Says who?.....

[rwlittle]

Good Job!!!..........again.

 

[QEU]

do you keep track of how many pigs that remington has taken?

i don't remember any of your other rifles having this much fun.

 

[Shot]

Congrats! Getting a public land hog is not easy.

 

[Live2hunt]

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L2H
My friend told me someone stopped him last week but I did know it was you.
Sorry I missed you and maybe next time.
Sounds like we were in the right spot but wrong time.
Hntboar[/b]

We'll shake hands one of these days.

I saw two different groups of pigs on Thurs morning. The first group I thougt it was too far (found out later it was only 200 yards) and didn't shoot. I followed their tracks and they went into that one patch of chemise everyone was staking out. I then headed to high ground and spotted another group about half a mile away. When I got to where they were, they left me a big trail to follow over several hills up to another patch of chemise at the top of a high peak. An old road cut right through the middle of the thick brush dead end at the top. I sat in the middle of the road and can hear the pigs making noises all around me, but just couldn't see them in the thickets. A few times I saw them cross the road back and forth but with only 4-5 feet wide road I just couldn't get the scope cross-hair on them fast enough before they disappear again. I'll get them next time.


L2H

 

[Live2hunt]

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9 hogs. My goodness. You harvest more pigs in that short amount of time than most of us do in a year...maybe two.
I want to trade something with you to learn your secrets now L2H.[/b]

A phone number to one of those nice looking concubines in Fresno will do............hehe.




L2H

 

[Live2hunt]

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I was there in 2006 and no pig sign, but lots of Elk and deer around...Man, I never heard of those ponds having fish...that could be fun![/b]

April of '06 was when we shot 3 pigs from there. I was also there on rifle opener A-Zone in '06 and the bank of one of the pond was torned upside down.


L2H

 

[Live2hunt]

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do you keep track of how many pigs that remington has taken?

i don't remember any of your other rifles having this much fun.[/b]

You're not going to believe this, but I stopped counting at 286 during El Nino back in 1998. My other rifles have shot a few hogs, but the Rem. 7400 Carbine have always been the primary hog medicine. I only have 4 rounds of copper left for that gun. The Big5 and Gilroy Walmart that I always bought them from don't have anymore 30-06 copper. The Rem. 700 in .270 still have two boxes of copper so I will be carry that gun for the next couple of hunts if I can get out.




L2H

 

[hntboar]

L2H-
On Thursday I might have taken over for you when the trail led you into the
chemise where people were staking it out. I found them in there and tried
to go after them but no luck. They just kept circling me around.

I am trying to picture the other brush patch you are talking about with the dead end road.
Not sure I know where that was is, but I am sure I have walked or driven by it.

Do you live in the Gilroy area?

 

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do you keep track of how many pigs that remington has taken?

i don't remember any of your other rifles having this much fun.[/b]

You're not going to believe this, but I stopped counting at 286 during El Nino back in 1998. My other rifles have shot a few hogs, but the Rem. 7400 Carbine have always been the primary hog medicine. I only have 4 rounds of copper left for that gun. The Big5 and Gilroy Walmart that I always bought them from don't have anymore 30-06 copper. The Rem. 700 in .270 still have two boxes of copper so I will be carry that gun for the next couple of hunts if I can get out.




L2H
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L2H,

Funny you mentioned how well the 7400 shoots. I used to have the Remington Model Four 30-06 Semi-Auto Rifle that I believe had the same mechanism as the 7400 Carbine. I loved that thing, but someone broke into my gun cabinet and took it.

This pic is a little too fancy for hunting. My Model Four looked the same, but without all the art work on the receiver. It had the same stock that was perfect for close up shooting in brush.

https://www.soldusa.com/detail.asp?id=228&bigpic=0#img


Richard

 

[Live2hunt]

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L2H-
On Thursday I might have taken over for you when the trail led you into the
chemise where people were staking it out. I found them in there and tried
to go after them but no luck. They just kept circling me around.

I am trying to picture the other brush patch you are talking about with the dead end road.
Not sure I know where that was is, but I am sure I have walked or driven by it.

Do you live in the Gilroy area?[/b]

I'm sure you did took over for me. I left the spot because there were pretty much a hunter staking out every turn of the road that went around the chemise.

