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Not only will I backup what the rest of you have said, but man...that's $310 for shooting one the 1st day and "JUST LEAVING IT THERE".
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I spoke with Matt (M57Jager) last night via cell phone and he sounded way happy. Congrats Matt! Come on bro, these guys are waiting for the story
Last year at the May POR one of the Rifenbarks got a pig friday afternoon. That night we were starting to worry when they didn't show up at camp by around 9pm. They finally made it back around 10:30pm. The 4 of them tried for 4-5 hours to get the pig out of one of the canyons. They ended up gutting it and hanging in a tree overnight. In the morning they went to the gate and got one of the guides. He took them back out with his 4x4, and they ended up having to cut the pig in half and two of them packed it out.
I know that some people feel pressured to get their pig before closing time, so they might be tempted to leave one instead of taking their partners hunting time to help with this pig. But, as said before, this is against the law.
Go back to the gate and tell them what happened. Even though this is a unguided hunt, the guides WILL help you recover any pig your having problems with.
After hunting some of those canyons, if a guide has to help me get a pig out of there, he's earned a nice tip.
I know that some people feel pressured to get their pig before closing time, so they might be tempted to leave one instead of taking their partners hunting time to help with this pig. But, as said before, this is against the law.
Go back to the gate and tell them what happened. Even though this is a unguided hunt, the guides WILL help you recover any pig your having problems with.
After hunting some of those canyons, if a guide has to help me get a pig out of there, he's earned a nice tip.
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Hey everybody,
We had a blast!! It was our first time going to Tejon and it was an awesome place. We saw deer, elk, bobcat, and a whole lot of hogs.
DAY 1: We got in at about 10am and set up camp. Piled in the Jeeps and went out for an evening scout/hunt at noon on Friday. My brother-in-law Brent and buddy Tom were using a compound and long bow. My brother Jared and I split off from them since we had rifles. We all came back to camp empty handed. Jared and I saw nothing. Brent and Tom got in to 30 hogs biggest being a boar well over 200 lbs, but they got winded at 60 yards out.
DAY 2: We all left to the hunting grounds at 5:15 am.
We decided to stay around each other and check out some new territory. Brent and Tom ended up seeing another big herd but couldn't get close enough. Tom got a shot and one straggler with his long bow and came up a half inch under the chest. Jared and I found a real nice mud creek and wallow in a deep canyon and walked it. Jared was in the Canyon and I was sidehilling it. All of a sudden a shot rang out on top of the ridge. We stayed still and heard them coming. Then two shot came from the canyon bttom where Jared was. Trees were thrashing and ther was a lot of grunting. Then out of no where a sow come running full speed by me at 70 yards. Put the crosshairs on her and touched one off. KAPPOOOWW!! She squeeled and went down like a ton of bricks when that 300 WM hit her. Just like Jesses pig a tree stopped her downhill roll. She was twitching, so without wasting anytime I ran over finished her and bled her. The I ran to Jared to find out that he had gut shot his first pig. He's a good shot but he had forgotten to lower the magnification on his scope. He had a little hog fever going on. We gridded that canyon all morning and afternoon, nothing. Man, those hills are steep and that brush cuts you to hell. We're still picking out thorns. Poor guy felt like sh@$ all night. Went back too camp to skin and quarter my pig. When we left to go back out for the evening it was so fogged out you couldn't see 10 feet in front of you. That's that.
DAY 3: Left early again only to find more fog. When it started to clear we went to the same canyon to see if there were anymore hogs and if we could find Jareds. No hogs of any sort were seen or found. So we went back and broke down camp mid day. Spent the rest of the time looking for good land in new places. BTW A 4x4 is a must if you want to get back to good areas. We decided to wait until just before dark for the hogs to come up on open areas from the gorges to feed. Well as we were almost to our destination Brent jumps out of the car and grabs his rifle. Jared and Tom aren't far behind. Brent took two 400 hundred yard shots at these two pigs and they were gone. All of a sudden we see a hillside at 700 yards turn black and brown. There must of been a minimum of 40 confused hogs in this herd that were coming down the hill our direction. They went into a canyon and out of site. Jared, Brent and Tom ran one direction to close the gap and cut them off in the canyon. I ran to the far side to try and turn them if they were going to head away from those guys. Almost to my destination, I hear the sound of a 7 mag go off and see a big sow squeel and drop. Brent got his. They started back my way. So I put a couple shots into the ground by me with my 44 and to my surprise they turned back and ran towards the others. BANG!!BAM!!POW!! Hogs are going everywhere!!!!!! Then I see my brother in the rocks take a 300 yard uphill shot with his 300 WBY. KAPOOWWW!!! Jareds hog went down like a ton of bricks and rolled the hill. I hear another shot and see a big hog drop to its belly. Jared yells to me that Tom is shooting. It gets up and starts running again. POWW!! It rolls downhill 10 feet and stops. As Tom was making his way to it, the damn thing gets up again. His 300 WM ammo was back at the Jeep, so he pulls out his 44 and finishes her at 60 yards uphill. Then the work of gutting and dragging in the dark. One of the guides drove to our cars because he heard the shooting and guided us back through hills and over the rock piles. It was a hunting convoy. We got everything skinned out, quartered and ready to leave by midnight. Showered off all the swine lice at the truckers stop and headed home with big grins.
