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Posted: 7/28/2015 10:26:08 PM EDT

[#1]

Pics stopped working for a short while. Back up for me.

Great hunt once again. That sausage grinder is going to be busy.

Posted: 7/29/2015 12:00:07 AM EDT

[#2]

Figured it out.

I can see them fine now, but then I'm at home on my network.

I can't see them at work, where I tried to view them earlier tonight, as this computer isn't authorized to download files over their network.
And our pictures are hosted off arfcom, so technically they are downloaded.

Since I'm officially on afternoon shift now, after everybody goes home I break out my laptop and surf the web, if everything is running.
I'm the head of their maintenance dept. and I prefer to work this shift, as the new guy who thinks he knows it all shows off his lack of skills.

Nice shooting SkyPup.

Posted: 8/1/2015 4:03:08 PM EDT

[#3]

Upgraded the FoxPro TruckPro TX-1000 transmitter for hog, coyote, rodent, and bird calls.

Also installed a two inch lift kit with the Evans Walker race shocks for more ground clearance.

And a new fuel injection program for more fuel and power with the Yoshimira header exhaust.

Getting ready to hunt in the swamps now!

Posted: 8/1/2015 10:49:04 PM EDT

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Upgraded the FoxPro TruckPro TX-1000 transmitter for hog, coyote, rodent, and bird calls.

Also installed a two inch lift kit with the Evans Walker race shocks for more ground clearance.

And a new fuel injection program for more fuel and power with the Yoshimira header exhaust.

Getting ready to hunt in the swamps now!

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/Pioneer%20700/Hondini.JPG

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That is simply AWESOME!!!

Posted: 8/2/2015 6:06:48 PM EDT

[#5]

It has been raining here constantly non-stop for the past 48 hours (7 inches so far) so I took the FoxPro TruckPro out of the UTV and hooked it up to the computer and reprogrammed it with the new FoxPro Programming Utility Version 4.6.54 that was released in June.

Created ten categories:

1. Birds

2. Crows

3. Coyotes

4. Rabbit Distress

5. Hogs

6. Calf Distress

7. Kitten Distress

8. Goat Distress

9. Owls

10. Sirens

Those contain 195 FoxPro Sounds for calling!

What a great setup!

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Posted: 8/9/2015 10:44:29 PM EDT

[#6]

Was putting some corn in the feeders right about sundown when ran into a sounder, nailed the sow and another shoat at 175 yards with the T-70:

Posted: 8/10/2015 11:28:16 AM EDT

[#7]

Nice blaster Skypup!

Vic

Posted: 8/10/2015 6:10:02 PM EDT

[#8]

Haha, we ended up getting two more after that one before calling it a night.

Loads of fun was had by all.

Posted: 8/17/2015 4:52:53 PM EDT

[#9]

Been handloading some 240 grain Sierra MatchKings and some 240 grain cast lead bullets for the .300 Blackout upper chronographed @ 1,050fps, they penetrate from tail to head at 75 yards, don't ask me how I know....

Posted: 8/17/2015 4:59:41 PM EDT

[#10]

My cousin's dog got killed by a hog last weekend. It's jihad time...

Posted: 8/28/2015 9:02:39 AM EDT

[#11]

Nailed this ear-less hog at 125 yards with the MKII-35mm on SIG 716 .308, spine shot DRT.

Had the DVR on recording for video but forgot to turn on the video out from the scope, so no video this time...

One ear was totally ripped off, the other ear was in shreds, and his tail was short, probably got caught by some dogs in the past....

Posted: 8/28/2015 8:31:20 PM EDT

[#12]

That poor ear-less boar hog never heard us coming!

Posted: 8/28/2015 8:34:33 PM EDT

[#13]

Shhhhh, be vewwy vewwy quiet. We going wab..er hog hunting.

Good shoot once again.

Posted: 8/28/2015 10:03:09 PM EDT

[#14]

Coyotes are out howling over the offal out back tonight.....

Posted: 8/28/2015 10:14:20 PM EDT

[#15]

Gonna add them to the bait pile?

Posted: 8/28/2015 10:15:20 PM EDT

[#16]

That is a really cool picture. Need to frame that one!

Posted: 8/31/2015 1:44:57 PM EDT

[#17]

Was putting some corn in my corn tube ground feeders this morning after the hogs raped all of them in the heavy rain last night, suddenly heard a distinctive sound and put a .22 magum hollowpoint through his head with my Ruger Stainless Steel Single Six that I bought new in 1972.

One headshot and he was DRT, however he is still crawling around over 90 minutes later after losing his mind.

FLIRONE thermals came out good.

Will try to get some thermal alligator pics soon as gator season just started this past Saturday, lots of little ones but waiting on a BIGGUN!

