fun is on... The larger racked 8 pt was there in the end and the 10 hit the road. And all I shot them with was the camera.
















 
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The rest of the pics.








This was another first for me. To see two mature bucks lock it up. Was quite a ruckus and went on for two or three minutes. Seemed a lot longer.

The nephew shot a small racked 9 pt Sat afternoon.

Naturally he used one of my AG's to field dress it. And then back at the skinning tree, we actually used one of the wally Alfred Buck commemorative 110's.
As well as those phenolic 5.5 inch fixed blades that Hawkeye goes on about... :)
 
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Absolutely great pics. Thanks for sharing.

Congrats to you and your daughter. :thumbup:
 
Great shots of the fight Larry.:thumbup:Was this in the A.M. or P.M.?
8 piont looks younger than the 10 point, to me.
Hawkeye
 
300Bucks said:
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I also like the "hog filet" method. Don't gut'em just cut
off the legs and backstrap without breaking the inside to the
organs. ANYONE who would release hogs on new land ought to be
horse whipped on the public square........300Bucks
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Actually, I did just as you described, kept the hind quarters and back strap.
Looked at the shoulders and didn't look like much there. Did that mainly because it was late, and I was doing it bu myself. Maybe next time I will do the whole thing just to see what is in there.

And yeah, the landowner is really sorry he let a buddy talk him into doing that.
 
Hawkeye5 said:
Great shots of the fight Larry.:thumbup:Was this in the A.M. or P.M.?
8 piont looks younger than the 10 point, to me.
Hawkeye
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AM

Time stamp says 8:23 when I snapped the first pic of the 10 coming in by the 8. Time stamp on the last pic was 8:27. But the 8pt had pushed the 10 off behind the cedars for another minute or so.

The 8 was a younger deer it looked like.


what a rush .... lol
 
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