Sully Jr.

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My Dad (Sully) and I just got back from a trip to Wauchula Florida. We started hunting Wed. and ended on Mon. We saw pigs everyday we were there, all after noon. We brought the bows and the guns, but primarily gun hunted.

Thursday ran into some hogs while we were driving the ranch. We hopped out of the car and my dad shot a nice calico sow. The group circled around and came back towards us, and out comes a monster black boar. I drew down and shot at him on the run, right over his back
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. We talked to the ranch owners and they said a black boar lived in that swamp that was over 250 lbs. We couldnt find my dads pig, and there was no blood.

Nothing happened till Saturday, I got to my evening stand where that big boar has been seen the most, and my surrogate grandfather was in another stand. My dad decided to ground hunt, and I heard shots within 10 minutes of sitting in my stand. 2 pigs down. One boar about 90-100 pounds, and one football sized sow.


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Sunday night, my grandad got a nice Sow. And I got a small calico.

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Monday night, boiled my blood. I had been hunting that big boar I saw, and sure enough...my dad sees it. He puts one in his shoulder with the 30-30, and guess what, yet again, there is no sign of the pig and no blood. Now, I let the first incident slide, but two is way too many. I kept saying "The least you could do is put a decent shot on it so I can see the thing!!!"

All-In-All, we had a great trip. Great Weather and Great People.
 

Sully Jr.

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Few more pics of the area and a snake I got on the way out of my stand...


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The Snake was over 5 feet long, and was the fattest diamond-back Ive ever seen.
 

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Nice pigs, looked like a great hunt!
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Sully Jr. awesome photo taking.
Did you guys go through a guide or just hunted private?
 

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Very Nice. Always good to see some photos of the hunt and hear the stories. I'm booked for a Tejon hunt at the beginning of Feb. and stories and pics like these just get me going. Nice Job!
 

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Thanks LD...I was taking tons of photos of everything and anything. Some of them were bound to turn out right, haha.

We had a ball, and I cant wait to get back. Hopefully I can go this spring break and go for some turkeys while we're there.

It is a private ranch that a couple buddies of ours lease the hunting rights for. Its 1700 acres, and filled with prime swamps and fields.

We also saw a ton of deer, including some really nice bucks (well, nice for that area anyways)

Let us know about that tejon hunt switch.
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