Posted: 8/31/2015 3:27:22 PM EDT

[#18]

Dinner? Nice belt there!

Posted: 8/31/2015 3:52:11 PM EDT

[#19]

Thermal gators next!

Posted: 8/31/2015 4:18:55 PM EDT

[#20]

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Coyotes are out howling over the offal out back tonight.....

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Wow, that's a beautiful picture! I'd hang it on my wall for sure.

Posted: 9/4/2015 4:15:27 PM EDT

[#21]

Sometimes when you are out after hogs you end up with a dog.

Totally pitch black night, no moon or stars, overcast and drizzling.

Had bush-hogged down about two acres of dog fennels that were 8-10 feet high so I could see out 250 yards instead of 50 yards on my stand using the Flir M-324 Pan/Tilt thermal to monitor the area.

A large sounder of hogs showed up and stayed for about 20 minutes but would never come into range, watched them out 350 yards on the thermal from the cockpit of my UTV waiting for them to head my way but it never happened, did not want to just try to blast them as there were six large hogs in the group and am trying to take them out.

Turned on my FoxPro TruckPro E-caller on BayBeeCottontail and let it squeak for about ten minutes and picked up a hot heat signature cranking through the thick woods my way, thought it could be a deer so watched it close in on me. Made it up a hill out a ravine about 50 yards for Pos ID and put a 130 grain Barnes TSX through it's spine at 90 yards...

Had the mini-DVR on recording but forgot to turn on the video output from the MKII again, coyote came in fast and missed getting a video of him, all I got was the audio of the gunshot...

Posted: 9/6/2015 9:18:59 PM EDT

[#22]

Was out on my stand with the IR Patrol helmet mount and IR MKII-35 for two minutes when a sounder of some larger sows and pigs showed up, took out this sow at 125 yards with the .308, was too heavy for me to lift alone so had to get the tractor to bring her back for processing tonight, lots of good sausage off this one!

Posted: 9/8/2015 4:42:19 PM EDT

[#23]

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Was out on my stand with the IR Patrol helmet mount and IR MKII-35 for two minutes when a sounder of some larger sows and pigs showed up, took out this sow at 125 yards with the .308, was too heavy for me to lift alone so had to get the tractor to bring her back for processing tonight, lots of good sausage off this one!

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/MK%20Hog/MK%20and%20Patrol.jpg

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/MK%20Hog/MKII%20Hog.jpg

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/MK%20Hog/MK%20Patrol%20Hog%20Grapple.jpg

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Will you adopt me?

Posted: 9/13/2015 1:19:50 PM EDT

[#24]

When ya wake up early Sunday morning and slap some wild hog sausages into the skillet and relaize you are running low, just look at the breakfast nook window for a fresh supply on the hoof!

Posted: 9/13/2015 5:28:56 PM EDT

[#25]

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When ya wake up early Sunday morning and slap some wild hog sausages into the skillet and relaize you are running low, just look at the breakfast nook window for a fresh supply on the hoof!

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/Nick%20Hog/Dom%20Backyard.jpg

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/Nick%20Hog/Dom%20Backyard2.jpg

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Awesome, I've always thought it would be cool to sit out on the back porch and shoot hogs and you're actually doing it lol. Unfortunately, just sitting on my back deck with a rifle would elicit a SWAT response

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Posted: 9/13/2015 5:46:00 PM EDT

[#26]

Don't ya think it's better

Livin' in the country?

Spendin' our time

Waitin' on the weather

So all our friends can go hunting together.

Yeah!

Posted: 9/13/2015 5:53:15 PM EDT

[#27]

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Don't ya think it's better

Livin' in the country?

Spendin' our time

Waitin' on the weather

So all our friends can go hunting together.

Yeah!

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Without a doubt! I was raised in the country, it's definitely the only place to live. Now that I'm a city dweller, I hate it even more. I do not understand how people actually enjoy it, it's truly mind boggling. Unfortunately, there's no way I can afford to get back out of the city so I'm stuck until a miracle occurs. For now I just gotta live vicariously through pictures like yours so keep it up!!

Posted: 9/17/2015 7:08:52 PM EDT

[#28]

Man, these moccasins are just plain nasty, this cottonmouth was all coiled up with his fangs pointing towards the sky when a 9mm hit his head.

Snake boot time.

Posted: 9/17/2015 9:01:47 PM EDT

[#29]

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Man, these moccasins are just plain nasty, this cottonmouth was all coiled up with his fangs pointing towards the sky when a 9mm hit his head.

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/Nick%20Hog/Cottonmouth.JPG

Snake boot time.

