first coon of 2023...

Benjamin with the first Jackrabbit of the year

Which suppressor?

banish

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I smacked this bitch right in the face last night when we interrupted her chasing some deer in a field!

Damn, I haven't shot anything but paper all year!

A little frosty out there in Deer Trail , from the looks of that coon!

Me neither. Like to think I'm pacing myself

17 hornet?

17 WSM

Very cool.

My boy wanted to prove he could shoot his .204 just as well as the ol man last night. 168 yard shot with 39gr BlitzKing and BangFlop was the result!

Good shooting.
That 204, 39 grain BK is a coyote smashing SOB.

Rifle particulars??

White Oak 24” uppers and we built the lowers ourselves … nothing special on the lowers … Larue triggers. Sightmark Wraith NV scopes with Sniper Hog Lights for IRs. We scan with AGM thermal monocular. Love to buy us a couple thermal riflescopes as well but can’t justify the price for just a handful of coyotes every year.

First calling spot of the year. Then the big male that came in. And my son with the bunny.

Here's a pair

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And another pair Rio7

dead coyote wayTF out there. Too far for me to want to trudge thru all that snow to go get him.....

Off the back porch this evening using my .204 WOA upper and night vision ….

Been a slow year so far around here. Only varmint I’ve shot since the 1st.

One less rooter. They have been slow around here as well. Not much action on cell-cams for January, as our pigs are usually getting hungry about now.

Not much time anymore but I had to go before work today. Peewee Critr call still works.

Nice, called or target of opportunity?

Congrats.

I’d call that an apex critter, and pretty sure you done the deer herd a favor!!!😳👍

Targeting called....

6'11"...

Very nice Greg.

NICE!

Thats a good sized lion!

Score!
Luv’n all the cats getting killed lately.

That is pretty bad azz. Nice job.

Nice Greg !!!

Congrats Greg. Nice one!

That cat is a bruiser, congrats.

That's one Big Ass Cat. Congrats, good job.

huntsman22, What scope are you looking through there? Nice shot.

Nice cat! Hunts that scope looks like something that a Navy Seal Sniper would use!

LRHS

We've been doing a lot of coon calling this year. It's the most fun I've had in a long time.

How do I get the pic to be larger? I'm using www.postimage.com

Thanks fellas. Crazy it happened.

Been a great year overall...

Those look pretty fully grown. Boars?

GregW, congrats on the cat!

I’m sure the rest of us would love to hear the story.

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Damn!

Those coons are really furred!

This was walking down hard road just before dark last night thought it was a Jack Rabbit, at 200 yrds,till it turned to look back, bad mistake. Rio7

Thats a pretty cat!

Dang I thought I busted alot of fur but Rio doesn't mess around. Stacking them up. Quail eating sob. Nice work. Keep it up.

Rio, I can’t believe how covered up in not only varmints, but the deer too in your neck of the woods!

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too old to have to work this hard for coyotes. Been almost 20 years since I had to break out the snowshoes.
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not all get a ride. Killed a couple like this.
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You did that one a favor

UGLY!!!! Rio7

Stinker !!

Female in heat, had to spin in a big Cactus, had to pick her up by the tail. Rio7

#4 Buck works for me. Rio7

Two are better than one. Rio7

Windfall, This place is just a big lunch bucket for Predators, Lots Of Deer.


Coyote 10, About all i do anymore is hunt predators, can't kill them sitting in the house. Rio7

Couple more coons here...these 2 came to the call across a road and nearly on top of each other. Damn fun to watch. A lot of the bigger ones have actually been sows, but I did have one big boar earlier this year that was about 26lbs.

This one went 26lbs. Lone boar that came out of a big brush pile growling and pissed off.

That's cool.

Those are some big azz coons. That looks like fun, I'm gonna have to give it a try. Lots of coons on our lease. I never heard of anybody calling them in around my area. from your pic's, looks like they come to a call pretty good.

I get 2-4 Coons a week while hunting Coyotes, never weighed one but i mine are much smaller than Dirt Bags. Rio7

I was fixing to say those coons are as big as coyotes. And they dang near are.

You're right! I've been in on the trapping of maybe 200 'coons in TN, LA, AR and TX. Only one of those 200 was as big as the 'coons Dirt Bag is killing regularly. Those are some monsters! And I've never seen a 'coon so well-furred.

RS

Thanks Fellas!

I'm in NWKS and we had some really cold weather come through and they furred up fast! Seems like most of the time the sow comes out pissed off and ready to fight. Sometimes the younger ones will too, but other times they will run up another tree or disappear back in the den tree. The fur buyers don't like them when they are killed with a shotgun, but that's what works.

We turn on the call (coon distress #2 on the Lucky Duck call), wait 3-5 minutes and if they are there, they will peek a few times, get nervous, and either come down tree and run straight to the call, or screw around on the tree and go up and down a few times. We don't normally shoot them on the tree....we like to see them come down and run across the ground. It seems more sporting that way.

Also from my experience...You may call some really good looking den trees and never see a coon. I read once that coons can have up to 15 different dens. But when you find the right one its a pretty cool experience. Multiples happen a lot, and sometimes they will come from the damnedest places! Also I have had really good luck with brush piles...the older the better. We called one giant pile that had 8-10 coons in it. When we started calling they all started fighting with each other and making a helluva racket! 2 eventually came screaming out across the ground to the call.

Coons are big time Predators on our Quail and Quail nests, we try to kill all we see but trapping them works better for me. Rio7

These were trapped, but they're dead critters in 2023 anyhow...

NICE Tinman!

Kilt 5 of these varmints on my drive home yesterday evening.

T-Man, I would like to get a Wolverine, but they are few and far between in South Texas, Good Job.Rio7

Kid, Hogs are a little more plentiful in South Texas, than Wolverines, Kill all you can we need all the help we can get. Rio7

Cold Wet Crappy morning, perfect for calling critters, i know people that call his Moose hunting weather, we are short on Moose here, so Coyotes and Coon's will have to do. Rio7

DIRTBAG, Has turned me into a Coon Caller. Rio7

RIO,

What load are you running through that AR that is killing all those critters, big and small?


