Well, i got back late sunday, heres the recap.
Thursday night we arrive at 10pm and stay in the motel in town with Shane the outfitter. Nice guy, seems cool, got a motel instead of driving to the moble home on the ranch in the dark. Friday AM in the dark he takes us to the ranch and puts us up in deer blinds and tells us to come out when we get bored and he will show us the ranch in the daylight, and a few spots to try to do some walking. That took about until 9 and i was bored and saw nothing, and freezing my ass of as it is in the low 20's and i am not dressed for Wisconsin, but Texas instead. He drives us around for 1/2 hour and turns us loose and tells us he will see us after dark.
Steve Shoots a big calico boar we jumped sleeping in the thickest cactus i ever had to hunt. It didnt seem too spooked and parralled the dirt road we were walking on and finally walked onto the road and Steve put one in the shoulder and it piled 40 yards later in a pile of cactus. here is his boar
A while later we were doing a 2 man drive staying in sight of each other (60 yrds) and i here him take 3 shots! I get ready myself and all the sudden a boar jumps up 30 yards from a cactus patch and starts hauling ass! I found it for a split second and let the .270 rip, and find the shoulder and it piles up 30 yards away. I get to the thing and didnt realize it was that big.. here it is.
Steve's 3 shots got a nice 150ish meat hog and here is his.
We finish the drive and get back to the truck and grab some straps to drag them out to the road. What a bitch mine was in that cactus, some areas were so thick we zig zagged all over to get out. we were covered in needles big time. I will have plenty of picking to do on the shitter for the next week as they fester out of my legs...
We did some more walking the rest of the day and saw only 2 more including one i bet was 500 lbs, it stood 4 feet at the shoulder but we didnt get a shot as we just mostly saw its back run out of the cactus. I would not shot it anyway as we were told the real monsters taste like crap and i was not looking for a head mount anyway.
We did a little varmit calling and saw some yotes but steve missed a running shot.
The next day we woke to 3 inches of fresh snow. We went to a different ranch that was more open hoping to do some spot and stalk but by 9am we never cut a single track and went back to the cactus. They were in there because this about 100 acre area had ripe fruit on the cactus and they were feeding on them, and there was purple scat everywhere. The guts were even purple as a crayon!! kind of funny as the snow started melting the scat bled through leaving purple and red blotches all over. its the only place we found that the fruit was on the cactus and kind of a fluke. We killed all the pigs in about a 10 acre area both days and saw all the pigs in about a 120 acre area. On the first drive i nailed a nice eating size meat sow about 120 lbs. 3 more got away before i could get off another shot.
Steve comes up on a huge boar feeding on cactus and tries his 44mag on it and the boar took one right behind the shoulder and ran off without a blood trail or any sign of trama. i told him the 44 was a bad idea unless he could get one in the head or neck but he didnt believe me until now. A 300lb + boar is tough.
Heres the meatpole with 3 other guys pigs and my big boar and steves boar
I will put a full review of this hunt under my other topic of "SJ will get my booking" in the exotic section
[ 02-16-2004, 17:59: Message edited by: schmalts ]
Thursday night we arrive at 10pm and stay in the motel in town with Shane the outfitter. Nice guy, seems cool, got a motel instead of driving to the moble home on the ranch in the dark. Friday AM in the dark he takes us to the ranch and puts us up in deer blinds and tells us to come out when we get bored and he will show us the ranch in the daylight, and a few spots to try to do some walking. That took about until 9 and i was bored and saw nothing, and freezing my ass of as it is in the low 20's and i am not dressed for Wisconsin, but Texas instead. He drives us around for 1/2 hour and turns us loose and tells us he will see us after dark.
Steve Shoots a big calico boar we jumped sleeping in the thickest cactus i ever had to hunt. It didnt seem too spooked and parralled the dirt road we were walking on and finally walked onto the road and Steve put one in the shoulder and it piled 40 yards later in a pile of cactus. here is his boar
A while later we were doing a 2 man drive staying in sight of each other (60 yrds) and i here him take 3 shots! I get ready myself and all the sudden a boar jumps up 30 yards from a cactus patch and starts hauling ass! I found it for a split second and let the .270 rip, and find the shoulder and it piles up 30 yards away. I get to the thing and didnt realize it was that big.. here it is.
Steve's 3 shots got a nice 150ish meat hog and here is his.
We finish the drive and get back to the truck and grab some straps to drag them out to the road. What a bitch mine was in that cactus, some areas were so thick we zig zagged all over to get out. we were covered in needles big time. I will have plenty of picking to do on the shitter for the next week as they fester out of my legs...
We did some more walking the rest of the day and saw only 2 more including one i bet was 500 lbs, it stood 4 feet at the shoulder but we didnt get a shot as we just mostly saw its back run out of the cactus. I would not shot it anyway as we were told the real monsters taste like crap and i was not looking for a head mount anyway.
We did a little varmit calling and saw some yotes but steve missed a running shot.
The next day we woke to 3 inches of fresh snow. We went to a different ranch that was more open hoping to do some spot and stalk but by 9am we never cut a single track and went back to the cactus. They were in there because this about 100 acre area had ripe fruit on the cactus and they were feeding on them, and there was purple scat everywhere. The guts were even purple as a crayon!! kind of funny as the snow started melting the scat bled through leaving purple and red blotches all over. its the only place we found that the fruit was on the cactus and kind of a fluke. We killed all the pigs in about a 10 acre area both days and saw all the pigs in about a 120 acre area. On the first drive i nailed a nice eating size meat sow about 120 lbs. 3 more got away before i could get off another shot.
Steve comes up on a huge boar feeding on cactus and tries his 44mag on it and the boar took one right behind the shoulder and ran off without a blood trail or any sign of trama. i told him the 44 was a bad idea unless he could get one in the head or neck but he didnt believe me until now. A 300lb + boar is tough.
Heres the meatpole with 3 other guys pigs and my big boar and steves boar
I will put a full review of this hunt under my other topic of "SJ will get my booking" in the exotic section
[ 02-16-2004, 17:59: Message edited by: schmalts ]
