The Hunting Guys!
 

lol slim on the good kills, but plenty of camera pics of what shouldve shown up at that same time as the previous weeks.. lol

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...1299196294.jpg

No lie, this one was only around 75lbs and was shot in the head with a 9mm from about 3ft. The round ricochet off, hog turned to back of the trap where thre was a gap between the ground and cage, lifted it up and ran off while two hungover stuned idiots dumped mags trying to get it "one being me". Stalked another 2 hours and never found it.
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...1291914938.jpg

Never saw this guy agian after that year.. http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...1289925320.jpg

best kill and greatest prank ever.. http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...Dk1MC5qcGc.jpg

last year http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...TkzNS5qcGc.jpg

haha yea i dont have many pics of my kills. just started hunting not too long ago. my girls dad is getting me into it cause he lovessss hunting. them hogs are one damn tough animals!

haha how do you like the sitting and waiting? Have fun with it, if you dont see shit then go back to camp and drink some beers.. It's a great escape from DFW area.. If you get into it its damn near $$$$ as cars, and pretty simular.. Both will leave you broke, pissed off, and possible swamp ass in the summer.. yet.. :cheers:

The Hunting Guys!
 

Man. I need to catch up on this thread when I'm not half asleep from traveling and vacation...

i dont mind the waiting its just the sweating your ass off in a blind that gets me but i deal with it cause its part of it lol. i think i would like winter hunting more! yea i can already tell its money lol i dont think ill do it alot. probly more of getting away like u said every now and then.

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I was shocked when I saw this thread. Bow hunting is my other passion. Any of you guys bow hunt?
Just curious.
Hunting comsumes all of my time from August to February. We have a ranch that is 99% all archery.

J.Shoot

my girls dad bow hunts. he has tons of guns but when it comes to hunting he will wip out the bow lol he likes it better. much harder though! i plan to try it one day.

Nice thread! After going twice for hogs with rifles and coming up empty handed I finally went out with dogs with a couple guys north of DFW in Greenville. Took down 11 hogs in under 5 hours. Great hunt, will go again when it cools back down... The first one of the day was 300+ lbs and the dogs bayed him up in water it got intense. A Pitbull was the catch dog and he was a beast.

lmfao @ the 3rd picture.. guy in the middle has the knife and is in oh shit mode, with the guy taking the picture.. haha I've never gotten an op. to hunt behind dogs but I hear its blast! and looks you had fun.

It's interesting how smart hogs really are, yet dumb as shit.. I have GC pics of them hitting feeders at the same time every day for a month, until I sit and wait.. Could be the W tx swamp ass but w/e.. Yet every now and then just driving around out there being loud as fuck you will roll right up to them..

LOL - thats me with the knife in ohh shit mode.. Of course my first hog has to be 300lbs and in the water... Big adrenaline rush though, the bigger ones would stay and try to fight the dogs while some of the smaller ones would run. It was a cool experience. I've done the same sit in a blind for hours when you have cam footage of them coming in every night, and nothing.... I think they can just smell you if the wind is right. I havent had much luck in blinds in TX.

haha yea i would of been stabing the f out of it lol!

yea they got some really good smell. it sucks if the wind is blowing! u gotta get them quick! :gunner:

Here's someof mine from last year. The first pic is a 10 pointer with 20 3/4 inch inside spread and the 8 pointer is just a typical 8 pointer. And heres one that my buddy shot.

I would LOVE to get into archery. I think that would be fun. I don't care about "hunting". Sitting around a feeder waiting for something to stop by is not hunting nor a sport. lol.

Not everyone does that foo. I shot three deer last year and none of them were at feeders.

Just think of it like going to a strip club, lol. Really though either way you're hunting over a necessity be it trail, water, natural food source. At least in 99.9% of texas lease's. Now if you go to like Montana or w/e that a little different..

I don't mind the feeders still a bait and wait so it makes sense while some may not like it, but you give yourself standards of what you're looking for ie. old 8+ buck and so fourth "not just dropping the first thing to come in". It's the places that are 100-200acres with high fence.. That's what trips me out..

If you do get into archery get ready to be addicted and drop some coin!