RS

RipSnort, 55 gr S.P. works well. Rio7

those wolverines are just bad to the bone.

Tiny is a monster....






or crazy.


Love,
Vinny

Portable rifle rest?

Baddass!!!

This guy is old enough to Vote. Rio7

And now that he's dead hes a registered democrat ...ready to vote!

I don't care how the heck you got a wolverine. Car, bullet, trap, golf club to the head, that is the schitt.

ingwe, I put him where the people that register Dimorats will find him, Coyote Heaven. Rio7

YESSS! Its a blast!! LOL

Thats kind of an insult, dont you think? The smartest democrat isn't on par with the dumbest coyote. I feel sorry for the coyote that has to spend eternity with democrats!

ingwe, Sorry

I meant Won't Find him, not will find, Brain Fart. Rio7

Good! I like coyotes and I hate to think of them having to mingle with common retards, even in the afterlife.

Been seeing this Cat's tracks and Scat for a couple of months, tried calling her 2-3 times No-Joy,
This evening was beautiful cool no wind, so what the hell I'll try again, she came out at about 60 yrds and sat down behind a prickly pear no shot, could see parts of her in my scope waited about 5-7 min. and she took 2 steps more and sat down again,now I could see her DRT nice female. Rio7

I do not believe there is a coyote or bobcat left around here. I'm not even seeing fresh tracks.

JamesJr, If you are not seeing Scat And Tracks they are not there, every thing on this Earth leaves tracks. Rio7

Tonight

Very nice! Lots of venison for the family. As I see you are not living in an overcrowded area. Congrats for that, too.

That there is a wild hog. No venison.

Lots of folks, besides Americans regard the meat of any wild ungulate as venison. It doesn't apply to just deer.

👍🏿
Learn something new every day.

+1

RS

You can call a wild pig venison but that term went out long ago. Is a pigs azz pork.

2 Coons came in this morning got this one didn't get a very good picture, this ones Blind in both eye's he was following the other Coon, I missed the first one high.

Got the Coyote on the next Stand. Rio7

Entered a local coyote/cat/coon/crow calling contest this past weekend. We called one up on the first stand but he hung up a ways out. My partner took a shot but missed high. We then went on an epic dry streak and didn't see another critter until about 3pm. We called 3 young coons up in a tree but they wouldn't come out. Hit a virgin piece of ground a bit later and was able to get a few to play the game. These 2 were really young and small. Didn't seem like there were many older or larger coons in this property.

A lot of traffic on the Ranch Roads this Morning, I thinned it out some. Rio7

Shotgun all of your called coons? Looks like Nitro Mags in the buttstock carrier in other pics.

Assume #4s?

Manny and Rosa, ranch hand and wife, lost a small Goat, and then Their Chickens started to disappear, asked me to come look,
Cat tracks out side the Chicken pen, set a Snare and a couple of foot holds, got the cat and a coon last night, reset see what i get in the next few days. 2 Coyotes and other Coon, called in on North Ranch Rio7

Dirt Bag,

Always wanted to enter a Predator contest, but there aren't any close to us, up North there's some real big contests, that pay big money, $ 100,000.00 for the biggest Coyote, the same for the biggest Bobcat, Biggest Pig, Most Pigs, lots of Sponsor Money. Rio7

Thank you for the information about venison/wild pork. Even the meat of game birds, rabbits and hare ist called venison over here. Of course we use the term "Wild" or wild meat/Wildfleisch.

Yep #4's....I'm not picky though. I do run a Carlson's Coyote choke....It's designed for 4 buck and other buckshot, but it patterns well with #4's, just a little low. I have to remember to "cover them up" on the longer shots.

This one was just a local one that the Archery Club puts on. It draws in some good teams, but the payback isn't big by any stretch. I always enjoy the BSing and the check-ins and seeing what everyone else got.

Got a Coon and a Small Skunk At Manny and Rosa's Chicken pen with traps, then went about 2 miles west to Santa Elena windmill and called in 2 Coyotes 1 was a big female very pregnant, other young, wind blowing 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph couldn't hear my caller so gave it up. Rio7

DIRTBAG,

Ranch hands and me had a contest a while back 3 of them against me, for lunch at the local greasy Spoon Mexican joint, I got 11 Coyotes they got 7, and I rubbed it in pretty hard and ate all I could, only contest I have been in. but we had a lot of fun. Rio7

Headed out Sunday AM to try for some coons if it isn't too windy.

I like that Blue isn’t saddled to just one gun.

🦫

Beaver 10, I change guns every time the wind changes, try to enjoy everyone, what the Hell that's what I have them for. Rio7

Cold this morning very light wind, hunted till noon, made 4 stands screwed around with Bobcat for over a hour finally go a shot, nice female, as so got a Coyote on last stand young male. Rio7

What the heck.........may as well show #3 for the year.

My mature boar streak that I had been on ended at 6....as I caught this decent sized female yesterday. 38" from nose to (sans hair) tail.

Nice T.

Man....Rio7 you are a machine! Great work!

T-Man, Your Wolverines are cool as HELL!! Rio7

Thanks Rio.

They're really rewarding. A LOT of work and even at $500-$550 a pop, I won't be making any kind of a profit compared to the fuel money I spend, but I enjoy trapping them anyhow.

T-Man, If I was hunting & Trapping Predators for money I would have starved years ago. Rio7

Technically, if you trap and sell pelts, you are in business, even if you only sell one pelt. Hook up with a accountant to learn about the book keeping needed and what you can claim as expenses to show profit and loss on your tax returns. When I was doing it you had to actually earn a profit in 5 years to continue doing so. A way to make your hobby less financially painful.

JD, I my case i hunt and trap Predators for just that Predator Control, Predators get about 50% of our Fawns and Exotics fawns and calves, plus about 40% of our game birds nests and chicks, most Predator hides in South Texas are not the Quality fur buyers want and not worth skinning. Rio7

Last winter I saved all my receipts for fuel, scents, new traps and a bunch of other things I could relate to it, as well as the receipt for what fur I did sell, down to my accountant. They said unless I made X profit, or lost X amount (or something along those lines it---can't remember the specifics) it wasn't worth even mentioning on my taxes. They didn't even look at my figures, as when I gave a rough estimate, they said I wasn't even close enough to making it worth the trouble.

