My Visit to the Swine Zoo

[Deleted member 33033]

I decided to check it out after Jim called me. Yeah...BHCR can be challenging if you choose to make so or it can be stupidly simple too. No shortage of opportunity that's for sure. Wondered what it would be like to get something other than rodent blood on my arrows so today I went and drew the string on this 400lber. I'll be deep in sausage for a while. Funny thing...this guy took off like a shot and when I went after him, another male hog charged right at me. Man they make an ugly sound when they're pissed. Maybe it's just because they use hog sounds in all those demon-filled horror films but when this sucker started coming at me...I was a little apprehensive. Only thing I could think to do was yell "Stop pig!!" He stopped 15' from me and then kept coming in little tiny steps. I slowly backed away and he returned to the dense cover. Wasn't expecting that. I think if I ever do a real boar hunt I'll carry a sidearm for comfort. Filled the big ice chest with meat and hauled it to http://www.tandhsausage.com/. In a week or ten days I'll be grillin' Porky. It was an interesting day, sure beat pounding a keyboard all day. That place is hilly! Yowzaaa. Not something I would do again but I did learn alot and I guess that's the point. Quartering lesson was worth the price of admission. BTW...the heart shot is hard, the double lung is the way to go with sticks. Live & learn.

 

[asaxon]

Goodness Bruce, you shot Porky, the Star from "Hogs gone wild". I love it. You will be eating sausage till your cholesterol get so high you won't be able to see for the milky fluid in your eyes! Only regret is no one had a video of the other hog coming after you. My college roommate, the big time B&C hunter now was chased round and round a tree in New Zealand by a pig he wounded with an arrow. His wife then shot it and to this day, he complains about that. He figured he was "in control".

Hope you wife likes the sausage so then she'll have you go hog hunting again soon. However, if you wait till you eat that fellow, it will some time or you have a lot of friends who will be knee deep in sausage.

Best to you and yours - AS

 

[taknitezx2]

400lb, you are defiately gonna be up to your neck in sausage. How long were you there and what did you see as far as the exotic rams and sheep go?

 

[Deleted member 33033]

I was there from 7:30am to noon, then drove to the sausage joint in San Marcos. I saw three semi-feral hogs, one razorback, two mouflan, a four horned and one merino. Saw a white speck off in the distance but no way to tell what it was. Oh yeah...and a dead, flat squirrel.

Hey Andy, did you forget? My doctor said my cholesterol was low. This may change that. LOL Most of the sausage will be spicy...looking forward to trying it.

 

[ltdann]

Holy Hog, batman! Thought you were gonna postpone for awhile? Anyway, congrats, that's some hog and ought to fill the freeze chock full and then some.

Good choice on T&H, I hear good things about them. Let me know if your happy with their work, 'cause If I ever put down a 400 lb'er, I'll not be doing it on the kitchen table.

Congrats again.

 

[palladin]

Nice Hog, Bruce!

 

[crackerman]

Holy sheit, well I should have looked harder! Next time I suppose.

 

[Deleted member 33033]

Holy Hog, batman! Thought you were gonna postpone for awhile? Anyway, congrats, that's some hog and ought to fill the freeze chock full and then some.

Good choice on T&H, I hear good things about them. Let me know if your happy with their work, 'cause If I ever put down a 400 lb'er, I'll not be doing it on the kitchen table.

Congrats again.

I got the call yesterday evening telling me they are raising prices because the costs keep going up. Apparently they don't stock as many animals during the hot months so I let myself get talked into it. Now I'm better edumacated for the real thing. LOL

BTW...for you guys who didn't meet me at the Foolz Camp April 1st and wonder about the scale...I'm 6' and 255lbs. The pig's the one on the left.

 

[asaxon]

I'm 6' and 255lbs. The pig's the one on the left.

WB, I could tell without you having to point it out - I recognized the pig is the one with the cute little tail!

"Hey Andy, did you forget? My doctor said my cholesterol was low."

That is right, I do remember now. And I explained that people with very low cholesterol were aggressive risk takers - you know, A**holes. So eat a lot of sausage, get your cholesterol up and you'll be a real mellow dude!

 

[slanttop357]

I got to say it Holly $hit Bruce Congrats on your first :hog chewing:

 

[slanttop357]

ok

 

[ChefTodd]

Nice Pig! Did they mention by any chance of what they are raising their prices to? I would like to take my wife there in the fall.......

T.

 

[Deleted member 33033]

Nice Pig! Did they mention by any chance of what they are raising their prices to? I would like to take my wife there in the fall.......

T.

I didn't ask. Sorry...no idea.

 

[g791]

? all the photos that I've seen from BHCR are the same classic poses in the same spot, do you have any field pics or are you not allowed to take pics?

 

[Deleted member 33033]

The brush was thick...so was the pork, I was struggling to drag that sucker out to a place where we could get it onto a game cart. Sorry...these two shots were an afterthought.

 

[ChefTodd]

G791 ....here are a few pics of the terrain of BHCR.

 

[g791]

Thanks chef

 

[Deleted member 33033]

There are many places where one careless step and you're falling for a long long time.

 

[Farmerdoug]

There are many places where one careless step and you're falling for a long long time.

Yaaah, no sh!t it's steep out there. Every year, a dozen or so of my friends and family head out to BHCR for the Cherry Valley Bowmens 3D shoot. One year, one of the guys from our group decided to go chase a deflected arrow down one of the steep ass hills. 15 minutes of slipping and sliding, he finally made it up.

Hey Bruce....Just out of curiosity, was that a castrated hog, or did he still have his go-nads?

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

congrats on your successfull wild pig bowhunt adventure on the BHCR. super nice hog for sure! but weres the exciting part of the story leading up to the bowkill of the pig? was it spot & stalk? thaks and have a great day!....tra