Some from 2016,













































not the best year,

but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!


ya!


GWB

Looks like you had a Good Year anyway. Seeing those Javelina makes me want to set up a hunt out in the Trans Pecos.

Nice collection of pigs. Did you eat any of the critters ? Love the tusks on the last picture and you have good taste in beer !

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Originally posted by twilli:
Nice collection of pigs. Did you eat any of the critters ? Love the tusks on the last picture and you have good taste in beer !

twilli,

unless I can smell a boar 15' away when I'm walking up, I generally take some or all of the meat.




I generally take two or three 150 qt. ice chests with me when I go, and try to have my meat on ice within 1.5 hours after the animal is killed. Some don't, but I generally "wet age" the meat for 5 or 6 days.







In the heat of summer, sometimes I don't open them up, but take the hinds and the backstraps.



Here is the meat from the sow in the 4th picture from the original post above. She weighed about 160 lbs and was full of piglets. I took the hams and the front quarters, I split her along the backbone and made pork chops. I will make bacon or sausage from the flank meat. One hind will be boned out and will be put in either a can cooker or a crock pot for pulled pork. The other most likely will be brined and smoked as a ham. The tenders and the loins are usually grilled. Occasionally I will cut a portion of a loin into "pork fingers, and chicken fry.





JAPPFT,



GWB

Nice mess of pigs and great looking meat too! Easy to see you have been busy this last year!

Nicely done, Geedubya! It was slow year for me, as I was sidelined with projects, to include my new book. I only killed two animals last year... (but with a combined weight of 3,000-lbs ).

Keep it up Geedubya, it's a new year!

And suddenly I'm really hungry and have a desire for pork.....

As always GW, great pics and looks like a lot of fun..

Very nice knives!

I truly enjoy the beauty of the Mannlicher style rifle. Have never owned one but have always appreciated the long forearm style. Looks to be a lot of great dinners. keep up the good work. MTG

That's a GREAT year-in-review, GWD. Keep after 'em...and please keep the photos coming, too...

Thanks for posting. Whats the Swaro on the Mannlicher stocked rifle (Sako?)?

Great post Geedubya, those are some excellent pics. Although I've never killed a feral pig of my own, I guided 300 kills when I lived in east TN. Warthog's on the other hand...lol.
Pigs were taken off the TN big game list as they have become a real problem in some areas so the G&F decided to make them a "no hunt" species, thinking it would stop hunt clubs from bringing them into our State and releasing them. Not sure how that's going to sort out but they can be fun with a pack of dogs and a knife.

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Originally posted by Bwana_500:
Thanks for posting. Whats the Swaro on the Mannlicher stocked rifle (Sako?)?

The scope on the 30-06 SBC is a Swaro Z3, 4-12 x 50 with the BRH reticle.

I wanted it to be pretty much a mirror of its cousin........



Bavarian Carbine, 308 win.

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Originally posted by L. David Keith:

Pigs were taken off the TN big game list as they have become a real problem in some areas so the G&F decided to make them a "no hunt" species, thinking it would stop hunt clubs from bringing them into our State and releasing them. Not sure how that's going to sort out but they can be fun with a pack of dogs and a knife.

I've pretty much hunted pigs since I was a wee yonker. I've been traveling to one or two Texas hill country "leases" for the last 17 years. I make as many as 20 trips a year, as I will go more than once a month in April (spring turkey) Septemeber (dove season) October (bow season) and Nov.-Dec (rifle season). I like hunting pigs. In my book they are one of the smartest critters out there. Plus I can do it year round. I snipe em' and snare them and sometimes trap them. It is a kick to ride up to a snare which has a big boar around the middle or the hind leg. They will charge and sunfish when they hit the end of the snare. It will get your blood up. That will have to suffice, for at 65, I've turned into a wuss.

For years if I shot a hog and it ran off I'd track it no matter what, many times in shorts, through briar tunnels and rocks, on hand and knees. A couple years ago I was at a place on our lease I call the cliffs. It features a sheer rock face that overlooks a dry creek bed and a 300 acre “bowl”.




It’s about two miles from camp and can only be accessed by walking or by ATV along a game trail. I had gone there for an evening hunt. To access the spot where I sit, I have to navigate the game trail to the base of a hill then walk up a couple hundred yards, then climb up the side of the cliff another 20’ or so to get to the spot where I can overlook the creek bed and the spin cast feeder 120 yds distant. I am not much for sitting in enclosed blinds so I set up a tripod, a quad pod, or just take a folding stool and set up where I please. At the cliffs I carry in a stool. When exiting at night, with the aid of a head light for illumination it will take me about 10 to 15 minutes to get back to my ATV, then another 10 minutes or so to the location of the spin cast feeder should I “nail” a hoglet. Well at dark-thirty I saw a group of shadows moving at where the feeder was. I have a green”kill light” I employ for dark-thirty and later. I turned it on and came down on the sounder of pigs. I had the illumination turned down to the point that I could only see their shiny eyeballs and barely my cross-hairs. I was using my 300 H&H. I let fly and hear the “whop” and the most satisfying scream of a perforated porker. I set a minute, gather up my stuff and make the trip down to the ATV and then to the feeder. I get off and bummer, no pig under the feeder. So I start looking for blood. I shoot Accubonds, cause they give me two leaky holes. It’s heartening when one sees a bucket of blood leading off and a dead pig about 10 yds distance. Such was not the case this night. I found some meat and a few drops of blood. Not a good sign. It is late August or September and prolly 95 degrees or so, at this hour. I umlimber my gear, grab a light in my right hand and my Glock 20 in the other hand and start following a blood trail. I’m in shorts and crawling under juniper bushes/trees when I get to a brush tunnel surrounded by prickly pear and cat claw. I stopped and was steeling my resolve, but got to thinking, one of these nights my luck is gonna run out. I’m in a spot where I can’t turn around, only back out, I got a pistol and a light, and a 200 lb. angry boar with razor sharp tushes could be in my face.




My buds are back in camp two miles away enjoying a beverage, and no way can they find me till morning or later, should I get ripped to shreds. I’m sweating like a politician telling the truth, cut and bloody. I backed out, got on my four wheeler and headed back and got my own beverage. I’ve not tracked a wounded hog at night since.

Ya!

GWB

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Originally posted by Geedubya:


The scope on the 30-06 SBC is a Swaro Z3, 4-12 x 50 with the BRH reticle.

Thanks. Nice looking set up. How do you find the BRH in low light? Is it heavy enough?