I didn’t draw out on anything this year and had nowhere to hunt but I thought I’d brag on my buddy. I can’t remember what rifle that is with the coyote. For comparison with the snake, he’s 5’8”.

It's about time for the pigs to start getting a little more active here, as the river bottoms are getting some water and the acorns are all but gone. Left a treat of soured corn and fruit punch powder on Sunday and this guy was nibbling on it by Monday morning. He came back at dusk Monday evening with some bros and wiped it out.





He made the mistake of coming back again at dusk yesterday (fair bit of fog), although he was solo. A 129 Interlock in the neckbone ended his Valentines Day. No need at that time to employ the green light or the thermal scanner, but the illuminated Forceplex reticle was rather helpful.

Dang nice tushes!


RS

Nice pig Jpro. This being a hunting forum he has to weigh at least 375lb. And you probably should have had a 45/70 to shoot him with. 😁

375 internet pounds is probably about 210-220 hands-on pounds, as best I could guestimate. I like it when they drop right in the lane, so you can simply run a strap through a hock and drag them out with the SxS.

As an aside, there was a shooting on the Refuge that joins my place about 10 days back. Story goes that two guys took hog dogs after a boar (not legal on Refuge) and the boar got one of the guys down with tushes working on his groin/inner thigh. Other guy panicked and shot the hog-wrangler through the upper arm and upper leg with a 17HMR FMJ. We were watching lots of blue and red lights head off down the badass muddy road to get to them. Guy had his pants all cut up by tushes and several extra holes in his arm/leg, but he lived. Not sure if they got the boar or not. Lol....

Put a snare at Manny's Chicken pen, thought I would get another Bobcat?? this Stinker don't look like a Bobcat or Smell like a Bobcat. Rio7

This one has been in a Hell of fight scars all over his head left eye poked out recently, wonder what the other one looked like?? Rio7

Nutria control program

Mike they have a bounty on them? What’s the best to slow them up?

That looks like good shooting. Rio7

Mouser in the Hay Pasture, last evening





Another one. Rio7

The fur is no longer worth anything. They are not native and multiply like crazy. If you are participate the state run nutria control program the bounty is $6.00 per tail.

We will ride through the marsh in the airboat to find them. I use a 22LR to shoot them. Small targets that are moving and shooting from the boat makes for some fun practice.

Sounds like a hoot!

Looks like a lot of offseason fun happening on this thread......

Good work Everyone! Going on a nutria shoot sounds like a bucket list hunt for me.

I have a friend that lives in Houma, La. that hunts the hell out of Nutria, i have been invited many times but have never gone, maybe i'll go this year, looks like a lot of fun. Rio7

You ain't kidding! Nice work on the vermin guys!

Rio, you must have a dead critter grave yard that is huge. I could bury one occasionally, but you stack them up every day!

Windfall, I hunt every day about 8 months of the year, some day's i don't get anything some day's i kill the hell out of Predators, I am addicted to predator hunting, and Trapping. and have a big area to myself to hunt and trap. just lucky I guess. Rio7

Out checking water this morning, see dirt flying out in the road, what the hell is that?? drove up to about 10 ft away, and the critter looked at me like go away i'm busy, so i shot him. Rio7

That Ruger has seen its share of use!

RS

Ripsnort, My Ruger .22 is beat up from riding in my Jeep for over 25 years, it quit shooting last year??

Kaywoodie and Ed to many letters, tore it down and did their magic on it and got it running again,

It's killed a couple of dump truck loads of critters over the years,and still shoots better than I can if I use good Ammo. been thinking about buying a new one but don't know why??

Rio7

Hunting heavy Black brush Shotgun works Great !! Rio7

Nasty smelly Mange Rio7

No pic as I didn't carry my phone this morning. 1 sow coon came to the call.

10 gauge Federal Premium #5 did the trick.

10 GA.

You got her that's what counts. Rio7

Yep, hopefully save a few turkey eggs.

What kind of 10bore were you shooting? I have a 26” SP10 thats hell on waterfowl but I haven’t shot it in years.

BPS.

Got it for HS graduation. Gave it to my buddies boy last year. I killed a little bit of everything with it in 29 years I had it.

Killed a lot of turkeys with it that could have been shot with a .410.

I was at the house yesterday when Camera #2 pinged. The family units will often linger, so jumped in the Mule for a mad dash and then made a quick hike. They'd left already but were circling back toward the camera, as I could hear them about 80yds into the woods. Managed to put a 77TMK on a sow with a nice "whump".









Didn't have time to fool with this one, so I drug her out for additional coyote bait to the pasture.




Was dropping her off when the phone pinged again from Camera #1, about 3/4mi away, but I didn't have a green light with me and dusk was rapidly approaching. Will go see if he and I can reconnect in an hour or two.

Glad you are the one to have those problems. Damn fun hunting but I don't wish those bastards on anybody.

Caught this Critter Chittin on my back porch. Rio7

Pregnant female came to a Howl. Rio7

Must be coyote breeding season because I looked out the window this morning and saw one in the field behind my house. Grabbed the .270win, stepped out on the front porch and peeked around the corner of the house. Here came at least 4 of them straight towards me. I could tell it must have been a hot female they were chasing. She stopped at about 60 yards from the house and I dropped her. The second in line took off across the field right to left and I rolled him at 115 steps. That shot is definitely up there with my all time best.

Buzzards got to them before I could get a picture.

How frigging long before you thought about a pic?

Very hungry buzzards.

Brother and I went out last night and sat a while on a hot spot. Had a sounder come in about an hour after dark. He'd never shot a hog before, and thought it was cool to get it done with digital night vision (Wraith) on a suppressed AR-10. I enjoyed watching it happen through the thermal handheld monocular. He hit her with a typical lung shot you'd make on a deer, which is a touch far back on a hog, but the plus side was that she ran nearly right up to where we'd parked the Mule on the woods road. A 10yd drag is a good thing

He must've cut it open. I've read that buzzards find them faster if ya cut em open, otherwise they won't hardly touch em.

