Pigs in the 'hood. . . A Trashwood / Wingnut adventure. 200+ .pig pics added pg4

[Doc Nock]

Rusty, you can type bakerts for all I care and I'll still relish every tidbit of your stories!

I only ever got to hunt hogs ONCE where hogs showed up..that was with Matt and Cheryl Napper at Shiloh.

I nearly laughed myself outa the stands at sounders. Man the pigs are NUTS! Such carryin on and nutzin around...hooking, squealin, raising alarms and run off 50 yards and then stand around looking like, "did I do that" in best Erkyl fashion...

As for killin. I saw one coming...big ole boy...out oh..100 yards...moved my foot 6" real s-l-o-w...and all I got was a low, guttaral growl and he vanished! So much for blind hogs!

Thanks for highlighting how they are so smart and can be quarry tough as any! It's you guys antics together that are the best, though!

Thanks guys for taking us along. Entertaining AND educational!

[trashwood]

well I have not visited in a few days.  I had to think this one over a bit.  Wingnut is the best hunting buddy ya can have.  He thinks on his feet, is a good communicator, and doesn't shoot first and ask questions later.

We turned onto the good road and drove down to fill the feeder only to find two ATV blocking our way.  hmmmm one of the ATV had a long gun case unzipped and the gun was out somewhere doing something.  this was about 10yds from our feeder.  Wingnut cool as can be pulls up to the two fellows and a friendly sounding as can be say hey guys what is happening.

the story is they ran down a nice boar with their atvs  and shot him twice in the face with a shotgun while runing at top speed.......now I am reaching for a 10mm S&W 1006 auto and extra clip to kill 'em all and let God sort them out...but deside to follow Wingnut's lead who is much wiser in these things than I am         and handles them with very little blood shead        

I ain't going into to detail; I just get all PO'd again and ruin my night.  The situation kinda put a damper on the quest but as ever Wingnut just kept on marching to the goal and never looked back. Dang good hunting partners are hard to come by          I glade Wingnut hunts with me.  He might have saved four guys lives, I was PO'd

rusty -will get back on track- Craine

ps just cause a guy is carring a bow don't mean he ain't armed and capable of shooting 100 x 8X on a 25 yds NRA slow fire with a 10mm S&W 1006.  Just keep it mind before ya make him really really mad          and hope ya got a cool head like wingnut with ya

[trashwood]

well if the encounter with the tresspaaers wasn't enough.  I had good luck and bad luck that night.

finally got out with the hawglite. the hawglite works great. the das elite has got a boss built around the stab attachment the looks like a do to me. a shooting friend said it was underdog which name the bow. the first picture is of underdog gone baddog  all decked out with hawglite and das srf sight.

pigs started a steady assult on the feeder right after dark. passed on a few, screwed a few up getting form and hawglite on the same page. finally got my act together on a black and white 50#er+. shot was good shot. waited 30 minutes to make sure everything was quiet. I watched the dang pigs make a pigs out of themselfs. called wingnut and got down to pick up trail. the privet and green briar are so thick you are on your hands and knees blood trailing. Wingnut picks up the trail 10 yds from feeder. (pic 2) maybe 20 yds more he finds the pig (pic 3). problem....we didn't find arrow. i thought it was a pass thru clean and clear. up jumped the devil. found arrow 10yds on passed pig. pass thru musta hit a pig I did not notice on passed him. a sounder usually visits a feeder all at once. they are in constant motion. last pic is blood trail patch 30yds past first pig. trailed second pig on hands and knees for an hour and half. blood trail was petering out. boold never had bubbles in it. not dark like hit too far back was more like muscle blood. went back in this morning to pick up trail. it ended where we were last night. could not pick it up again

 http://sites.google.com/site/stringw...whunter/baddog

it helps if ya hunt from a higher stand but this stand was low. this allowed pass thru to hit 2nd pig. it is much better to hunt the trails coming to the feeder. they are often in single file and you can stop them with a pig grunt call for a shot. it would be hard to do at night with a light

