Says who?.....That there are no pig on public lands. Part I 2011

[Live2hunt]

The sky poured cats and dogs on New Years Day. The truck had 4WD but I chose to parked it on the side of a paved road and head in on foot. After about 3 miles of hiking around, came across a set of fresh tracks that had not been wet yet although rain had poured on and off all day. It looked like prints of two pigs. Followed the tracks down a hillside about 200 yards and round the bottom of a small finger ridge. There about 70 yards a big black boar walked out in behind a small patch of chamise. BANG! and the it tumbled squeeling downhill. 4 more hogs of the same size walked out and stopped on the same spot where the boar first stopped. I recovered from the recoil and tried to put the scope on another hog, but the ported gas holes from the autoloading rifle had fogged the obj lens. I thought the fog was on the eye end of the scope and tried to wipe it with my finger. Then look in the scope again and it's still looked like cloud. I finally realized it was the obj end of the scope. I wiped it with the finger and tried to find the hogs again only to see the rearend of the last hog disappeared behind a tree. I ran out hoping to see all of them running up the other hillside in the open, but it turned out they circled around and went back uphill where I followed them from. Oh well two of us had two tags each but the one dead boar was about 180 lbs. and we are about 1.5 miles from the truck. It was 4pm and darkness is getting near. We were all soaken wet as we cut up the boar in half and made backpack with ropes. Made it back to the truck at 8pm.

I snapped a few pic with the digital camera, but the camera was in my pocket and when I looked at it back at camp, it looked like it had been swimming with the fish. Couldn't turn on and the pics were on internal memory. The only photo I got was with my cell phone back at camp in the dark as we were getting ready to skin and butcher on the tailgate of the truck.

 

[707Hunter]

Nice one L2H! Way to start out the year. FHL?

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

L2H, super congrats on scoring a real nice hog on public land! thanks for sharing!....tra

 

[jb229]

Nice cutters on that one! congrats.

 

[Shmave23]

Really???? Dang man we havent even gotten through the first week of the new year!!!!!!

Congrats!!!!!!!!!! You LUCKY SON OF A GUN!!!!!!!!!!

-Dave

 

[Pierpont]

Great looking pig, thanks for sharing, it's great to hear about one on public land, it keeps the rest of us motivated!

 

[DFG_Bear]

Really???? Dang man we havent even gotten through the first week of the new year!!!!!!

Congrats!!!!!!!!!! You LUCKY SON OF A GUN!!!!!!!!!!

-Dave

Luck's got nothing to do with it. This boy can hunt.

 

[83Yota]

L2H,
You sure have those hogs figured out. I have got to pick your brain one of these days. I have already been out twice since the rains started. Once right before Chrismas and once on Saturday. Both times had fresh sign & rooting, nothing was rained on or snowed on, so I know they are close, I just can not locate them. Tree's marked up, mud all over the tree's. I know I am in a great area, cause there is fresh sign everytime I hike in. I have tried tracking with no luck.

Hunted in the snow on Saturday with fresh tracks heading into the thick stuff, Looked like at least 5 different pigs. Hung around till dark but only two nice blacktails came out. I am sure the hogs waited till they saw my headlight disappear over the ridge before they came out to play. I hike in in the dark and out in the dark but have yet to cross paths. HELP.

I will never ask for a hunting spot, just to pick your brain. Just need some info on tracking them. I am close and that's what keeps me going back, but I am 4 years into this exact spot and have yet to close the deal.

 

[QEU]

83Yota,
The best way is to invite us to your hunting ground. We're both in the South Bay and I can pick up L2H on the way up to your place. You can question him all day long while I hunt. Deal?

 

[XDHUNTER]

He shot it on one of his honeyhole that i know .so I'am the one to bribe!!:lol bashing sign:Also know his weekness.:rotflmao:

 

[jb229]

Hey L2H what auto loader were you using, did you trade in your 270.

XD I will bribe you with some of my fathers coffee.

 

[Live2hunt]

Really???? Dang man we havent even gotten through the first week of the new year!!!!!!

Congrats!!!!!!!!!! You LUCKY SON OF A GUN!!!!!!!!!!

-Dave

When I first met one of my hunting buddy in FHL, on the opener of A zone deer season, the first thing he said to me me was, "I don't care how good a hunter you anyone is, hunting in FHL is all about LUCK. If you don't have good luck you ain't gonna see shit." I giggled at him and nodded my head to confirm his statement. That afternoon I drove back to camp with a forky hanging off the back of my suzuki samurai. I stopped at his campsite and hollered at him, "Hey, is this LUCK or a GOOD HUNTER?" He claimed it was luck. I said, "OK!" and continue drive to the skinning shack.

The afternoon of the next day, dad and I rolled into camp with dad's forky and a boar hanging off the back of the suzuki samurai. I stopped at his campsite again and hollered at him, "Hey how about this one? Is it LUCK or a GOOD HUNTER?" The guy walked over to look at the buck and boar, shook his head and said, "I don't know what to say now."

 

[Live2hunt]

Luck's got nothing to do with it. This boy can hunt.

Here is a clue. According to the Chinese Zodiac, born on the year of the boar. The pronounciation of the name is a homonym of sow. There are more but those two are the main ones....:bounce-aqua:

 

[XDHUNTER]

Hey L2H what auto loader were you using, did you trade in your 270.

XD I will bribe you with some of my fathers coffee.

Your dad's coffee!! Its a deal.. come down and hunt with us.

 

[XDHUNTER]

Here is a clue. According to the Chinese Zodiac, born on the year of the boar. The pronounciation of the name is a homonym of sow. There are more but those two are the main ones....:bounce-aqua:

Dang ! you are name after a pig... no wonder you walk so sexy..:lol bashing sign:

 

[jb229]

Dang ! you are name after a pig... no wonder you walk so sexy..:lol bashing sign:

LOL,

Whens your next trip.

 

[Live2hunt]

83yota, it's hard to explain in writing or verbally without actually seeing the terrains and vegetations. Somehow it's the instinct in the blood and mind that I can detect what and how to approach an area when I see it.

Base on what you wrote, one of my advice is to track the pigs to their bed then hang around nearby until last light. If you see fresh tracks going in the thick stuff, it does not always mean they are in there. Walk around the edge of the thick stuff and look for tracks heading out. If tracks comes out, follow them again. If you don't see tracks coming out after you walk around the thick stuff, that means they are still inside. If you tracked them and suddenly you started seeing rootings and tracks going all different directions, walk away from all the rooting until you see no more tracks and rooting. Then walk in a big circle keeping all the tracks and rootings inside the circle. Eventually you will see where all the pigs formed a single file line and headed out of the rooting area on a trail. Keep following the tracks again. If the pigs are still inside your huntable area, no doubt you will run into them. The only way I haven't ran into them when tracking is when their tracks crossed into lands I don't have access to.

One thing other people tells me they see fresh tracks but could not find the pigs. When they showed me the fresh tracks they saw, the tracks were about two-three days old. So be sure you can tell the difference between fresh and not so fresh.

 

[XDHUNTER]

LOL,

Whens your next trip.

After he get back from Colorado..15th i think...

 

[Live2hunt]

Hey L2H what auto loader were you using, did you trade in your 270.

I still have the Rem 700 .270, but my Remington 7400 in 30-06 has always been the primary pig medicine.

 

[Live2hunt]

Dang ! you are name after a pig... no wonder you walk so sexy..:lol bashing sign:

You should be practicing my sexy walk. Walking like a sexy sow is what got all the boars coming at me. :hog chewing: