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el_vaquero
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Awesome stuff...thanks for sharing.
Ev:
February would be fine. The 13th thru the 20th we have guests from the mainland, but other than that, I'm open. In the meantime, after you get here, would you be interested in a one-day hunt to Laupahoehoe? If you have a car, all you'd need to do is drive to the checkstation at the junction of the Saddle Road and Mauna Kea Access Road [somewhere around milepost 25 or so which is only a 20 minute drive from your new place] and I could meet you there. We can hop in my truck and drive to Laupahoehoe, about an hour each way on a gravel road. Virtually guarantee you at least one pig there and your 30/30 is perfect, because the average shot is about 30 or 40 yards.
Keep me informed. Let me know your phone numbers once you settle in and I'll give you mine.
Hope to take another trip after those bulls in about 3 weeks. Going hog hunting up on Mauna Kea tomorrow and going after hogs at Laupahoehoe on Tuesday. Will post results if anything interesting happens.
Aloha.
February would be fine. The 13th thru the 20th we have guests from the mainland, but other than that, I'm open. In the meantime, after you get here, would you be interested in a one-day hunt to Laupahoehoe? If you have a car, all you'd need to do is drive to the checkstation at the junction of the Saddle Road and Mauna Kea Access Road [somewhere around milepost 25 or so which is only a 20 minute drive from your new place] and I could meet you there. We can hop in my truck and drive to Laupahoehoe, about an hour each way on a gravel road. Virtually guarantee you at least one pig there and your 30/30 is perfect, because the average shot is about 30 or 40 yards.
Keep me informed. Let me know your phone numbers once you settle in and I'll give you mine.
Hope to take another trip after those bulls in about 3 weeks. Going hog hunting up on Mauna Kea tomorrow and going after hogs at Laupahoehoe on Tuesday. Will post results if anything interesting happens.
Aloha.
Hey Doc,
Awesome writeup! I have definitely put Hawaii on the top of my dream hunt list. I'd love to hunt those bulls with a bow.
Try the Barnes Triple Shock bullets. I've used Barnes for several years now and have never been disappointed.
Dave
Awesome writeup! I have definitely put Hawaii on the top of my dream hunt list. I'd love to hunt those bulls with a bow.
Try the Barnes Triple Shock bullets. I've used Barnes for several years now and have never been disappointed.
Dave
Bulleye:
I got your message and tried to email you back through this forum but my email request was denied. I got the message that I'm not allowed to use the messenger service. No idea what the problem is but perhaps someone reading this will explain the proper procedure. Sure, if you're coming over I'd be more than happy to take you on a hunt, my schedule allowing. What part of Kona does your family live in?
I got your message and tried to email you back through this forum but my email request was denied. I got the message that I'm not allowed to use the messenger service. No idea what the problem is but perhaps someone reading this will explain the proper procedure. Sure, if you're coming over I'd be more than happy to take you on a hunt, my schedule allowing. What part of Kona does your family live in?
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great story that area looks nice very green. I was thinking a heavy grain bullet or a barnes tsx all copper thay will mushroom and retain all it's weight. give the animal a chance to die and he won't charge you. I knocked a big bull down once with my 270 I know it wasn't dead before I could shoot it again a dumb guy ran up to it that bull chased him 100 yards to his truck it had horns to.
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I'm just curious is this some wild Hereford bull?
How do they became wild?
Are they agressive like a bufallo?
Excuse my ignorance but this is the first time I see one.
How do they became wild?
Are they agressive like a bufallo?
Excuse my ignorance but this is the first time I see one.
7magHunter:
Some are Hereferd coloration with fairly short [or no] horns and others are jet black and others are mixed. Some have much longer horns, sort of like a Texas longhorn. These cattle have been running wild for over a century, although some of them are recent escapees from a neighboring ranch that has fences in disrepair. The area where they roam is complete wilderness with no humans whatsoever and the cattle themselves are very wild and some of them, specifically the large bulls, are quite aggressive. It's like hunting elk in timber. They are ghosts and can move silently through the soggy jungle without making a sound. When you do see them, it's up close and things happen very quickly. I haven't yet made it up to the rolling grasslands about 1/2 a mile upslope from where I got this bull, but according to Nic Barca, who has hunted up there, a lot of really large bulls are hanging out and some of them displayed aggression when they spotted Nic. Next time I'll try to get up into the grassland and have a go at them. Nic hunts with an open-sighted 20 gauge shotgun shooting slugs so he needs to get within 50 yards, even less. That's too close in open country, in my opinion. Not much time to stop a charge if things get hairy and when a bull drops his head and comes, there really isn't much of a target to shoot at. I plan to hike up into the grassland and ambush a really big bull, clobber him before he even sees me. That's the theory, anyway. We'll see what happens next time.
Aloha.
Some are Hereferd coloration with fairly short [or no] horns and others are jet black and others are mixed. Some have much longer horns, sort of like a Texas longhorn. These cattle have been running wild for over a century, although some of them are recent escapees from a neighboring ranch that has fences in disrepair. The area where they roam is complete wilderness with no humans whatsoever and the cattle themselves are very wild and some of them, specifically the large bulls, are quite aggressive. It's like hunting elk in timber. They are ghosts and can move silently through the soggy jungle without making a sound. When you do see them, it's up close and things happen very quickly. I haven't yet made it up to the rolling grasslands about 1/2 a mile upslope from where I got this bull, but according to Nic Barca, who has hunted up there, a lot of really large bulls are hanging out and some of them displayed aggression when they spotted Nic. Next time I'll try to get up into the grassland and have a go at them. Nic hunts with an open-sighted 20 gauge shotgun shooting slugs so he needs to get within 50 yards, even less. That's too close in open country, in my opinion. Not much time to stop a charge if things get hairy and when a bull drops his head and comes, there really isn't much of a target to shoot at. I plan to hike up into the grassland and ambush a really big bull, clobber him before he even sees me. That's the theory, anyway. We'll see what happens next time.
Aloha.
