Just back from a friend's farm.
Yestarday he gave me a call that some night varmints were visiting the place where he gives some nutritonal supplemantation to his calfs.

A full moon was up in the sky and the sounds of the night was like music to my ears. I sit down on the ground and rest my back against a farm gate because it was the only shadow in the place to give me some cover from the pigs eyes.

While waiting I saw a fox and I started calling him making weird noises with my mouth. The varmint got so close that grab one of my gloves that I have left some meters away and run !!! I stand up and he drop it and run away. So I put my gloves in a safer place and I return to my place.

To make a long story short finally I was able to shoot this two pigs, not monsters but a huge improvement of what I have been shooting this year.

Enjoy them

I forgot my big kife at home so guting them with a very tiny knife was a pain !!! You can see the calf feeders and the guts in the back. I spent there all the night till the sun arise!!!









L

Lorenzo!! Those are some outstanding hogs!! Good job! Lorenzo, what did you shoot them with??

Nice hogs .Nice to see you are not bothering my fish When is the new baby due ?????? Keep well my friend.

Not monsters?
Those are great boars. That kind of hunting is the second best way to spend a full moon night that I know of!

Matt

Whitworth,
I shoot them with a very expensive plastic remington ADL in 3006

Hi Jim,
Don't worry about your fish, if I keep shooting pigs like these ones there is no way I will quit hunting for a while..
The new baby is arriving home end of november (God wishes), we will call him Manuel, it will be tough for Lorenzo jr not being the only "star" at home anymore !!

Matt,
Indeed they are great pigs, maybe the biggest I have shot so far but my "low profile" don't allow me to call them monsters

After the hunt, before returing home to take a bath and run to the office (without any sleep ) I stopped at he main house and an old gaucho look them and said: "these are innocent guys compared with El Grande (the big one).."

He said this and adopt a very mystique posture looking to the horizon..

I asked what was El Grande ??

And he told me that there was a MUCH bigger boar roaming around those "sierras" (small hills covered with thornbush) and that has been seen in the same place where I have shot my "innocent" pigs

Those old gauchos always have some kind of stories and legends about a given animal and sometimes they exagerate a little bit, but one thing is sure, I walk away convinced that I must have a "meeting" with El Grande in the nearer future..

I will add "uruguayan pigs" in the topic title for those interested in those "pig slams"

L

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Originally posted by hnts4fun:
That kind of hunting is the second best way to spend a full moon night that I know of!

Matt

Hey Mark, I am courious, are you talking about women or leopards ???

L

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Originally posted by Lorenzo:

quote:

Originally posted by hnts4fun:
That kind of hunting is the second best way to spend a full moon night that I know of!

Matt

Hey Mark, I am courious, are you talking about women or leopards ???

L

Both can hurt you!

No matter how big the game animal we kill, someone will always claim something bigger! Embelishment is the nature of the beast (hunter)!! That said, I hope to read about your meeting will "El Grande" soon!

I have just noticed one thing in the pictures.

In one of the hogs, the one that has the light coloured belly, you can see two shots, one in the guts and a perfect shoulder shot...

Well to be honest, what looks lke a perfect shoulder shot is nothing else that a fresh wound produced by another boar. It was a big cut done by a pig tusk !!!

The hole in the guts was mine

The pig run something like 400 metres before collapsing, that was the second pig I shot and it was around 1 am.

In the other one, the one that has a massive shoulder, the shot was correct but a little low. I shot it first and missed cleanly and then I hit it with the second shot as he was running away.

I am spending my days dreaming with hunting game animals, the more I hunt the more I want to hunt...It's difficult to concentrate in my business

BTW...
www.quiniman.com
www.cenra.com.uy/boceto (this page is still under construction but it's an Artificial Insemination Center). Just a few repeated words in spanish that works as a guide to the poeple who are building it.

Sorry for the free advertisment

L

Nice hogs for sure, better than what we've been killing lately for sure. As to which animal is more dangerous, leopard or woman, I'll take my chances with the leopard.

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Originally posted by Larry Matherne:
Nice hogs for sure, better than what we've been killing lately for sure. As to which animal is more dangerous, leopard or woman, I'll take my chances with the leopard.

At least you know where you stand with the leopard!

Lorenzo,

You just keep keep those big boars tumbling "low profile" style and let your photos speak for themselves! Old gaucho's stories of El Grande will make certain there are many more sleep deprived work days in your future. I had been refering to spending a moonlit night in the company of a fine woman as my number one choice, not having had the pleasure of hunting leopard. However, upon reflection, I believe I'll take a cue from Whitworth and Larry and move the, as yet untried, leopard hunt up to number two behind hog hunting and just barely ahead of women. After all...how much worse could a leopard hurt a guy?

Larry, good to see you posting. I've been thinking of you with all the hurricane news. Hope all is well.

Matt

Lorenzo I'm intrigued,your hunting and country seems so similar to hunting in New Zealand, that if you hadn't said where you were, I would think you were just down the road.
We also have "old guachos" with stories of huge boars, sometimes it pays to beleive them too.

Hi Shankspony,
Some people says that we are similar in certain ways, with the difference that we don't have mountains and our rugby is terrible !!

I am doing some work for a New Zealand dairy company that has big investments here, great hard working people

I am crossbreeding for them holstein cows with jerseys bulls, we call them kiwis..

L

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Originally posted by Lorenzo:
Hi Shankspony,
Some people says that we are similar in certain ways, with the difference that we don't have mountains and our rugby is terrible !!

I am doing some work for a New Zealand dairy company that has big investments here, great hard working people

I am crossbreeding for them holstein cows with jerseys bulls, we call them kiwis..

L

Ha Ha, we're used to being called crossbreds.Looks like I'm in a similar line of work, as I'm just starting to convert a large farm to Dairy, and am going to be using a large percentage of Freisan Jersey cross's.
I've just spent the last few nights waiting under the full moon as well, but so far don't have any photo's to show.

Good luck with both things !!
I hope you can show us a photo soon

L