Tejon Hunt May 14-16 Apps Ready - Get 'Em In!

[Live2hunt]

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that is an awsome setup, you are not coming this year? Are Sol and Ed coming.
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Unfortunately i'm one of the three who back out:bag-on-head:GOOD SET UP....
I know only few soul have the guts to go down that canyon..
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Apparently with XDHunter pulling out, no one else know how to find me in the deep dark canyon after I shoot my pig at last light. So I had to pull out as well. That meaning, Jason, you and your dad have that canyon all to yourselves. I thought we had a name for that canyon but it escape my memory now. Good luck to you, your dad, and everybody else that are going. I will look forward to read some stories afterward.


L2H

 

[XDHUNTER]

Apparently with XDHunter pulling out, no one else know how to find me in the deep dark canyon after I shoot my pig at last light. So I had to pull out as well. That meaning, Jason, you and your dad have that canyon all to yourselves. I thought we had a name for that canyon but it escape my memory now. Good luck to you, your dad, and everybody else that are going. I will look forward to read some stories afterward.


L2H

Xao canyon...:toast-yellow:

 

[rogsworld]

Uh Oh did you drop your daddy's gun?:lol bashing sign:

no but i'm pretty clumsy. Is there a range?

 

[k_rad]

I don't know it's my first time going???

 

[Speckmisser]

There's a range up by the cabin if no one is using it this weekend. There's another place to shoot that I can show you on Friday. Please do NOT target shoot or "practice" along the roads and other parts of the ranch, and remember, NO GROUND SQUIRRELS, Coyotes, or other animals or birds. Pigs only.

 

[rogsworld]

Thanks Spec.
Last year I went to Az. took a shot and missed by a foot! The gun must have been whacked somehow three times at the range in the last couple months and it's been fine since then. One or two shots after transport seems logical to me.

 

[bobby7321]

all the available maps online and from the ranch are so-so from what I've seen.

the best maps I've seen yet are by using

ArcGIS Explorer and then using a TOPO overlay layer. you can zoom in pretty close and see most of the ranch roads pretty well.

here is a simple tutorial
Internet Scouting with ArcGis Explorer on Vimeo

 

[jb229]

No worries, Eric, and Sol, (sorry if I mispelled your name) more piggies for me. LOL :toast-yellow:

Drove past Tejon at 4am tuesday morning at it was about 37 and windy.

can't wait.

 

[XDHUNTER]

Its kinda weird.. JHO members log in today that suppose to be hunting Tejon.
Tag out early? let hear em boys!!:smiley-mouse:

 

[DirtyDave]

I left Tejon at midnight last night and got home about 2am this morning.
K-rad and I started hunting about 1pm on friday. First time at tejon for both of us. Drove the rhino around a bit and checked out the scenery. Parked on top of a hill and walked down into the creek at the bottom. Worked our way up the creek and came to a spot where it crossed the road. We walked on the road paralleling the creek, just about to head back up to the rhino when I hear a grunt from across the creek to my right. PIGS! 4 of them about 50-60 yds away, they see us at the same time and trot up the draw just out of sight. We start stalking up the draw and get about 75yds up and I hear a squeal. They only went about 75yds up from where we first saw them and they went about their business. I kneel down and take the broadside shot at about 50yds with the 30-06 at the biggest one out of the 4. They run up the hill and the one I shot only made it about 20yds up and started tumbling down about 10yds and gets hung up on a log. Kevin took a shot at them running with the Muzzle loader, but we couldnt find any blood from the other 3 that went up and over the hill.
It was about 4pm when I shot this little boar. Hog tied his feet together and carried him like a duffel bag down hill to the road. We were only about 150yds from the road, couldnt have been any easier haha. He was somewhere around 100lbs on the hoof.:hog chewing:
My first big game animal and my first kill with the rifle.
I want to thank Phil for putting this hunt together and helping all the new guys out with some great info and a great time. It was good to meet all of you guys too.
Now I gotta figure out how to butcher this thing

 

[Jagermeister]

Sorry I didn't make it up this weekend. We had a chance to go fishing instead and took that. I hope to read more reports of successful hunts!

DD: This is a good guide for cutting. Most important thing you need to get right is the CHOPS. On a 100 pound pig those will be awesome. Slaughtering and Butchering by Dynah Geissal Issue #23

In terms of tools for butchering up the pig when you do chops, a saw will be helpful. You can use a miter saw or something else from your shed made for wood with small teeth. Just clean it up good before you start.


Jagermeister

 

[gnn961]

Dirty Dave did anyone connect on the evening hunt? It was nice meeting you and the others and wondering if you now have the Tejon bug also?

