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Good luck guys stack em up!
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Any Reports yet on this weekends hunt?
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I saw none on Friday evening or Saturday AM even though the sign was fresh and even "steaming" at times. Switched up locations on Saturday evening and BigBubbaDaddy and I were on a group of 6 at 60 yards. I had a broadside up hill shot at 60 but they were working in closer so I was in no rush. Swirling wind busted them out. Saw one more lone boar hauling butt near the shooting bench right at last light but we couldn't get on him.
Saturday night was some of the most intense rain and wind I have seen in CA. It was still nasty on Sunday AM. We decided to go for a drive. About 30 minutes into light it actually let up and we went for a walk. Got in on 2 groups of hogs in the chemise and worked them for a while. I had one group side hilling at 30 yards and was at full draw just as the butt of the last hog cleared a shooting lane. I could see them well as they side hilled it in front of me but no shot through the bush. Did a mad dash after them and eventually busted them out into the next county. That was the end of the hog sightings, I think I saw 12 for the trip in 2 groups of around 6. On the way back to the truck it was windy as all hell, pouring rain and actually hailed hard on us for an hour. Good stuff !!!
Anyway, as always, a great time, great place, and met some new hunters. No complaints here.
Saturday night was some of the most intense rain and wind I have seen in CA. It was still nasty on Sunday AM. We decided to go for a drive. About 30 minutes into light it actually let up and we went for a walk. Got in on 2 groups of hogs in the chemise and worked them for a while. I had one group side hilling at 30 yards and was at full draw just as the butt of the last hog cleared a shooting lane. I could see them well as they side hilled it in front of me but no shot through the bush. Did a mad dash after them and eventually busted them out into the next county. That was the end of the hog sightings, I think I saw 12 for the trip in 2 groups of around 6. On the way back to the truck it was windy as all hell, pouring rain and actually hailed hard on us for an hour. Good stuff !!!
Anyway, as always, a great time, great place, and met some new hunters. No complaints here.
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I should of expounded on my hunt a little. Get there to great weather on Friday. Didn't see any hogs Friday evening but did see a bunch of turkeys including a bunch of gobblers. They were even gobbling. Hard to concentrate on pig hunting with that going on!
Went back to the general area on Sat. morning after a rough start. I got all the way down to my hunting area and realized I'd left my pack back at the cabin on one of the couches. Crud! I drove all the way back and got it. It had my tags, knives, snacks and water in it. Got back to my spot and started hiking up the ridge. I was working some dozer cuts above and through some chemise. I top out on a finger ridge and look across a saddle in the ridge to a distant knob and see a nice big black hog feeding in the cut. It fed for a little bit and then went over the hill. I didn't see any other hogs so I figured I'd better hoof it over there before the hog go too far. Mistake. Never assume there is only one hog. As I'm crossing the saddle I come around this little pine tree and patch of brush and litterly walked into two HUGE hogs. I'm talking maybe ten feet away. They spook down into the chemise and are huffing and snorting. I nock an arrow and can see that they are moving towards an open area to my right. I take about three steps and there is another hog still in the chemise looking at me at less than ten feet. Ugh! Gotta start looking around a little more. Turns out to be about half a dozen hogs. They move off maybe ten yards and I can see them on the other side of a brush pile. There is a smaller brown pig that I may have a shot on but I want one of the bigger hogs. They move into the opening but are trotting. They trot up on the backside of the knoll in an pine/oak open spot and start feeding. I range a tree at 32 yards and three of the hogs are on my side of the tree, broadside. I start to slip over to find a shooting lane when another hog comes up the hill at about 25 yards. It goes behind some trees and I come to full draw and wait for it to stop. Instead of stopping it turns and starts walked towards me. It notices me standing there and stops and stares at me. After about 30 seconds of staring and me mentally begging it to turn broadside I start getting the arm shakes. I know I can't let down without spooking the hog but I'm not sure how much longer I can hold at full draw. The hog takes a slight step to the left, so now I have a quartering to shot. Not one I really want, but this hog is still staring at me and I feel it's going to book. I place my pin between the leg and eye-ball and release. My arrow hit right between the shoulder and neck and went in about half way. The pigs take off over the hill. I catch my breath and start to look for a blood trail. I get to the spot where the hog was and notice the entire area was tore up from that morning/night's rooting. I notice my arrow on the ground about ten yards away and go over to it. I pick it up and it is only about half the arrow and has blood and meat about 4-5 inches up the shaft. Looks like decent penetration. I don't see any blood trail at this point though. I mark the spot and continue looking for blood. I hear some hogs behind me, in the other direction than from my hog ran, but think they are a different group of hogs that probably winded me. I've been looking for blood for about 15 minutes now and I'm finding nothing. I'm starting to kick myself for shooting now, thinking maybe the angle wasn't good enough. Plus even if that hog didn't present a broadside shot I still have three more, 10 more yards away that did give me a broadside shot. I move over and start going along the edge of the chemise. I see some very recent tracks and follow them. Then I spot it. Blood. YES! I see several blotches of blood on the ground going into the chemise and it's light colored so I am hopefull at this point. I hear something moving in the brush so I decide to back out and head back to the cabin for help knowing I wouldn't be able to get it out of the brush alone.
