May 10-12 Pig-o-rama at Tejon

[Speckmisser]

Well, by this time tomorrow, most of you guys will already be hunting.  I'm hoping to be rolling up on the gates myself.  Oh, and One Track, I'll bring a sack of pennies for the poker game.  :muha:

Hmmm.. wonder what I'll do with that $500 prize?

 

[Rancho Loco]

Weather Report -
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/wrhq/Total...t+WR+CA+095+029

Knock 'em dead you guys....
My mom-in-law :yackin: is coming in to visit (the WHOLE weekend - staying here) for mother's day!  Gee, it's going to be so much fun!  Much better than pig hunting!  HAHAHAHA... ummm yeah.:cry-blue::mad-fumin-red:uke-blue::crygreen::hoppin mad:

(Edited by Rancho Loco at 6:49 pm on May 9, 2002)

 

[rusman66]

Wow judging by Rancho Loco's weather link. might need to bring some paperweights to keep those cards on the table.

Oh yeah  YEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAA   see ya all tomorrow!!

(Edited by rusman66 at 8:34 pm on May 9, 2002)

 

[songdog]

You guys should be having a great time around the campfire this time tomorrow.

I asked Scott (Grtwythunter) to give me a ring each night from his cell phone with the daily status update so I can fill in the rest of the crowd here since I know we can't all wait until Monday to hear how it's going.

Have fun!

 

[EVAN III]

  Well guys Good Luck, and be safe. You guys should have a blast out there.

                                    EVAN III

 

[Speckmisser]

Woohoo!  It's off the grocery store in about five minutes, then wait for my daughter's school bus.  A couple hours at the range (it's on the way out to I5), and should be in Tejon in time for an evening hunt!  Can't believe it's finally time!  

My brother arrived late last night after standard flight delays, and of course I gave him the sad news about the weather report (heavy snow, high winds, sub-freezing temps), and told him that I'd just received a call that the hunt was postponed until next weekend.  He never blinked, and told me he'd have to call his wife and tell her he'd be late getting home.  

Anyway, thanks for the good thoughts folks!  Time to get Porky!

 

[Hogskin]

Have a blast, guys!  Come back with lots of pictures, great stories, and the grand prize.

Regards,
Paul

 

[grtwythunter]

I'm outta here!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bowhunting fool]

Just got home from the POR and Tagged out on saturday with a nice  boar, I shot down in a hell hole of a  canyon  at 235 yards . I shot the damn thing around 7:15 pm and we did not get him out till around 10;00 got lost and did not get back to camp till after midnight. My thanks to One track for his awesome driving skills in getting that explorer down the creek draw from hell thus eliminating another 400 yards of back breaking rope dragging. It was a hell of a hunt and was great to meet a lot of you guys Like Speckmisser and his brother, as well as the gr8twhthnter and his good hunter wife who was the first to put a tag on a hog. In our group of 5 we were 3 for 5 the only bummer was one track passed on several pigs and ended up empty handed when it was time to go. But the man can hunt, and drive, and is a pig spottin fool let me tell ya. I hope to get to hunt with you guys again soon and thanks again guys for the camaraderie it was a blast and I am counting the days to the next one. My big scare came when a 200 lbs plus mountain lion heard my Boar squeel when I shot him and just when I finished gutting him payed me a real close encounter visit in the total darkness and did not want to leave without my pig, after 15 minutes or so of a 20 foot stare down and a 44 mag round into the night sky he finally agreed to let me keep my pig, I just had to change the shorts back at camp. Sorry I was so excited I had to post as soon as I got home I hope you all had a great time and got home safe. Good night everyone.

