Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: Hillbilly on June 22, 2008, 02:14:41 pm
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OK, I'm back from lounging on the beach. Here are a few pics from The Great Redneck Hog Hunt.
Here's a few shots of the woods and country. Obviously, the woods are too thick to do more than crawl on your belly through in most places, so most of the hunting is spot-and-stalk in the food plots or bushhogged trails. The higher ground is a tangle of brush, dwarf palmetto, and briars. The lower ground is cypress-tupelo sloughs complete with Spanish moss, gators and other swamp critters.
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There is all kinds of cool wildlife and birds on the place, wish I had taken my camera out with me more. There were loads of rabbits, deer, a few armadillos, turtles and gopher tortoises, flocks of ibis and waterfowl flying overhead. I enjoyed just being out in and seeing all the plants and animals of a totally different environment. The Deep-South lowcountry is awesome. Here is a swallow-tailed kite-a big, rare bird of prey that I haven't had a chance to see before. There were several of them patrolling the place.
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Ohyeah, there were lots of hogs there, too. :) Most of them I saw were black, but there are also brown/red ones, red ones with black spots, dirty-tan colored ones, and blue-gray colored hogs. They're easier to get in camera range of than bow range-I was a bit more accurate with the camera than I was with the stick and string. ;D Here's a spotted hog and a big, black boar:
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Here's what happens when the wind swirls while you're stalking a group of hogs and after a half-hour of crawling, you're suddenly looking at a stampede of fast-moving pig butts:
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Here's some cute little fellers I found out in an oat patch-they're about the size of rabbits, and I snuck up to within a few feet downwind of them. I just needed me a fish net.......
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And here's what happens when everything goes right and you don't miss-so I've been told ;D -
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Here's why you don't want an arrow stuck between your eyes:
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The End. :)
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We had a great time and I'll fer sure be going back. I'll be practicing my long-range shooting a bit before then, though. >:( :)
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nice pics sir...some meat made too, i bet its some hard huntin in the south with the land and foliage the way it is.... ;)
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Nice pictures Steve, I wish I took my camera with me more too. I love watching those Swallowtail kites, It was unusual for them to be that far north. The normal migration range from Brazil is Central Florida from what we learned from a biologist Charlie and I met one year doing a study on them. I started to grab those two little orphan pigs when Charlie and I saw them. But it was too hot to start all that running. David Tiller wants to go next year.
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Hope I can make it! That looks like a lot of fun. I tried going hunting with Chris (agbowyer) down in TX a couple years ago but things fell through at the last minute. (Sigh!) Now if we could just find a place to hunt for free! Free is my favorite word! ;)
David T
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Nice pictures Steve, I wish I took my camera with me more too. I love watching those Swallowtail kites, It was unusual for them to be that far north. The normal migration range from Brazil is Central Florida from what we learned from a biologist Charlie and I met one year doing a study on them. I started to grab those two little orphan pigs when Charlie and I saw them. But it was too hot to start all that running. David Tiller wants to go next year.
Hey uncle Eddie I wanna go too.
R.C.
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I'll have to say that this is the only time I have ever went on a hunting trip wearing shorts in 90 degree heat. :)
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Great pics Hillbilly! Thats my dream hunt, got deer and turkey everywhere here, but I wanna hog hunt...go figure. :D....Brian
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Frrrreeeeeee!!! (The dream!) ;D :P ;D
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Great photos, Steve. I especially like the Kite.
Eddie,
I've had about 6 pairs of Kites nesting on my place since I've owned it. They seem to always show up around the Turkey opener and leave in August.
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So Hillbilly when we haven hog jowls ,beans and collared greens for dinner ,might just catch me a plane and show up
Dennis
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You'd better go to Chris or Eddie's to get the hog jowls. I can hook you up with barbecued dirt and boiled grass, since that's about all I managed to kill. >:( ;D Tim, I enjoyed seeing the kites-they'll usually "talk" to you every time they fly over, too. :)
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great pics, hillbilly. sorry to hear about your hunting "success". next time. don't make those arrows so pretty, so you won't be afraid to ruin them in a pig (i assume that's the real cause, you were subconsciously trying to protect your arrows ;D ).
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Great pictures,looks like a good hunt,never thought about shooting them in the head,looks like it worked tho. ;D May have to try that on the next hog hunt.I didn't have much luck shooting at the lungs. :)
Pappy
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Steve, what was the average distance shots yall were having to take? :)
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Greg, about 20-25 yards was probably the average. A lot of the hogs we were seeing were out in the open, and it was tough to get much closer than that. I suck at judging yardage, anyway. I did spend about 45 minutes slithering on my belly like a snake across a field of briars and fire ants using a little scrubby knee-high palmetto as cover and finally got within 15 yards of a group of hogs. Just as I raised up and started to draw back, SOMEBODY who shall remain nameless (EDDIE ;D ;D) came barrel-assing around the corner doing about 70 in a Polaris Ranger and scattered my flocks and herds to the four winds. :)
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It was either me scare them in a humane manner or you flingging dirt all over them.
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It was either me scare them in a humane manner or you flingging dirt all over them.
Ain't nothing like hunting with good friends..... :D
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Ain't it nice to be loved by kind, compassionate, supportive friends? ;D ;D
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I thought that's what family was for. ;D ;D O:)
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Eddie, I think you've got the " O:)" confused with the " >:D". ;D
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Nice pictures there Steve. I thought you were going to say 40 yards. I can handle 20-25......sometimes. ;D I'm just not that proud, them little buggers would have been tender little chops. 8) Justin
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Justin, I'm not too proud, either, but those little fellers probably woulda fit in your shirt pocket-you coulda put both of 'em on a kabob skewer with enough room left for onions and mushrooms. :)
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Justin, I'm not too proud, either, but those little fellers probably woulda fit in your shirt pocket-you coulda put both of 'em on a kabob skewer with enough room left for onions and mushrooms. :)
Sounds great, lets do it. Camp meat size. ;D
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Uh,,, were those loud booms Cade and I heard in the distance Thunder?
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;D If you'd put your frizzen down, you could miss 'em and scuff 'em with bullets, too. ;D ;D
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Great pictures,and hunt.That country looks alot like East Texas river bottoms.,palmettos and pigs. God Bless
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Nice head shot! Wow.
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Right on Hillbilly and Eddie, looks like an awesome time. Love the head shot. Was it planned or did the hog spin on ya?
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Thanks Keenan, It was planned for the ear. But when he looked straight at me when I drew the bow back between the eyes was a better target. I didn't want to crawl through the thorns in the dark looking for him. So it was going to be a head shot or a miss.
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wow. nice head shot. i woulda thought the arra would ricochet. huh. nice pics and looks like it was a great hunt.