Yep. Moment of Truth pic from last night. Onside foreleg was trailing a bit, which often causes point of aim to be a bit far rearward. Fun to be able to record such things.

Snares, or you guys see many skunks out and about in the daylight?

cage trap

Nice grips and a fine looking revolver!

Guy

This guy was hopping across the pasture broken right front leg, not his lucky day. Rio7

Not bad for a few hours of critter callin.

Night hunting?? Good Job. Rio7

Yes sir. Started at dark finally quit about 1am. Hunted a few contest but didn’t do much good this year. Only hunted 1 24 hour thank goodness. I don’t like the long day and all night especially if nothing is coming in.

Black Brush real heavy so i went with the Shotgun, ruined this guy' day. Rio7

Looks like a drive by!

ingwe,

Shot 2 but one ran into the brush and i couldn't get to him, crawling on my knees, this one DRT, Rio7

Fatal case of Saturday Night Fever.

Both solo boars that suddenly had semi-regular evening schedules this past week (via cell-cam). I got there about dusk and was done two hours later.





Spotted with a thermal handheld and then shot with a Wraith IR/NV scope on an AR-10. Cheapo Norma Whitetail 150s.

Older boars, one of which had whittled down one side of his tushes, as well as an ear.

Give me a guesstimate on weight for each of those big boys.

Thanks, RS

J’ those are some nasty old boars. Congrats.

GreggH

My guess would be, "a lot". (grin) Had to drag one about 10-15 yards, as he didn't afford me a neck shot. He was heavy enough. I keep a length of heavy nylon strap with HD carabiner clips on each end, as it works for hooking them up to the Mule, as well as being a pull-handle for dragging them out of the woods. It would sure be easier if they had antlers.

The last couple of large hogs I hung on a scale went 260 and 270lbs, but it has been a while. These guys had to be in that league or better, but I'm really not the best at gauging them.

You kidding Jpro, anywhere else on the innernets and those would be 4-500 pounders easy. Complete with bulletproof shields requiring hardcast 45/70 loads at a minimum. 😁

Good shooting. 👍

Likely true.

I’ve always found the .308 to be hell on pigs, even with plain cup/cores and body shots. That bullet impact “thwap” you get to hear when using a suppressor never gets old, that’s for sure.

Man those are a couple of Bruisers. Nice job. I think I'm gonna have to get me a few cell cams.

Cell-cams definitely help when there's a change in movement patterns due to moon/weather and the 1AM hogs turn into 7-10PM hogs. I can't stay out all night! Lol.....

That's exactly what I need. I shoot a few of them, but tired of trying to figure them out. Seems like they're always there when I'm not.

February photo of my two year old great grandson covering a chicken raiding coyote with his six shooter. His Dad killed the coyote a few minutes before with 12 gauge 3 inch magnum #4 steel bird shot.

This was a persistent coyote. Over the previous month it had tried five times to get into my grandson’s chickens, including trying to dig under the fence in three places. Grandson had seen it three times, and it killed and ate a neighbor’s chicken at midday. He tied up his dog, kept a shotgun handy, and slid open a window to shoot it one morning when the dog barked.

25 yard shot and the coyote made it 40 yards before expiring. Olympic Peninsula, WA. Short yearling male coyote in very good shape.

That would be a full grown yote here.

I wish I had the opportunities for hogs and such that you guys have. I caught this groundhog grazing out of the back door. The CCI "supressor" 45 grain bullets are impressive.
Take care!
Ricknamiko name meaning

I took my nephew out on his first pig hunt. He was able to connect with a couple.

Looks like a good day in the woods right there. Two sows?

I visited another property last night, located about 5 miles from the house. Pigs have been rooting up practically every square foot of cleared area, including plots, roads, even our parking lot spot. So I set up a cell camera and a ground blind.



They showed up Friday night a bit after dark, so I made plans to be there Saturday night.




Slipped in there about 40 minutes before dark and set up with thermal and NV.



They rolled in about 9:30, raising all kind of hell. Could hear them coming a hundred yards out. Tried for a double, but there was just too much fighting and jumping around.




Left out with the alpha sow. Good use of a couple hours.

I’ve laid up a bunch of that ammo. Need to apply it to some coons, possums, and skunks.

Nice fat sow. When they come in like that things are pretty hectic. Tough to get a double. Good job.

went out yesterday for one last fling with the coyotes for the season. Love this time of year when they like to talk back.
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shot this big guy a couple weeks ago. I almost hauled him home to get him tanned. Big Purdy son of a gun for March.
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Wide open country right there. What are you shooting?

that be my .22 CM running 80 gr. Berger VLD.

They don't sneak up a guy out there very often.

TR
Mostly don't but sometimes.

A little early but could not resist temptation any longer........shot 7 or 8 last night with the .223. Most around 250yds. Did offhand one at 80yds.

The first of many you'll see from this weeks hunt...223 of course...

OK might as well put this one in here too...

ingwe well done. How are the iron sights on your CZ. The rear sight seems real far foward.

They are just fine and yes the rear sight is far forward, but it allows old eyes to focus on it better that way.

Ingwe, Good Job, BUT!!

Mine are Uglier than yours.








Rio7

Nice lineup right there. Looks like a fairly dry location. I’m used to pigs coated in mud.

Here too. There needs to be water near by to have any pig action. When the water dry's up the pigs disappear. When the water comes back so do the pigs.

They've got better teeth for sure, but I'll have more pics to post, and they'll compete with your uglies....


Teaser pic: How's this one for ugly?

Super Grade 22 Hornet…

ingwe, your pig is damn sure UGLY. Rio7

Hows this one for ugly?

All those nice color patterns, you should make a full-length coat....

I might have to. All I can say is when I'm hunting don't show me a spotted pig or a blonde pig....

Jim, Did you kill that prickly pig with a Gun or a Axe?? Rio7

25 Paces with a .45 LC, just like in the Movies. Rio7

"just like in the Movies. Rio7", I watched some CLint Eastwood movies this weekend and I'm envisioning a pretty quick draw here

Got him with the little Sig 365xl.

Oh crap! Thats gonna be hard to beat! Especially a quick draw on a spotted pig! Never killed one with a handgun. Knives, yes, but not a handgun....