The people at Tejon were extremely nice and helpful. What I learned from Tejon is that if you hunt the hogs like you hunt your deer you should do alright.
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We had a blast!! It was our first time going to Tejon and it was an awesome place. We saw deer, elk, bobcat, and a whole lot of hogs.
DAY 1: We got in at about 10am and set up camp. Piled in the Jeeps and went out for an evening scout/hunt at noon on Friday. My brother-in-law Brent and buddy Tom were using a compound and long bow. My brother Jared and I split off from them since we had rifles. We all came back to camp empty handed. Jared and I saw nothing. Brent and Tom got in to 30 hogs biggest being a boar well over 200 lbs, but they got winded at 60 yards out.
DAY 2: We all left to the hunting grounds at 5:15 am.
We decided to stay around each other and check out some new territory. Brent and Tom ended up seeing another big herd but couldn't get close enough. Tom got a shot and one straggler with his long bow and came up a half inch under the chest. Jared and I found a real nice mud creek and wallow in a deep canyon and walked it. Jared was in the Canyon and I was sidehilling it. All of a sudden a shot rang out on top of the ridge. We stayed still and heard them coming. Then two shot came from the canyon bttom where Jared was. Trees were thrashing and ther was a lot of grunting. Then out of no where a sow come running full speed by me at 70 yards. Put the crosshairs on her and touched one off. KAPPOOOWW!! She squeeled and went down like a ton of bricks when that 300 WM hit her. Just like Jesses pig a tree stopped her downhill roll. She was twitching, so without wasting anytime I ran over finished her and bled her. The I ran to Jared to find out that he had gut shot his first pig. He's a good shot but he had forgotten to lower the magnification on his scope. He had a little hog fever going on. We gridded that canyon all morning and afternoon, nothing. Man, those hills are steep and that brush cuts you to hell. We're still picking out thorns. Poor guy felt like sh@$ all night. Went back too camp to skin and quarter my pig. When we left to go back out for the evening it was so fogged out you couldn't see 10 feet in front of you. That's that.
DAY 3: Left early again only to find more fog. When it started to clear we went to the same canyon to see if there were anymore hogs and if we could find Jareds. No hogs of any sort were seen or found. So we went back and broke down camp mid day. Spent the rest of the time looking for good land in new places. BTW A 4x4 is a must if you want to get back to good areas. We decided to wait until just before dark for the hogs to come up on open areas from the gorges to feed. Well as we were almost to our destination Brent jumps out of the car and grabs his rifle. Jared and Tom aren't far behind. Brent took two 400 hundred yard shots at these two pigs and they were gone. All of a sudden we see a hillside at 700 yards turn black and brown. There must of been a minimum of 40 confused hogs in this herd that were coming down the hill our direction. They went into a canyon and out of site. Jared, Brent and Tom ran one direction to close the gap and cut them off in the canyon. I ran to the far side to try and turn them if they were going to head away from those guys. Almost to my destination, I hear the sound of a 7 mag go off and see a big sow squeel and drop. Brent got his. They started back my way. So I put a couple shots into the ground by me with my 44 and to my surprise they turned back and ran towards the others. BANG!!BAM!!POW!! Hogs are going everywhere!!!!!! Then I see my brother in the rocks take a 300 yard uphill shot with his 300 WBY. KAPOOWWW!!! Jareds hog went down like a ton of bricks and rolled the hill. I hear another shot and see a big hog drop to its belly. Jared yells to me that Tom is shooting. It gets up and starts running again. POWW!! It rolls downhill 10 feet and stops. As Tom was making his way to it, the damn thing gets up again. His 300 WM ammo was back at the Jeep, so he pulls out his 44 and finishes her at 60 yards uphill. Then the work of gutting and dragging in the dark. One of the guides drove to our cars because he heard the shooting and guided us back through hills and over the rock piles. It was a hunting convoy. We got everything skinned out, quartered and ready to leave by midnight. Showered off all the swine lice at the truckers stop and headed home with big grins.
