This smart boar has been inconsistent on days and time for the past few weeks...but did get these two photos of him during daylight





In the broadside photo you can see a large (baseball size?) cyst or growth on him.

7mm STW, M1 Garand or .416 RM should be meeting him in the next week or so

Now that is a full grown hog.

Bring a hoist for that one.

What a brute! Can't wait for you to get an up-close view and see the photos once you have him on the ground. Good luck, my friend!

Bust him--give him a 3rd eye!

That's a big pig I would love to shoot him with my 416 just because I could.

One thing it seems that too many do not take into consideration is that hogs can and will begin moving at odd hours during a 24 hour period.

That is one of the reasons why I set the feeders I tend to, for 4 different feed times.

7 a.m., Noon, 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Depending on weather conditions, I see hogs of various sizes moving around at different hours all day long. During the week, when the traffic is back to normal it is not uncommon for me to see the bigger hogs moving around between 11 a.m. till 3 p.m.

This is especially true in this area with a front with rain moving thru the area and dropping the temperature a few degrees.

What's that sucker weigh do you think?
Real monster, don't think I've seen bigger on here.

George

I'm thinking a solid 300-350lb conservatively

My sister shot a big boar a few years ago that was over 300 but didn't look as Stout as this one. This dude is pretty wide in the frontal photo.

He showed up 6 times in the past 3 weeks... so it will be pure luck to run into him. I think he got so heavy from feasting on the surrounding cotton fields. The mule deer put on a ton of weight from eating cotton seed

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He showed up 6 times in the past 3 weeks... so it will be pure luck to run into him

It would be fun to do some spot and stalking to see if one would get lucky.

I found sneaking through the thick stuff and shooting hogs up close is fun.

First pic looks like a rhino!

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First pic looks like a rhino!

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Originally posted by Use Enough Gun:

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First pic looks like a rhino!

Tomorrow evening I'll be in the blind from around 7pm-4am. Hopefully he shows up.

.416 Rem ammo still hasn't showed up so I may just grab the 7mm stw

In the stand now...just a waiting game

Just dropped one on video, wasnt the big one but we are still in the blind waiting on more

A doe and her fawn just walked through...was too spooked to come into the feeder. Kept looking off innthe distance

can't wait to see the video...and good luck for the remainder of the evening!

I may be an old guy, but I luv the inclusion of modern technology with the hunting I do.

Wireless game cams, Go Pro, Drones, night ligts, night vision, youtube, Facebook, Pandora radio, Cell phones.

Great Times!


ya!


GWB

I don't know about ya'll, but I luv getting up before dawn and climbing into a stand that gets signal for cell service. I will text pix of the sunrise and the woods coming alive to my buds, or a pix of a hoglet I snared/shot the night before. It adds a certain something!

ya!


GWB

GWB-

I really enjoy seeing those photos and videos you guys share. They make my day...and I appreciate you all going out of your way to record those moments. Keep posting them!

Just an update on my earlier comment, but today, Lora and I were driving part of the loop I make daily checking the boss's properties, and at 12:10 pm. this afternoon, we ran up on a sounder of 25 to 30 pigs going anywhere from 20/30 pounds up to over 200 pounds.

If a person is running feeders year round and feeding on a schedule similar to the one we use, 7 a.m./Noon and an evening feeding between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., hunting pigs can be an all day situation.

I see pigs in varying numbers almost anytime/every time I am making my rounds.

Whats the old line.......

only mad dogs and englishmen go out in the noonday sun!

When its 100 degrees F out at noon, I'm in the coolest, breeziest spot I can find and usually do not venture out in the direct sun very long until around 6 PM.

If those porkers are foolish enough to venture out then, they are safe from this ol' porker perforator!



ya!

GWB

To each their own, but you have to admit that you aren't on a schedule like someone that might be limited on hunting time would be.

Someone doing a guided hunt or a DIY for two maybe 3 days will view things differently.

10/4

one of the reasons I don't do "guided hunts" anymore.

I like being able to do what I want, when I please in habitat with which I'm darn familiar.

If I want to stay up late and have a beverage, and sleep in in the AM I can. If I decide to fart around in the evening, no big deal. Nobody to please/blame but me!


ya!


GWB

It is like fishing, you can't catch anything without a hook in the water.

Up in this area there are a of lease hunters that spend a good bit of money on equipment/feed/cameras and their camps., but are only able to hunt just a few weekends during deer season, and quite a few of them have caught on to the idea that the more time they spend in the blind/stand the better their chances of killing something.

Randall,

I've said on numerous occasions that you would argue with a cigar store Indian.

It matters not to me how other folks want to spend their time or money. That was not the point of my comment. After all these years, you would think you'd recognize that I tend to inject my sense of humor into many of the posts I make.