Carry my .45 LC in a shoulder rig, not a fast draw guy but hit what i'm shooting at once in awhile. Rio7

Good eating. At least here in PA they are

This one was a young one. Pretty small.


I bet you would have to be hungry to eat one here. We dont have many very nice trees to eat.

You don’t shoot porcupines, you pick them up and make a pet out of them…

No pets for me.


Catching, sedating, and pulling quills from a 150 pound guard dog is fun enough!

Heres another from the week just past...big, ugly.

Yeah, my dogs seem to think so !

ingwe


YEH !! That one is Damn sure UGLY Rio7

Jim , I'm not a fan of Porky's, I have pulled Quills out of my dogs, my horses, and a couple of cows, not fun to deal with. Rio7

Daily double with the 17CCM

Shrapnel, Good Shooting. Rio7

I caught-killed 23 last weekend. I enjoy catching the bastards. We hardly ever get one over 200 lbs. male in 5 th pic weighed 190

Hanco, 190# is a good sized pig, the biggest I have killed was 347# and 326# and they were eating cattle cubes from under our bulk tanks, guy's were getting sloppy filling our feed wagons. Rio7

Not much for them to eat in the hill country. I killed some I couldn’t drag an inch in the piney woods. I can drag a 200 pounder a little ways. They can get real big if they have good eats! This was killed on Weirgate lease in Newton county




This one in Madison county, weighed 400

Serious ? When they get that big do you eat them or just bury/dispose of them.

Feather weight, If it's not hot i usually take out the back straps, and the throw them in our gut pit.i carry zip locks in my jeep just for back straps. Rio7

Hanco I killed a big pig about like those about 20 years ago, but didn't have scales i have now. it took 5 of us to load him in my pickup. and we just about didn't get it done. wish i could have weighed him. Rio7

I wish they could have weighed that gray pig. The man in that pic is 6’4” tall. It’s hard to judge pig weight. I would have bet a hundred dollar bill the 190 lb pig would have weighed 210 or more. The biggest we have weighed in Burnet was a sow that weighed 210


They killed one in Livingston county a 650 four wheeler could hardly drag. We had no scales

Snow goph!!!!

Stuck

Kinda' like this pix of Walterhog on AR in the Africa Hunting Forum........



IMHO,

One of my pet peeve's is to see a guy standing 2' to 4' behind a critter. It can weigh 100 lbs and look like 300 lbs.

Hogs and bears are two critters that appear to be much heavier than they actually are, and of course when no scale was is available, the weight is "estimated".


Ask me how I know





250 lbs., weighed





275 lbs, weighed.






+/- 275 lbs., weighed



The guy in the pix is 6' tall. At a weighed 315 lbs. this is the heaviest hog I've weighed in 24 years of hunting the Texas Hill Country.


End of rant!

ya!

GWB

Agree Geedub...that guy with the buffalo sure has big fingers!

( as if you need to 'longarm' a freaking buffalo...)

Or it can weigh 3 pounds......


bwahaha!

That is the biggest rifle I have ever seen!

Look at the size of this FINGERS !!!! lol

Got a Mongo prairie dog like that once...

Schit...I didn't notice that before!


Hahahaha!

Oldest with his first badger

Awesome!

stinkin' damn things......

Hahahaha!

Jim, Looks like your Northern Badgers are bigger than our Southern Badgers, ours all smell like Skunks. Rio7

thats two guys ....can only see fingers of one.....bob

Finally got a warmer day

Another one...

45 minute hunt last night, about 700yds from the house. Boar and a trio of sows have been frequenting this spot. I drug 3 of them out.









Boar came out on this little lane right at dark. 150gr .308 to the neck dumped him. His three girlfriends popped out about 15 minutes later, with two of them lined up. Another 150gr broke both their necks. All over before it really even had a chance to get started.





The adjoining river is near flood stage, so I suddenly have some new "targets" pushed up on my place. Cell cams, thermal handheld, and Sightmark Wraith NV scope keeps making their lives rather rough. All three cell cams had shooter hogs last night at 8-10pm, so I'm trying to strike while the iron is hot.

NICE! And all pretty good sized!

Yeah, I was waiting for my old draggin' strap to break as I towed them out. My back wasn't up to trying to load them in the Mule. Lol....

I hear you. When they are getting up towards #200 this old boy and tossing them around anymore!

Gotta luv' the 150's in a 308 Win.

ATN or Sightmark, Night Vision?

in either case, mighty fine!

ya!

GWB

These are the inexpensive 150gr Norma Whitetail loads. I recall your Sig liking them also.

That scope is the original Sightmark Wraith HD 4x. I picked it up used here on the classifieds to pair with the little Pulsar monocular I have. Works fairly well so far, although I can certainly understand the desire to go further down the NV/Thermal rabbit trail with all the good products that keep coming out on the market today! The image on the Wraith is fairly decent, when I take the time to focus the thing and don't just jump straight on the trigger.

I have owned two of the ATN night vision optics. They work best when focused on a relatively stationary tableau . For scanning they are not the best. Can't tell ya' how many critters I've dispatched over the last 10 years or so (IIRC on the time frame) using my night vision optics. For a good while I continued using the night vision, even after I had two thermal optics, because they worked so well for the type of hunting I do, (sitting, watching a designated spot, waiting for a critter to show up).

As to the inexpensive Norma ammo. That is all I use in the Sig. It flat works. I caught it on sale at Palmetto State Armory IIRC for $12.50 per 20 rounds plus shipping. I bought 20 boxes.

Good stuff!


ya!


GWB

Thought this to be interesting, so throwing the pics up here. Trail camera was grabbing shots the other night, unbeknownst to me, but kind of cool. Camera was toward the end of my lane, pointed back toward my location.

Here the camera must have been tripped by the sudden movement of the boar dropping to the ground. Rewatching the video, he held that position for 2-3 seconds before falling over. The bright illumination is my IR light needed for the NV scope to work in the darkness.




Second pic shows my IR light coming back on a few minutes later, and looking at the black shape in the trees on the left side of the frame shows why. The coons had already given away the approaching sows and I'd verified them easing through the timber with my thermal handheld.



