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Deer Season Is Winding Down--but . . .

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10 December 2011, 10:22
dustoffer
Deer Season Is Winding Down--but . . .
Hog season is still open--

My next-door neighbor came to visit a month ago to ask if I was interested in helping a friend of his with a hog problem-- Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin tu2

So--went to meet and greet, then walked the place - about 100 ac with a small tank nearly dry. As I walked through the mesquite, I saw a black mass under a mesquite tree about 40 yds away. Didn't have a gun - Mad thumbdown but put a sneak on 'em anyway. Got to within 20yds and saw it was 10-11 pigs--two 130-150-lb sows and a bunch of shoats.

Fast forward--put up a feeder and a ladder stand down in the creek bottom as far from the house as i could get to try and keep the pigs out of the landowner's yard. Game cam pics showed about 15 or so pigs coming to the feeder after 5 days, to include two sows of 175+ lbs and a boar that looked like a boxcar. Sat the stand once with nothing, sat again with the rifle and missed from 80 yds--lights weren't pointed right. This week, went back to the ladder stand since the wind was right, and about 5:45, 3 shoats come in. I slipped the safety off the 12-ga, planning to wait until all 3 heads were aligned. Well, shotgun got heavy and the pigs weren't cooperating, so I settled for 2 out of 3. Two fat little sows, 56 and 58 lbs. Perfect grillers.



An old pilot, not a bold pilot, aka "the pig murdering fool"
10 December 2011, 22:29
Larry Matherne
tu2 Cool beans!!
11 December 2011, 03:59
Bobby Tomek
Fire up the grill!!! Well done, dustoffer! tu2 tu2

And you can tell all those animal rights people that you have a passion for practicing conservation in the field -- you know, killing 2 piggies for the price of one shell. Smiler


Bobby
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12 December 2011, 00:56
packrattusnongratus
And that is the real definition of grillers. Not wrapped in bacon - they are the bacon.