To each his own. I don't mind wasting time, as long is it me that chooses how to waste my time. I will restate again. From my experience (60 to 90 days a year "in the stand") it is not a productive waste of my time to sit out in the stand when the temps are up and the sun is blazing.

I've been keeping game cameras set out 24/7/365 for at least 13 years. At the lease I'm on now I currently have six cameras set out. All are pointed at spin-cast feeders. Usually get well over 1,000 images per month. On these particular cameras the time stamp is very accurate. Usually lose about 1 minute per month or there abouts. During the months of December thru say April when temps are temperate or when it's overcast or rainy I will occasionally see images of hogs during the mid day. I'd say June thru October, when it is 95 degrees or better and the sun is blazing, as a rule I do not see hogs on my game cameras. From my experience in the Texas Hill country, like me, they are laying up somewhere trying to stay cool.

That is all I am saying.

If your ranchers/hunters/tourists want to sit in a box blind or under a tree in the afternoon swelter when its 105 degrees and the humidity is north of Dallas, more power to them. Hope they have sense enough to stay hydrated. Heat prostration can be a bitch. Ask me how I know!

In the mean time, I'll be enjoying a cool one in the shade or taking a siesta waiting for the evening when things cool down a skosh.

ya!


GWB

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
It is like fishing, you can't catch anything without a hook in the water.

Just fer schitz n giggles.........


Randall,

I just about always got a hook in the water!

Hint!






speaking of "feeshin"






you ever run jug lines?






or trot lines?






well, snares are pretty much the same.









a very efficient use of a finite resource called "time"






Works for me!


ya!


GWB


PS: Its cooler in the shade!

Point being, not EVERYONE is in the same boat you ! I could kill pigs daily, along with coyotes, but I don't get any pleasure out of that anymore.

I look at things from the standpoint of the "Occasional" hunter that does not have the time, and has to get the most return on the time they do have.

You enjoy being the old "Foolosipher" and I look more at seeing folks get more return on the funds and time they expend!

"WORD"



ball is in your court!


ya!


GWB

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Originally posted by Geedubya:
I don't know about ya'll, but I luv getting up before dawn and climbing into a stand that gets signal for cell service. I will text pix of the sunrise and the woods coming alive to my buds, or a pix of a hoglet I snared/shot the night before. It adds a certain something!

ya!

GWB

Same here! How do I get in on this? I enjoy that also.

I don't hunt all day...maybe it isn't that much of a prize to me anymore for a whitetail or a hog. If I was elk hunting or on a guided hunt I would be putting in lots of time in the field.

I truly am sorry that I am not the same level of human you believe yourself to be!

Wish things were not that way.

Here is my hog from Friday night 5/19/17

Congratulations Sir, great looking pig.

Another good hog (dead). GWB I have set some snares and it seems more than half of the hogs caught are alive when I get back to them. Another ten percent have been killed and eaten by their brethren or coyotes. The ones I find dead and whole are generally bloated. How often are the hogs you snare still alive when you get to them. Being argumentative is good aerobic exercise, I do it a lot for lung capacity buildup!

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Originally posted by Buglemintoday:

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Originally posted by Geedubya:
I don't know about ya'll, but I luv getting up before dawn and climbing into a stand that gets signal for cell service. I will text pix of the sunrise and the woods coming alive to my buds, or a pix of a hoglet I snared/shot the night before. It adds a certain something!

ya!

GWB

Same here! How do I get in on this? I enjoy that also.

I don't hunt all day...maybe it isn't that much of a prize to me anymore for a whitetail or a hog. If I was elk hunting or on a guided hunt I would be putting in lots of time in the field.

10/4

Last guided hunt I did was with a guide who has since become a good friend. We got up at 4 in the AM, went out, hunted till 1 PM or so, come back, grab some lunch and be back in the field till around 8pm when it got dark. Did this six days in a row looking for spot and stalk bear.

I've no problem hunting all day when warranted. I'm sixty-five and have been killing stuff since I was six.

In jr. high and high school my goal was to kill a thousand birds a year. I figured I could do three a day. I'd get up and go behind our house before then after school it was to the cow-pasture and rail-road track which paralleled it after school. If I missed a day I would double up. For several years I exceeded my quota.

In my teen years from time to time we'd ride out to the rice fields in Pearland and sometimes I could get 25 to 30 blackbirds with a shot from my model 12 Winchester shotgun.

My dad bought a place in east Texas in 1961. It was a 150 or so acre place that was two miles north of SH-105. We were surrounded by a 4,500 acre private holding. Our place was triangle shaped and it had a mile of frontage on peach creek. My dad had a 4 acre pond dug shortly after he bought it. I can't begin to tell you how many, bull frogs, turtles, pearl-do's, cranes, egrets, blackbirds, robins, quail, dove, crows, woodcock,squirrels, rabbits, possums, coons, armadillos and hogs I killed over the years.

