Hey Guys:
It was time for the annual hog hunt.
Last year's story is here: https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...41548/all/Trophy_Hog_Blondie_the_Wild_Bo
This year I took my Ruger Alaskan in 375 Ruger. It wears a 4x Leupold. Ammo was 270 grain Hornady Soft points (but we get ahead of ourselves).
I took my buddy Bob this year. He and I went to Thunder Ranch in 2007 for the "revolver" course. I am the “gun guy” of the two of us. Bob is the Martial Arts guy (Fourth Degree Black Belt, Tae Kwon Do). Bob was shooting a Howa 308. Nice rifle. The rifle shot standard federal 150 softpoints well, so he used those.
Trip started out in Eugene, Oregon, at 8 am Friday, May 15. We drove to Medford and visited BlackBird to buy our California pig tags. BlackBird is always worth the trip. It’s a hardware, gun, ammo, hunting, truck supply store. The link is here: http://www.blackbirdshoppingcenter.com/
After getting our tags and soaking in the BlackBird aura, we drove over to Luigi’s Italian Sandwiches for lunch. This is a small drive in type establishment. The entire building is maybe 30 feet long and 15 feet wide. I had the Garbage Grinder. Ham, pepperoni, salami, provolone, heated in the oven. The topped with green pepper, onions, pickles, olives, and olive oil.
AWESOME! Get one if you drive through Medford. Link is here:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/luigis-italian-sandwiches-Medford

Our bellies full, we gassed up and headed down I-5 to Red Bluff, CA. The ranch is 15 miles west of town in the hills. We arrived at 3:30 PM, Friday, May 15. The guide was already there. We unloaded, hit the commode, and went hunting.

The guide has a new buggy, a Kawasaki 4 seater. The impending death of his older Polaris was a subtext for the 2014 hunt.
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The guide had already scouted the wheat and safflower fields—which were full of sows with piglets. So we headed North, then West around the edge of the property to a stock pond where the guide has a game camera. We glassed from some high ground as we went. The Game Camera was chock full of pig, deer, and black bear photos. But there was no immediate sign of pigs.

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