Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: gstoneberg on August 04, 2012, 05:37:52 pm
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I had a farmer call me a couple weeks ago saying the hogs were in his corn bad and asking me to come shoot a few. I tried last Wed but none came out in the time I had to sit there. Last night I went again with a friend from work. We had sat in the truck bed for about 3 hours when a sounder came out. Rich and I had planned for what to do if a sounder came out and fed, but didn't plan for a quick hog strike where they just ran by. The first sow was moving fast and Rich didn't get a shot at her, but I dropped her just before she reached the corn. At the shot a bunch of hogs ran out and I took 3 more shots hitting another sow that dropped after leaking badly for about 50 yards. She turned out to be the largest hog I've ever killed at 270lbs. The other one was 210lbs, both very nice pigs. I had one shell left in the gun and before I could reload a handful of small pigs ran out. Rich and I each shot and missed. They went out about 70 yards and Rich got another shot but it was a tough long shot off-hand and they got away. I reloaded, just 4 in the gun this time and a last lone boar came out, surprising us both. I forgot to turn on the DVR so I didn't get that on video. I should have waited for Rich but I lost control. I missed him with the first 2 shots and hit him with both the last 2 shots but he got into the standing corn. We could hear him in there making noise , but he'd stopped by the time we processed the 2 sows and I didn't feel like following a wounded boar into the corn. The farmer should find him today. Here's my friend by the larger hog with the 210 pounder on the tailgate.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7710383356_6f845d3f07_z.jpg)
I did a quick edit of the video footage and posted it.
http://youtu.be/YNYjIrY1-PY (http://youtu.be/YNYjIrY1-PY)
The farmer asked me to come back tonight but I'm too tired. :'( Need to reload too. ;)
George
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Well done, well done sir.
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Well done George. I hope to shoot some pigs some day.
Kyle
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George good shooting. The video looks wild. Hogs everywhere... I would have gone if you had invited me ;D
Cipriano
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Weren't you down at the coast?
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Ya... 8) I invited me... Just giving you grief...
Cipriano
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Nice fat Porkers there, ...and lots of them ;) ;) ;)
You guys need them Quiet Airguns, you would have picked them all ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Getcha a supressor. They can be a pain in the neck to obtain but I think would help net more hogs. Alot of folks may think its not good sporting but after all this isnt for sport, its about helping farmers save crops.
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Way to go George. if i had those two big sows to clean I doubt if I'd waded off in that corn after a stinky ol' boar hog either.
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Manny I don't know, we were waylaying hogs in between the security of the high grass travel corrider and the security of the standing corn. They didn't want to stop much and give us good shots. Do they have a semi-auto PCP with enough energy to dump a 270lb sow? Once all the corn is chopped we should be able to spot and stalk them, especially when the moon is less full. That's alot of fun, but I don't get in that situation very often.
I was ready to get a suppressor Jimbob, but then my truck needed a new engine and stole my suppressor fund. :'( Haven't given up but it will take a little longer.
Eddie, this was a perfect setup for the killer jeep. I could have gotten 3 times as many if I'd used the f150 instead of the Remington. If it hadn't been for the antilock brakes I'd have had 3 or 4 more on the way home at 3am. I REALLY didn't want to run over half a sounder at 65mph.
George
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George, hitting a sounder is exciting, ask Chris Cade. Chris and his cousin were behind me when the Hog hand Grenade went off under my Jeep. My back wheel went up in the air and pigs were squirting out all sides.
If you know they are going to cross that open area try dumping some corn soured with Malt liquor and molasses. It will make them stop long enough to blast.
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Yea, the problem is everything changes as he keeps harvesting. It'll likely be different the next time I go. I tend to use scents to cover where I walk with hogs. Sour corn is a great lure though.
George
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Nice shootin'. looks like a lot of fun.
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Heck, I'd love to chip in on the suppressor fund just for a chance to put a multiple kill on the scoreboard!
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Lots of bacon there....
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Heck, I'd love to chip in on the suppressor fund just for a chance to put a multiple kill on the scoreboard!