I get back to the cabin and nobody is back yet but it's early still, about 9:00 or so. I shot at 7:50. BDB roles in and I tell him my story. We load up in my truck to go get BigBubbaDaddy and another guy. We head out. Getting back to the spot we follow good blood for about twenty yards and Steve sees the brush below us start moving and you can tell something is up and running. Steve goes down the hill to try and see the pig/pigs and I stay on blood. At this point all bleeding stops. I mean from blotches of blood on the ground to absolutely nothing. Steve finds some beds but there is not blood in them. We follow every trail/fresh track all over the hill and find no more blood or evidence of my hit pig. After a couple of hours we back out and go back to the cabin. We eat lunch, swap stories with the others from the morning and when we head back out I decide to go back and try and find my hog. I work the area for another couple of hours or so and find nothing. I bummed but what can I do at that point. I'm 100% on shots at Choppers on three trips but now am 1-3 on recovery.
My second hog we think I hit shoulder bone, which might explain the very little blood and no recovery. The arrow broke right at the broadhead on that hog.
Sunday morning everyone headed out to see what we could turn up. I saw one lone boar heading up a hill but no chance to get on it. It had some place to go and didn't slow up.
Again, a great weekend, good hunting partners, good food (thanks again for the deer/elk BDB, good stuff) and a great area to stay and hunt. Thanks Chopper. Also got to meet the infamous Arrowslinger. Great guy and extremely knowledgable. Great to to meet you AS.
Went back to the general area on Sat. morning after a rough start. I got all the way down to my hunting area and realized I'd left my pack back at the cabin on one of the couches. Crud! I drove all the way back and got it. It had my tags, knives, snacks and water in it. Got back to my spot and started hiking up the ridge. I was working some dozer cuts above and through some chemise. I top out on a finger ridge and look across a saddle in the ridge to a distant knob and see a nice big black hog feeding in the cut. It fed for a little bit and then went over the hill. I didn't see any other hogs so I figured I'd better hoof it over there before the hog go too far. Mistake. Never assume there is only one hog. As I'm crossing the saddle I come around this little pine tree and patch of brush and litterly walked into two HUGE hogs. I'm talking maybe ten feet away. They spook down into the chemise and are huffing and snorting. I nock an arrow and can see that they are moving towards an open area to my right. I take about three steps and there is another hog still in the chemise looking at me at less than ten feet. Ugh! Gotta start looking around a little more. Turns out to be about half a dozen hogs. They move off maybe ten yards and I can see them on the other side of a brush pile. There is a smaller brown pig that I may have a shot on but I want one of the bigger hogs. They move into the opening but are trotting. They trot up on the backside of the knoll in an pine/oak open spot and start feeding. I range a tree at 32 yards and three of the hogs are on my side of the tree, broadside. I start to slip over to find a shooting lane when another hog comes up the hill at about 25 yards. It goes behind some trees and I come to full draw and wait for it to stop. Instead of stopping it turns and starts walked towards me. It notices me standing there and stops and stares at me. After about 30 seconds of staring and me mentally begging it to turn broadside I start getting the arm shakes. I know I can't let down without spooking the hog but I'm not sure how much longer I can hold at full draw. The hog takes a slight step to the left, so now I have a quartering to shot. Not one I really want, but this hog is still staring at me and I feel it's going to book. I place my pin between the leg and eye-ball and release. My arrow hit right between the shoulder and neck and went in about half way. The pigs take off over the hill. I catch my breath and start to look for a blood trail. I get to the spot where the hog was and notice the entire area was tore up from that morning/night's rooting. I notice my arrow on the ground about ten yards away and go over to it. I pick it up and it is only about half the arrow and has blood and meat about 4-5 inches up the shaft. Looks like decent penetration. I don't see any blood trail at this point though. I mark the spot and continue looking for blood. I hear some hogs behind me, in the other direction than from my hog ran, but think they are a different group of hogs that probably winded me. I've been looking for blood for about 15 minutes now and I'm finding nothing. I'm starting to kick myself for shooting now, thinking maybe the angle wasn't good enough. Plus even if that hog didn't present a broadside shot I still have three more, 10 more yards away that did give me a broadside shot. I move over and start going along the edge of the chemise. I see some very recent tracks and follow them. Then I spot it. Blood. YES! I see several blotches of blood on the ground going into the chemise and it's light colored so I am hopefull at this point. I hear something moving in the brush so I decide to back out and head back to the cabin for help knowing I wouldn't be able to get it out of the brush alone.
