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Nic and Ev:
Good work, gentlemen. I'd love to do an overnighter somewhere in Hawaii. Maybe I'll go after the wild cattle again, assuming I can hire a team of porters to carry me and my gear both ways. Have to work on that.
Hey, great job with the pigs. How do the Kauai jungle pigs taste? The Laupahoehoe pigs here on the Big Island taste very good, eating fruit like they do. The grassland Mauna Kea pigs are a bit gamier and have a lot less meat on them. They really have to work for a living and are a bit tougher than I like.
How do you guys cook your wild pork? I really have to learn the Hawaiian ways of smoking and slow cooking. My local friends tell me that the wild pigs they cook the Hawaiian fashion, wrapped in ti leaves and smoked or slow roasted, are melt-in-your-mouth delicious. I gotta have your recipes!!
Nic, where are you living now and what are you doing? Hope all is well with you.
Gotta sign off now. It's time to go to my AARP meeting.
Aloha.
Good work, gentlemen. I'd love to do an overnighter somewhere in Hawaii. Maybe I'll go after the wild cattle again, assuming I can hire a team of porters to carry me and my gear both ways. Have to work on that.
Hey, great job with the pigs. How do the Kauai jungle pigs taste? The Laupahoehoe pigs here on the Big Island taste very good, eating fruit like they do. The grassland Mauna Kea pigs are a bit gamier and have a lot less meat on them. They really have to work for a living and are a bit tougher than I like.
How do you guys cook your wild pork? I really have to learn the Hawaiian ways of smoking and slow cooking. My local friends tell me that the wild pigs they cook the Hawaiian fashion, wrapped in ti leaves and smoked or slow roasted, are melt-in-your-mouth delicious. I gotta have your recipes!!
Nic, where are you living now and what are you doing? Hope all is well with you.
Gotta sign off now. It's time to go to my AARP meeting.
Aloha.
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Way to go, fellas! That just keeps my mouth watering for an eventual Hawaii hunt. Hunting in paradise... ya'll have it too good. Hope you know that.
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ev, congrats on your well earned hog
what type of wild dangerous animals do you have to worry about when doing an overnighter in the hawiian jungle, do you guys have any mountian lions or game like that runnin around the jungle at night? just curious........tra
We gotta be scared of mosquitoes and centipedes. Neither of which pose any serious threat at all.
Sorry for holdin off on the story.
Nic and I decided we'd go hunt this area that's about 2 miles from the highway along an old ditch that laborers built to bring water to a series of resevoirs. We made it up to the beginning of the nice forested area right before dark and pitched our tarp. We made a fire and cooked up some halibut filets Nic brought back from Alaska. That along with a 3lb purple sweet potato I brought. We finally hit the sack around 11. Nic slept on a bed of leaves with a rain jacket as a blanket. I was smart enough to bring my sleeping pad and a fleece blanket so I slept like a baby while he tossed and turned. I managed to make it out of the house at 22lbs and that was with a bunch of potatoes and a 10x12 heavyweight tarp that I ended up leaving in the mountains, which isn't too bad for a day long hike.
I woke up before light to Nic in his slippers complete with shotgun and headlight, "Evan....I hear something over here". Which is pretty typical of Nicolai to wake up out of bed in the middle of night to shoot something. I heard the noises too, about 20 yards from our camp. A small twig would break, then some grass would rustle, enough noise to be a hog. So I lied there with my fingers in my ears laughing inside at my hunting partner. About ten minutes later or so I hear !KABOOM!, then a pig let out a few squeals. I hopped out of bed and put my headlamp on and walked a whole 10 steps over to the downed boar. It was about 120-130lbs, pretty young pig. Had maybe 1" tusks or so, maybe a bit smaller. Nic blasted him perfect with buckshot and he never took another step. You can see the entrance holes in the picture.
We lied back down at this point and cooked breakfast and some tea. A little after it got light enough to see and I took the 30-30 to go look around our camp. I didn't see anything except a whole lot of fresh rootings and tracks and rubbings. When I got back Nic had the thing halfway boned out on the ground. So we sat around and packed up camp and finished butchering the pig and set off around 8am.
Maybe a half hour from where we slept we were walking along the side of the ditch and were seeing tons of fresh sign. Then we both froze and listened, sure enough something was making noise about 30 yards ahead of us. I took a few steps to the right and crouched down to see through the wall of trees. There was a pig working his way up to the main trail maybe 5 feet from it. So I got back on the trail and drew my bead right down the trail, just as planned the pig stepped onto the trail and started to turn away before he got drilled in the back of the ribs. The bullet went through both lungs, liver, top of the heart and smashed through the front right elbow. A pretty textbook shot. The pig fell where he was standing. It weighed about 60-70 lbs. We got him strung up and took all the meat.
Then we began our 1.5 mile or so hike out with loaded packs. We spooked another good size pig on the way out, we never saw it but judging by the noise of its gallop and the ammount of bushes shaking he must have been pretty big. All in all was a pretty good hunt. We were limited out by 9 in the morning and had a fun night camping. I cooked up the entire pig last night with chicken broth and spices. One of them I shredded then cooked another hour in BBQ sauce. The other I left on for 22 hours so it should be falling apart heavily.
Sorry for holdin off on the story.