Donations are cheerfully accepted. :D
What's funny is that if I end up with a suppressor on it, the gun itself will represent just 14% of the cost of the rig. ;D
We had pork roast for supper tonight and will make what's left into pulled pork for sandwiches for tomorrow. I meant to get hams in the brine tonight but I got sidetracked breaking perfectly good flint rocks into gravel. ;)
Night vision hog hunting is absolutely addictive. I'm hoping this current place is gonna keep me hunting until the deer hunters that have leased it start setting up for deer season. The hogs have pinned them down in the stand more than once so they may be willing to let me keep at it until rifle season.
A bonus is that this place is crawling with snakes...timber rattlers, copperheads, moccasins. Unfortunately the timber rattlers are protected here for some reason. Anyway, other than them I hope to get some bow backings before I'm done for the year.
George
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George, sounds like you got a good gig going for sure
Manny Envious ;)
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Wow, I'm the one who envies your hunting spot Manny. Don't forget, it was 103 degrees here before I headed over to that spot. It had cooled down into the high 80s by the time we shot...almost chilly. ;) If you ever get to Texas I will for sure get you some time looking through that scope in the dark if you want.
George
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Ohh, now that looks lile fun! :o
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Awesome. 8)
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Ohh, now that looks lile fun! :o
I'm telling you. Make it down here and George will put you (or try his hardest) on pigs.
Cipriano
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One last post, here's the logical conclusion of the hog hunt. Today at noon:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7132/7784466432_d584a10603_z.jpg)
and now after work.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8438/7784468268_c040ce3fb8_z.jpg)
Looks like the cure pinked those hams up nice. They're just a couple degrees from 165 when I'll stop smoking them. Good eats coming. ;D I still have bacon seasoning in the fridge that won't go in the smoker until Saturday. Can't wait for that too.
George
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Bacon. It's meat candy!
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Not yet JW...
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8304/7784585932_e368c27c59_z.jpg)
but come Saturday afternoon sometime it'll be bacon. If you get down here Friday afternoon we can go after the wiley porker all night and then eat newly smoked bacon after we get it smoked on Saturday. Must only be about an 18 hour drive?
I also made 18lbs of sweet italian sausage this time. Next pig we'll do about 30lbs of breakfast sausage. If the bacon turns out well I'll be doing a bunch of it, it is for sure meat candy.
George
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Looks good - sharsies? Will it ship well on dry ice? ::) My son has been messing around with a Little Chief smoker - any thoughts or tips to pass on to him?
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Sharsies?? Ham ships real well, but doesn't normally last long enough to ship. ;)
I'm not a real pro smoker, just bacon, ham and occasionally a roast of either venison or pork. Used to smoke a lot of chicken, but now that gets rotisseried. I will say that I always cook with a meat thermometer, or at least check the meat with it. This time my mesquite wood didn't smoke as much as I'd like and I let the hams rinse a little too long. It seems to be as much art as science.
George
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Fun post, George. thanks for the pics. Pork and Smoke go together and it looks like you have things well in hand.
I made some bacon this year from a domestic hog. Not that hard to do and it tastes great. Rest up for the next salvo.
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I got out again last Friday night and got another hog, a smaller one this time.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7108/7807883828_fe06aba8aa_z.jpg)
We hunted the same field, caught a break when the farmer shut the cattle in. It was a new moon and extremely dark. A storm was rolling towards us with lots of lightning. Made the video interesting. We heard the hogs long before we saw them, and had to make about a 250 yard stalk, the last 50 yards the hogs came to us. Right when we were about to shoot at around 40 yards my friend's night vision scope went on the fritz. I continued to watch the pigs through the scope while Ed worked on his scope and when they got to about 25 yards he told me to shoot them before they winded us. They were nearly in selfbow range. :o The gun is very heavy with that big scope and I blew the easy shot low on the first pig shooting off-hand. Good grief. I dropped the second pig I shot at as they ran off, but then missed the big one I missed at first 2 more times as it ran off, then finally missed another small pig to add insult to injury. Still, it was a fun hunt with good friends and I brought home enough pork to make a batch of breakfast sausage. Ed did get his scope up and take a few long shots at the sounder that had formed up again over by the woods but didn't connect.
And here's the video. I tried putting some written commentary in the video, can't decide if it helps or hurts.
http://youtu.be/nOWW1cfv2E8 (http://youtu.be/nOWW1cfv2E8)
George