Tejon POR Updates

[richw]

the pig weight 142 field dressed the biggest was 290 field dressed when I left thismorning

 

[Lurediver]

Richw nice job and good lookin pig!

 

[BDB]

Well, I"m home and tired as hell and lots left to do. It was a great time but My head was a little more this morning, WAY too much tequila last night !!!

I'll post a pic later when I get it off the camera. Little meat pig, 116# dressed.. I think there were 20 dead as of 10am when I left. It was at least close to that number.

I an't figure out how 20 minutes of hunting has left me so tired

 

[BDB]

I woke up and packed and was gone in about 12 minutes as I slept in and wanted to get off the ranch in the 10:00 run. I didn't get a chance to run around and say by to people unfortunately.

No real story to my hog. I was driving around the ranch and walking a couple of ridges trying to find a place to set up for the evening. At 4 Speck drove by and invited me to tag aong with him to start the night out. We were walkng down a ridge about 10-15 minutes in and I spotted a hog up on a hill to our left Speck ranged it at 350 yards. I took off after it and closed in to 80 yards and put a bullet in her brain. We had a tough 200 yard down hill drag to the dirt road, that was better than I was expecting when I first arrived and saw how steep the place is!!

It was great meeting new people and putting faces with handles on a bunch of folks.

Congrats to everyone pig or no pig. Rich great job on the skinning pole, it was awesome, thank you!!!!! Congrats on your hog too

 

[Rancho Loco]

Just rolled in after stopping at my folks place for mom's day dinner.

Tough hunt for the crew - The moon, and I think the heat seemed to pin them down in their beds real early.

I got one last evening at the last second of last light, shot him out of a wallow after listening to him and what seemed like another hundred up deep in beds on a high, steep hillside.

I had a shot with my .44 mag at another one in a bed earlier in the day, but it was a clean miss. And in the morning I sneaked up to one in another bed - 6 feet away, but the pig was higher than me and the shot was a bad angle at the top of his head. I held off, and he bolted in a blink of an eye.

I'll take my 160 lb. boar into the butcher tomorrow...
It was great to meet more of the crew and see again the folks I met on the other JHO Ham Slams.

Time to unload and unpack.

 

[Rancho Loco]

And I've got to tell everyone - that 290lb boar was a monster. Easy 350lbs on the hoof, maybe more.

 

[beastslayer]

powerman - thanks for posting my picture. nice caption. you're getting into my script. you will be part of the story if the movie rights is bought. you know, I lived just 70 miles east of Hollywood. now I wish we would have been neighbours had Merced country gave me a good offer on that job. You have the better picture and I'll appreciate it if you can e-mail attach it to me. I intend to frame it with the two mushroomed bullets from my trusty 30-30.

rich - nice job on the pig and the skining pole. I want to be your partner if you decide to commercialize it. JHOers who were not there. The skinning pole has racket to raise your carcass, counters by the side to place your knives, non-slip surgical gloves, bone saw, sharperner (that blue thing hanging by chains on the side on my picture) disinfecting wipes and most importantly, 4 place holders for your ice-cold beer while doing the skinning.

baboltin - that's me, beastslayer, with the spotted pig on powerman's post.

 

[beastslayer]

Caption on my pciture: If you think my face is messed up, looked what happened to the other guy (the pig).

 

[SacFireJT]

Congrats RichW!

See you in a few weeks!

 

[beastslayer]

powerman, you took the time and trouble to post my picture. where's yours? and the story. was yours the first that was shot (in my language, filipino version of spanish phrase, that's called buena mano -- signifying luck followed by further good fortunes).

 

[powerman]

Beastslayer, if you scroll up to the first pic, the one ScottOsan posted, that's mine on the right. You'll see my Dodge in the background. I think he was the second one shot. As for the story, well it's not nearly as exciting as yours, but he didn't want to go down. He didn't go far, but he came toward me after a spine shot right above the shoulders so I hit him head on with a heart shot right under the chin. He turned and trotted away from me so I hit him again in the back of the head, That's when he went down.
I smoked the two front shoulders and had some for dinner tonight. Good stuff.
Great time, great people, fun, friendly, helpful, I can't wait to do it again.

 

[dirtpoor]

RUSSMAN66, thank's again for your help dragging my pig up the hill, it was only 125lbs dressed but it must have gained about 100 lbs by the time we got it to the top.Thank's to Speck for putting this together, had a great time , Bill

 

[One Track]

Congrats to all you hardcore hog huntin' machines!

 

[spectr17]

I stayed late Sunday night with Spec, Ozstriker, Joe, Big Dog, George and a couple others.

George popped a nice one. Joe also got a nice hog and has another war story to tell. No bloodletting on his part but it was funny as heck. I think that made 19 hogs for 38 hunters.

It was hot, dern hot, mid 90s on Saturday which made it a death march with a pack crossing those sunlit ridges.

More later and some pics

 

[Surfswest]

Congrats to all!!! Wish I could have been there. Maybe next one......life permitting.

Frosty

 

[ironworker]

WOW !!!! what a great hunt Speck and the JHO guys put on.
First let me say thank you to Phillip for everything he provided and the hard work it took to make it happen.

THANK YOU

If anyone has pictures of that big calico hog taken by my brother please post them up, I took like 15 pictures but my camera took a crap and the pictures turned out worthless.

The hog had to weigh at least 350 - 375 before it was dressed, hard to believe but Barbara said it was the biggest hog ever taken during a POR or any other time she could remember.
We just installed a winch on the front of the Jeep prior to heading to tejon and if it wasn't for that we would have never gotten it out of the bottom of the hill by ourselves.
It took an hour just to get the hog from the ground to the platform on the back of the jeep which was only like 20" high.
We quartered it up the next morning and it filled up two 160 Qt coolers and the cape and head were stuffed into a 150Qt cooler for the taxidermist.
Very cool indeed.

Thanks also to Rich for the time and effort put in on the awesome skinnin rig!

Thanks again,

Rich.

 

[BDB]

I have two pics of the big pig but they aren't that good. Hopefully someone got a good one of it hangning up!

 

[BDB]

And here are a couple more pics. Mine breaking the cherry on Rich's meat pole, and a little scenery shot.

 

[spectr17]

300 lbs is the biggest wild pig I've ever seen in CA and that hog was a lot bigger. 375- 390 lbs my guess live weight.

A real monster.

Hogzilla Jr.

 

[HOGHUNTER714]

Nice work gents. Sorry I missed it....Superduty, how did you do? I didnt get a call...Come on bro, fill me in....