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Captjgray
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Landon,
Let me know if I can help you get any info for the North Side.
I can always get ahold of Jodi and ask her to email you as much info as you need.
Like the others on here have stated, the North side is good but it has been getting hit hard. there are a few spots on that side that do not get much pressure still though. and we have been seeing hogs there all year from the South Side
Let me know if I can help you get any info for the North Side.
I can always get ahold of Jodi and ask her to email you as much info as you need.
Like the others on here have stated, the North side is good but it has been getting hit hard. there are a few spots on that side that do not get much pressure still though. and we have been seeing hogs there all year from the South Side
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Nice J thanks man. I'll send you an email of the type of info i'm wondering about. I didnt wanna bug you more than I already do
Right now i'm still focused on getting back up to that south side and lettin the air out of one
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OK...I was trying to get my son on the Jr pig o rama but when I input all his info...the stupid website won't take it...tried calling Jodi only to get voice mail...really frustrating...how did most of u do the process???
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Oh. I also thought there was a $250 manage hunt for youth. Website must be wrong. Bummer
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Website is correct.
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Correction...I'm talking about the $250 Jr management hunt instead of the pigorama...but there's no feedback so I gave up on it...would have been great for his 1st pig experience
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didn't know Jodi was so popular and hard to get ahold of. I guess I would just call her husband and that's about the fastest way to track down a lady. lol
Wolfman.. did you get on for that hunt? good luck to you and your boy.
Wolfman.. did you get on for that hunt? good luck to you and your boy.
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There are pigs all over the North side. You just need to get off the beaten path and do a lot of looking though binoculars. I have hunted the North side for the last 4 years and taken a hogs on every trip. I am not an expert but there are hogs out there. I have seen 50 plus in two days of hunting. My good friend Darrel Frances has told me several times that the hunting is bad this year. Well sorry to say everyone in our group got hogs during those bad years. The hogs are there, you just need to get out and walk and look for them. They have changed there patterns over the years. Now they come out early in the morning and late in the evening. Sometimes you will see them during the day but not to often anymore. They are staying very close to the brush. 10 years ago you could almost find a hog in any canyon but the hogs have change there patterns. I would hunt near the brush and look into the small pockets. This is where you will find your hogs. I will be up there this week. Stop on by, I am in the weekend Warrior 5th wheel with the gold chevy and the white jeep.
Good luck
Pappy
Good luck
Pappy
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well guys??? any luck!!!i
out of the 75+ hunters scheduled to be up there this week i doubt that they get 20 hogs!!! sorry to bust your bubble slayer but north side has been hammered!!!! This is my 10th season up there and i guarantee im up there more than most, and i can tell u that 200 plus members, and all the semi guided hunts they are doing!!! its crazy... i was up middle jan with a group of 4 and they had 2 sep 8-10 person semi guided hunts going.....
out of the 75+ hunters scheduled to be up there this week i doubt that they get 20 hogs!!! sorry to bust your bubble slayer but north side has been hammered!!!! This is my 10th season up there and i guarantee im up there more than most, and i can tell u that 200 plus members, and all the semi guided hunts they are doing!!! its crazy... i was up middle jan with a group of 4 and they had 2 sep 8-10 person semi guided hunts going.....
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I'm noticing fewer pigs on some of the ranches I hunt. I think the drought has a lot to do with it. Most of the smaller streams and springs have dried up. Tejon has developed a lot of stock troughs and stock ponds. These watering sources are easing the impact of the drought but the hog population will still be stressed by having to travel farther for water than normal.
Hogs need about 3 liters of water per hundred pounds of body weight per day. They get some of this from the food they eat but the majority must come from some other water source. Some of those deep, dark canyons covered by a heavy tree canopy on Tejon used to hold small seeps and springs for the pigs but they're dry now (although this hasn't lowered the tick population in those areas....I hate ticks).
I used to hunt late morning to early evening, 10am-4pm. I've changed to dawn and dusk for hard hunting with the middle of the day saved for glassing watering holes. This has helped but I'm not seeing large sounders (100-150) like I used to. Most groups are small in number (20-25) with fewer young ones in the mix. Not good.
Hogs need about 3 liters of water per hundred pounds of body weight per day. They get some of this from the food they eat but the majority must come from some other water source. Some of those deep, dark canyons covered by a heavy tree canopy on Tejon used to hold small seeps and springs for the pigs but they're dry now (although this hasn't lowered the tick population in those areas....I hate ticks).
I used to hunt late morning to early evening, 10am-4pm. I've changed to dawn and dusk for hard hunting with the middle of the day saved for glassing watering holes. This has helped but I'm not seeing large sounders (100-150) like I used to. Most groups are small in number (20-25) with fewer young ones in the mix. Not good.
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I heard 11 hogs on another forum. I was not there so I can't confirm. Any luck Felq?
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Hey! So I've had a busy past few days catching up with all of the work that I missed, I just now got some free time to post about our trip. Here's the lowdown:
Summary: My hunting buddy and I both took down pigs within ten seconds of each other, a few hours into the hunt! But that is not the whole story…
We both gathered information from as many people as we could before we went (BTW, a HUUUGE thanks to a couple of guys on here, you know who you are!). Some people said it would be impossible, others said that there was hope.
As we were cruising out to a place where few people were heading to, I spotted a pig when we got to the top of a ridge. We both jumped out of the truck and chased it down a hillside covered in thick brush. While we missed the opportunity, we both observed an increase of pig sign in the area. We decided to slow down and glass a lot more.