 

[grtwythunter]

Well...it's now 3:30 and I'm just now sitting down for my celebratory cerveza!!! Didn't get off the ranch until 12:30AM. Shot a boar down in a hellhole @ 8:00PM. Dressed out at 156#. I'll post more in the morning after I get him cleaned up and off to the butcher.     Scott

HUGE THANKS to Russman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Without him I'd still be at Tejon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Edited by grtwythunter at 3:45 am on May 13, 2002)

 

[Speckmisser]

Hey all,

First things first... and I'm sorry for any lack of coherence, but I'm still dazing out from lack of sleep...  I wanna say it was awesome meeting all you guys in person (One Track, Bowhunting Fool, Rusman, Grtwythunter, and the others whose handles I can't recall).  It was a great bunch of folks in that little camp, and I'd be glad to hunt with any of you again!

Grtwythunter, I'm really glad you got a boar.  You can believe my brother and I were sending all the ju-ju we had left up that hill behind you and Rusman yesterday evening.  After all the help ya'll gave us, you both deserved to shoot 300 pounders in the road beside the truck.  But a 156 down in the canyon is better than no pig at all!

After what it took for four of us to get two smaller pigs out of there, I can only imagine what it must have taken to get your big boy out.  Congratulations!  And mega-thanks to you and Rusman for all the help getting ours out earlier.  

More later, but right now I need to get logged on to work.  

Woohoo!!!!  Pork in the freezer!

 

[Hook]

I am glad you guys had such a great hunt. No one mentioned any pictures?? I hope you guys have some to post. I am sure the rest of us would love to a few pictures of your smiling faces...

Guys, I warned you of those Hell holes...

 

[BigDog]

Good job guys. Glad you had a good time. Wish I could have joined ya. Next time.
Pictures, pictures, we want pictures.......

 

[bowhunting fool]

Right on Grtwythunter, glad to hear you filled your tag I do know what you are talking about with the hell holes, sounds like we killed our pigs in the same place. So I how did russman do? I hope he got one? I am cooking up my tenderloins tonight for the wife she seems more excited about eating them than me. I took one of the rear quarters and put into a ham brine and will be having some ham sandwiches here real soon. Well I knew we would all be too excited and post when we got home even though everyone said they would wait a day or so. Good to hear from you Speckmisser, glad you and your bro tagged out after his long journey in search of pork.  Anyone know of an easy way to post our pix I have some real good ones of my pig and our camp as well as Grtwythunter and his wife skinning her pig as well as a few other unlucky squeeelers who got a truck ride?

 

[grtwythunter]

  WOW!!! What a blast!!! It was really great to meet all of you and to get to hunt with Speckmisser again. My wife and I have some really great memories of this weekend and you all are part of them.
  OK....here's the stories...Saturday morning my wife(Sandy) and I put alot of miles on the truck. I'm not really into road hunting much, but Tejon is so big that I was really intimidated being in a new area and all, so off we went. After driving around most of the morning and only seeing one that was about a mile out and moving away, we headed into a canyon that we had seen a pig in Friday night.(that's another story...we'll just say if you're going to road hunt make sure to load your rifle first) Anyways...After pulling into the canyon my wife yells at me to stop and goes flying out of truck with me right behind her. She was able to get up to a downed tree, took a rest, and waited to make a perfect 70 yard broadside shot, taking out both lungs, and dropping it dead in it's tracks. Best part about it was it fell about 50 feet from a road. It was her first pig and dressed out at 98 lbs.  Needless to say we were both ecstatic.
  Now is when the hell starts. Sunday morning I followed Speckmisser and his bro out to a spot where they had seen pigs the night before. I went out past them, and after sunup the canyon became a shooting gallery for Speck and his bro. After all the shooting I drove around a bit, and on the way out I found Speckmisser's truck pointed down a hill, with the winch cable run down a canyon. I'll let him finish that story.
  After relaxing with all the JHP'ers in the late morning/early afternoon Sandy and I broke camp and headed out with Russ(Rusman66) back to where Speckmisser and his bro got their pigs. About 5pm pigs started popping out of the canyon a few at a time. After watching and hoping till about 7:30 that one would come my way, I gave up and went after the closest one. After getting about halfway down the canyon he popped out one ridge closer than he had been when I first saw him. He was about 200 yds out and light was going away quick, so I kicked out my shooting sticks and let one fly. he never took another step. Hit the ground oinking and grunting then went silent. I ran across the rest of the canyon(mistake), then realized that all of the people that have called me crazy over the years were right. By the time Sandy and Russ got down to me it was well after dark. I'm sure they called me more than a few unrepeatable names on the way down(don't blame them either) Anyways about halfway out my cell phone started ringing. It was Barbara from Tejon (super nice lady) wanting to make sure we were all OK. Just about the time we got to the road(11:30pm) we saw headlights and it was Don. He took Sandy to get our truck and helped us load up. By the time we got to the check station it was 12:30. The pig dressed out at 156lbs, and had about 1" of tooth showing. He was a battler with ripped up ears and 4 or 5 pretty good scars. I never would have imagined my first pig would have been such a good one.
  It was an awesome experience that even my long winded story can't do justice to. I can't even come close to thanking Russ enough for all the help. Even though he didn't get one he never hesitated to help me and the Speckmisser bros! Thanks again!!!!!

