Big hog

[Bedrock Bob]

The topic about airgun hunting? Yes please.

Hey Hal!

I understand your struggle for relevancy. I'm getting older too and find myself being an ass sometimes. Things aggravate me. I tend to find faults with people. Sometimes I act like an old blue haired woman and gripe about stuff that really shouldn't bother me. I try to not slip into that trap but the years have made a big ol' bitch out of me too.

I want you to know I'm here for you if you need to vent. I'm sure many AGN members are dealing with the same thing and will understand. These threads and the topics aren't important as long as there is love.

Personally I don't much like you and couldn't care less if you burst into flames. But as a fellow human I respect you and want to extend my sincere best wishes and understanding when you whine like a big jet engine. You are my brother in the larger sense and any petty differences you may have with me are unimportant by comparison.

 

[Bedrock Bob]

Bob,
Great post. History has always been my fave, used my love of history a lot in college to knock out requirements. Still don't have a degree. Making money got in the way.

Thanks my friend!

I never went to school. And money never got in my way despite my best efforts. I had a hammer so I built houses when I could. When I couldnt I mined gold, guided hunts, cut cordwood and looked for cows on a mule with a dog.

I listened to a lot of old cowboys talk about the land they rode and a bunch of old muckers lie about the size of the gold vein they were working on. Mostly they were full of sh!t but they knew the land and the New Mexico history. I got really into it and have been researching, visiting sites and museums and learning from any scholarly source I can find.

My scheme was to write a book and make some money. But I got addicted to campfire smoke and highway miles. I couldnt stop roaming from museum to ghost town. My research project lasted 25 years and now all I want to do is drink beer and shoot the pellet gun.

I've got some neat stories though...

 

[Bedrock Bob]

My son got back last night and shared this video with me.

They were dragging a few dead hogs out of the woods with the buggy last week. This one had been on the ground for 24 hours. This is the video of them finding the carcass...

In total they recovered 8 hogs off the property. 2 were hit but not recovered.

It sounds like they are everywhere. They saw several big groups with shoats and several mature boars. They shot one from a stand at less than 10 yards. Another they shot off the porch at 50 yards. It's hog heaven or hog hell I'm not sure which.

 

[Ricklin]

Pretty much hog hell is my understanding, the yawt yawt guy on youtube is quite entertaining and does not focus on the killing the hogs part, fun and not offensive he traps a lot of hogs.

 

[Bedrock Bob]

Traps would be the way to drop the numbers. Hunting them isn't going to do it. It's a fun way to scare them off.

I think at this point the guys need to think about driving them over to the neighbors ranchito. They need to put enough regular pressure on them that they move down the road for a few months.

 

[Ricklin]

They are very smart and very destructive. The traps look like the best way to humanely put large quantities of them down. While I would greatly enjoy a chartered helo and a class 3 .308 powder burner that's not an effective method. I'm sure that method drives them over to neighboring properties. Oh well, we have none here in the PNW and it's good to stay that way.

 

[Bedrock Bob]

They are very smart and very destructive. The traps look like the best way to humanely put large quantities of them down. While I would greatly enjoy a chartered helo and a class 3 .308 powder burner that's not an effective method. I'm sure that method drives them over to neighboring properties. Oh well, we have none here in the PNW and it's good to stay that way.

We had a big freeze in 2011. It got -13 in the flats and - 45 on the mountains. That took care of a bunch of them.

With that natural stress on them the State game comission decided to hit them hard and wipe them out. They trapped a few and put radio collars on them. Then hunted them from land and air. It was glorious.

There are still a few pigs out there lurking along the Pecos River. And a scant few in the Sacramento range. Not many.

They killed almost every darn one with technology and manpower. It only cost a few million and would have been impossible before the big freeze.

 

[Ricklin]

It is mighty awesome when we can partner with old Ma nature. She is a tempestuous "B" and will kill you in a heartbeat if you let her, esp. when on salt water. We can't fight mother nature, but we can partner with her.