 

[DirtyDave]

Hey Carl, good to meet you too. As far as I know everyone got skunked saturday. Jason and I were the only ones with hogs friday night. Hopefully they got some this morning, but I have not heard from anyone yet.

 

[clay32]

I got a good one last night about dusk, decent size boar from 50-60 yards, got some great hams and backstraps in the freezer. It was an honor to hunt with Speckmisser, that dude is a freakin' legend, cool as can be.
I hope everyone had as good a time as Rogsworld and I did, saw some great wildlife (the bear was pretty cool!!) and met some great people. Nice to know I'm not the only noob out there giving it a shot.
Mine:

btw, I got the Tejon bug, bad!! How could you not?!?

 

[hiline345]

First I would like to thank SPECKMISSER for setting up this hunt. Second is a thousands thanks for letting me pick his brain. He gave me a lot of knowledge on pig behavior and what they are looking for when they bed down. Information like this could be used anywhere not just at Tejon.
Congrats on everyone who connected with a hog. My big, black, ugly 3 inch tusk-er is still waiting for me out there somewhere he shouldn't worry cause I will find him soon.ig-laughing:
Finally meeting all the guys was cool and I hope to see you guys on other hunts maybe FHL or another Tejon ( yes I will be back ).

 

[hiline345]

here are some pics

 

[k_rad]

I have to say that Tejon is the most fun you can have with your camo's on! We got there friday morning and had breakfast at the Flying J and met everyone. One of the things I looked forward to the most was putting faces to the "handles" on JHO. Finally got to meet and shake the hands of people that have helped me out with great advice on this site. So finally we get to the campsite and Dave and I set up camp as fast as we can and then we go to Phil(specmisser) and say "Can we hunt now?" and "where do we go?" So Phil give us some options and we hook up with Roger(Rogsworld) and Clay (Clay32) and in two rhinos four guys who have never set foot on this place, head out together onto the massive Tejon Ranch. With-in minutes we loose Clay and Roger. (To our credit we did slow down at one turn and looked for them), but come on we are here to hunt! After about 7-8 miles we come to a high hill that looks onto a north facing slope with deep dark cover(Pigworld) We decide to park the rhino and walk.

SIDE NOTE: for those of you new guys(like me now) to this site that will be scouring the old posts for any kind of hunting clues or little gems about Tejon ranch here it is: We were at the head of Specmisser ridge. You won't find it on any map so you'll have to go on the Ham Slam next year and if you bring some elk steaks to share, someone will probably point it out to you "Nuff Said"(thats for you larry).
OK so we walk down into the creek bed and along it for a little ways and Dave hears a snort and says PIG! (but real quiet) right away I piddle and then I see a flicker of a tail and we start the stalk. after about 5-10 minutes of slowly stalking Dave raises his rifle. I can't see them but I can hear grunts so I raise the muzzleloader and dial down my scope so I can try to pick one up one a run at around 50 yds. BANG! Dave shoots and the pigs run out of a bush to my right and kind of mill around in a panic for a second and I pick up brown hair as they are running up the slope and BOOM! I let fly. One of the pigs starts to roll back down the hill at this point so I thought I hit him!. So we both start looking for a second blood trail because we thought we got two and one of them we were going to have to track. When we couldn't find any blood trail leading away we come back to look at the downed one. After our CSI murder scene investigation and looking at the 30.06 sized bullet hole going in and the liquid lung-butter poring out of the exit wound we determined that dave had hit the first pig and it started running up the slope in a circle and then when it realized it was dead it fell over and tumbled back down the hill spewing pig juice everywhere. For me: "A swing and a miss"

We take some pictures, gut the sucker and stick him in the rhino and continue to hunt for my piggy. Lots of sign no pig. That night we ask Clay and Roger if they got one they say"no but we saw a Bear" I say "A Boar?" "No A Bear". You mean a Boar not A Bear right? "Not a Boar a Bear! HAHAHA!

Next day we go back to the same spot thinking maybe we can chase them out of their beds. No pig. Noon time we go back to camp and kind of pick phil's brain and make an action plan. We pick a spot that no one from the 2010 Ham Slam has visited yet (new guys pay attention)the Cement plant. We head over there and find a "grassy knoll" overlooking a valley onto a dark north slope we wait till dusk and then I notice a black shape that wasn't there before. I glass it and say to Dave PIG!(but real quiet).

After I piddle I then try to find a rest for the 7mm rem mag (because I am taking no chances with only a single shot ML) I get him in the scope and...(to be continued)

 

[jb229]

What a weekend, congrats to those who got hogs and it was great to put faces with everybodies name. I will post up some pics and story once i find my camera. Got in just before midnight last night.