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Yikes, you aren't already wearing snake boots?? I wonder if they make alligator boots too? LOL (the kind that protect you from gator bites not made out of gator hides...unless.... the alligator can't bite through gator hide, then they could be both gator boot gator boots

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Posted: 9/22/2015 11:56:51 AM EDT

[#30]

Archery season began here last Saturday and had a couple of families camping out with their kids all going deer hunting with bow and arrows. Yesterday, one of the mothers shot a 400 pound hog with a broadhead that is sticking out of its lungs.

So I went out trying to find where it could have bedded down last night with thermal (no luck) and this morning.

While in the vicinity of where the big boar got shot with the arrow, I cam up on a sounder group at 11AM in broad daylight, although it was deep in the forest in some thick underbrush and cover.

Fortunately, I had my FLIR RS scope with me and was able to make out the hogs in the thick cover on Black Hot mode @ 150 yards, had to wait and make sure I was aiming at their head and not their asses.

Finally figured out where their heads were and took down two nice boar hogs that are being converted into fresh sausage.....

FLIR RS thermal worked great in broad daylight!

Posted: 9/22/2015 12:46:16 PM EDT

[#31]

Perfect size hogs for the Q. Sausage will be nice too. Good shoot. Now find that big one.

Posted: 9/22/2015 2:05:22 PM EDT

[#32]

They will be tail-gate food for the Gator football game this weekend!

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Posted: 9/22/2015 2:21:09 PM EDT

[#33]

This is the big boar hog that took the broadhead through the lungs that I am trying to find, bet he is PISSED OFF!

Posted: 9/22/2015 3:43:41 PM EDT

[#34]

Either pissed off or buzzard bait. Is he a cut boar? Hard to tell in that pic but almost looks like it.

Posted: 9/26/2015 6:29:11 PM EDT

[#35]

Have been after this 500 pound boar hog for the last few months.

Last night I ran into him on the road coming home with the FLIR M-324 Pan/Tilt but he ducked into the thick brush before I could get a shot.

Went out looking around for him this morning and found where he had freshly bedded down last night!

Posted: 9/28/2015 6:35:30 PM EDT

[#36]

And the grapple bucket finds yet another use! I'm sure.

Mine when it first came home.

And the last time it was that clean.

Nice pigs. And yeah, ya look a l'il Borg-ish in that pic. d:^)

Posted: 9/28/2015 7:03:04 PM EDT

[#37]

May Da Hydraulic Force Be With You!

Posted: 9/28/2015 7:10:39 PM EDT

[#38]

P.S. They work great getting the BBQ ready too!

Posted: 9/28/2015 7:36:35 PM EDT

[#39]

Oh yeah!! Mine wasn't comin home without one. And it's been one of the nicest things to have around when clearing off property.

I hafta say I'm a bit jealous of all that "good time" ya got in the back yard and those toys. Sold mine off when I moved outta the mountains down to the coast and quit huntin for a few years. Whot an idgit.

Back at it again now, tho'. d:^)

Posted: 9/29/2015 5:24:26 PM EDT

[#40]

I always thought I had some pretty cool toys.

But now I feel like going back to Tonka trucks and legos. I am incredibly jealous!

Posted: 9/29/2015 8:55:36 PM EDT

[#41]

But you guys are killin me with that FLIR and NV. My old setup was a PVS14, a Gen2+ scope, a Torch and a standard laser.
And with that l'il bit'o'gear I thought I was livin mighty well.
They've got hogs at my old hunt club I rejoined with this year. So we'll see where it goes.
Right now Ima live a l'il thru Skypup and other's gyrations.

d:^)

Posted: 10/8/2015 8:54:34 AM EDT

[#42]

Had these suckers in the sights from 20 feet up in a stand last night!

Posted: 10/16/2015 8:50:57 PM EDT

[#43]

Have been after a big 350+ lb boar hog for over a week now and swatted a lot of mosquitoes while waiting for him.

Have seen him a few times but never long enough for a shot.

He has been in some inaccessible swampy areas that I had to take the tractor and build a road out into to be able to get in there.

His hangout has been a large remote sinkhole where he beds down and roots around.

I park my UTV with the FLIR M-324 Pan/Tilt thermal 75 yards out adjacent to the sinkhole and sit and wait for him to show up.

I have been patiently waiting to put a .308 slug though his head with my SIG 716 and IRD MKII 35mm for quite some time now with no luck.

Tonight when I parked at my recently bulldozed trail, he left me a fresh turd right where I park....so I new he was near.

However, he did not show and instead a sounder showed and came down out of the hardwoods which have recently been dropping acorn on down to the sinkhole for some water right 75 yards in front of me at night.

Only managed to kill one, but will work on the kill video through the IRD thermal scope and post that later.....lots of fun tonight all by my lonely self and still have the big boy to hunt too!