 

[tibor]

enjoyed the post
thank you.

 

[KralGuy]

That's an awesome picture of a HUGE hog!! Bravo on the successful hunt!

Could care less about photo details, always appre these kind of pics!

 

[JaceSpace1369]

Traps would be the way to drop the numbers. Hunting them isn't going to do it. It's a fun way to scare them off.

I think at this point the guys need to think about driving them over to the neighbors ranchito. They need to put enough regular pressure on them that they move down the road for a few months.

Or catch a few hundred and do the same thing with the mosquitoes. Alter their dna to give birth to hogs that can't give birth.

 

[gendoc]

i have a good friend that traps them and dresses them out for folks that are in need.
and sometimes he traps 25-30 or more at a time.
its a learned culture to do it like he does.
he makes his money from the landowners......and he ain't cheap !!!

 

[Bedrock Bob]

Or catch a few hundred and do the same thing with the mosquitoes. Alter their dna to give birth to hogs that can't give birth.

I'm sure there were suggestions like that. It would probably be the only way to get a handle on it if the freeze didn't put them into a tailspin.

The transmitters work great. They called them "judas hogs". Led them right to the groups hiding in the brush.

It's froze west Texas a couple times since then. It killed a bunch there too. The numbers have gone down a lot in the past 12-15 years. Without some program to limit them they will bounce right back.

 

[Bedrock Bob]

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A Kansas hawk hunt? Is that your bird buddy?

 

[Ricklin]

I reckon it's a good thing I winterized my motor coach today. Too much winter here for feral hogs. A blessing, we are overrun with deer! Hit one at 60 in my new Tesla in May. Last week in exactly the same place I had to jump on the brakes for a deer in the road, I'm talkin to the mile marker same place, identical. The difference this time is the deer did not fall out of the sky. 60 MPH in to the windshield thank god it held. Gonna go try to bag one with my Muzzleloader in the AM. EIther that or start carving notches in my car.

 

[Bedrock Bob]

I reckon it's a good thing I winterized my motor coach today. Too much winter here for feral hogs. A blessing, we are overrun with deer! Hit one at 60 in my new Tesla in May. Last week in exactly the same place I had to jump on the brakes for a deer in the road, I'm talkin to the mile marker same place, identical. The difference this time is the deer did not fall out of the sky. 60 MPH in to the windshield thank god it held. Gonna go try to bag one with my Muzzleloader in the AM. EIther that or start carving notches in my car.

About 40 years ago I hit two deer one night within 100 yards. A half dozen standing in a curve and I clipped one good. Stopped and shot her. A guy came down from a little cabin with a wheelbarrow and said he would take her for meat. I felt good about that and helped him pull the hide off her. Off i went. I hadn't got it out of second gear until another one leaped out and landed in front of me. I wasn't going 20 mph. The guy turned around and we pulled the hide off that one too.

He invited me up to his house for dinner. He had a sweet wife and a swarm of kids. She had roadkill posole and cornbread on the table when we came through the door.

Turns out the guy hunted elk sheds and osha root. We hit it off and he invited me back to hunt with him. It was on the Mescalero Apache Reservation and that's a pretty big invite to extend to a white boy.

We've hunted sheds and dug roots several times over the years. And his oldest boy stayed with me when his grandmother was in the hospital a few years back.

He's still dragging roadkill off that curve and the right front fender of my FJ40 still has a crimp in it from that deer.

 

[tibor]

A Kansas hawk hunt? Is that your bird buddy?

it is ..I fly a male and female over 30 years dirt hawking,love getting out.

 

[Bedrock Bob]

it is ..I fly a male and female over 30 years dirt hawking,love getting out.

That's so cool it hurts. What awesome birds. Kinda like a heat seeking laser guided .357 magnum boomerang.

What are their names? What do you hunt?

I lived in Ulysses Kansas for a couple years and we hunted lots of pheasant. Have you seen that hawk nail one?