Year in review-7th Age Bowhunting.

[Izzy]

Glad your well Curtis and as alway awesome pics. Now that I see what all of the hoopla is about free range pork I vow to chase em in a warm clime at least once a year and I hope to chase em with you reallllllll soon.

           In Love With Hogs,Izzy

[Mac Hicks]

Curtis, Here is a copy of my post to another thread from the first January hunt. We had a great time and hope to come back and do it again next year.....and that's no BS.

 
QUOTE]Originally [posted by Mac Hicks:
Finally getting a chance to post a few pictures from our 1-5 January hunt with Curtis.  

Craig and I switched to hunting javelina the last afternoon of our hunt and as I said before we both got into them and both had shots.  Mine was a clean miss when the javie made my move to draw on him and bolted as I shot.  Craig made a hit but thought the shot might have been a bit back so he marked the start of the blood trail, backed out and decided to let him lay overnight.

Curtis said that was a good decision as coyotes don't normally eat dead or wounded javies.

The next morning Craig and I followed a fairly sparse blood trail for about 100yds and found this spot where he laid down and appeared to lose a lot more blood.
 
 

From there the blood trail was a lot heavier and it appeared that the javie was running again?  We then found hair and what later turned out to be part of the stomach contents and the broken GT arrow.  Then we lost the blood trail altogether and decided that I would go back to camp for help from Curtis while Craig stayed there to try to figure it out.  

When Curtis and I returned, it didn't take him long to read the sign and tell us that coyotes had gotten the wounded javie up and that they were able to take him down and had, in fact, eaten him.
 
Curtis then found the scene of a major struggle among the coyotes over the carcass and these were the only remains.
 
 

Curtis and Craig posed for this pic of Craig's "trophy" and then we continued a search for the head or hide but were unable to find either.
 

Watching Curtis in action while tracking the javie was worth the trip and seeing him fling that Texas Throwing Stick at a jackrabbit as we walked back to the truck was quite a "watch this" moment.  The jackrabbit was unharmed, but Curtis was wincing in pain as he twisted his injured back and shoulder with the effort.

It was a great trip and we hope to return to hunt the javies again soon in the West Texas terrain.
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[Littlefeather]

  I understand your love for hogs my friend. I really understand addiction as well. Hogs are it for me1

The photo card seems like it's toast so I won't be posting any of the client kills from hunt #1 or #2. Sorry!

How about a few more of BoBo. BoBo is a famous blood trailing archery hog. He's been in TBM in one of Jason Westbrocks article.

He was a pet when he was young.

 

Then he got older and I started using him to blood trail. Pigs have a nose second to none. They don't like to load up in the truck though. You gotta hunt close to home if you want to use a hog to blood trail....OR listen to him SQUEEL!

 


After he was grown I called him a friend. He taught me more about hogs than I could have ever known any other way. BoBo always got scraps after cleaning game.

 

I found a few friends for BoBo. He turned into a sow when I brought home Dozer(sleeping on BoBo)

 

[Littlefeather]

Thanks Mac! I appreciate the photos!
I may have just turned this thread south with the pigs but I have to post two more.

I killed a sow one day while slipping through some tall grass along a swamp. Unfortunately I didn't see these under her. There were only two. I felt obligated to raise them. Here's Dozer. I kept him and gave the other away.

 

He grew into a fine looking young man and was a great friend to BoBo. They shared food. That is very unlike hogs.

 

I've got some hunting post to get caught up on now. Thanks for looking!     CK

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

Ah, Bobo. I remember him when...   :(  

 

[gregg dudley]

Good times!

I'll help you out, Curtis--

Reed and THE Guide:

 

The next day--New found swagger:

 

We don't get out much:
 

Reed's hunt story is here:
 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=146;t=000005

Thanks for the memories!

Gregg

[Gatekeeper]

I remember BoBo, very smart to have a hog around to learn from. Interesting that you can use him for blood trailing. Great thread, Curtis its making me smile.

[highpoint forge]

Hey Curtis that is pretty neat. We killed a pair of sows and of course there were 6-7 tiny pigs left to deal with. I actually wanted to catch them all but my hunting partners thought otherwise.

[Nakohe]

I sure enjoyed our hunt together a couple years ago and always enjoy your threads. Now that I am working again, maybe I can come and hunt with you again.

[tradtusker]

Great pics
A pity to miss the Sweat this year That sucked
hope to catch up with ya soon

[Margly]

Great thread    

Margly

[term]

I Think I would rather juggle bobcats

[Littlefeather]

Jason, Great pic! I always could pick out Bobo among his siblings because of that pink nose. He had a brother that looked just like him without the pink nose.

Greg, Thanks for the post. Thats a great memory for me.

Donald, I'll leave the gate unlocked for you.

Andy, I missed you this year. I had to crawl around in the grass with the pigs this year alone. Sounds like you have the next year working in your favor.    

Thanks again for the comments.   :D   CK

[Tater 2]

This year with Curtis was my first time ever hunting Hogs, I'm hooked.

     I learned alot from the master, I will be back next year!

    I will try and not bring any SNOW with me this time.  


    Thanks Curtis for a great time!

[FEIK77]

 

Here is a couple pictures of the javelina I shot and the hog that my dad shot. This was my first out of state hunt and I had a blast. I will definitely do it again someday, hopefully soon. Curtis is a great host and all around great guy.

[FEIK77]

Sorry, posted the wrong picture, here is the picture of my javelina along with my dads hog.