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Offline Terry Green

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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #60 on: February 22, 2008, 08:59:00 AM »
I've called the last two days...and no one calls me back  :(    :(    :(  

Maybe they are too busy  :)    :)    :)
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #61 on: February 22, 2008, 01:01:00 PM »
Glad the guys are giving em hell.   :D    ...  Looking forward to the pics and stories.
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #62 on: February 22, 2008, 02:37:00 PM »
Got a call from Mitch, and he left me a message about emailing pics.....I only got one of a hog trad and a bhead arrow...

 
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #63 on: February 22, 2008, 03:31:00 PM »
Just got off the phone with Charlie and Vance....

Andy got two Javies, Son of TX got a hog and Missoura Sherpa also got a hog.

The last evening is upon them, and Charlie and Vance are setting up an ambush now....

They are going to have a big gathering around the fire tonight for story telling.

I'd love to be there....
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #64 on: February 22, 2008, 03:58:00 PM »
look like they had a great hunt.
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #65 on: February 22, 2008, 05:08:00 PM »
mmmmm the food is good!

Good times continue and the stories are growing.

The was a brush fire and we think Stinson was involved!
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #66 on: February 22, 2008, 08:33:00 PM »
You still gettin sunburned Mitch?   :o
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #67 on: February 23, 2008, 09:52:00 PM »
:banghead:  kind of
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #68 on: February 24, 2008, 12:52:00 AM »
Everyone is on the road.  Vance and I are headed north racing a storm coming off the Pacific.

We are almost to Co.
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #69 on: February 24, 2008, 03:03:00 AM »
That's great! I can't wait for Andy to get back so I can hear stories and see pics!  :D
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #70 on: February 24, 2008, 09:34:00 AM »
Just got back myself.  Drove straight through and real tired at this point.  Fed the horses and debriefed the war department.   Stories to come...   There will be blood....

Stinson has material for the feral hog chapter of a new book, "The Eradication of a Species".  Should be an entertaining tale.    

We had a great view of the total lunar eclipse and had some excitment with the brush fire and  a near alien abduction of Hunt It.  Picture below is typical scenery where I hunted, smoke rising from the brushfire on the horizon.
 
It wasn't a good week to be a pig in west Texas.

This was my first trip to west Texas and I wish I had some scenery pictures to show for it but there are none.  Plenty of pictures but we sure as HELLO didn't go there for the scenery.  Looks the same everywhere you look.  I am baffled at how proud Texans are of their state because I drove through several hundred miles of the armpit of the United States on my way to the Sweat.  If it were not for the Sweet crude oil there I think West Texas would make a good Nuclear Fuel dump.  No country for old men but they do have a bunch of wild hogs there.

I thoroughly enjoyed sharing camp and hunting with this bunch and wish I had gone years ago.  

Pictures to come when I catch up on my sleep deficit.
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #71 on: February 24, 2008, 09:47:00 AM »
Mo Sherp,  I've never been to a part of this wonderful country of ours that didn't, in it's own way, show the beauty it possesses. Sometimes ya gotta take off the blinders bud. It's there, you just have to allow yourself to see it.

 "armpit of the united states"....not even close!
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #72 on: February 24, 2008, 10:03:00 AM »
Sherp,

I grew up out there in Odessa and it can be nasty when the wind blows the Monohans sand hills in, but to me the smell of crude and pump jacks on the horrizon are memories of a fond childhood roaming around the mesquite hunting rabbits and quail.

As Guru said not even close to being the armpit of the US
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #73 on: February 24, 2008, 10:29:00 AM »
Here are a few teasers from a GREAT trip.  Lots of good stories to follow...

 

Mel (Irish) and I were yakking away when I saw this boar standing behind us on the road!  We both put stalks on him from separate directions -- a pincer movement -- but neither of us got a shot.  The hog wasn't happy about leaving the well-corned road.

 

Pops and Curtis.  They worked their tails off to make this an incredible hunt.  Many, many thanks to you guys, as well as Charlie, Shaun, and all the rest.

 

Both of these points were used on hogs.  The bottom one was used twice in one day:  two dead hogs.

 

And here's one of them.  It's the result of a tag team hunt with Mel.  Easily one of my favorite ever hunts.
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #74 on: February 24, 2008, 10:33:00 AM »
:bigsmyl:    :notworthy:    :notworthy:
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #75 on: February 24, 2008, 10:37:00 AM »


There's a video of us trying to shoot the group photos.  Emphasis on "trying."    :jumper:
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #76 on: February 24, 2008, 10:39:00 AM »


My apologies if any of you are truly offended.  I have been to 35 states and have not seen the west coast, Alaska, Hawaii, New England, La. and Ms. which are some of our countries most beautiful places.  I have a pretty good feel for the rest of the country.  The stench of oil, rusty abandoned tanks, acres of old pump jacks, pipelines laying on the ground all through the brush country, and blowing trash all along interstate 20 from the Monohans to Fort Worth isn't appealing to me in any way and I will stand by my opinion of it.  Of all the places I have been that country is the last place I would want to live. There is a peaceful solitude there but I find solitude in a lot of places that appeal to me more.  I will not be the one to crowd anyone out of there.
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #77 on: February 24, 2008, 10:41:00 AM »
This is good stuff...Love the arrowheads!!!!marco#78  :thumbsup:
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #78 on: February 24, 2008, 11:13:00 AM »
Home....Tired.....We had a blast!!!
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Re: Workin up a Texas Sweat Hog - PICS from Mitch pg 4
« Reply #79 on: February 24, 2008, 11:14:00 AM »


As you can expect there were some practical jokers in the group.  This is the camp pet snake.

 
We were lucky to enjoy a few tunes.  Kevin provided the live entertainment several times during the week.  Talented young man.
 
Plenty of time spent around camp enjoying the company of others.
 
First night before the Sweat.  Woody crafted a bunch of nice points during the week.
 

I spent most of the week hunting with Robert Holloway.  I enjoyed his company and had a great week hunting with him.  This is his first hog bowkill.  Nice pig to break the ice with.  We saw a giant of a hog our first night on the waterhole.  He needs to tell that story.

 

This is my first bowkill pig.  I have killed a lot of critters and find hog hunting to be a lot of fun.  I sharpened my winter rusty archery skills and killed a big jackrabbit the first day which made its way to the dinner table.  BBQ jackrabbit is really pretty good.  I wounded another pig.  RobTattoo and Robert helped me track the next morning.  We found little pools of blood where it had stopped to stand a couple of times but never did recover the pig.   I thought there was a surprising number of unrecovered pigs.  The coyotes got a bonus this week.  I got to stalk Javelina's two days but didn't get to loose an arrow.  It is dry and crunchy land we hunt and hard to stalk on a quiet evening hunt.  If they aren't going to cooperate and walk into your setup you aren't going to have much luck with Javies.
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