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Mike,
I can count on two hands the number of boars like that I've killed in 15 years of hunting the hill country. They are few and far between. Like mature deer they are very aware of their surroundings. They are usually loners and mostly come out only at night. Plus from my experience, they don't show up every night and are hard to pattern.



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These are the kind you don't want to come face to face with when you're on your knees in thick cedar at night with a flashlight in one hand and a pistol in the other.

Best,

GWB

Nice Bob!
Lots of good meat there! That little fellow on the right is the size my little Brother just loves to cook whole on a spit and are really tasty! Me, I prefer pork chops & breakfast sausage.

I've got a feeder here on the Ranch on the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos that's been in the same spot for 22 years now. We've probably shot well over 200 Hogs at that very spot, as they just keep coming to it. I've seen as many as 40 hogs under it at one time.
Anyhow, there is now a water hole under the feeder that's 3 feet deep and at least 12 feet in diameter from the hogs rooting for corn underneath the feeder. Destructive little bastids, and they are hell on our fences, too.

Long story short, When I first set up that feeder, I would put a couple of boxes of strawberry Jello powder mix in with 300 lbs of corn and sprinkled another box on the ground under the feeder. An old timer told me that trick, and I didn't really believe him, but those hogs found my feeder within 2 days and have been coming ever since. I've even found them sleeping under my feeder waiting for it to go off.

Anyhow, any sow 250 lbs or less, we process and it's damn good eating. On the big boars that we kill over 350 lbs, we drag them out on the edge of our cotton field and shoot Coyote's off of the carcass.

Looks like your Model 12 makes a dandy hog gun. Are you using OO Buck ? I prefer #1 buck myself.

Whewwee some big boars there.

I couldn't agree more that they are hard to pattern.
They seem to have a sixth sense on when a hunter is in the area around here.
I was after a big bruiser easily 300lbs. I walked in as scent clean as a hunter can be and sat motionless for hours before the time the boar was showing up on camera. About 2-3 hours after his -usual- time I would hear a snap deep in the woods he was zig zagging coming in so slow I just mentally said -whatever- I have no idea what is making the noise. I wouldn't hear a sound for 8-10 minutes then pop/a twig would break -then not a sound for several minutes ,then a few steps -then nothing .I wanted to turn my Texas Boars Light that direction and get this episode over with but sat dead still. An hour and a half had went by and now the sound of snapping pine brush was within 75 yards behind me. I heard a few steps then again stop -not a sound -talk about buck fever by now I knew it was him. Model seven 308 in hand ----and the wind turned around 180* of which it was suppose to blow that night -he tore the woods down getting out of there within seconds.
I was burning mad --the wind here near the coast truly blows 360* and AGAIN saved a big hogs life !
Hogs are hunted pretty hard here by our lease members and are very smart -killing hogs isn't a big deal -trophy boars are another story all together.
We have a few members with night vision binos/scopes and big boars still eat our corn at will.

Neal, I got a 1 gallon ziplock freezer bag full of 12 ga. buckshot in assorted sizes give to me! So it's whatever got grabbed out of the bag. I think I had a mix of #4's and 000! Whatever it was, it worked.

The pig pipes work pretty good, but a big group of hogs can empty one in a night or two. I shot this guy at one of mine last year.

M-1 carbines are pure fun! Good on you Justin!!!!

nailed him!

Down for the count.

Best,

GWB

I remember that vid Justin -good shot !

Check out the olive/pickle barrel I mentioned here or in revmike's thread ,put just enough holes in it to disperse a few kernals of corn when you roll it .
In a dry area like Texas well not east or coastal texas -- I bet a big 55 gallon barrel would work out great. Hogs would have to roll it around the clock to get two sacks of corn out of it.
Throw in a couple of packs of strawberry or grape jello mix and they might..

Im gonna have to get one of those rollin' type gadgets. Thats kooool!

GW what cal is you Lil Bavarian Carbine? Ive got one in 6.5 Swede. I love it.

Pig pipes are cheap, easy to make, and work.

My Sako BC is chambered for the 308 Winchester.

Best,

GWB

I'm not sure what part of this is my favorite - the old M12 or the overalls and expression of a 1930's bootlegger you have on your face. Awesome!

LOL, nice work KW, bet the last thought on those hogs minds that night was catching a load of 'blue whistlers' from an old M-12 Winchester.

Gunner

Well I've always considered myself more of an entrepreneur than a bootlegger. But I can work with that!

Been here on the place over 35 years. Most neighbors don't mess with us. Mostly they are either all hipster city folk moving to a "ranch". Or messkins buying up everything they can. Spoke with the little old neighbor lady ( original folk from here) last night when I went to the back to check on things. She was happy as a lark when I told her of the episode. She sId she heard me shooting and knew I got some pork! They did a number on her yard. I think this weekend some more pork is due on the pit! Mebbe I'll take Miss Mary a ham or something.

Paradiddle,

I strike an extremely handsome pose.



And yes there's generally a model 12 or a model 94 well within reach.

Perfect!

KW,

good stuff, but.....

be careful, next thing you know some slick hollywood type will be wanting to cast you next to Robert Duval or some pretty young starlet............... put ya' in the movies and make a big star outta ya'




Best,

GWB

No worries GW!!!! My Hollywood days are over!!!! Have dealt with their kind before!

Sounds like you got "horse sense' otherwise known as stable thinking!

Best,

GWB

Just walked back to check trap. Got 2 nice eating size shoats and a piglet. Mebbe hogtie piglet for son to stick in his pen. There were about 1/2 dozen other nice eater size hanging around. Corn and strawberry jello. Try to get pics in morning. Gotta go check on my maw.

I told ya that strawberry Jello mix works wonders on Pigs. It's like cocaine to hogs