Thinking back, probably 3/4 of the hogs I've killed this spring were busted by coons, which clued me in to their approach. At least those little varmints are earning their keep to some degree.

Mighty fine!

The woods come alive at night.

Between game cams, night vision, thermal and suppressors, the learning curve never levels out.

Piques' my interest even more!

I had this game cam set to do 10 second video clips.

340 of these clips on this game cam disc.





ya!

GWB

I LOVE hunting at night Geedub!

That is an excellent photo, Huntsman.

Yes, indeed! No kidding, just like the painting of an old master. The tree stump, the grass, the light, the shadows.....

But, tell me, how did you manage the raccoon not to move during exposure time and while putting on make-up before?

I got these two that keep molesting my feeder. They climb the legs then hang onto the timer/motor box and shake the He!! out of it. They manage to empty the whole thing. I have about a dozen of them on the camera having a party over a pile of corn.. Time to start thinning out the heard.

Gopher with a .220 Swift.

Good for that young man!
Rick

Dang sure isn’t a carbine….lol

Richard missed it because of recoil....but Daniel got to see it explode.


The look on his face was priceless!

You need spinner like this, will stop the coons from shaking corn out. A coon trap ain’t a bad idea either

Thanks for the info, Unfortunately they only make them for 1/4 in. shafts/12v motors, Mine are 6v with 1/8in shafts. Guess I need to step up to 12v. I have caught 2 in a trap. Now the rest are wise to it. I put a camera on it and they wont even go close to it. There smart bastards.

I have all 12 volt 1/4 shaft feeders, just built 4 for a friend like this





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Very nice. Looks like I might have to make the switch to 12 volt

Feeders here were so much easier when we didn't have bears.....

Bears would be a challenge, could they jack up a hanging feeder on a tripod if legs are staked down well??

Or hanging from a tree limb. What about hanging from a cable strung between two trees?? I rig a winch up like this, use 3/8 all thread for ubolt. I have several like this. You can make to fit any size tree.


I have no bear experience, but don’t see how they could get to a feeder that hangs off a pulley on a cable that’s strung between two trees???





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We tried staking legs but they’d gang up and still get it. Winched up barrel they can’t reach is only thing we’ve found to work.

Got the HK P7 out and kilt a rabbit with it…

Shot these Idaho Rock Chucks Thursday with my TC Contender 223 while it changed from rain to heavy winds to sleet & then a bit of sun light. The Chucks don't like wind so it was slow for quite a while & just before I was about to leave this big old boy started playing peek a boo with me for quite a while.
You could tell he had been shot at before because most times all I could see was an eyeball sticking over a Lava rock watching me hide behind my Jeep. I spotted him 4 different times before he finally made a mistake & gave me a shot, he is a huge Chuck, longer than my gun with a 14" barrel! I had to shoot between the cows & over that snow bank into those Lava rocks to get him, it was 156 yds. He's a real pig!
The next 5 were half a mile away on a very steep Lava reef that dropped off towards the river. I could only get a reading on one of them & it was 241 yds, most all of them were about the same distance. I went 5 for 5. In the last photo you can see the little Lava reef where I had been parked when I shot them. All were big, large males. One of them fell down into a crevice, which is very common, most of the time I only recover about half of them.






Dick

^^^ Very nice, looks like a lot of fun.

50-100-450 and a gopher…

I think that is fantastic, you show a picture of an old, awesome, high condition, special order rifle. Couple days later, shows that it works per Winchesters intent. Nice. I am jealous again.

Pretty cool. Looks like it did the job.

This 75 year old guy is blind from that picture. It's great to see things the way they used to be.

Not furred up but, not alive either.

Carpe Diem!

I saw what you did there...

Took a walk along a couple of bean strips early afternoon. No bug dope so bailed before skeeter fest.
Saw 4, got 4.






2 pups from one den and the 2 adults each from diff den.
Used my dads rifle. He passed away 2 yrs ago so figured id give it a try in memorial

Pups dont hold together and even one of the adults was a bit sploded. Hence rifle blocking the mess in pic 1.

👍🏻👍🏻

first of the year and first double of the year. Some mounds had as many as 8 pups up.
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Does a suppressor make a gun more interesting?

I would say so…

Damn, wish I was there...

+1


RS

It really was a great day...

No one will ever say Shrapnel does't use enough gun!

Forgot my rangefinder at home but dialed it for 450yds. Got to range it later so to take the mystery out. LVSF in 204 Ruger with 32gr v-max and a stiff charge of 8208 under it.

Glassed up a group of pigs still lingering in the fields just after daylight. They were working a tree line about 1200 yds from where I parked the truck. I waded through what seemed like 10 miles of waist tall, wet grass to close the gap on them. With the wind at my back, I made it up the last rise and where I thought they would be, they were not. Figured theyd winded me. After a few minutes I caught movement and they had moved off to my left probably 150 yds. A group of roughly 15 pigs. I settled on the smaller brown boar, sent the first 250 NPT through both front shoulders, abruptly dumping him in the tall grass. The group scattered across the hillside, and I saw what I thought to be the largest pig of the group running directly away from me. Sent the next 250 into the base of the tail and exited just under the chin. She tumbled to a stop and never kicked. First shot was 147, the second was 205. Rifle is a 700 BDL in .338WM 250 NPT at 2700.

Great story. Pretty scenery. Two "good" pigs.


RS

Nice shooting...

Nice quarry! What type/kind of stock is that on your BDL?

The stock is a Mcmillan Classic, painted by RickBin back years ago.

Ever thought about using “more gun”?

Cool pics for sure. Shot a few over the years with .338WM rifles and they were rather effective.

Gotta say, Shrapnel has some damn nice shooting rigs. Very nice.

I was filling feeders in Engle, Tx. yesterday. Got a call from my oldest son wanting to know if I wanted to do a thermal hunt last night.

I boogied on home. Got there at 7:45. He picked me up at 8:30 and we got out about 9:30pm.

Started out slow but things picked up about mid-nite.

Made 5 stalks and shot once from the high-rack.

Hit somewheres north of a dozen, recovered 8.







ya!

GWB

Rare tree climbing ‘yote…

GWB, eight recovered is a dang nice evening!

