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A couple of weeks ago, my neighbor called me from his cell as he was driving by my property and said there was a wild hog out in my horse pasture? I ran out with my HK and put the ACOG on him, but before I pulled the trigger I noticed he was wagging his tail I'm like WTF is this.... Find out it was a wayward potbelly pig and we have adopted him as the farm mascot. He hangs out in the pasture with the horses all day and comes into the stalls for breakfast and dinner. When you rub his belly he flops over and goes into a trance as if he is hypnotized, pretty much a free spirit addition to the farm. http://www.phossil.com/thom/BBQ/Arnold.jpg View Quote Now that is cool! Be careful adopting something so similar to your usual quarry, I made the mistake of adopting a duck a few years back and haven't been able to get myself to go duck hunting much since He was a Muscovy and his name was John Deere, he also loved wagging his tale |
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Not meaning to hijack your thread Skypup, but have any of you ever heard a rattlesnake at night? I wear electronic muffs when hunting and turn them up full volume because my hearing sucks and it gives me an edge with the amplification. I shot a big boar Saturday night and had to go in the woods after him. About 20 yards in and I hear the distinctive sound of a rattlesnake, close! I just froze, as I couldn't immediately tell what direction the sound was coming from. I pulled up my thermal and couldn't see anything, he's probably same temperature as surroundings and my NV didn't show me anything. If I had a hard time seeing him in the daytime, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to see him at night. I exited gracefully, once I got an idea where he was. Scared the crap out of me, I never heard one rattle at night. View Quote In Ranger school many moons ago in mountain phase we were moving "Ranger file" up a mountain....Rocky terrain. I could hear the rattle about 5 guys back. Pitch black. I knew we were walking right over it. I just braced and held my breath...hoping it wasn't "my turn" We were just too tired to care. No one wanted to stop....just kept moving. |
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Looks like good times for all the lucky one's who got to attend. If anybody left hungry, it was their own fault !
Now it's time to clear the remains, but everything away, and get ready to go back out tonight to restock the wild hog locker.... |
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We do have a lot of successful night hunts and it was time to celebrate with a big party. Cooked out two whole hogs on the BBQ smoker over live oak coals. Lite up the BBQ the previous day at 2PM and kept the temp at 200*F over night slow smoking, then cut up each of the four 1/2 hog sections and put them in deep marinade in large tin foil pans when I woke up and let that simmer until noon. Turned up the heat to 240*F and let that sit for two hours and then back down to 200*F again. Party started at 6PM and we had two live Blues Bands in the old Pole Barn and served 225 people shrimp boil mixed with 80 pounds of wild hog sausages and did ribs and pulled pork off the two whole hogs in the smoker, about 280 some odd pounds of meat. Everyone had a great time and there was no wild boar left.....all four beer kegs emptied. View Quote Wow, is that the deliciousness I was smelling last week? Looks like a great time SP. Keep up the good work. |
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We had a couple Butt roast on the smoker today but between catastrophes I forgot to take pictures ole well next time.
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I've been looking at your pics of dead hogs for past hour or more and one thing I noticed was that all your hogs are fat...well at least non are skinny. Are there a lot of agricultural crops in your area? What in the hell are they eating so much that they are fat? I hunt hogs in south west FL and we have some plump hogs but many are skinny during some times of the year. When we had our bountiful acorn crops few years ago almost all our hogs were plump too but this season there were very few acorns and I noticed many under weight hogs. There are little to no agricultural crops in this area so most hogs here have to forage for food. |
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Zero ag crops and total wilderness, interspersed wet/dry prairies with planted pines and live oak hammocks.
I always wish that we had soybeans, corn, etc. with some open fields but we don't. We do live in the largest Live Oak forest in the continental USA though, so plenty of gigantic old trees with acorns and lots of deer and turkey. |
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One thing I do note that the hogs really love this time of the year, besides the fresh mushroooms growing on dead logs after it rains, is the nut grass tubers, they really seem to seek them out and root the shit out of them.