Posted: 10/16/2015 11:19:07 PM EDT

[#44]

Well one more down anyway. Keep after the biggen. You will get him.

Posted: 10/17/2015 3:22:57 AM EDT

[#45]

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Have been after a big 350+ lb boar hog for over a week now and swatted a lot of mosquitoes while waiting for him.

Have seen him a few times but never long enough for a shot.

He has been in some inaccessible swampy areas that I had to take the tractor and build a road out into to be able to get in there.

His hangout has been a large remote sinkhole where he beds down and roots around.

I park my UTV with the FLIR M-324 Pan/Tilt thermal 75 yards out adjacent to the sinkhole and sit and wait for him to show up.

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/Sinkhole%20Hog/Hondini%20Sinkhole2.jpg

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/Sinkhole%20Hog/Hondini%20Sinkhole.jpg

I have been patiently waiting to put a .308 slug though his head with my SIG 716 and IRD MKII 35mm for quite some time now with no luck.

Tonight when I parked at my recently bulldozed trail, he left me a fresh turd right where I park....so I new he was near.

However, he did not show and instead a sounder showed and came down out of the hardwoods which have recently been dropping acorn on down to the sinkhole for some water right 75 yards in front of me at night.

Only managed to kill one, but will work on the kill video through the IRD thermal scope and post that later.....lots of fun tonight all by my lonely self and still have the big boy to hunt too!

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/Sinkhole%20Hog/MKII%20Sinkhole%20Hog.jpg

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/Sinkhole%20Hog/M324%20Sinkhole%20Hog.jpg

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/Sinkhole%20Hog/Hot%20Sinkhole%20Hog.jpg

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Dang SkyPup, you need to contact the Outdoor Channel and get your own show. Stand aside Pig Man....here's SkyPup the HOGINATOR!!! I'd watch

Posted: 10/17/2015 11:04:18 AM EDT

[#46]

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Dang SkyPup, you need to contact the Outdoor Channel and get your own show. Stand aside Pig Man....here's SkyPup the HOGINATOR!!! I'd watch

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Have been after a big 350+ lb boar hog for over a week now and swatted a lot of mosquitoes while waiting for him.

Have seen him a few times but never long enough for a shot.

He has been in some inaccessible swampy areas that I had to take the tractor and build a road out into to be able to get in there.

His hangout has been a large remote sinkhole where he beds down and roots around.

I park my UTV with the FLIR M-324 Pan/Tilt thermal 75 yards out adjacent to the sinkhole and sit and wait for him to show up.

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/Sinkhole%20Hog/Hondini%20Sinkhole2.jpg

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/Sinkhole%20Hog/Hondini%20Sinkhole.jpg

I have been patiently waiting to put a .308 slug though his head with my SIG 716 and IRD MKII 35mm for quite some time now with no luck.

Tonight when I parked at my recently bulldozed trail, he left me a fresh turd right where I park....so I new he was near.

However, he did not show and instead a sounder showed and came down out of the hardwoods which have recently been dropping acorn on down to the sinkhole for some water right 75 yards in front of me at night.

Only managed to kill one, but will work on the kill video through the IRD thermal scope and post that later.....lots of fun tonight all by my lonely self and still have the big boy to hunt too!

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/Sinkhole%20Hog/MKII%20Sinkhole%20Hog.jpg

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/Sinkhole%20Hog/M324%20Sinkhole%20Hog.jpg

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/Sinkhole%20Hog/Hot%20Sinkhole%20Hog.jpg

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/Sinkhole%20Hog/Hog%20Hondini.jpg

Dang SkyPup, you need to contact the Outdoor Channel and get your own show. Stand aside Pig Man....here's SkyPup the HOGINATOR!!! I'd watch

X2

Posted: 10/17/2015 5:47:31 PM EDT

[#47]

Thanks Guys!

Did manage to go back out and find the second dead hog I had shot last night with the help of the buzzards.....

Posted: 10/18/2015 3:21:52 PM EDT

[#48]

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Thanks Guys!

Did manage to go back out and find the second dead hog I had shot last night with the help of the buzzards.....

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/IR%20Defense/Sinkhole%20Hog/IRD%20Hog.jpg

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This is an absolute amazing pic the IRD MKII 35mm scope.

Posted: 10/19/2015 11:35:19 AM EDT

[#49]

Haha, I walk out the door to go check the game cams first thing this morning and lo and behold there is a coyote eating out the ass of my hog I killed the night before 190 yards out.

Head back into the house to get the SIG 716 7.62mm with IRD thermal and one shot puts him down!

Posted: 10/19/2015 1:20:50 PM EDT

[#50]

Sweet!

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