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Went back to my brothers place in OK. I have been hunting pigs there in conjection to spring snow goose hunts for the last 5-6 years but do to shoulder replacemnt surgery this past spring I decided to go in the fall.
Wife and I along with the two dogs Lab and a rat terrier left on 10/3 trip was same one I have been making for 14 years now that my brother moved back there (boring) left Kalifornia and unl gas was $3.55 hit Az. gas was $3.19 NM. same Tx Amarillo $3.05 that's better but OK. city it was $2.92 I did not need gas but stopped anyway to fill up just to remember what it was like to buy gas under 3 bucks.
Get to my brothers place in Rufe OK. pop. 62 it's not on some maps but it's in the SE corner between the town of Antlers which has a huge sign come into town deer hunting capital of the world (I don't know about that) and Broken Bow, My brother has been putting out corn for a week now, between my brother and his neighbor they have 110 acres joining each other and they land lock about 1800 more that belong to a timber co that has no easement except thru the 100 acres so they have worked out an agreement they give the timber co. access for the right to hunt it.
First morning out hunting which is Sunday I check all the corn spots for rooting NOTHING
well to speed this up I hunt 5 days and zero pigs no rooting nothing on friday I leave with some family members of my sister in law to go duck hunting in the panhandel of OK season opens on the 11th we have a great shoot on Sat and drive home Sunday long drive 6hrs, Monday i'm back out checking the corn no rooting deer have been eating well, finely on Tuesday evening I see my first hogs 3 football size piglets no sow she finely comes out of the pine trees and brush with 3 more footballs my digital camera decided to work when it wanted to on this trip about 75% of the time it would not take a picture so I bought one of them throw aways too far for any pictures of the sow, next day the only rooting I see is where the sow was at, now mind you I have been hunting this place for pigs 5-6 years and always see at least 60-70 shooter pigs in a week 7-10 at a time every day, I always shoot at least 2 meat hogs and a boar if I see one with cutters, i'm losing hope on any pigs what I see as a problem is there is to much food White oaks dropping a bumper crop of acorns along with hickory trees and less hogs because another neighbor has started trapping them to sell to a game farm up north, I decide to do some squirrel hunting at my brothers> BIL place about 30 mi away there not hogs but he has 92 acres loaded with tree rats between a shotgun and 22 I dumped a pile of them on the BIL porch he is pure Cajun and loves the things fried to me when there skinned they look like rats he doesn't hunt them anymore with his Bus. and fishing along with deer says he has no time so someone had to do it.
Well back to pig hunting everything on the 110 acres is thick brush with trees mixed in but my brothers neighbor has cleared quad roads in and 3 long shooting lanes about 25x300 yards except this year he has been real sick and has missed 3-4 months from his job and has not run his tractor with a brush hog back there so it makes it even harder to see anything unless you almost walk right up on it and that always doeen't work with pigs plus in the past it has been planted with winter wheat in the spring and turnips in the fall for deer, well one morning i'm out and find lots of rooting in one spot so I drop about 10 lbs of corn right on top of it and come back that evening it's getting real dark but looking to the west where the rooting is I can still see through my scope with the little light that is left from the glow of the sun i'm ready to pack it in from the tree i'm standing behind when I see movement I figure it's the sow with the piglets I put my rifle to my shoulder and see a solid black pig the sow was black and white I wait a couple of min no little one's I put the dot from my Leupold 3x9 scope on the shoulder and bang know the pig over it rolls around and it's back up and into the pine trees of the timber co land I walk back to the quad and drive up and turn my light into the trees about 20 yards up there is a black lump had he went much farther I would have waiting till morning I walked in with my 357 at hand and found a nice old stinky boar backed the quad up and hooked the tow strap up and drug him out, I hunted 3-4 more days for pigs and never saw anything except the sow with the piglets again.
Just to add a few things I came home by way of So Colorado but going thru OK city gas was hold on $2.09 and I talked with my brother and he told me this past weekend it dropped to $1.95 I even paid $2.65 in Pagosa Springs at that's at 7000' in the mts. I hit Ca. and it's still at $3.25+
Here are some pictures i'll start off with the hunting area this year and from the past along with where it ran into and you will see why I would not go in at night also some of the other pigs I have taken on other trip back, I have used a different rifle 22-250-243-260- this trip 30-06- 308- 338
[attachment=55884:resizedhog.JPG]this years hog
Wife and I along with the two dogs Lab and a rat terrier left on 10/3 trip was same one I have been making for 14 years now that my brother moved back there (boring) left Kalifornia and unl gas was $3.55 hit Az. gas was $3.19 NM. same Tx Amarillo $3.05 that's better but OK. city it was $2.92 I did not need gas but stopped anyway to fill up just to remember what it was like to buy gas under 3 bucks.
Get to my brothers place in Rufe OK. pop. 62 it's not on some maps but it's in the SE corner between the town of Antlers which has a huge sign come into town deer hunting capital of the world (I don't know about that) and Broken Bow, My brother has been putting out corn for a week now, between my brother and his neighbor they have 110 acres joining each other and they land lock about 1800 more that belong to a timber co that has no easement except thru the 100 acres so they have worked out an agreement they give the timber co. access for the right to hunt it.
First morning out hunting which is Sunday I check all the corn spots for rooting NOTHING
Well back to pig hunting everything on the 110 acres is thick brush with trees mixed in but my brothers neighbor has cleared quad roads in and 3 long shooting lanes about 25x300 yards except this year he has been real sick and has missed 3-4 months from his job and has not run his tractor with a brush hog back there so it makes it even harder to see anything unless you almost walk right up on it and that always doeen't work with pigs plus in the past it has been planted with winter wheat in the spring and turnips in the fall for deer, well one morning i'm out and find lots of rooting in one spot so I drop about 10 lbs of corn right on top of it and come back that evening it's getting real dark but looking to the west where the rooting is I can still see through my scope with the little light that is left from the glow of the sun i'm ready to pack it in from the tree i'm standing behind when I see movement I figure it's the sow with the piglets I put my rifle to my shoulder and see a solid black pig the sow was black and white I wait a couple of min no little one's I put the dot from my Leupold 3x9 scope on the shoulder and bang know the pig over it rolls around and it's back up and into the pine trees of the timber co land I walk back to the quad and drive up and turn my light into the trees about 20 yards up there is a black lump had he went much farther I would have waiting till morning I walked in with my 357 at hand and found a nice old stinky boar backed the quad up and hooked the tow strap up and drug him out, I hunted 3-4 more days for pigs and never saw anything except the sow with the piglets again.
Just to add a few things I came home by way of So Colorado but going thru OK city gas was hold on $2.09 and I talked with my brother and he told me this past weekend it dropped to $1.95 I even paid $2.65 in Pagosa Springs at that's at 7000' in the mts. I hit Ca. and it's still at $3.25+
Here are some pictures i'll start off with the hunting area this year and from the past along with where it ran into and you will see why I would not go in at night also some of the other pigs I have taken on other trip back, I have used a different rifle 22-250-243-260- this trip 30-06- 308- 338
[attachment=55884:resizedhog.JPG]this years hog
