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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Hillbilly on June 11, 2008, 10:26:58 pm

Title: Pig Stickers
Post by: Hillbilly on June 11, 2008, 10:26:58 pm
Hope to see a few of these buried up to the feathers in a hog this weekend. Cane, 650 gr. +-, points are mostly rhyolite, basalt, and hornstone hafted with deer sinew and pine pitch.

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Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: radius on June 11, 2008, 10:38:38 pm
those are pretty sweet
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: huntertrapper on June 11, 2008, 10:45:10 pm
very nice sir, look awesome... where you huntin hogs? there some in NC?
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Hillbilly on June 11, 2008, 10:50:27 pm
Thanks guys. HT, Me, Chris Cade (Mechslasher), and Eddie (Mullet) are going down to Georgia this weekend feral hog hunting. There are quite a few wild Russian Boar here in the Smokies, but they're almost impossible to hunt without a pack of good dogs.
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: huntertrapper on June 11, 2008, 10:53:38 pm
well good luck to ya cavemen! we got some hogs that escaped pens and farms here that can be shot on sight but no good pop.
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: El Destructo on June 11, 2008, 10:57:13 pm
Wish You all Good Luck....hey ....tell me ...is this A Russian or just anothe Black feral Hog??? It isnt the best picture...because thay always come in at Dark...... Oh.and really bice Stickers there Hillbilly!!! Ought to get some Meat for Sure!!

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Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: huntertrapper on June 11, 2008, 11:02:42 pm
another question for ya hillbilly.. ;D them smokies are they high enough that theres a temp. difference than down lower?
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: mullet on June 11, 2008, 11:04:30 pm
 Mike, he looks like a feral to me, body is too short for a Russian. Nice job on the arrows Steve, looking forward to it. It'll be fun before I take off next week for Louisianna or Brazil. Oh, have you checked out the weather? ::)
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: D. Tiller on June 11, 2008, 11:09:14 pm
I am really gettin the jitters to hunt piggies! One day! ONE DAY!!!

Beautiful points and arrows there. I like Ryolite! Though I think I will stay with obsidian. Don't think I like the amount of self abuse that goes into making them!  :'(
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: El Destructo on June 11, 2008, 11:09:59 pm
Thats what I was thinking too Eddie...I was going by the Slope of the Forehead though...not flat enough for a Russian.... still going to eat Her!!!

Tiller...you can go with my Buddy John...in Lower Michigan....he hunts them in a Tag Elder Swamp....with a Spear....aint no way....I am going to be on the ground with a Spear against a Boar...Nope....uh--ahhh.....no way!!!!
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Hillbilly on June 11, 2008, 11:11:01 pm
Mike, hard to say-can't see it too good. I'd say that it's a black feral. HT, yeah, there's a lot of difference in elevation/climate. Every thousand feet of elevation is about the equivilant of going 200 miles north. We have elevations close to 7,000 feet. Above 5500' elevation, the climate here is basically the same as southern Canada with the same plant communities: spruce-fir forest, northern hardwoods, lots of Canadian/northern US plants and animals. We've recorded snow every month of the year at the highest elevations. So you can go from deep south to northwoods by driving a few miles.
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: mullet on June 11, 2008, 11:12:02 pm
  Looks just like the right size for the grill. :P ;D
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: El Destructo on June 11, 2008, 11:14:41 pm
Well Hillbilly....maybe I need to look into N.C for retirement too....instead of just Tennessee!! The Wife wants nice Winters....I want to go where there is Snow...so this could kill two birds with one stone!!

Eddie....if I can get a Shot at Her....it will be Grill Meat!!!
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: D. Tiller on June 11, 2008, 11:32:15 pm
I am so jealous! If I tried to hunt on the island I am on the tree huggers would be up in arms. You should see them when I wear a cammo T-shirt around town. I just love ticken them off though! So much fun!!!  >:D
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: huntertrapper on June 11, 2008, 11:37:25 pm
i do too d tiller, we dont have many that i know of, but i like wearin camo sometimes so people know im a hunter and thats what goes on in the mountains above the "city"
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: D. Tiller on June 11, 2008, 11:44:57 pm
Wonder what they hunt in the city? You happen to know the cammo. pattern they use?  ;D
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: El Destructo on June 11, 2008, 11:52:59 pm
Wonder what they hunt in the city? You happen to know the cammo. pattern they use?  ;D

