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Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: Tarponnut on July 13, 2012, 09:50:16 pm

Title: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: Tarponnut on July 13, 2012, 09:50:16 pm: I have the good fortune of hosting two primitive archers next week at my Florida hog property.
Ryan Gill and Billy Berger will be chasing some southern swine with sticks and stone. The moon looks good and the weather hasn't been as hot here as most of the country(mid-eighties), we should do well.
We'll keep you posted...
Jim "tarponnut" Dussias
True South Adventures
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: Pat B on July 14, 2012, 10:33:54 am: Sounds like fun. Don't forget the pics. ;)
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: gstoneberg on July 14, 2012, 01:25:02 pm: Quote from: Pat B on July 14, 2012, 10:33:54 am
Sounds like fun. Don't forget the pics. ;)

...or the video cams. ;D
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: Tarponnut on July 14, 2012, 05:29:18 pm: Yup, I'll be running both video and still cameras. This is gonna be good!
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive on July 14, 2012, 10:37:29 pm: here is the gear i will be hunting with. my ugly 60# Pop Ash bow, Sparkleberry arrows, Ocala chert stone points and a Loblolly bay bark quiver. with any luck we will skewer some swine!
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: Little John on July 18, 2012, 12:51:10 am: Hey guys, good shooting and hunting to ya, sounds like anawsome hunt shaping up. anxious to hear the stories. Kenneth
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: criveraville on July 18, 2012, 01:33:09 am: Quote from: Little John on July 18, 2012, 12:51:10 am
Hey guys, good shooting and hunting to ya, sounds like anawsome hunt shaping up. anxious to hear the stories. Kenneth

Tambien and ditto 8)

Cipriano
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: Tarponnut on July 18, 2012, 11:48:54 am: I met Ryan Sunday afternoon at the property and we started getting our gear together. Billy would be arriving a little later, he was working a booth at the Big Buck Expo in Lakeland Fl.

Ryan presented me with an awesome stone knife that is scary sharp. I was anxious to put it to use on a hog or rabbit(I do a lot of small game hunting).(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn66/tarponnut/stoneknife011.jpg)
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: Tarponnut on July 18, 2012, 11:58:44 am: When Billy arrived we quickly readied our gear and headed to the woods. The property is a mix of abandoned orange/grapefruit groves, pasture, and woods.
Ryan headed off to the new stand in the pecan trees and I got Billy setup in a double stand, I headed to the grove stand.
A short while later, I heard squealing from the direction of the double stand......
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: donnieonetrack on July 18, 2012, 12:27:21 pm: Awesome knife, Ryan makes some very sharp and pretty points and knives.
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: gstoneberg on July 18, 2012, 02:42:53 pm: Cool!! Awaiting pictures...

George
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: JW_Halverson on July 18, 2012, 10:59:28 pm: Quote from: gstoneberg on July 18, 2012, 02:42:53 pm
Cool!! Awaiting pictures...

George

....and not very patiently, I might add!
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: nclonghunter on July 18, 2012, 11:48:25 pm: I heard some squealing in that Deliverance movie also....wheres the pics?
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: Tarponnut on July 18, 2012, 11:56:18 pm: Sorry, I was waiting for Billy to chime in. Billy texted me that a reddish spotted boar came in to 8 yards but by the time he got the camera in position the boar spooked. I had a similar encounter with that same boar awhile back.
Shortly after I heard the squealing. texted me that he got a shot at a smaller sized white hog but shot just as it took a step(they are never still it seems).He hit it in the lower back leg and the pig ran off with the arrow. It was most likely a non-vital hit. He searched the area in the morning but no blood or arrow to be found.
Ryan saw several hogs at the pecan stand, including a decent sized black boar shoving the other hogs around and this black and white hog.(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn66/tarponnut/blackandwhiteboar.jpg)
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: JW_Halverson on July 19, 2012, 12:01:15 am: Oreo piggie!
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: Tarponnut on July 19, 2012, 12:02:37 am: Ryan decided to pass on the small one that gave him a shot. He had killed a small one last month and was looking for a bigger hog.
I had a gray hog come to my spot but it was really nervous and never gave me a shot.

The next morning we were back on stand. Billy went back to the double and Ryan sat the Woods stand.
I sat the grove feeder. I didn't see any hogs but did have some action. Several rats were running around my feeder and I got one to sit still for a second....(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn66/tarponnut/th_LongbowRat.jpg) (http://s301.photobucket.com/albums/nn66/tarponnut/?action=view&current=LongbowRat.mp4)
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: Tarponnut on July 19, 2012, 12:06:31 am: Click on the rat pic and it should play a video of the shot.
I should point out that I was using a laminated bow(Kohannah). Ryan recently built me a great osage bow but I haven't shot it enough to feel ethical about hunting with it,yet.
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: criveraville on July 19, 2012, 12:16:49 am: Quote from: JW_Halverson on July 19, 2012, 12:01:15 am
Oreo piggie!

Na JW... That's a cafe con leche puerco ;)

Cipriano
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: TRACY on July 19, 2012, 09:39:34 am: Quote from: nclonghunter on July 18, 2012, 11:48:25 pm
I heard some squealing in that Deliverance movie also....wheres the pics?

Too funny!

Tarp- that was an awesome shot on the rat!
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: gstoneberg on July 19, 2012, 10:04:31 am: Quote from: JW_Halverson on July 19, 2012, 12:01:15 am
Oreo piggie!

Think there might be some Hampshire in that one???

George
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: Tarponnut on July 19, 2012, 01:37:19 pm: Thanks guys.
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: beetlebailey1977 on July 21, 2012, 05:03:15 pm: so how did that rat eat.......LOL
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: crooketarrow on July 22, 2012, 09:11:44 pm: SWEETTTT he looks close to being a BOONER. Diffently a mounter.
Title: Re: Florida Primitive Hog Hunt: Ryan "Twisted Limbs" Gill and Billy Berger
Post by: bowtarist on July 26, 2012, 04:40:37 pm: MAN, that terrain looks fun to hunt!! dp