Hook-You warned us about Hellholes, but you didn't warn us about the &@$%*?! HELLHOLES!!!

Speckmisser-Here's an idea of where I got him...go all the way to the bottom of the canyon your bro got his in and the go to the top of the ridge in the canyon that intersects it. He dropped at the top of that ridge. Russ and I dragged him to the top near the cattle gate.
 
 I'm off to Wallyworld to drop off film right now. As soon as I get them to a buddy with a scanner I'll get them posted.

Thanks again to everyone that made this weekend such a blast.  :toast-yellow:  Especially my wife who is cool enough to go hunting on Mother's Day!!        Scott

(Edited by grtwythunter at 1:08 pm on May 13, 2002)


(Edited by grtwythunter at 5:02 pm on May 13, 2002)

 

[Speckmisser]

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Speckmisser-Here's an idea of where I got him...go all the way to the bottom of the canyon your bro got his in and the go to the top of the ridge in the canyon that intersects it. He dropped at the top of that ridge. Russ and I dragged him to the top near the cattle gate.

(Edited by grtwythunter at 1:08 pm on May 13, 2002)
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Dang, Scott!  You ARE crazy!

Glad you got one, though.  If the folks from work would quit interrupting me, I'd try to put my story together...  My pics were all taken with the 35mm camera, so I'll have to get the film developed and scanned.  Didn't really take too many, though.  By the time we got those piggies to the truck, I was too tired to remember how to use a camera.  

 

[rusman66]

Well it was a great weekend, what a blast. You JHP'rs are some good people. Thanks to speckmisser, grtwythunter and Sandy for letting me tag along. Man I gotta get a 4 wheel drive. Well hopefully I will get to go again, It's gonna be up to the wife cuz when she opens the freezer she says she doesn't see $300 or a &%$& pig.  Here is a link to a couple of pics I took.  Hope you enjoy.  Hope I can Hunt with you all again.
http://community.webshots.com/user/rusman66</a>[/b]

(Edited by rusman66 at 5:06 pm on May 13, 2002)


(Edited by rusman66 at 5:14 pm on May 13, 2002)

 

[bowhunting fool]

heres my attemp at posting some pix of the tejon hunt
go to http://community.webshots.com/user/bowhuntingfool then view my huntin page. I hope it works. good luck everyone

Hey Bowhunting- hope you don't mind if I made a minor fix to your link.


(Edited by Speckmisser at 9:40 pm on May 13, 2002)

 

[Speckmisser]

Hey Bowhunting, I don't think it's going to the right place.  All I'm seeing is the Webshots sign-up page.

Never mind... I tweaked the link in your post, Bowhunting Fool.  That works now.   Great pix!  Great story for the boar, too!


(Edited by Speckmisser at 9:42 pm on May 13, 2002)

 

[bowhunting fool]

Thanks Buddy I know how to fix computers and networks but I still have some to learn about webpages.
Appreciate the help.