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My daughter Taylor and I had another great hog hunt in Central FL. I knocked down two decent boars with my Sauer 101 in 338 win mag, and Taylor got a real nice red hog with her Vanguard 308 using her own hand loads with Barnes 130 TTSX. It was a great hunt!

That looks familiar, who did you guys hunt with???


Maybe the same one I did....

Ingwe, I took her to Bear Bridge in Eustice

Yep...I was there a couple years ago..hit a COLD snap and pigs weren't moving...got one anyway and a damned bear tried to put the Hoo Hoos on me! Live in montana all my life and get charged by a bear in Florida!

LOL We had a bear walk in on us too. Didn't charge though. Seemed unimpressed with us and walked out. We had TONS of hogs around us but it only lasted a couple minutes. But it was long enough.

WOW! Good pic!

It was 38 degrees when I was there and the instant I shot the only pig I had a chance at I caught movement 20 yards away out of the corner of my eye. It was a sow ( bear..) putting her cub up a tree, and she was open for business!

I talked her out of it, luckily or there would have been a LOT of explaining to do!

That pig your daughter got was a good 'un!

Thats crazy about the bear! I would LOVE to go on a bear hunt somewhere.

Yea she is really happy with him.

Congrads on the Hogs! I was deer hunting in Eustice back in 1983, and saw a Huge Bear cross the 2track about 40 yrds from me! at that time I didnt think FLA. had any bears! I was later too they have alot in that area!

I like that red pig, congrats!!!

Very nice indeed. Congrats to both daughter and dad. Great times there.

Thank you all....great memories for sure!

Nice hunt. I havn’t hunted with those guys, but it looks like they have a pretty good supply of hogs there. I mostly hunt hogs near Lake O, which is much closer to my house.

Nice pigs! I've always liked the red ones. My BIL had been chasing a red one for a few months but could never get a shot, and one afternoon he shot a muddy ol' sow not far from a drainage ditch. When we took her back to camp and washed her off, all we could see was copper hair underneath all that mud. Congrats on those pigs.

Thank you guys! Yea she is really excited about the red one. She wants to have a half body mount done. Should look pretty cool when done. Now if we can just find a place this year to get her a doe in FL.

That one will make a gnarly mount for her!

There are a lot of pigs in the USA

Lots of good eats! Congrats

Ingwe, I agree. I will post pics when it is completed.

Thank you all! And yes, hanco, there are tons. Some places are totally over run!

Can you post particulars on the outfit and or a link, please? thanks!

jorgeI

here ya go:

40540 Swift Rd (43.41 mi)
Eustis, Florida 32736

(407) 466-6803

Ask for Scott- he's an awesome guy!

I like this pic. I think I got it from here. look at all those SOB’s

Belt feed needed.

Pop claymores

Yea, I took that pic from my hunting stand that morning.

They definitely had tons of pork. The smaller ones would come in first, but if you were patient and didn't shoot a little one, the larger ones would try and sneak in late in the evening. Funny thing is...I was worried it would be like shooting tame animals in a fence, but not so! If they smelled, heard, or seen you...they were all gone in a cloud of dust!

I usually hunt public land for hogs, but wanted to try something different since I was on a time crunch. Glad I did.

You need claymore mines set up out there.

Pigs have better noses than deer. It’s hard to kill pigs out of a bow stand. They will smell your ass quick!

Good work. I like the grey one the way it blends with the sand. Curious if you have herd of "Mule Shoe" hogs in Florida? It seems like it is a genetic throwback with either a single hoof or the hooves fused together, supposedly goes back to the Spaniards.

Tejano, No I have never heard of them. Would be cool to see one though.

I'll be hunting sometime this week in someones backyard in FL ..He has a group of eight hitting the corn at night.

A few weeks ago I was busted from about 75 yards as the result of a brief shift in the wind. A boar came out, threw his head in the air, and was gone. And I hadn't been anywhere near where he was. But boars don't get big by being stupid. Sows with shoats and piglets, on the other hand, seem to be somewhat less cautious - "somewhat" being the operative word, there. I'm not sure why that's the case, but it's been my experience.

they can see better than a lot of people think . i have had them see me move at 80yrds in a 20ft ladder stand

If you're still they'll stand and stare at you for a while. Move and they're gone.

the ones hear will run if you stare at them .they are harder to kill than a deer

about 175 yds aways




and add a 100' or so elevation,




they ain't got a clue!





ya!


GWB

Shot a couple on this last trip from about 130 yards...that far from the blind allows you a bit more movement etc...

I still hunt hogs, but don't ever let them get close enough to smell my ass. Not the way I roll.

Sound doesn't seem to bother them much, if it's a natural sound. Clanking metal will often send them to cover, but crunching leaves and grass generally won't. Squirrels and armadillos can sound like a rhino coming through the brush, so the pigs are used to it. Movement isn't so bad if it's slow. As for staring straight at them, one thing I learned from years of duck hunting is that a bare face generally lights up like a beacon. A camo face net takes care of that. But if the wind shifts and sends human scent their way, the bigger ones simply disappear.

r mike head nets do not make no diff. eye to eye contact on deer & hogs at 75 / 80 yrds where i have hunted the last 30 yrs will spoke them . mite be cuzz we hunt em year round

Head nets make all the difference down here in the swamps.

No such thing as a long shot around here.

Fun and good eating.

When bow hunting at 17+ paces, I try to never make "eye contact" with deer or hogs.

ya!

GWB

Congratulations on a great, and successful hunt with your daughter! And......a really big “shout-out” to her, for being involved in hand loading. There’ nothing like making a kill....with your own hand loads! 👍 memtb

Caught 11 this am, 9 we’re females. They would have piglets this time next year if not sooner. 64 grain power points ripped these bastids up!