I get back to the cabin and nobody is back yet but it's early still, about 9:00 or so. I shot at 7:50. BDB roles in and I tell him my story. We load up in my truck to go get BigBubbaDaddy and another guy. We head out. Getting back to the spot we follow good blood for about twenty yards and Steve sees the brush below us start moving and you can tell something is up and running. Steve goes down the hill to try and see the pig/pigs and I stay on blood. At this point all bleeding stops. I mean from blotches of blood on the ground to absolutely nothing. Steve finds some beds but there is not blood in them. We follow every trail/fresh track all over the hill and find no more blood or evidence of my hit pig. After a couple of hours we back out and go back to the cabin. We eat lunch, swap stories with the others from the morning and when we head back out I decide to go back and try and find my hog. I work the area for another couple of hours or so and find nothing. I bummed but what can I do at that point. I'm 100% on shots at Choppers on three trips but now am 1-3 on recovery.
My second hog we think I hit shoulder bone, which might explain the very little blood and no recovery. The arrow broke right at the broadhead on that hog.
Sunday morning everyone headed out to see what we could turn up. I saw one lone boar heading up a hill but no chance to get on it. It had some place to go and didn't slow up.
Again, a great weekend, good hunting partners, good food (thanks again for the deer/elk BDB, good stuff) and a great area to stay and hunt. Thanks Chopper. Also got to meet the infamous Arrowslinger. Great guy and extremely knowledgable. Great to to meet you AS.
Booked with my bud, CalHunter, for Feb 15-17.... Damn, these are going to be the longest 2 weeks of my life! This will be my first big trip! Sounds like everybody had fun this past weekend! Thanks for the great updates. Good times to be had! I'm looking forward to the hunt and meeting new people!
P.S. I don't snore, I promise...
P.S. I don't snore, I promise...
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Shes a liar snores like a chain saw lol.Just kidding.sounds like it was a tuff hunt but you got into them cant ask for much more then that!
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Thats a big 10-4 on that Kentuck
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Great meeting everyone this weekend and we all saw hogs ,I even got a shot which I missed. I couldnt hear any other snoring above chucks so I cant comment on the decibel level in other rooms. Im looking forward to the next chance I get to head back to choppers . Thanks to all for the great company .
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As you can tell by now, it was a good time had by all...
Quite a few pigs spotted and a few pulse quickening moments, but for this longbow shooter no opportunities to draw one back.
I was able to bring an old buddy along who hunts elk/ducks/deer and upland hard out of Washington and Idaho, he wasn't hunting (he is not a bowhunter.....YET) but was with me throughout the hunt and with BDB for quite a bit, all three of us were together when a HUGE devil pig let out one hell of a demonic squeal (so much so that Kentuck who was at least 600 yards away said it gave him a little scare). It was the first time my buddy had ever heard a wild pig and moments later he got to see the big one BDB had at 60 yards before the wind switched...seeing the "HOLY #$%^" expression on his face was priceless and worth the trip, besides wanting to finally pop my bow boar cheery, my main goal for this hunt was to get my buddy hooked on the whole pig hunting thing.....mission accomplished
It was great meeting you all and I look forward to the next time our paths cross...
Quite a few pigs spotted and a few pulse quickening moments, but for this longbow shooter no opportunities to draw one back.
I was able to bring an old buddy along who hunts elk/ducks/deer and upland hard out of Washington and Idaho, he wasn't hunting (he is not a bowhunter.....YET) but was with me throughout the hunt and with BDB for quite a bit, all three of us were together when a HUGE devil pig let out one hell of a demonic squeal (so much so that Kentuck who was at least 600 yards away said it gave him a little scare). It was the first time my buddy had ever heard a wild pig and moments later he got to see the big one BDB had at 60 yards before the wind switched...seeing the "HOLY #$%^" expression on his face was priceless and worth the trip, besides wanting to finally pop my bow boar cheery, my main goal for this hunt was to get my buddy hooked on the whole pig hunting thing.....mission accomplished
It was great meeting you all and I look forward to the next time our paths cross...
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Chopper's place is the best privet land you can hunt wild boars in this area for sure, glad you guys had a great time! if ya want a seconed chance at some hogs join me mothers day weekend it will be a blast! i thought Homested was of limits? whats up with that! did any one work that AT&T area at all? anyone get any poison oak on their acorns? and what happend to AS? 4 more months and its on agian!...................tra