 

[k_rad]

:lol bashing sign:JUST KIDDING!
OK where was I? Oh yeah so I get the poor sucker aquired in the scope and just when I am figuring how high and to the left I have to compensate for distance and bullet rotation the sucker walks behind a tree! It is right at dusk where objects in the scope are starting to kind of pixelate and fade. Just then Dave say's PIG!(but quiet)and I look over at his spot not wanting to take my eyes off of this one, but his had walked behind a bush also. So we just sit there as the light gets dimmer and dimmer and hope for one of these bad boys to show, but... no pig.
So Dave packs up that night and heads home having fully gone above and beyond the call of duty by staying and helping me to try and get a pig. But now I have no ride for sunday.
CrapsVC (forgot your name)offers to give me a ride up to the "the onion fields" We get to his spot I look across the canyon and spot two huge boars. PIGS! I say(quite but breathing hard) I have not caught my breath yet from the hike out and now my heart is pounding like crazy. These boars are so big that it makes it seem like they are much further away and smaller so when CrapsVC says the reading on his range finder is 400 yds I am like "taking a shot!" They are also standing in a small opening in the brush and slowly grazing while moving to the left out of sight, so I know it will be a repeat of last night if I don't get on it now! Well my heart is pounding from the hike, the excitement and the antihistimine that I took that morning so the scope is dancing and the pig is moving and I squeeze but I know that it was an iffy shot. The 300+ pound boars skeedadle into the brush and we don't hear a big sack of ham rolling down the hill side so I then start the hour long hike around and over to that side of the canyon to see what I can. To make a long story longer, There is no Joy in Mudville... I find no blood but a monster pig turd the size of a loaf of bread and what looked like a pair of Steer hooves crashing through the underbrush! These were some big boys... Oh well, having left my ride on the other hill I started to walk the 4.5 miles back to camp but heard two shots and hope Craps got one!
Great meeting and hunting with this group of guys: Jason, Highline,Lefty&son,Dirty Dave,Rogsworld,Clay,Craps and any I can't think of I hope we can do it again...Oh yeah and thanks for listening to my long wided stories!:bounce-aqua:
Thank you Phil for setting this up and helping try and put everyone on pigs. And thanks Jesse for starting this site. This was truely an experience I hope to repeat for as many years as it takes to get a Ridge at Tejon named after me...

 

[hiline345]

:lol bashing sign:JUST KIDDING!
OK where was I? Oh yeah so I get the poor sucker aquired in the scope and just when I am figuring how high and to the left I have to compensate for distance and bullet rotation the sucker walks behind a tree! It is right at dusk where objects in the scope are starting to kind of pixelate and fade. Just then Dave say's PIG!(but quiet)and I look over at his spot not wanting to take my eyes off of this one, but his had walked behind a bush also. So we just sit there as the light gets dimmer and dimmer and hope for one of these bad boys to show, but... no pig.
So Dave packs up that night and heads home having fully gone above and beyond the call of duty by staying and helping me to try and get a pig. But now I have no ride for sunday.
CrapsVC (forgot your name)offers to give me a ride up to the "the onion fields" We get to his spot I look across the canyon and spot two huge boars. PIGS! I say(quite but breathing hard) I have not caught my breath yet from the hike out and now my heart is pounding like crazy. These boars are so big that it makes it seem like they are much further away and smaller so when CrapsVC says the reading on his range finder is 400 yds I am like "taking a shot!" They are also standing in a small opening in the brush and slowly grazing while moving to the left out of sight, so I know it will be a repeat of last night if I don't get on it now! Well my heart is pounding from the hike, the excitement and the antihistimine that I took that morning so the scope is dancing and the pig is moving and I squeeze but I know that it was an iffy shot. The 300+ pound boars skeedadle into the brush and we don't hear a big sack of ham rolling down the hill side so I then start the hour long hike around and over to that side of the canyon to see what I can. To make a long story longer, There is no Joy in Mudville... I find no blood but a monster pig turd the size of a loaf of bread and what looked like a pair of Steer hooves crashing through the underbrush! These were some big boys... Oh well, having left my ride on the other hill I started to walk the 4.5 miles back to camp but heard two shots and hope Craps got one!
Great meeting and hunting with this group of guys: Jason, Highline,Lefty&son,Dirty Dave,Rogsworld,Clay,Craps and any I can't think of I hope we can do it again...Oh yeah and thanks for listening to my long wided stories!:bounce-aqua:
Thank you Phil for setting this up and helping try and put everyone on pigs. And thanks Jesse for starting this site. This was truely an experience I hope to repeat for as many years as it takes to get a Ridge at Tejon named after me...

Great pis and awesome story
I am ready to do this again soon.
I think clay has pig fever.. hell who doesn't ?