Nice work! Sounds like a party

Just a few more to share.

6.5CM 140 hybrid



6.8 110 HPBT



250 SWC @ 1100



155 Scenar



.300BLK 190 SubX Lip squeaked her in and shot at 17 steps

Took the old lever guns and Colts out yesterday. Nothing like shooting gophers with a Winchester 50-100-450, Whitney Kennedy 45-60 and a Colt 38-40…

Looks like a leopard sleeping off a big meal.😁

Another victim to the 204/helos combo at 380yds

"And another one bites the dust!"


.22 Hornet using Sellior & Belott 45gr sp ammo

Black Panther!!!!!!

Was bored so took the #1 .22-250 out. Saw 3, shot 3. Tried to video, Gopro aint got enough mag.
Need to get a camcorder before deer season.

I like to start small and work my way up to bigger critters....



Reserved for: Antelope

Reserved for: Mule Deer

Reserved for: Elk

Any acrobatics or was it a head shot?

Neither nor.... It's his pet cat and the pic was staged. The order was: play dead cat now! And it worked again. Soon you will see that pic in a Burris ad.

Tres mas from last weekend.

Two w/thermal....






one snared.....






ya!

GWB

Keep after them Geedub!

Yep. Shoot cshit out of them

38/44 Fun

Lmao. Those suckers do get a bit jumpy when a bullet smacks them. Struck me funny. Carry on!

Cats die in the most animated of fashions, especially when head shot

Damn, don't let the green weenies or your girl friend see that! I do like the bug-eyed one the best.

From last Friday eve!



decent boar.



ya!

GWB

Nice shooting Geedubya!

Garden gopher. Springfield 840 aka savage 340.

Nice little clover patch.

Thanks. Just had 2 turkey hens pecking through it. No poults.

Guess I need to Huntsman a few more coons.

Nothing too exciting just a couple of Groundhogs a little over 100 yards each. The one has some interesting color. Savage 93 17 hmr . Cci 17 gr and a Burris 4.5-14

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With one shot? Or?

LOL, .17 AH and you're lucky to kill two in one shot with it, but this time it took a shot per p-dog.

Bow hunting gophers is a bit more challenging…

No gophers,




but we do have "squill"


ya!

GWB

Good going to you both with the archery kills. Nice shooting

Colt

Finally had a bit of extra time to see what's been making things disappear in the garden. Lettuce protector doing it's job.

A new one to me. Had to walk around and stay standing just to see the little s h i ts this morning due to the tall vegetation. Still had a good shoot. Killed 122 in 3 hours. The .17 Fireball was on fire.
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I love this little rifle

And another this morning.

Sure is some nice wood on that one, I'd love it too.

Love the stock on your Contender. What cartridge?

.22 Hornet. I had the frame and found the barrel and wood in the 24HCF classifieds. Wood was a bit worse for wear but I glued up a couple cracks and finished with TruOil. T/C had some nice walnut at times.

you kilt the whole fam damily.....

I don’t discriminate.

It looks really nice. You did a fine job.

Good to see you here my friend.

Thanks TB.

Where does one find that many badgers at one time? I'm from the South and have never seen a live badger in the wild.

Thanks, RS

Alberta has lots. Ravens too.

Thats a nice pile of fur there ! Nice shooting!

Thanks.

Loving it! Keep them coming!

What calibers are you using.

The badgers get a 222 Rem 40vmax
The winter coyote gun is a 222 Rem Mag, again with a 40vmax.

223 Rem Bartlien 7.7T with 53Vmax

Thanks,

Makes me want to get the new to me ADL 222 out and get it tuned up.

Sure miss my triple2, it was my big gun, in Australia.

Accurate as heck & super easy to load for.

18 years & I still remember it's best load data !

I dont think Ive seen that rifle before. Whats the scoop?

A Sako A1 223 Rem in a Brown stock. My front seat truck gun. Same one with the Raven above.

Who puts a "scoop' on a firearm? Must be something that only a spelling Nazi or a drunk Irishman would do... LOL!

Been really wanting to put together a 17 fireball
S.

MT DD FAN you need to learn how to read . you sound like the dumb ass here

Keep 'em coming Remington!

He's busy!

Bit the bullet....

Be careful that you don't run out of badgers!

They just keep coming, crawling out of holes in the ground.

If Remington ran all the photos of his varmints, we would be out of bandwidth...

No doubt!

What cartridge is your favorite badge medicine?

I like the 222 Rem and a 40 vmax. I have not shot a better varmint bullet. I use it in the 222/223/222RM as much as possible

Thank you. That's good info.

I love to hunt groundhogs but those badger pictures are really cool. They are terribly destructive from what I understand. Thanks for sharing.

What a great picture!
Whatsa matter? Prairie doggin getting a little slow?

What’s that chambered in and what’s it sling’n

Targets of opportunity last Thursday night!

(Time stamp incorrect.)

ya!

GWB

Must have gotten bored shooting prairie dog sized targets huh? 🐝

It is a 40-50 Sharps bottleneck, shooting a 40 caliber 280 grain gas check bullet. It is the third from the left which is a 40-90 bottleneck, 40-65 Winchester, 40-50 SBN, and 44-40 for size comparison…

Got the bastid thats been playing hide and seek with me out back by my fruit trees!

Saw this one testing the perimeter of my garden fencing. 38spcl wadcutters make a satisfying smack at 20yds!

Bastards dug into the dam on my pond, now I’m leaking water and having to drain and spend $$ to fix it. Been watching for weeks and lucked into two big ones today within 10 minutes of each other with of all things, a 12ga.

Took a couple minutes earlier today to download a couple vids from August thermal porker perforating.

Three Weeks ago......




Two weeks ago.......





ya!

GWB

RemingtonPeters, you've got to be running low on badgers pretty soon!
And here I thought that Wisconsin was the Badger State. Maybe so, but it isn't because we have that many badgers. Alberta has to be the badger province given the numbers that you've been posting.

WTF is that thing with the arrows stuck on it????

There is no shortage here. I enjoy hunting them. They are a neat animal.

Trying to post pictures. Let’s see how it works. My NULA 250 AI…

Well, that's a fine picture.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Never hurts to hunt with the appropriate footwear!




ya!