The people at Tejon were extremely nice and helpful. What I learned from Tejon is that if you hunt the hogs like you hunt your deer you should do alright.
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Awesome Story Matt....I think I'm gonna hit up the April Pig O Rama...Congrats again buddy, your hard work paid off
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Matt, glad to see that you guys scored!
How about the rest of you guys? How did everybody else do?
How about the rest of you guys? How did everybody else do?
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M57 Congrats on your hunt
As for the other
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Great thread, the good and the bad, in reverse order
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I noticed that none of the other Rifenbarks wrote in so I am doing so.
We got in late on Friday. Consequently, we only hunted for about an hour or two. Saturday morning brought with it the most action. Before sun up my brother (RKRIII) and I staked out a hillside. Within minutes after it was light enough to see I heard him call my name (the way people try to shout and be quite at the same time). I figured he'd spotted hogs so I moved toward him and forward. As a tree cleared my view I saw 10-15 large (200lb+) hogs feeding on a small hillside about 80-100 yards away.
RKRIII was ahead of me and moving towards them. These were the first live hogs he had seen and took two more steps than he should have. I saw them begin to move off the hill. Then they began to run. I tried to get to RKRIII's right flank to get a safe shot. Then I heard the report of his rifle. They disappeared around the side of the hill and, presumably, down into the bottom of the valley where there is more cover. We each took different sides of the hill but never saw them again.
We went back to the hill where they were feeding but could not find any blood. His scope was on 9X as he tried to hit a running hog (Then again, so was mine. Won't do that again)
That afternoon we went to the same place but further down the road. We split up and took different sides of a steep sloping hill. Halfway down the hill I remembered the Odessey that was last April's trip and decided that even if I shot a hog I was not willing to put in the work to get it back up that hill (Bishop: Cody did earn a hansome tip for helping us get my pig out of the canyon in April. He was great and I would highly reccomend him as a guide to anyone considering a Tejon Guided Hunt), so I meandered back up the hill at my own pace and enjoyed the stunning view, as the fog was slowly enveloping the valley floor.
We met back at the cars at noon, minus Neil Jr. Then he radioed-in that he thought he might be lost. We packed our revolvers, GPS units and water and headed down the trail he had taken. After he discharged a round into the air we located him, sat down and guided him to us. That's when he kicked up three hogs. But, because they were between him and us we didn't have a shot.
Nrifenbark took several pictures of about 8 Elk that were no more than 25 yards from him. Maybe he'll be kind enough to post them (and e-mail me the other pictures?).
As far as game, it was all down hill from there. The fog rolled in on Saturday night and we could not hunt.
Sunday morning seemed clear, until we rammbled up the mountain. There it was socked in and visibility was negligible. We moved to a lower elevation and set up on a series of hills. Nrifenbark and Neil Jr. saw several does but that was it.
Before we broke camp we drove up past the new lodge and continued up to the highest peak; it was cold. So cold that the trees were still frozen from the preceeding night. As they thawed the ice came down like snow. When the crystals met with the morning sun one could not help but silently watch the light show.
I think we are planning on going on the April POR as well. RKRIII seems interested in hunting at Camp Roberts. I'm sure the rest of the family will let me know if I missed anything.
We got in late on Friday. Consequently, we only hunted for about an hour or two. Saturday morning brought with it the most action. Before sun up my brother (RKRIII) and I staked out a hillside. Within minutes after it was light enough to see I heard him call my name (the way people try to shout and be quite at the same time). I figured he'd spotted hogs so I moved toward him and forward. As a tree cleared my view I saw 10-15 large (200lb+) hogs feeding on a small hillside about 80-100 yards away.
RKRIII was ahead of me and moving towards them. These were the first live hogs he had seen and took two more steps than he should have. I saw them begin to move off the hill. Then they began to run. I tried to get to RKRIII's right flank to get a safe shot. Then I heard the report of his rifle. They disappeared around the side of the hill and, presumably, down into the bottom of the valley where there is more cover. We each took different sides of the hill but never saw them again.
