Porkers down

[FredtheGad]

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Bobcatman 04 got the one in the 75lb range I guesse mine @ 250 but the 100yard drag I had to do up a slight incline made him feel like 300 plus.

It was all I could do to drag him about 5 yards @ a time and then stop,I weight 270lbs and it didn't feel like much leverage. I took mine with a 30/06 at about 100yrds with remm 150gr core lokt bullet. hit him a bit far back but he was 1/4 away and i blew up both his lung. Found the bullet in the hide on the other side very intact with good mushroom.

 

[fishhead]

Very Cool!
Where did all this action take place?

 

[FredtheGad]

D-8 I seen him at about 300yrds along a fence line as I was coming down a hill, thought he was a cow at first till I put the binos on him. Stalked to about 100rds from him and let it fly. I spun him 180 and he headed down the edge of this creek bed and I took a follow up shot but missed.
He dissapered over a small rise and when I went to track him no blood. I followed the direction he went and when i got even with a bunch of thick cover in the bottom of the creek bed about a 100yrds from where I shot him I heard him snorting and thrashing around in there.

Now I'm thinking this sucks I hit him to far back and he is gut shot and I'm going to have to go in there and get him

I have a model 66 sw in 357 so I loaded it up and was ready to go in there and get my porker and trust me I was not liking this Idea with what I thought was a gut shot pig. As I got to the edge of the cover I could see him laying there I broke off about a 6 ft tree branch to give him a poke and luck would have it he had given up the ghost.

Fred

 

[dhall61]

Nice job, should make some fine eating.

 

[powerman]

Nice hogs,

That must have been rough thinking you were going to have to crawl into that brush after a wounded hog.

 

[larrysogla]

That's one thing I am very leery about. Going after wounded big game in thick brush. The animal is mad and wants to fight back or put up a defense. It is certainly hair raising time. Good job with your killing shots. Wild pork on the freezer is a very good reward. God Bless.

 

[baboltin]

congrats. i didnt know that their were pigs in d8

 

[larrysogla]

There are hogs North from the foothills of Tehachapi to the Sierra Nevadas all the way up to somewhere around
the southern part of the Sequoia National Park. There was a lot of discussion a few years ago here in JHO in this Hog Hunting Forum about people seeing the wild hogs along the mountain road somewhere south of Lake Isabella. However, as always they seem to be concentrated on private property. It is also rugged, high country.
I would stick to Fort Hunter Liggett and Camp Roberts and Vandenberg Air Force Base if I had any means of base access. 'Nuff said.

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

congrats on your successful hog hunt Fred

and plenty of pork chops

!.........tra

 

[FredtheGad]

Thanks guys,this hunt was great and to be able to ever top it will not be easy but I'll keep trying. Hogs can be very nasty critters as most of you know and a wounded or cornered hog is nothing to play with as far as I'm concerned

The meat off this guy is off the hook Farmer John and Jimmy Dean aint got nothing on him. I'm not sure but I think it was the acorns this boy had been gorging himself on.

Fred

 

[birds4me]

larry,

as far as base access, Fort Hunter Liggett is open to everyone. You justs have to submit an application to hunt there. Lots of info here at JHO. http://www.jesseshunting.com/site/fhl.html God Hunting!

 

[dw33]

Fred, congrats on the hunt. Good story and a good ending.

 

[gwhunter69]

Way to go...

 

[larrysogla]

birds4me,
I meant base access for Vandenberg AFB which as a civilian is probably "NOT GONNA' HAPPEN" to me. FHL and Camp Roberts I am a regular since 1988, sometimes every weekend I am at FHL and Camp Roberts. Both are very lovely well maintained military bases with abundant game galore. God Bless.