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Author Topic: Laredo Tusk Roundup 24 ‘HERE WE GO’  (Read 17232 times)

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Re: LTR 24 ‘HERE WE GO’
« Reply #120 on: February 07, 2024, 04:23:24 PM »
Wow ! Nice buck. When do they start dropping their antlers in South Texas ?

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« Reply #121 on: February 08, 2024, 02:08:59 AM »
Wow ! Nice buck. When do they start dropping their antlers in South Texas ?


I wouldn’t count on it.  Saw 2 buck sparring today and a bunch of chasing activity.

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« Reply #122 on: February 08, 2024, 08:20:11 AM »
Michael, I'm sorry I was out. Hunting near the power station and for whatever reason I wasn't allowed to post. Maybe it was all the power line Bologna.

I don't know for sure, maybe some body from Texas could answer. But I would say probably early March. Because yes they do chase during these hunts as patrick has said above.
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« Reply #123 on: February 08, 2024, 08:44:43 AM »
E. T. All....

Patrick and I had a wild 'heart felt' adventure last night. I have a lot of catching up to do on other stuff with other hunters as well.
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« Reply #124 on: February 08, 2024, 11:42:04 AM »
Speaking of scat...

Got hogs???

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Re: LTR 24 ‘HERE WE GO’
« Reply #125 on: February 08, 2024, 11:42:27 AM »
Wow ! Nice buck. When do they start dropping their antlers in South Texas ?

Years ago hunting Javies on the King ranch in March/April we would found sheds. They didn't want you to keep them  :biglaugh:

I did see a one horn buck this year on LTR #1 hunting with Rocky
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« Reply #126 on: February 08, 2024, 11:50:56 AM »
They all still have horns here now.  We've seen lots bucks, including 2 last night that were bird dogging.
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« Reply #127 on: February 08, 2024, 02:31:00 PM »
I kept Skip busy all day yesterday...








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« Reply #128 on: February 08, 2024, 05:41:28 PM »
Blake is set up on them now...

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« Reply #129 on: February 08, 2024, 06:33:23 PM »
Somebody tagged out...
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« Reply #130 on: February 08, 2024, 07:53:03 PM »
Somebody else just tagged out...
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« Reply #131 on: February 09, 2024, 01:43:57 AM »
Patrick and I had another adventure tonight.  Got many more stories coming from this group so hang on...
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« Reply #132 on: February 09, 2024, 08:50:40 AM »
Awesome, thanks for sharing. Always looks so fun.
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« Reply #133 on: February 09, 2024, 09:15:04 AM »
Uh Oh!..... I have no javalina tags left.

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« Reply #134 on: February 09, 2024, 10:46:33 AM »
Your on a roll Terry ... must be those lucky boots  :goldtooth: :biglaugh:
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« Reply #135 on: February 09, 2024, 12:59:50 PM »
I am going to try to post a little bit while I am driving. Voice recognition may mean that I have to go correct some things later. If I call anybody names we’ll just say that it is voice recognition.

I got down there Saturday in time to set up a few spots for hog hunting and we hunted Sunday through Thursday. I don’t know why, but my brain thought that we would be hunting Sunday night but this is better.

The first couple of days were a little rough for me. I saw a few Havelina in the evenings, but it was really windy, and they seemed reluctant to come out of cover, at least at my spot for the first couple days. I may get my days a little confused because I didn’t keep a journal. it was either on Monday or Tuesday that I had a pretty cool encounter with a large for Havelina. Actually, very large doesn’t even come close to describing him. I saw them feeding away from me so I needed to take a parallel Sendero and head them off to get the window in my favor. I must’ve had not very much corn on the Sendero because they were moving out a good clip, and I didn’t have adequate time to get myself into cover. If you’ve ever hunted there, you know that it takes some doing to get in adequate cover without impaling yourself on every prickly pair in Mesquite in the county. In any case, I came through a wash and set up behind a bush, when I saw them coming fast. I had cover as the approach, and I was just hoping that I could get a shot off at the lead Havelina. Unfortunately, it was an old wise Havelina , and as soon as his head got past the bush, he spoke to the other side and went into cover. The rest of the Havelina followed suit. I would say this Havelina was around 3 to 4 times the size of other Havelina in the group, but realistically this Havelina  was at a minimum twice his size of other adult or Havelina in the group. I really don’t see a world in which this Havelina would way less than 80 pounds. I know this sounds crazy, but I would not even be surprised if he weighed 90 pounds.  I have never seen another Havelina even close to this size. In any case that was the last opportunity I had him although I did see him a couple other times during the hunt. He was pretty KG, and he knew that he was being hunted, so he did not come out in the open very often.