not only is wingnut a cool head but one of the most tenacious bloodtrailers I have hunted with.  He cut his teeth and training for blood trailer hunting Washington bear before they band baiting. He was kinda the ram rod on hunting bear with his hunting buddies,  I forget the exact story but his hunting buddy has got I think 2 book bears and Wingnut got one or sumpin like that.  Wingnut has got a lot of gamesense if there is such a word.  He keeps telling my that hunting in the tight green bria and privet in the boggy bottom is a piece of cake.  much easier than trailing bear in the avalance bush.  I am glade Texas dont have avalance or avalance bush  

rusty
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[trashwood]

I thank we are back on track now.  I may go into night put a half bag of corn in and hunt the area abit.  If the wind is right wingnut is going in Saturday night.  I gotta go to a Pharmacy Christmas function.   So stay tuned now and then.  the worn is gonna turn here pretty soon.

I am going to finish putting in a tree stand if I can this after noon.  we need a place to hunt the feeder when there is a north wind.  the pigs seem to be coming to the feeder from the north and north west side of the stand.  well the stand that was there.  Wingnut took it out after our encounter with the ATV's.

I am calling the fish and game department today.  I want to see how much a couple of ATV tags would be.  Hey made they even pay a bounty for their ears.  

rusty

[wingnut]

Now Rusty, simmer down.  Them ol' boys were just out riding the atvs, drinking beer and shooting hogs with a shotgun.  Heck sounds like a great redneck date.  Was surprised they didn't have dates.  Oh wait. . . there were four guys.    

Now tresspassers and interlopers get my back up.  But I think my quiet talk about spending time rooming with Bubba down at county was enough to insure they will not be back.  They got out of there pretty quick after loading up the pig.

Going to try and get down tonight after the wind switchs.

Mike

[trashwood]

this reminds me of a story   .  these three red necks wnet hunting together.  One was accidental shot.  the other two get him ready and rushed him to the hospital.  the wonded hnter went immenditly to surgery,  after some time the surgeon appeared looking depressed and shake his head NO.  the guys ask doc ya mean he didn't make it.  doc shook his had NO, we did all we cold.  It might have been easier to patch him up if ya hadn't fieled dressed him first  

rusty

[flatlander37]

man this thread is killin me!  

[Tique]

Rusty, keep those ears and put them on your belt. When you do a show and tell for future tresspassers don't be standing in front of their ATV.

[Dave Bulla]

Ha Rusty,  

I saw a different version on a video somewhere.  Guy is calling 911 and says "I shot my huntin' buddy.  Oh Lordy, I killed him, I killed him."

The lady on the phone tries to calm him down.  Finally he says "What do I do now?  Oh Lordy, what do I do?"

Operator says "Just take it easy sir.  First thing is you need to make sure he's dead for me."

"Uh, yea ok.  I can do that."

BANG!!!!

"Ok, he's dead for sure.  Now what do I do?"

[trashwood]

dave - LOL In Texas we always tell those jokes a Texas Aggie joke    Thst is if ya graduated from Austin.  Hook 'em Horns

rusty

[trashwood]

we had the brights full moon of the yr last night as you might know.  Moon riser here was around 5:30 PM.  The feeder was empty so I desided to go out and put some corn in and set the feeder in the full moon.

I got there about 7:00, out some corn in and get in my hidy hole.  Set about 20 minutes and heard chomping under the feeder.  I turned on the night light to find the biggest raccoon I have seen.  red light didn't bother him much.  as the moon got higher I was watching 5 racoons eating my dang corn.  the biggest one would stand up on his back legs and look toward the direction we think the pigs would come from.  He'd do this about every 10 or 15 minutes.  I course that made me think he heard the pigs coming so I would wait another 39 minutes   .  well he pulled my chain for three hours while he had a great meal. He ask if there was wine and a desert.  I flipped on the hawglite and practiced drawing on him   .  he was not intimadated at all.  I stayed till 10P, feet numb, fingers numb, nose running, never to have seen a pig.  I could heard them west of me maybe down in the flats.  

 http://sites.google.com/site/stringwalkerbowhunter/raccoons

Wingnut and I are going out this after noon to do some house keep and task.