The other chemise brush is at the top of the highest peak in the training area. You can see it from Sulphur Spring Road. The road that goes to the top doesn't look driveable. I was there pretty much the whole day Thurs and only saw a green Suzuki Samurai came by, tried to drive up, then backdown and turned around. Thursday evening after dark, I was walking down and still heard the pigs making noises in the brush. So they never came out to the open during daylight. Friday morning I went back up there and followed their tracks down then up and over several hills into the same patch of chemise that everyone else were staking out. That's why I decided to mingle in with the crowd along the edge of that chemise patch on Friday evening and stopped your buddy driving your jeep.

I'm in San Jose.


L2H

 

[beezer]

damn 9 hogs and 2 in one day on public land. Man i wish i had a friend like you LOL! congratulations L2H. thanks for the detailed report again greats posts.

 

[Live2hunt]

Mapmaker,

Back then, the Rem. 7400 was the only rifle I have for big game hunting. So whether it shot well or not, it was it. When I first took it out of the box, it looks smooth and high gloss shiny. After all these years of hunting in rains, crawling in pig tunnels, and accidentally banging it here and there, one of my buddy told me the gun looks like it's been through hell and back. I told him it did sent many pigs, deers, elks, and bears to hell and back.

That model 4 is nice looking. I didn't know Rem. had such a model.



L2H

 

[Speckmisser]

L2H, you don't need me to tell you this but...

Nice job!

But next time, will you kill two hogs at once that far away from the vehicle?

 

[hntboar]

L2H-
I know where you are talking about now. I have been there a few times.
I grew up in San Jose and live in San Martin.
Again congrads on your recent hunt.
HntBoar

 

[Live2hunt]

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But next time, will you kill two hogs at once that far away from the vehicle?[/b]

I tend to shoot first then go about figuring how to pack it out later. It was always the attitude I have. That was not the first time and I've had it worse back then when pig tags came 5 in a booklet. Sometimes I've shed tears in the middle of the leap frogging process and swear to myself I would not do the same thing again. But somewhere in the blood or the mind always brings back that same old attitude and the process kicked back in when all the puzzle pieces comes together during a hunt. Is there a cure for this mentality?


L2H

 

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But next time, will you kill two hogs at once that far away from the vehicle?[/b]

I tend to shoot first then go about figuring how to pack it out later. It was always the attitude I have. That was not the first time and I've had it worse back then when pig tags came 5 in a booklet. Sometimes I've shed tears in the middle of the leap frogging process and swear to myself I would not do the same thing again. But somewhere in the blood or the mind always brings back that same old attitude and the process kicked back in when all the puzzle pieces comes together during a hunt. Is there a cure for this mentality?


L2H
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Usually packin an elk 4 miles back to camp will do her. The good thing about it all though, all that pack meat is more tender then the meat you drove up too and put in the truck!

 

[Live2hunt]

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Usually packin an elk 4 miles back to camp will do her. The good thing about it all though, all that pack meat is more tender then the meat you drove up too and put in the truck![/b]

Not sure if I will ever get to pack out an elk all by myself unless I move out of CA to an elk state. I've done a few elk hunts and so far I either have several packing helpers, the elk was killed near a road, or the guide did all the packing out for me.

I hear ya about the pack meat tasting better and more tender. Thinking about how much work was put in, I really didn't feel like giving them away when friends and relatives asked. Toss in the truck meat, I pretty much let them dig in the freezer themselves.



L2H

 

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L2H,

Congrads on 2 hogs in one day. A few coats of Tru-Oil Gun Stock Finish will make that 7400 look new again. I use the spray can for one coat each day for a week. I hang the wood with coat hangers in my backyard tree.

Richard

 

[Speckmisser]

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I tend to shoot first then go about figuring how to pack it out later. It was always the attitude I have.[/b]

L2H

I have been guilty of the same weakness. Fortunately, or not, I think I may have it licked... finally. I actually passed on a big hog in Tejon the year before last because it was Sunday night, there was almost no one left on the ranch, and it would have been a nightmare to pack it out alone. On that last pig I shot in Sonoma county, I passed up the big one and shot the little guy for the same reason.

Maybe I'm just getting old. That's what everyone keeps telling me anyway, but I think I'm OK with that.

 

[huntingbret]

Speck, shooting a small pig is better than not shooting any at all.