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thewolfman
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Nice....congrats!!!... not easy
yes, I have, very brushy and hard to navigate... no sign of pig but a few deer. It would be hard to put a shot on a pig even if I spotted one and getting it out would have been madness.
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Trying to make latecomer's sense of this thread, it looked really helpful at first. Winds up reading as though info by arod50006 and KTKT70 is coming from the same source.
FWIW, I appreciate experienced folks here calling BS when they see it. If you've ever wasted valuable time and enthusiasm relying on deliberately bad info, that probably doesn't take explanation.
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Good hunt. How would I get some info to hunt hogs in SD?
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How did you see the pigs at that time of the night and as far as I kno that isn't a legal method of take and considered poaching tell me if I'm wrong
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Have heard that the area of dougs ranch that he uses to hunt is all national forest and he has them locked in with deer fencing check out Trimble or any other site. From his back fence on is all national forest even the watering hole that he pumps from his own well onto national forest land doesn't sound very legit?? Anyone hear anything like that?
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Dougs operation is legit. I've been over there before. It is what it is though. Its not a Tejon or Bryson Hesperia hunt.
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Check the original post. It's from June, when it's light till almost 9:00 pm.....................
Yep I was there for a class in December 2012. Doug is a heck of a good guy, a generous fountain of info, and his wife Michelle is a gracious host, who helps him dish out the pulled pork from the in-ground pit thats been cooking since the night before for lunch for the now 40 person max per class.
This 6 hour "how to butcher a wild pig" gets you hands-on complete experience from field gut while hanging up by its nose, to butcher and wrap and take home the food. And I will tell you the money was one-tenth of what it was worth, which was so packed with tips on hunting, habitat, firearms, ammo, and how to just git-r-done smart and relatively easy, that you could spend days online trying to do same, and have half the info, and twice as much bs cluttering your head. Plus you walk away witha couple 2lbs+ wrapped pkgs of the pig(s) you butchered.
Lots of parents with kids and other first-timers. I was impressed, and will be back for more.
These animals are what he describes as "hybrid meat pigs" - feral and domesticated pigs mixed, that he freely admits are fed grain and watered on his land, that he harvests fresh that morning or night before, for the class. MMMM... cooked up mine on the grill the very next day. TASTY!
He also runs a now $400 hunt, I am assuming on same land and some other nearby private land he says he has permission to hunt - and it includes field clean, packout, and butcher those up too. So, you get upwards of 200# of pork from free-ranging fed animals, in a guided fashion, to bring home. Its obviously not quite the same as finding a sounder of wild pigs out in the boonies that you scouted yourself. Still- lots cheaper than driving to Tejon Ranch at $1000 a pop, last I heard, and those are going to be pigs that are pre-scouted, that you pay someone else a tip to field clean, and then have to deliver to the butcher before the meat goes bad.
YMMV, but for a newb to pig hunting like me, this was a REALLY smart way to get my learning curve accelerated, so I actually have some idea what to do after tromping around for the next three years out in the San Diego River looking for the sneaky buggers...and get the shot.
And thats assuming you play by the rules, dont drive on private land, which means hike the miles thru USFS closed gates to get to the habitat on public land...find the sign, and can go up and down 45% slopes to get at them...and haul them out.
This 6 hour "how to butcher a wild pig" gets you hands-on complete experience from field gut while hanging up by its nose, to butcher and wrap and take home the food. And I will tell you the money was one-tenth of what it was worth, which was so packed with tips on hunting, habitat, firearms, ammo, and how to just git-r-done smart and relatively easy, that you could spend days online trying to do same, and have half the info, and twice as much bs cluttering your head. Plus you walk away witha couple 2lbs+ wrapped pkgs of the pig(s) you butchered.
Lots of parents with kids and other first-timers. I was impressed, and will be back for more.
These animals are what he describes as "hybrid meat pigs" - feral and domesticated pigs mixed, that he freely admits are fed grain and watered on his land, that he harvests fresh that morning or night before, for the class. MMMM... cooked up mine on the grill the very next day. TASTY!
He also runs a now $400 hunt, I am assuming on same land and some other nearby private land he says he has permission to hunt - and it includes field clean, packout, and butcher those up too. So, you get upwards of 200# of pork from free-ranging fed animals, in a guided fashion, to bring home. Its obviously not quite the same as finding a sounder of wild pigs out in the boonies that you scouted yourself. Still- lots cheaper than driving to Tejon Ranch at $1000 a pop, last I heard, and those are going to be pigs that are pre-scouted, that you pay someone else a tip to field clean, and then have to deliver to the butcher before the meat goes bad.
YMMV, but for a newb to pig hunting like me, this was a REALLY smart way to get my learning curve accelerated, so I actually have some idea what to do after tromping around for the next three years out in the San Diego River looking for the sneaky buggers...and get the shot.
And thats assuming you play by the rules, dont drive on private land, which means hike the miles thru USFS closed gates to get to the habitat on public land...find the sign, and can go up and down 45% slopes to get at them...and haul them out.
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Did some looking in Pine Creek- old sign at the junction of Horsethief Canyon, last year.
Pretty steep hike up to 8, and long walk out to Japatul Valley trail head, but do-able,
IF you are in shape, have a good pack, and take out just the hams and some other cuts.
I've been told by credible sources that "they are all over public land" but obviously- they move around, and finding fresh sign, and getting back in there, during the window from when they are leaving their beds to feed and water, to when they go silent after daybreak, is the challenge.
Pretty steep hike up to 8, and long walk out to Japatul Valley trail head, but do-able,
IF you are in shape, have a good pack, and take out just the hams and some other cuts.
I've been told by credible sources that "they are all over public land" but obviously- they move around, and finding fresh sign, and getting back in there, during the window from when they are leaving their beds to feed and water, to when they go silent after daybreak, is the challenge.
