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Author Topic: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?  (Read 850 times)

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Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« on: December 04, 2010, 09:40:00 PM »
Well, I wasn't even going to go hunting today.  Got a bad cold, headache, neckache.  The hole nine yards.  Neck hurt so bad that I had trouble turning my head to shoot when I was practicing before I went out hunting.  I didn't have high hopes, so I was willing to leave my trusty RER Vortex at home, and took the MOAB that I just got a few days ago.  As long as I was gonna go crazy like this, I left my safari tuff quiver at home and took the new quiver that I got from highnoonhunter.

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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2010, 09:44:00 PM »
I went up into a stand that I just put up a few weeks ago.  I hadn't hunted out of it yet, and the tree-steps were a little suspect, but the wind was out of the North for a change, and I figured that this was the place to be.  This was the same area that I missed a big hog at around 3-4 weeks ago.  I choked, didn't bend at the waist, and shot over his back.  Rookie mistake.  Anyway, the wind was howling and I wasn't seeing anything except a few squirrels hunkered down in the treetops.

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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2010, 09:52:00 PM »
Light was starting to fade, so I decided to get out of the treestand a little early because I wasn't sure of the step placement.  I was gonna stillhunt back to the house.  No sooner did I get to the base of the tree than I heard a noise to the northeast.  I saw a black blob coming straight toward me kinda quick.  I new it was the same big hog that I had missed before, and when he got around 15 yards away he angled sharply away from me for some reason.  He was slightly uphill and I new this was my only chance, so I took it with him angled pretty good away from me.  He squealed, well, like a pig, and took off over the rise.  I thought that I heard him fall, but I wanted to give him a little time.  I texted a buddy to tell him that I shot a big hog and as soon as I put the phone up a doe made her way in from a field to the west.  She started acting up, stomping her feet, and I had no idea what her problem was.  Apparently the hog had urinated all over himself when he died, and the doe wasn't liking it.  I thought that she was coming straight for me, but I think she was circling around to get a look at the hog.  She must have had enough, and turned 180 degrees away from the hog and started to walk off.  That was 18 yards and broadside for me, thank you very much.  She ran up the woodlot, and I heard what I though was her going down.

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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2010, 09:55:00 PM »
I went over the rise and saw the hog.  He was a bruiser.  The arrow was still stuck in him, so I yanked it out but came out with only the arrow and ferrule.  I decided to scoot up to the house to get the atv, because there was no way that I was dragging that hog almost a mile to the house.  When I got back with the atv, I found a real easy trail and that the doe was down at the base of an oak tree.  Still haven't found the arrow.  Clean pass through, but she was on a ridge.  I'll find it in the daylight, tomorrow.

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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2010, 09:57:00 PM »
The pictures don't show it well, but the hog weighed just a hair under 275 pounds when I got it too the butcher.  I knew that the butcher was closing soon and that I wouldn't be able to butcher them before I had to work tomorrow morning, so I threw the doe on the back of the atv and tied the hog off and dragged it back to the house without gutting them.  Sorry about the blood on the deer and the poorly posed pics.  I was in a rush.  I tried to use red eye reduction for the blood on the deer, but that didn't work out so well.  I'm an idiot with the computer.  Check out the road rash on the hog on the last pic.

   


     


     


     

In any case, my Vortex is still my go to bow, but I can't complain about how this MOAB has treated me so far.

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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2010, 10:01:00 PM »
Very Nice Congrats.
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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2010, 10:02:00 PM »
:thumbsup:  Wow way to go!  Venison and bacon all in a couple minutes.  It doesn't get better than that!  Nice shooting.  So you say that RER is your trusty bow?  Maybe you better think that over.  :D
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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2010, 10:03:00 PM »
peerrrrfect! isnt that how its suposed to happen everytime out.  congrats sir.  :thumbsup:

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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2010, 10:12:00 PM »
:thumbsup:     :thumbsup:

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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2010, 10:18:00 PM »
Congratulations, Very nice harvest should be some excellent eating!!! Jerry.

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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2010, 10:25:00 PM »
Congrats! :thumbsup:
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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2010, 10:29:00 PM »
Congrats Patrick!! What an awesome hunt!
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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2010, 10:35:00 PM »
Great hunt, congratulations.

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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2010, 10:39:00 PM »
Congratulations!! How's you neck feel now?

Isn't it funny that a little adrenaline can mask so awful pain.

MOAB's are hard to beat for shootability.

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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2010, 10:41:00 PM »
Wow what a day.Congrats that MOAB going too grow on you.  :clapper:
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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #15 on: December 04, 2010, 10:57:00 PM »
Great job Pat!!   :thumbsup:    :campfire:
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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #16 on: December 04, 2010, 11:01:00 PM »
The only thing better than a new MOAB, is another new MOAB. And a nice pile of meat they make. Congrats on a great hunt.
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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #17 on: December 04, 2010, 11:08:00 PM »
You Go Man !! Now that's what Im talkin about !!! "SWEEEEEEEEEEET" !!!

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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2010, 11:21:00 PM »
Thanks guys.  Oh, and Mudd. You are right, my neck didn't bother me at the time
 It's killing me now, though.

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Re: Christening the new MOAB. Can you say 'sausage'?
« Reply #19 on: December 04, 2010, 11:23:00 PM »
Well-done!
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