Maybe next time

rusty

[hunt it]

Rusty,

De say coon roasted over mesquite is good, bedder dan possum! You'd have a dandy hat to boot.

[hunt it]

Rusty,

Forgot to mention the most important point. Dr. Ed's latest discovery, arras lubed with coon grease out penetrate bare shafts 2:1.

[hunt it]

Rusty,

Forgot to mention the most important point. Dr. Ed's latest discovery, arras lubed with coon grease out penetrate bare shafts 2:1.

[Van/TX]

by the way Van/TX if ya pick this thread up again let me ask ya a question. Do you remember that guy who came to Vanderpool pretty often that had the left/right handed bow. it had a shelf on one side of the bow. ya turned the bow upside down to shoot left handed and well upside down again to shoot right handed. did ya ever shoot the bow????? do you remember his name?
 

Rusty, his name is Richard.  Pronounced Reeshard.  Coonass.  Lives in a boathouse on the Red River.  Cannot remember his first name.
He gave someone permission to produced those bows commercially but I have not seen any but his. You can phone Dennis Balusek at 936-649-0612 to find out more info or how to contact him.  Dennis is a great guy he would not mind the call.  I got the info from Mike Brown (M.E.B.) since I couldn't remember.  It's heck gettin' old    ...Van

[Doc Nock]

Rusty,

Maybe you need to ventilate that big ole coon...I think you'd look pretty swell in a rackdety coon hat!  

[trashwood]

Van - thanks.  ever a source of knowledge....heck some of it is even useful    

DocNoc - I watched that big coon the other night for a long time.  practiced drawing on him with the hawglite to make sure I was lined up with light anf shooting form.  

it was the night with the brightest moon of yr.  He would hear or sense sumpin from a driection and he'd stand up on his back feet.  dang he was tall.  Now I had never tought much about how coons eat.  I have watcheded them at the edge of a stream but never watched them for a long time at feeder.  He would pick the corn up what looked like a kernal at a time with his hands and munch it.  He must not have been able to see the corn kernals clearly because he would put one in his mouth the start patting the ground feeling for the bump of corn.  he work on that about 20 minutes then go over to the neck of the feeder a scoop some more out on the ground and start the patting process over.  

I have really have enjoyed watching the pigs and coons.  I am in a hide about 8 yds from the feeder.  I have had both coons and pigs pass with a few feet of me.    

The hawglite works very well. they pay little attention to it.  I have watched them enough that I can idtenify some of the different pigs.

I am waiting for my new Dryad bow to get back from camo dipping.  then we got to put the sight bosses in and the stab boss.  when that is done I am gonna to take a little tan boar I have got spotted.  the camo dipper kinda throw a knick in the time line.  He had to get a new shipment of the pattern we wanted.  So that caused the adventure to continue on longer than I thought it would.

I think Winnut is going to take one before he leaves for Washington on the 22nd.  I am gonna hold out for my 45# Dryad.  At least for me the time has not been a waste nor the corn a waste.  I have really enjoyed a peek into the into their daily life.  

The pigs are just as we thought, physically tuff, tuff minded, aggersive.

rusty

[trashwood]

Wingnut and I got to talking the other night about pig hunting with a 45# bow.  We tought about all the pig hunts we had been on and all the long searches for pigs we had been in on.  I started getting cold feet and wanted to stick with heavier draw bows that I know work.  I started and thread to address the matter.  I got excellent feed back from pig hunters experience that reassured me.  

I am gonna wait for and stick with the 45#er  

rusty