Yeah..Mossy Oak Smog.....lets you blend right into the background !!!!
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Pat B on June 12, 2008, 12:55:52 am
Steve, Those arrows ought to do the trick. Thems the pertiest ones I've seen from you. Giving Chris a run for his money? Oh yea, yours aren't purple!!! ;D    Good luck to you guys this weekend. The weather ought to be OK. Hot maybe but no tropical activity this year at least.
   We'll be waiting for the pics of bloody arrows with a few action shots. Eddie ain't bringing his Jeep, is he?  ;D     Pat
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Hillbilly on June 12, 2008, 07:59:04 am
Pat, I'm taking a bicycle pump to pump 'em back up and pop the jeep tire tracks out of 'em before we take the pictures.  ;D
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: RidgeRunner on June 12, 2008, 12:34:26 pm
Hay Steve:
Those arrows look as if they will do the job.
Ya ll have fun and take lots of photos

Here piggie, piggie, piggie.

David
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: DanaM on June 12, 2008, 01:00:32 pm
I am so jealous! If I tried to hunt on the island I am on the tree huggers would be up in arms. You should see them when I wear a cammo T-shirt around town. I just love ticken them off though! So much fun!!!  >:D

Yer such a rebel Tiller the Killer ;D
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: D. Tiller on June 12, 2008, 03:14:23 pm
 ;)
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Otoe Bow on June 12, 2008, 03:19:50 pm
Steve:  You do great work there man.  Have a great hunt. 

Mike
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Hillbilly on June 12, 2008, 04:55:02 pm
Thanks again, guys.
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: huntertrapper on June 12, 2008, 05:54:27 pm
probably be warm it was 95 here the other day let alone 4 or 5 states south. whew you can have that heat... ;D though i would love to hunt hogs ;)
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: david w. on June 12, 2008, 06:18:15 pm
WOW those are extremely nice arrows and i love those knapped points. :)

youll have to teach me if i make it to the classic next year ;D
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Justin Snyder on June 12, 2008, 07:45:53 pm
Nice looking arrows Steve.  Ill bet they will get a pretty good blood flow going.  Justin
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Hillbilly on June 12, 2008, 10:34:06 pm
Justin, I hope to find out.  :) HT, It's supposed to be a little cooler this weekend anyway, just around 90  :D. David, make it down there, and we'll make some arrows and break some rocks.
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: david w. on June 12, 2008, 10:50:48 pm
Thanks!  I was planing on going to it but it falls on my dads b-day i still might go though.
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Woodland Roamer on June 12, 2008, 11:00:26 pm
Man those are some really great looking arrows Steve! Those points look great, hope you stick one thru a pig.

Alan
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: cowboy on June 12, 2008, 11:27:06 pm
Steve, you make some of the purtiest arras ;D. The dye job and the points - I gotta slow down :). Hope ya bring home the bacon!!
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Coo-wah-chobee on June 12, 2008, 11:28:47 pm
Steve an Eddie....good huntin' in "Jawga" this weekend......bob
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Little John on June 13, 2008, 11:17:03 am
Good hunting and beautiful primitive arrows. Anxious to hear the stories. Again beautiful arrows and very nice job on the primitive hafting..   Kenneth
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Pamunkey on June 17, 2008, 02:50:40 pm
Nice arrows!  I'll take a dozen.

Will
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: GregB on June 18, 2008, 08:43:11 am
Steve, those are some really impressive looking arrows! I'm anxious to heard what kind of luck you have with them. I'm going to have to get some info from you guys on how to gather and work the pine pitch. Looks like it also helped to taper the end of the cane to the point.  :)
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Sparrow on June 20, 2008, 01:00:45 pm
 Here Pig!..Pig...Pig..Pig.....Those are very nice looking arrows.Hope you see the pig.  Frank
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: mullet on June 20, 2008, 07:09:21 pm
  He did,,Heh, Heh, heh. :o ;)
Title: Re: Pig Stickers
Post by: Hillbilly on June 21, 2008, 10:40:27 pm
 ;D