Bighorn Canyon Ranch Riverside Ca.

[Surfswest]

hey rodeo, got any pictures?

Good job on your "hunt". More power to you on not just killing something and going home to eat it but taking the extra effort to learn how to gut and manage the pig so you can do it out in the wild someday. Maybe someday you can be giving newbee's like me advice and be helping us learn more from you experience.

 

[MJB]

Good job RodeoFlyer!!!!
Now sign up for Tejon, and put some experience to work. Just a month away.
Any pic's?

 

[Orso]

Pictures!!!!!!!!!

 

[RodeoFlyer]

Lol - actually, today was my first time using the digital camera. When the girlfriend gets here i'll figure it out.
As far as the cleaning i told em id watch this time, help next time, and do it myself on the third time. My buddie's pig was actually a little razorback. Pretty small, but it was nex to mine, so we each picked one and shot

 

[RodeoFlyer]

I want to do Tejon, but im gonna wait till the next one. I just picked up my brand new Martin compound bow 2 weeks ago. (i took the animals today with my 30-06). I wanna be proficient with the bow and do it that way at Tejon. Is my archery conquest "real" enough for the haters? lol

 

[Stryder]

Hey Rodeo what color was the razorback? About 100 lbs and kinda an off white and black maybe?

 

[RodeoFlyer]

nope he was all black and prob about that - 120 or so. they just got more hogs on thursday

 

[Stryder]

QUOTE (RodeoFlyer @ Apr 7 2006, 07:02 PM) http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=692613

nope he was all black and prob about that - 120 or so. they just got more hogs on thursday

I saw one out there a couple months ago like I described that the only time you saw it was when it was running full tilt. If I'd have been bowhunting that's the one I would have gone after because it was one wild SOB. The day before I was there it tore up two dogs and knocked a hunter down and he ended up with about 20 stitches in his calf.

 

[Havoc13]

QUOTE (scr83jp @ Mar 31 2006, 06:17 PM) http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=690080

Is this just like Cedar Canyon?

No it's not the same as Cedar Canyon. While they are both hunting ranches that's about where the simlarities end. I have hunted both ranches and I can honestly say I'll Hunt Cedar Canyon anyday of the week over Big Horn. Now that being said both ranches are good for what they do Big Horn is an excellent ranch to get your start on as your pretty much guaranteed your hog if you can shoot straight. What I really like about Cedar Canyon is all the hogs are imported from Canada and there is no farmer john pigs they are all the european boars and they act like it. stick one and he will charge you come in from the wrong side of the wind and the only thing you will see is the ass end of the boar going over the next ridge line. If you have any questions please feel free to ask i'll be happy to help.

 

[Batch61]

Cedar Canyon is a great place to hunt. I've been to guided hunts in central CA and the only difference was that Cedar Canyon is only 640 acres and the Hogs are european not feral. You here about all the hogs you see at places like Jack Ranch and if your rifle hunting it's a slamdunk. One plus about Cedar Canyon was that the guide who tells you were to hike will process your kill right there. Packaged and ready for the freezer. Tejon is the next step up for a real work your ass off hunt with about a 30-40% chance of success. Haven't been to Choppers but it sounds like a real challenge with a bow but if you had a rifle what would the success rate be?

 

[Speckmisser]

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Haven't been to Choppers but it sounds like a real challenge with a bow but if you had a rifle what would the success rate be?

If you hunted Chopper's with a rifle, success rate would be pretty high for a while. But if you had as many rifle hunters there as you do bow hunters, it wouldn't take long for the animals to move off and success would go way down, since there is no stocking and the animals are free to move to the neighbors' properties.

 

[ozstriker22]

What a fascinating topic/post. Thanks!

For whatever reason I can only remember reading a few posts on JHO about canned hunts. I mean, REALLY reading them. I Usually just start reading them and then get bored and say to myself "CANNED HUNT" and go to the next topic. Call me a "hater" or whatever you want.

I think I'm going to revise my opinion.

For the sake of my own pride, I want to say that I took my very first big game animal, after 3 years of hunting without success, only 3 months ago from Tejon. I've had a lot of help along the way, and that was half of the fun, But in the end, I did it on my own. I picked the area I hunted, I hunted by myself (everyone else had gone home or was already teamed up), and with 1 hour left and the tank on empty I tried a hunch, found a herd, and took the first easy shot I could get. Then I figured out how in the world to dress, drag, and lift my kill into the truck, all on my own. I did a terrible job and almost puked. But it was totally worth it. At the skinning pole I had a lot of help (thanks Speck). And then butchered, cut, and wrapped everything when I got home.

I took a lot of pride in that. It's an experience I'll never forget. And one I am certain to repeat. Lessons hard earned are lessons never forgotten. FOR ME PERSONALLY I wouldn't have it any other way. But now that my wife has tasted boar, she's actually agreed to POSSIBLY go hunting with me and POSSIBLY shoot an animal herself, as long as it stops there and I do the rest. I'm TOTALLY cool with that. I also have nephews that are DYING to go hunting with me.

So, now, a canned hunt doesn't sound so bad, does it? It may not be MY deffinition of hunting. But for these close and respected members of my immediate and extended family, even a canned hunt is MORE hunting than they may prefer (ESPECIALLY my wife) or it may be the most that they're capable of right now.

I'm sure the boys would prefer a "real" hunt, but I don't have 3 years to bring them to that point, or rather, THEY don't have 3 years. In 3 years they'll be 17, 18 and 20... men, not boys. And who knows if they'll even WANT to spend time with ME chasing animals around the bushes with sticks and gunpowder? The forces shaping these kids are tough enough competition as it is. No, it's not about "killing" an animal; It's about the experience of spending time with friends and family engaging in a "hunt" doing something they've NEVER thought they would EVER try to do or even be personally capable of. And helping them to succeed in the beginning MAY cultivate a desire to continue the tradition in the end.

If we lived back east, I'd just hang a darn salt lick from a tree and have them shoot the first of the 15 stupid whitetails that walk down that same trail everyday. What's the friggin difference? Oh, the deer can cross over to another neighbors salt lick. Whatever. But here in CA a fair chase hunt can be REALLY difficult!

I really want to give props to Orso and Stryder. Especially Orso, You really nailed it to the wall, man.

Now pass me the dove, mashed potatoes, and gravy, please.



Jesse

 

[Greenleaf]

Talk about resurrecting a thread from the dead.

Anyway, I hear that guy from Montgomery Gentry likes to hunt at Bighorn Canyon.

 

[CAhntr]