GWB

Too Kool for Skool Geedub!!!

Geedub we need to hear the story of this hunt!

Yessssss! Where did that take place? In Texas? Do you utilize skin and meat?

They sure are BIG lizards, but they tell me everything is big in Texas!
Take care,
Rick

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Love that set up!

Another one to close to the house.

Heck of a viper there jc189. That has to be at least a six footer. I’m counting at least 15 rattles on that snake! That one could have really put the hurt on someone.

189,
Do you eat em or save the skin?

Save the skin. This one is gonna make a nice hat band. I have eaten one once. Its a lot of work, lot of bones. I fried it, it was ok. I don't see many of them where I'm at. Although this is the second one this year.



Windfall, he was just under 6' a big one for around here.

The local groundhog population seems to be growing after years of decline. I've killed more this year than I have in a long time. I absolutely love this rifle, it is super accurate and I've made some shots with it that are memorable. This shot was 275 yards. I'm shooting 40 grain Nosler BT's in it now, and they turn a groundhogs insides into mush.

Called this one up last weekend.

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After a little bush hogging yesterday I decided to watch one of my fields. It's been quite a while since my 6mmBR barked but bark it did. At about 250 yards the 70 grain ballistic tip exited and she shook like jelly. She did chase her bullet wound for about 10 seconds or so. It did put the smackdown on her but not quite as good as the 65 grain Hornady bullet does, It plain shoots the wiggle out of them. I hope to kill several others in the next few months. I believe she would have had a nice coat in January or February.
Take care,
Rick

I've gotten a bit rusty on my picture posting. I just don't do it enough to stay in practice.
Rick

That would have been fun!! If you ever need a "Shotgun" rider let me know.
Take care,
Rick

Holy crap Hunts, what did that thing weigh?

Haven't had the 17 Whoregnat out for a while. The suppressed RimX 17WSM has been getting all the work...




Even popped one with the hummer.

Saw this poor, hairless specimen this morning. Felt sorry for him, as there is a cold front coming in and I didn't want him to suffer the shivers.....

time to start on em
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way to smash 'em, TR.....

Huntsman is proving the fact that there isn't a varmint left within a ten mile radius of his place.

He is like my bud. If it isn't one of his dogs or stock it dies.

On our place - it's dogs, stock, or non-venomous snakes.
Probably ought to add the sister-in-law/caretaker.

280AI is not fur friendly

Sitting on a bluff shooting down

Benjamin’s greatest day hunting 😂🤣😂 his words

👍🏻👍🏻

👍🏻👍🏻

Nice job, great pic. That big smile says it all.

My 8 year old grandson shot his second pig during our youth hunt weekend. Killed the pig in the morning. He shot his first deer that afternoon from the same stand. Shooting his 6.5 Grendel with Hornady 123gr SST'S. Both shots bang flop, DRT.

Mange Pup ran out in front of me this morning. Rio7

Took a Hail Mary shot at this Coyote and be damned if I didn't get it. Rio7

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too hot and the calling action was slow so broke out the .17 horn nat and put some rounds through the new Lilja barrel.

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TR is that coyote furred up as good as it looks in pic?

yes, she's the first of the season to go into the freezer

A couple buddies came out for a couple of days last weekend and we got into em pretty good. 18 in two days
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18? You guys mopped up. Night hunts?

No night hunting

Stack em up!👍👍

A couple more pigs headed to the sausage grinder.

Cat season opened Dec 1st..3 minutes into my first set, opening night.

nice job

How about a pig courtesy of the .17 Rem...

A couple more Bite the dust.

I love your rifle and badger pictures. Thank you for sharing. I bet they are really fun to hunt.

One mo' ...sent to Hog heaven by the .222 Rem

This is my favorite forum.

Everyone here who knows me knows that redheads scare me. I HAD to shoot this one out of sheer terror!

"Designer" hogs are bound to be next. I want a red and white stripe one......

250# couldn't pick him up so I drug him in. Rio7

Theres some pretty nice cutters on that ugly Mofo!

No can do just now, but we recently got in a shipment of polka dotted....

I like some Spotties!

I had this crew come through a while back, looking like extras from a Mad Max film.

Theres an unwritten rule somewhere...perhaps its a law, but " all spotted pigs must die..."

Run into a Spotted Pig every now and then.




Rio7

I see that you understand about spotted pigs, and do some of them in with panache!

Tom, did you move to tejas ?

Nope! I just like it down there...

Rio7 What caliber is that six gun and what load?
S.

smallfry, 45 L.C. Sage Brush McKay load, Rio7

.222 sends another one to Hog Heaven...

6 CM 105 gr. Scenar 241# ---Rio7

A lot of your pigs grow pretty good teeth down there!

ingwe, Yep! Big teeth and Ugly is our trade mark. Rio7

Here's another victim of the .17 Rem from last months foray into Texas....

Ingwe, Didn't shoot this one with a .17 Rem but he died anyway 6 CM Rio7

NICE!


Once in awhile when I'm feeling dangerous, I break out the " big" gun.........243 Win
Our scopes look strangely familiar.....

Ingwe, I have Burris full field scopes 3 x 9 on 3 of my hunting rifles wish i had a couple more. they work for me. Rio7

I have a few as well, the one in the pic has the German 3P #4 reticle thats illuminated...handy one for night shooting.

Here it is on my .223AI

ingwe.


Closest thing I have to a illuminated scope is Leopold Red Dot, I don't shoot much in low light. Rio7

A lot of my shooting is at night, another one I really like is a SIG Whiskey 3x9 with "Hellfire Quadplex" lighted reticle...



I also have the HAWKE Vantage 3x9 on a number of guns, red/green illumination...here on a .17 Rem

Same set couple days before..

Bridger 3's or Montanas ?

Montana or Montgomery I can’t remember which one that is, got a great deal on a bunch of Montgomery #4’s and Montana #3’s all fully modified

got into 'em good Friday.
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Atta boy.

Checking water this morning see a pair sitting on a hay bale about 200 yards out this one stayed the other one left big mistake. Rio7

Yesterday this one tried to hide in a cover less field. It almost worked.