When we first got the place sometimes I would kill 15 to 20 armadillos in a couple hour outing (before fire ants). Might do that twice a day if I had company.

I pretty much semi-retired in 2000. I have been going to the Texas hill country at least once a month since June of '99. Most years I make 15 to 20 trips. From 2003-2010 I had two leases, that way I could take 5 deer and my oldest son could take 5 deer. Or my buds/invitees could take game. I'd leave on a Wednesday or a Thursday and stay thru the next Monday. Spend two or three days at one place and then go to the other. My personal best over spin cast feeders is 15 hogs in a 4 day period. I've probably killed 50 to 60 hogs per year with a rifle since 2000. I've got my Texas slam on sheep,(texas dall, black hawaiian, mouflon,rambolet, new zealand ram) killed numerous axis, sika, white-tail, black-buck, and Aoudad as well as a truck-bed full of javelina, grey fox, coons and coyote.

Figure 15 trips per year minimum, some times more, for 18 years this June, what's that, something like 270 trips. Now if I was only in the stand 3 days per trip........

well you get the point. I luv to be afield, and although I've killed 11 hoglets in the last two trips, I do much more shooting with a camera these days.




























I must be getting old or I'm just not as mad at them anymore. As mentioned before,luv to get up early and get out an hour or so before shooting light. Even if I kill, I'll usually sit out till 10 or 10:30, then come in. If I kill I skin the critter and get the meat on ice. I'll then go rum my snares with a bud. I'll come back, have lunch and a brewski. I've got to where I like to take a two hour or so nap. I"ll usually get going again anywhere between 4pm and 6pm depending on the temps. I always take a ditty bag with beverage and snacks, a head light, an audio book loaded on my phone+ ear buds, a headlight, flashlight, camera and a "kill light. Most nights this time of year I'll sit out till 9:30 or 10 if I don't kill. If I kill, I pack and go get the critter, go back to camp, unless I meet one of my buds on the trail. If that happens we usually have a beverage and watch the night develop. Lots of shooting stars and meteors this time of year.

Anywho, when it comes to killing, I've always been lucky, so I never sweat that part.

Heading out in the AM, so I'll leave it with ya'll, be back when its time!


ya!

GWB

Beautiful pictures. Thinking about using my camera's more myself.

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Originally posted by Gunsmoker:
Another good hog (dead). GWB I have set some snares and it seems more than half of the hogs caught are alive when I get back to them. Another ten percent have been killed and eaten by their brethren or coyotes. The ones I find dead and whole are generally bloated. How often are the hogs you snare still alive when you get to them. Being argumentative is good aerobic exercise, I do it a lot for lung capacity buildup!

I usually check my snares daily. Perhaps I make my loops too large, cause many I catch around the middle or the hind leg or foot. Most are alive when I come up on my four wheeler. If they've been caught around the neck and manage to get twisted up, sometimes they asphyxiate themselves. I'd say one out of every six or eight are dead. Our hogs are usually nocturnal or move in the AM going in between feeders. My snare are also not in the direct sun, so most are alive when I ride up. Definitely makes it more fun!




One I snared at a very productive spot on my last trip. This guy was alive and mad when we drove up. Pretty good boar. Two good sized young men could not grab his legs and put him on the tail-gate. Used a "hitch-haul" winch to load him.

The youngsters were glad to put the "quietus" on him.


ya!


GWB

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Originally posted by Gunsmoker:
Beautiful pictures. Thinking about using my camera's more myself.

I always carry a pack, with enough stuff to stay out all night should I have to. GPS, radio, phone, charger, big industrial plastic trash bag to crawl into should I have to, water, etc.




my kit always includes a good pair of binocs, my Canon 7d MK2, a 24-70 f2.8 variable and a Tamron 150-600 F5.3. Being as the 7d is has a crop factor of 1.6, that give me an effective 960 mm of telephoto.

Works for me!

ya!


GWB

Not to beat it to death, but typical day pack contents.......

https://www.washingtonexaminer...sperate-beto-orourke

I figure if I need it and don't have it, whose fault is that!


ya!


GWB

Great pictures, and I also do not find reasons to kill stuff, but some folks DO!

Wished I had the same type camera you have so I could take similar pictures, but not ALL of us have reached that point in life where simply enjoying the "Scenery" is good enough.

Some of us have not reached the stage where "Killing" is not that important! I have, but when I have a client, paying for a hunt, they want to kill something and I want them to kill something!

I am having a hard time understanding why there is a problem with that!