I love me some feral hog hunting. I shot this guy at night eating acorns off of my friends back porch at ~60 yards with my Sig556R w/Pulsar N550 night vision. Popped him and he ran maybe 30 feet.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...psf84a4ea9.jpg

If you're not sure of the kill zone on a hog this is by far the best video to show you where to shoot them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AaCIcxz-5U


I picked up a bow last year and live by Cinnamon creek ranch so yea I dropped the equivalent of a set of wheels and tires on a Hoyt and all the goodies lol I'm really looking forward to Bow season this year

I wanna go hog hunting. :(

Phuck Phace does it every weekend at local bars. :hidesbehindsofa:

Badass! I want that pulsar!

If you ever want to try shooting a bow let me know, I do have one. I will be hog hunting in a few weeks. Hopefully I get to post up a few pics

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Hell yeah I wanna try it!

You should never hunt alone :Big Laugh: so let me know if you ever need someone to go with you lol :hunter:

Didn't know we had a hunting section.

Video of my 15 yr old daughter dropping a pig near Freer, Texas in November 2012. She turned the lights out pretty well on that one!

LOL they just keep eating! wish my girl would of got mine on vid! she had the gopro rolling but got scared cause she was scared of how loud the gun would be.

Anybody getting ready for deer season? I'm going up to Mt Vernon to shoot a pig this weekend. Going on a deer hunt in Freer in early November.

Last year's buck - biggest one I've ever killed:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...o/IMG_0314.JPG

Will post a dead pig pic this weekend if I get lucky 8-]

Yup going to fill the feeders FINALLY sept 21st. And I'm really looking forward to next year cause I get to hunt up in north west Kansas for a whitetail for free.

Where was that deer killed?

hah, free hunting is like free beer - that's the best kind! Great deer up there, too.

I shot that 8 pt on the Killam Duval County Ranch about 7 miles west of Freer, Texas. Low fence but they have 125,000 acres so you don't really need HF! haha

Is that a paid hunt you went on for that deer or member of the lease?

Heh, either way, you pay. My daughter and I did a 4 day/3 night hunt.

I'd lease there but it's too far away. 7 hr drive or so. I believe the leasing starts at over $10k/year or something like that on the Killam Ranch. I leased up until 2011 in Central Texas and a bit in East Texas. Got tired of that crap. Too much work, too many poachers, and too many lease members with no ethics.

Check out my daughter's monster 7 point on THF (no login required):
http://www.texashuntingforum.com/for...pics/3792394/1

I shoot to fill the freezer. Is love to have a trophy, but you can't eat the horns and can only stare at them so often/long. Haha

Damn that's a big ass 7 pointer. If you don't mind me asking how much was that hunt for 4 day/ 3 night hunt?

No problem with that. I assure you that our deer filled the freezer and then some! haha

I used to shoot whatever had horns but if it's under 3 1/2 I don't like to shoot them anymore. Like to let them get some size. Problem with a lease is that not everyone shares my sentiments 8-]

Not a problem -

That 7 point was a monster - bigger than my 8 point and much cheaper. Go figure 8-]

My hunt was $3000 (for a management deer - scored 148, dressed 155) and my daughter's was $2000 for a "cull" hunt. Yep, that 7 pt is a cull because he's 6 1/2 years old and he's only a 7 point. He dressed at 165. My daughter also shot a doe and a pig. I shot a pig as well. I tipped a total of 15% on top of all that.

All in all - two bucks that dressed out at a combined 320 lbs, a doe, and two pigs. This included 3 nights lodging and more food than you could really eat.

Not all culls are that nice but the sweet thing about that ranch is that nothing under 5 1/2 years old gets shot so you see some pretty good sized deer. On public land or a generic lease in Texas you'll rarely see anything over 3 1/2. You will but it's rare. Antler restrictions help some I think.

Very cool. Do you have a link I can go to cause I might look into that for either my wife and me or myself and my dad.

I still want to help. I'd love to get in the woods this year.

Sure - http://www.duvalcountyranch.com/home.html

The site is a bit outdated but it has the basic info. I sent you a PM. Call me this evening and I can answer any questions you have!

Here's us one of the bucks I killed last year.

http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3599cda1.jpg