After about a half an hour of cruising the area, we parked and walked out onto a good vantage point. We decided to go out on foot from there. I took one ridgeline down the valley, while my hunting buddy took the adjacent ridgeline. Our plan was to push down the hill and meet after about 10 minutes of recon. About 1/2 mile and 500' down from the car, a large boar bolted from some brush right next to me. I was completely caught off guard! I chased it as it ran in a direction away from my hunting buddy, into a creek area. I could not find the boar, so I walked over to get the attention of my hunting buddy. As I got back to the top of the ridgeline, I passed some more bushes that drew my curiosity.
That's when I heard a shot.
I looked across the valley to see a group of hogs running away, and two bull elk jump from their beds. I heard a squeal. Within a couple of seconds from the gunshot, I heard and saw a boar bolt from those bushes right next to me. HOLE-LEE-SHIAT! For a quick second I was disappointed that I missed another opportunity. When I saw that the boar was running directly uphill, I raised my rifle, placed its front quarter in my crosshairs, and pulled the trigger. I watched the boar roll on to its back and its legs twitch in the air. Dropped him where he lay! This whole paragraph was about ten seconds of real time!
I walked up cautiously and threw a couple of rocks at the downed boar. He didn’t move. I kicked its hooves. Nothing. He was dead, with a shot through the neck (the Barnes Tipped TSX made a through & through with no expansion :-/, a topic for another day). Then I shouted over the valley: “I got one! You!?” My hunting buddy confirmed. He said he would come over to me, and we would get to work on the pigs. I watched two more bull elk walk RIGHT up to my hunting buddy, not more than 20 yards away! I thought they were going to charge and I was shouting to my buddy… but they were spooked as soon as they saw him. Cool though!
It was about 3:30pm by the time we got my pig cleaned. It weighed 208lbs on the hoof. It took us well over an hour to drag it back up to the truck. By the time we got to the truck and re-hydrated, it was dark. We still had to retrieve my buddy’s hog.
While we closely eyed the spot where he took down the pig from my vantage point, we could not find his pig in the dark. There were no points of reference, and we could not tell if we were too high or low. The brush was also very thick on his side of the valley. We searched at least three different ridges, and walked up and down through the whole area in between. At dark:30 we decided to get to camp before they started to look for us.
After skinning my hog and getting it in the cooler, we ate and got to sleep at 11:30pm. We were up again at 4:00am to get set at first light to look for the other hog. (to be continued, and I’ll post some pics…)
Summary: My hunting buddy and I both took down pigs within ten seconds of each other, a few hours into the hunt! But that is not the whole story…
We both gathered information from as many people as we could before we went (BTW, a HUUUGE thanks to a couple of guys on here, you know who you are!). Some people said it would be impossible, others said that there was hope.
As we were cruising out to a place where few people were heading to, I spotted a pig when we got to the top of a ridge. We both jumped out of the truck and chased it down a hillside covered in thick brush. While we missed the opportunity, we both observed an increase of pig sign in the area. We decided to slow down and glass a lot more.
After about a half an hour of cruising the area, we parked and walked out onto a good vantage point. We decided to go out on foot from there. I took one ridgeline down the valley, while my hunting buddy took the adjacent ridgeline. Our plan was to push down the hill and meet after about 10 minutes of recon. About 1/2 mile and 500' down from the car, a large boar bolted from some brush right next to me. I was completely caught off guard! I chased it as it ran in a direction away from my hunting buddy, into a creek area. I could not find the boar, so I walked over to get the attention of my hunting buddy. As I got back to the top of the ridgeline, I passed some more bushes that drew my curiosity.
That's when I heard a shot.
I looked across the valley to see a group of hogs running away, and two bull elk jump from their beds. I heard a squeal. Within a couple of seconds from the gunshot, I heard and saw a boar bolt from those bushes right next to me. HOLE-LEE-SHIAT! For a quick second I was disappointed that I missed another opportunity. When I saw that the boar was running directly uphill, I raised my rifle, placed its front quarter in my crosshairs, and pulled the trigger. I watched the boar roll on to its back and its legs twitch in the air. Dropped him where he lay! This whole paragraph was about ten seconds of real time!
I walked up cautiously and threw a couple of rocks at the downed boar. He didn’t move. I kicked its hooves. Nothing. He was dead, with a shot through the neck (the Barnes Tipped TSX made a through & through with no expansion :-/, a topic for another day). Then I shouted over the valley: “I got one! You!?” My hunting buddy confirmed. He said he would come over to me, and we would get to work on the pigs. I watched two more bull elk walk RIGHT up to my hunting buddy, not more than 20 yards away! I thought they were going to charge and I was shouting to my buddy… but they were spooked as soon as they saw him. Cool though!
It was about 3:30pm by the time we got my pig cleaned. It weighed 208lbs on the hoof. It took us well over an hour to drag it back up to the truck. By the time we got to the truck and re-hydrated, it was dark. We still had to retrieve my buddy’s hog.
While we closely eyed the spot where he took down the pig from my vantage point, we could not find his pig in the dark. There were no points of reference, and we could not tell if we were too high or low. The brush was also very thick on his side of the valley. We searched at least three different ridges, and walked up and down through the whole area in between. At dark:30 we decided to get to camp before they started to look for us.
After skinning my hog and getting it in the cooler, we ate and got to sleep at 11:30pm. We were up again at 4:00am to get set at first light to look for the other hog. (to be continued, and I’ll post some pics…)