We went back to the hill where they were feeding but could not find any blood. His scope was on 9X as he tried to hit a running hog (Then again, so was mine. Won't do that again)
That afternoon we went to the same place but further down the road. We split up and took different sides of a steep sloping hill. Halfway down the hill I remembered the Odessey that was last April's trip and decided that even if I shot a hog I was not willing to put in the work to get it back up that hill (Bishop: Cody did earn a hansome tip for helping us get my pig out of the canyon in April. He was great and I would highly reccomend him as a guide to anyone considering a Tejon Guided Hunt), so I meandered back up the hill at my own pace and enjoyed the stunning view, as the fog was slowly enveloping the valley floor.
We met back at the cars at noon, minus Neil Jr. Then he radioed-in that he thought he might be lost. We packed our revolvers, GPS units and water and headed down the trail he had taken. After he discharged a round into the air we located him, sat down and guided him to us. That's when he kicked up three hogs. But, because they were between him and us we didn't have a shot.
Nrifenbark took several pictures of about 8 Elk that were no more than 25 yards from him. Maybe he'll be kind enough to post them (and e-mail me the other pictures?).
As far as game, it was all down hill from there. The fog rolled in on Saturday night and we could not hunt.
Sunday morning seemed clear, until we rammbled up the mountain. There it was socked in and visibility was negligible. We moved to a lower elevation and set up on a series of hills. Nrifenbark and Neil Jr. saw several does but that was it.
Before we broke camp we drove up past the new lodge and continued up to the highest peak; it was cold. So cold that the trees were still frozen from the preceeding night. As they thawed the ice came down like snow. When the crystals met with the morning sun one could not help but silently watch the light show.
I think we are planning on going on the April POR as well. RKRIII seems interested in hunting at Camp Roberts. I'm sure the rest of the family will let me know if I missed anything.
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Great report, JR!
That's one of the things I like best about the POR... it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever hunted.
It's a shame ya'll couldn't make good on that first herd of pigs, but sometimes it works out like that. At least you saw pigs.
That's one of the things I like best about the POR... it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever hunted.
It's a shame ya'll couldn't make good on that first herd of pigs, but sometimes it works out like that. At least you saw pigs.
Sorry this took me so long but had to get back to work. I was one of the lucky ones with Mat (m57jager) at the March Pig-O-Rama. Can't say enough about those three days. I saw 90 to 100 hogs! Most were well within rifle range. However I was hunting with a B-Widow 64" Longbow pulling 55# @ 28. On Saturday morning Brent and I drove up the mountain and found a side road that took us up to an old barbed wire fence on a knob. It looked pretty good so we decided to try it. Brent went for a higher rocky ledge to glass, I headed down and within 1 to 2 minutes I glassed 2 nice hogs at the bottom of the canyon. I managed to get within 80 yards and they headed up the other side. All of a sudden I saw another 8 to 10 hogs on the opposite slope. Couple of nice ones too. All within rifle range. None of them were spooked, they were just walking up the slope. I stopped here behind some cover and glassed some more. What a spot! I must have been right in the middle of their route home. Over the next 20 minutes I saw about 10 more hogs in this drainage. Still out of bow range though. When I got near the bottom I heard some noise to my left in the brush. Got set as well as I could and waited. The wind was at my back. Not what I wanted, too late though. Here comes 4 hogs out of the brush heading down the trail. They are going to pass me at 15 yards. With an arrow nocked I picked the biggest of the four (the last one). She is walking by me at 15 when she winds me and takes off like a rocket. Surprised me how fast. I swung with her and released when she was about 25 to 30 yards out. It went just under her chest. I was just happy to get a shot. Maybe next time. I highly recommend this hunt. If you are patient and go slow and glass you'll see hogs. Good Huntin' to all and have fun.
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Walrus:
Congratulations! Thanks for the great story...
Congratulations! Thanks for the great story...
1socal and Kick how are you both? I highly recommend the por. Just hunt it slow and glass and you'll see hogs. We ran into two guys in a Toyota 4x4 going up the road. They stopped us and asked if we had seen any hogs? We told them yes and then they wanted to know what all the shooting was above, "Are they shootin' squirels?". "We haven't seen one pig, I don't think there are many here". These chaps were just road hunting munching on chips and drinking sodas. You have to get out of the truck and hunt them. We had a good laugh at that one. Anyway, I'm gonna goe again as soon as I can. Hope to see you on a por. Take care.
Tom
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