Nic and I decided we'd go hunt this area that's about 2 miles from the highway along an old ditch that laborers built to bring water to a series of resevoirs. We made it up to the beginning of the nice forested area right before dark and pitched our tarp. We made a fire and cooked up some halibut filets Nic brought back from Alaska. That along with a 3lb purple sweet potato I brought. We finally hit the sack around 11. Nic slept on a bed of leaves with a rain jacket as a blanket. I was smart enough to bring my sleeping pad and a fleece blanket so I slept like a baby while he tossed and turned. I managed to make it out of the house at 22lbs and that was with a bunch of potatoes and a 10x12 heavyweight tarp that I ended up leaving in the mountains, which isn't too bad for a day long hike.
I woke up before light to Nic in his slippers complete with shotgun and headlight, "Evan....I hear something over here". Which is pretty typical of Nicolai to wake up out of bed in the middle of night to shoot something. I heard the noises too, about 20 yards from our camp. A small twig would break, then some grass would rustle, enough noise to be a hog. So I lied there with my fingers in my ears laughing inside at my hunting partner. About ten minutes later or so I hear !KABOOM!, then a pig let out a few squeals. I hopped out of bed and put my headlamp on and walked a whole 10 steps over to the downed boar. It was about 120-130lbs, pretty young pig. Had maybe 1" tusks or so, maybe a bit smaller. Nic blasted him perfect with buckshot and he never took another step. You can see the entrance holes in the picture.
We lied back down at this point and cooked breakfast and some tea. A little after it got light enough to see and I took the 30-30 to go look around our camp. I didn't see anything except a whole lot of fresh rootings and tracks and rubbings. When I got back Nic had the thing halfway boned out on the ground. So we sat around and packed up camp and finished butchering the pig and set off around 8am.
Maybe a half hour from where we slept we were walking along the side of the ditch and were seeing tons of fresh sign. Then we both froze and listened, sure enough something was making noise about 30 yards ahead of us. I took a few steps to the right and crouched down to see through the wall of trees. There was a pig working his way up to the main trail maybe 5 feet from it. So I got back on the trail and drew my bead right down the trail, just as planned the pig stepped onto the trail and started to turn away before he got drilled in the back of the ribs. The bullet went through both lungs, liver, top of the heart and smashed through the front right elbow. A pretty textbook shot. The pig fell where he was standing. It weighed about 60-70 lbs. We got him strung up and took all the meat.
Then we began our 1.5 mile or so hike out with loaded packs. We spooked another good size pig on the way out, we never saw it but judging by the noise of its gallop and the ammount of bushes shaking he must have been pretty big. All in all was a pretty good hunt. We were limited out by 9 in the morning and had a fun night camping. I cooked up the entire pig last night with chicken broth and spices. One of them I shredded then cooked another hour in BBQ sauce. The other I left on for 22 hours so it should be falling apart heavily.
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Evan - Nice story.
Congrats both: Nic and Evan.
You are living the life we can only dream about.
Congrats both: Nic and Evan.
You are living the life we can only dream about.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (EvBouret @ Aug 21 2007, 11:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
Ya right ! Them centipedes can be a seriuos threat to a good nights sleep. I've been bitten by them on a couple of occasions and it's real hard to go back to sleep.
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Haha, classic thread. I haven't checked JHO in a long time. Yep, it's true; I got a job with the Nature Conservancy's Brand new Kauai program where we try to control weeds and pigs and goats up near the summit in order to protect the water resources and native forests. Mostly it's weed control but that's because no fence is built yet. Everything is still in it's infancy though. We're still doing the EAs, but maybe in a couple years, I'll be killing goats and pigs up there. Maybe sooner. 'Not really sure how much hunting I'm gonna get to do or whether I'll even get to do much at all. We'll see. I'm really more concerned with just getting a good rep with the Kauai hunters. We have a draft word of mouth plan of trying to use our connections with the large landowners to open up privave lands to public hunting and create easy access roads. Then we also want to improve game management in the weed forests by diversifying with fruit trees to give more stable food sources to pigs. And third, we were thinking of forming a hunting group that would volunteer to plant these trees and maintain water sources if needed. The whole point is sort of a "trade off". We figure, if we are doing any ungulate control (even though it's deep in the mountains where nobody goes, we can maintain good relations with the hunting community by giving back other areas and improving the hunting conditions in the weedy lowlands. This isn't at all set in stone, it's just something we talked about one day and we all thought it was a good solution to everyones problems.
Doc, me and Evan might have to come over to the Big Island one of these weekends to get some more steaks. I'll be sure to let you know if we do, tho we'ld most likely camp at the end of Morita camp trail. If any of you guys come to Kauai, we could take you to our honey-hole.
Doc, me and Evan might have to come over to the Big Island one of these weekends to get some more steaks. I'll be sure to let you know if we do, tho we'ld most likely camp at the end of Morita camp trail. If any of you guys come to Kauai, we could take you to our honey-hole.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (EvBouret @ Aug 19 2007, 11:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
Nic, I liked your hunting story and sent it to Dave M. the Lockheed Martin rocket man. I don't know how to post anything on here but could put some fishing stories on it just for fun. Maybe you and your dad with the big ling cod eating the big bass would work OK. Obe
Nic, I liked your hunting story and sent it to Dave M. the Lockheed Martin rocket man. I don't know how to post anything on here but could put some fishing stories on it just for fun. Maybe you and your dad with the big ling cod eating the big bass would work OK. Obe