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« Reply #136 on: February 09, 2024, 01:07:06 PM »
On Tuesday, I was able to get set up on a group of Havelina moving down to Sandero and put a good shot on a decent boar. I have some video footage I’m not sure whether or not I can post from where I took the shot because I could see him and go down in the brush. I still gave him a few minutes, but he was a very easy recovery. Unfortunately, I had run over a mesquite thorn and needed to have my tire fixed. I drove to the skinning shed, got the Havelina skinned, and in a bag on ice, along with a rabbit that I shot that morning. I headed into town and got my tire fixed and one of the gentleman working at the tire repair place wanted the Havelina and rabbit, so I gave it to them. I was hunting with a late 1950s or early 1960s Paul Bunyan recur for the trip.

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« Reply #138 on: February 09, 2024, 02:53:28 PM »
The javalina Patrick is talking about I saw 3 days in a row where I was hunting and shot my javies.  His name is Andre, Andre the Giant.

I told Patrick about him, and he didn't realize how big he really was till he laid eyes on him. Boy was Patrick carrying on about him.

I saw him whip his brother and body slam him while on hind legs. They sounded like bears fighting. Joe heard the fight but was set up in a hide as I was tagged out, but Joe got to see him later.   Yeah, 80+.

Sorry for the terrible pics, it's the best I could do with my camera at 100 yards...

He's by himself here....







Now with Andre Jr and normal javies 25 yards closer....






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« Reply #139 on: February 09, 2024, 03:45:29 PM »
So I frequently get my days confused.  After having killed the javelina, I was really focused on that large javelina, which would be the case for the rest of the week. Wednesday was my birthday, and I turned 56. I frequently or at least somewhat often shoot an animal on my birthday, so I was really hoping to shoot that large javelina. That didn’t work out, so I decided to shoot a rabbit in the evening just so that I wouldn't get skunked on my birthday.





 As it turned out, I didn't need to worry about that.  My luck turned around a bit after dark.

I guess that I will start by saying that we were not having a lot of luck at the small feeders that I put out for hogs earlier in the hunt. The only one that a hog showed up was one that I hung for Terry. A group is showing up on Monday but we’re only there for a few minutes because there are so many deer there and they ate all of the bait. We decided to put a substantial amount more out the next day, and a group came in after midnight, and stayed for almost 2 hours. I had a lot of confidence that they would be back on Wednesday, but it was just a question of when.


It will be hard to tell this story without cutting into Terry’s a little bit, but I will do my best.


Wednesday evening and right after dark a hog showed up at Terry’s bait. 
Terry hadn’t eaten in a while and quick grab something to eat and drink and we headed out but that hog only stayed around for a few minutes and was long gone by the time we got there. On the bright side, I had just set a different site for a bait, further north where Dusty had dumped some special corn concoction on the ground. Just a camera and a light over this corn pile. I got pictures from that site with 5 hogs and we headed north. I have never stocked up on pig at night with somebody with me, but I knew that it was pretty open , and there was always a chance that there would be a second shot, so Terry came with me. We made a quiet approach with a very good wind and got very close. Terry stayed back a perfect distance so I didn’t have to worry about the hog spooking. I was probably only 10 yards away and they were acting pretty skittish probably because it was the first time that they had been exposed to a light at this spot. They were acting up, and I am not even 100% sure that I was at full draw but I made a good shot on the largest one of the group and I was sure that it was in the pocket. The hog ran off we heard crashing in the brush, but there were no other secondary shot opportunities. We decided to head back to the car, which was a fair walk just to get some lights and give a little bit more time before we check the blood trail. as it turned out, our tracking job would be slightly delayed.
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