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Where do they go when the acrons start to dry up and they are not visible in the fields? This leaves the Douglas-fir and hardwood stands, or the creeks. Maybe in the prairies at night? | ||
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I would have thought someone might have a clue also. I am not familiar with that area but had been wondering if someone would post or share. ScopeBite I would rather Boar Hunt for my Bacon! | |||
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Well on a scouting trip we found some of the hogs. They are deep down in the canyons in the timber and under the live-oaks within the stand. From what we saw they are eating mushrooms and live-oak acorns. The ones we saw were huge for the area at 250-350 pounds. Hopefully we find some nice fat little porkers tomorrow morning when we head out. I will try an ear shot if all works well. | |||
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Good luck to you and keep us posted!  "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Well I will try and make a long story short. We hunted the pigs in the morning that were there last night, and this evening we hunted a spot they were at in the morning. Plenty of fresh tracks and rooting, problem is there are oaks [live-oaks] dropping acorns everywhere. The hogs really have no reason to travel around or out of the timber. There does not appear to be many pigs where we are at, but that is the ranch available to us. It once had a lot of smaller pigs and now we have a healthy black bear and mountain lion [cougars/pumas] population that we have documented hunting the pigs. This may be why there are fewer, but larger hogs. From the tracks, I know the evening hunting location contained a few large pigs and some smaller ones, but the morning hunt has only very large tracks, at least in my opinion for the location. The largest track I measured was 3 inches wide and 4 inches long, and the smallest was 2 1/2 wide and almost 3 long. In the evening area they were much smaller. Can anyone tell me if there is a rough conversion for size of the track to weight? | |||
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Sorry I don't know you're area but down here in SLO & Monterey Counties they're still in the acorns and rooting up high on the ranches. We saw about a dozen this morning. As to the track size vs. weight: In college I actually tried to do a regression equation to predict live or dressed weight from hoof size. I took careful measurements of the outside front toe and tried to find a pattern in relation to the weight on 51 different feral pigs that clients took at the time. It failed miserably. (I guess I’m the poster child for why it would fail, I’ve had the same size 16 feet and 6’4†frame from 220 pounds in high school to a now more desk jockeyish weight of 270 ;-). There really wasn’t any correlation close enough to call it scientifically accurate. A person can make some wild guesses and I’ll do that when I’m looking at tracks but I’ve never measured them with wild guesses in mind to pass you any numbers. It will come from experience for you. Best of luck, Kyler | |||
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Our canyons are steep. We are running 60-90 % [forestry calculation] slope gradients. The pigs appear down in the deep areas, except for travel after storms. They were about 800 feet elevation below the ridge top. The big tracked pig left tusk marks in the soil where rooting. I was in the Bear River and Mattole River today. Below is a picture or two of the area.     I swear those bucks looked bigger when other people hold them up! P.S. I know the desk jockey issue well. I started as a wildlife biologist at 6'8" and 225 pounds. now I am the senior biologist [only 36 years old], but I am 290 pounds. of course I have matured well and filled out appropriately! LOL. Well my wife likes me not so skinny so that is really all that matters. | |||
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Yeah well I have got you both beat on the desk jockey thing...I am 5'10" and had finally gotten into shape at 190 went back into consulting and now I am a deuce and a quarter with a size 12 1/2. Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Would a varmint call work on hogs in California? Is it legal? Just curious. | |||
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