3Rivers Archery



The Trad Gang Digital Market













Contribute to Trad Gang and Access the Classifieds!

Become a Trad Gang Sponsor!

Traditional Archery for Bowhunters






LEFT HAND BOWS CLASSIFIEDS TRAD GANG CLASSIFIEDS ACCESS RIGHT HAND BOWS CLASSIFIEDS


Author Topic: Pig Gig Week 2  (Read 691 times)

Offline Fletcher

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 4523
Pig Gig Week 2
« on: February 21, 2010, 06:39:00 PM »
Most of the week 2 Pig Giggers should be home or at least close by now, so I start this out.  Kevin Bahr, Mark Wang, Greg Darling and I arrived at the ranch on Sunday afternoon.  We found our cabin and settled in with four other "giggers" from North Dakota: Craig, Irv, Jim and Kendall.  We were all looking forward to a great week and in the end, we were not disappointed.  Week 1's snow left its mark in the form of mud, but that didn't keep us from getting out.  The ND crew was hunting the far end of the ranch and was into pigs early.  It took us a couple of days to get on them, and Mark was the first in our group to score with a nice 125 lb dressed sow.  This is the first kill for one of my Heavy Head wood arrows with an extra 70 grains up front.  My camera didn't want to focus, but here's a pic:

   

I took this boar just before sunset on Friday, another 125 pounder dressed.

   

My bow was a Pronghorn TD, 58" and 54 lb at 26", with an Oliverstacy string.  The arrow was a Feathered Shaft Sitka Spruce Heavy Head with 50 grains up front plus a 190 gr VPA Terminator.  The shot was about 10 yards and quartering, entering near the last rib and stopping at the opposite front leg.  The Terminator found this on its way thru:

   

He made it about 40 yards before falling over.

Greg and Kevin will be on here soon with their stories and they both took way more pics than me.  I could go on about how great a hunt this was, but saying "I'm going back!" probably says it best!
Good judgement comes from experience.  Experience comes from bad judgement.

"The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing."

"An archer doesn't have to be a bowhunter, but a bowhunter should be an archer."

Offline **DONOTDELETE**

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 10441
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2010, 07:01:00 PM »
Nice Piggies

Offline Biggie Hoffman

  • SRBZ
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • ***
  • Posts: 3336
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2010, 07:08:00 PM »
I KNEW Rick would break the ice!!!
PBS Life Member
Member 1K LLC

"If you are twenty and aren't liberal you don't have a heart...if you're forty and not conservative you don't have a brain".....Winston Churchill

Offline Whip

  • Moderator
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • ***
  • Posts: 8189
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2010, 07:51:00 PM »
Congratulations Rick and Mark!  Did your PBS bow make the trip?
PBS Regular Member
WTA Life Member
In the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln.

Offline gregg dudley

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 4879
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2010, 07:55:00 PM »
:thumbsup:
MOLON LABE

Traditional Bowhunters Of Florida
Come shoot with us!

Offline Chris Surtees

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 5697
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2010, 08:01:00 PM »
:thumbsup:     :thumbsup:

Offline gregg dudley

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 4879
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2010, 08:05:00 PM »
:thumbsup:      :thumbsup:      :thumbsup:

Dang it Surtees---always trying to outbid me!    :D
MOLON LABE

Traditional Bowhunters Of Florida
Come shoot with us!

Offline rraming

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 1576
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2010, 08:05:00 PM »
Congrats!  :clapper:

Offline Fletcher

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 4523
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2010, 08:53:00 PM »
Yes Joe, the PBS bow was there, but the Pronghorn shot my prototype arrows perfectly, so it made first bow.  Being 58" vs 64", the Pronghorn handled a little easier in the brush, too.
Good judgement comes from experience.  Experience comes from bad judgement.

"The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing."

"An archer doesn't have to be a bowhunter, but a bowhunter should be an archer."

Offline deercraver

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 40
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2010, 09:11:00 PM »
very nice. I must take this min to thank fletcher for hooking me up with this group at the mich trad bowhunter expo first one i had been to and he helped me with alot of the questions i had so i thank you freind

Offline flint kemper

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 837
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2010, 09:19:00 PM »
Rick,I look forward to hearing the stories. I am for sure envious. Congrats Flint

Offline Tom Phillips

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 2024
    • BISON GEAR PACKS
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2010, 09:22:00 PM »
Glad you guys had a great time.Wish I could have hunted Week 2 also.
BISON GEAR PACKS
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=bison%20gear%20packs

TGMM Family of the Bow * PBS * P&Y
 * Massachusetts Bowhunters * NRA
 * Compton Traditional Bowhunters *
 * N.A.H.C. * N.Y.Bowhunters *
  * N.J.Bowhunters *

Offline mancole5

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 116
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2010, 09:22:00 PM »
Can't wait for the stories!

Offline 4runr

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 6799
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2010, 09:23:00 PM »
Congrats Rick and Mark.
Kenny

Christ died to save me, this I read
and in my heart I find a need
of Him to be my Savior
          By Aaron Shuste

TGMM Family of the Bow

Offline vermonster13

  • TGMM Member
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • ***
  • Posts: 14572
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2010, 09:23:00 PM »
Very good start.
TGMM Family of the Bow
For hunting to have a future, we must invest ourselves in future hunters.

Offline FerretWYO

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 5099
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2010, 09:40:00 PM »
Very nice.
TGMM Family of The Bow

Offline Steve O

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 5311
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #16 on: February 21, 2010, 10:00:00 PM »
:thumbsup:  

NICE!

Offline Hawkeye

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 1665
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2010, 10:10:00 PM »
+1 for the Illinois boys!  I look forward to hearing about the fine points of your hunt.  Congratulations, Rick!     :thumbsup:  

Daryl
Daryl Harding
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."  Jim Elliot

Traditional bowhunting is often a game of seconds... and inches!

Offline Fletcher

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 4523
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2010, 11:04:00 PM »
Shortly after we arrived on Sunday, Gene and Barry stopped by and kind of lined us out on our hunting area, at least 2x4 miles.  Monday morning, I had the guys drop me off on the east end and I headed down the fence line toward the river.  I worked my way toward and parallel to the river for a while before looping back up the bluff and then back up top to make the pickup point.  I saw several deer and some pig tracks, but not much rooting or bedding sign.  We headed back for lunch and then drove to town to get road corn and groceries.  In the afternoon we headed out to corn some areas and do some more scouting and still hunting.  Mark kept singing about "The Yellow Roads of Texas".
Good judgement comes from experience.  Experience comes from bad judgement.

"The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing."

"An archer doesn't have to be a bowhunter, but a bowhunter should be an archer."

Offline flatlander37

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 487
Re: Pig Gig Week 2
« Reply #19 on: February 22, 2010, 01:47:00 AM »
To say I'm jealous is an understatement!!   :thumbsup:
"Better to be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt"-Abe Lincoln

Users currently browsing this topic:

0 Members and 3 Guests are viewing this topic.
 

Contact Us | Trad Gang.com © | User Agreement

Copyright 2003 thru 2024 ~ Trad Gang.com ©