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Jumped a sounder @ 75 yards using IR laser. http://www.phossil.com/thom/Gun%20Control/IR%20Sounder.jpg View Quote Hey, I know that scrub! |
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Well, we did shoot three but only recovered one in the super thick swampy underbrush, could hear one lung shot bleeding out only 10 yards in but impossible to get in there to retrieve it.
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Barnes 70 grain TSX handload.
Should have posted a warning : Danger - Crack Pipe Kills! |
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I need to get back down there and schwack some pork with yall again soon
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Those big boyz are still showing up but almost always late at night 3-4AM, so have not jumped them yet.
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Walking back home from my backyard stand at sundown came across a sounder munching on some corn in one of my tubes, took one out @ 100 yards with a shot from the KAC SBR. http://www.phossil.com/thom/KAC%20SBR/KAC%20SBR%205.jpg View Quote Just a bloody mess! |
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I need to get back down there and schwack some pork with yall again soon View Quote It is still real dry over here,waiting for the sea breeze fronts to kick up some thunderstorms to fill the prairies and mud wallows back up again, should start happening during the next few weeks. I'll let you know when it is primo action again, but Thermacelss will be required by then.... |
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Quoted:Find out it was a wayward potbelly pig and we have adopted him as the farm mascot. View Quote "Arnold" huh? Hehehe. Yer datin' yerself, old man! But then again I reckon I am too. d:^) Jake.. |
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Finally able to up my game with these two new SBR builds, each has a Truijicon ACOG 4X32mm TAO2 with a Truijicon 1 MOA RMR red dot sight so I am able to swap my FLIR T-70 thermals and DBAL lasers back and forth at will. The Knight Armament KAC-15 Mod3 SBR has a Gemtech Trek Titanium 5.56mm can on it and the HK Competition MR556 has a Delta P Brevis II Titanium 5.56mm can on it. And I am after some very big hogs here now too! http://www.phossil.com/thom/HK/HK%20SBR%20DeltaP%20Brevis.jpg http://www.phossil.com/thom/HK/HK%20SBR%20DeltaP%20BrevisB.jpg http://www.phossil.com/thom/HK/KAC15%20SBR%20Gemtech%20Trek.jpg http://www.phossil.com/thom/HK/KAC15%20SBR%20Gemtech%20Trek%20B.jpg http://www.phossil.com/thom/HK/KAC15%20SBR%20Gemtech%20Trek%20C.jpg View Quote [joker] where does he get such wonderful toys [/joker] |
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How effective do you find the shorty can to be? View Quote The Gemtech Trek sounds like a .22 on an 11.5" 1/7" twist barrel with full power hand loaded Barnes 70 grain TSX, but that is from the crack of the supersonic bullet. The Delta P Brevis II on a 10.5" 1:7" twist barrel has a different tone but also sounds like a .22. Basically, either SBR is unusable without a good suppressor or ear muffs/plugs as the report unsuppressed is way too loud to withstand and will leave both your ears ringing badly if unprotected. Very pleased with both builds. |
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That is one fat hog. Nice later on them hand. That will make some great eats. Good shooting.
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Just put another 200 pounds of ice on that hog, took the first 200 pounds just to chill him down.
Sure pays to have a 230V commercial ice maker and some good Cajun spices for the sausage grind! |
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Do you normally just grind everything or do you keep certain cuts of meat?
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Depends on the size of the hog, normally on a hog this large we keep the loins, ribs, and hams and grind most of everything else, on smaller 150-225 pound hogs we butcher out the cuts of meat.
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I picked up the TK Scout to go with the RS32 and I was just given access to a 2,000 acre mitigation bank, that is loaded with hogs, to conduct invasive control.
My Gemtech HVT also just arrived. Someday we are going to have to meet up at Napolatano's so I can pick your brain. |
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The 70 grain Barnes TSX handloads out of the KAC-15 SBR work like gangbusters, tiny entrance hole and huge exit hole!
Was worried about the shorter barrel velocity affecting the penetration and knock down, but no longer worried after a dozen kills with it. |
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I have had only three inches of rain here in the last month. Send some my way!!!
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