Title: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 28, 2009, 08:38:00 PM
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 28, 2009, 08:38:00 PM
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e322/rayhammond123/550gig012809097.jpg)
We've had two great groups at Hog Heaven in the last two weeks....our West Virginia guys headed up by Jack Whitmire had several close encounters of the swine kind but really got waylaid by the weather with really cold temps and hogs hanging tough in the real thick woods.
This next bunch had more close encounters than the previous week, but were still hampered by inclimate conditions- foggy, cold, drizzly, wet, windy..you name it, we had it.
But this was a HARD CORE bunch...Alan Felix of Pennsylvania was so hard core he wouldn't stop hunting long enough to take a picture!!!!!
The Idaho boys Mike and Joe Vigueria, and Benny Steelman from NC were a lot of fun.
More pics coming.
We've had two great groups at Hog Heaven in the last two weeks....our West Virginia guys headed up by Jack Whitmire had several close encounters of the swine kind but really got waylaid by the weather with really cold temps and hogs hanging tough in the real thick woods.
This next bunch had more close encounters than the previous week, but were still hampered by inclimate conditions- foggy, cold, drizzly, wet, windy..you name it, we had it.
But this was a HARD CORE bunch...Alan Felix of Pennsylvania was so hard core he wouldn't stop hunting long enough to take a picture!!!!!
The Idaho boys Mike and Joe Vigueria, and Benny Steelman from NC were a lot of fun.
More pics coming.
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: rastaman on January 28, 2009, 08:47:00 PM
Post by: rastaman on January 28, 2009, 08:47:00 PM
Can't wait to see them Ray and hear a story or two...and just to update us that are trying to figure out when we might work in a trip...you shut down during turkey season & reopen when? Great looking picture!
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 28, 2009, 08:49:00 PM
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 28, 2009, 08:49:00 PM
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e322/rayhammond123/wallowJan09.jpg)
a little sign
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e322/rayhammond123/550gig012809039.jpg)
what a 100 lber hog can do to a 190 Ribtek
a little sign
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e322/rayhammond123/550gig012809039.jpg)
what a 100 lber hog can do to a 190 Ribtek
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 28, 2009, 08:51:00 PM
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 28, 2009, 08:51:00 PM
re-open May 1. Have a group of 3 booked that weekend, and four booked the next weekend...8,9, and 10.
After that I think we have lots of openings through end of August and beyond.
After that I think we have lots of openings through end of August and beyond.
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 28, 2009, 08:59:00 PM
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 28, 2009, 08:59:00 PM
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e322/rayhammond123/hogsignJan09logpileagain.jpg)
I don't know if you can see this very well, but this is a skidder trail where they lopped off limbs when they were removing trees from the property a little over a year ago.
The hogs have turned all this material over "shrooming" and "worming" and "salamandering" the place.
I don't know if you can see this very well, but this is a skidder trail where they lopped off limbs when they were removing trees from the property a little over a year ago.
The hogs have turned all this material over "shrooming" and "worming" and "salamandering" the place.
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Mike Gerardi on January 28, 2009, 09:11:00 PM
Post by: Mike Gerardi on January 28, 2009, 09:11:00 PM
Great stuff . I can almost smell those sweet pines now!! Whos hog?
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Jesse Minish on January 28, 2009, 09:18:00 PM
Post by: Jesse Minish on January 28, 2009, 09:18:00 PM
Looks like a blast at your place Ray!
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Molson on January 28, 2009, 10:46:00 PM
Post by: Molson on January 28, 2009, 10:46:00 PM
Yeah.... Come on May....RRRREEEETTTTT!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Red Beastmaster on January 28, 2009, 10:56:00 PM
Post by: Red Beastmaster on January 28, 2009, 10:56:00 PM
I have four weeks to go. Can't sleep, can't work, can't get nothin' done. Posting these pics doesn't help much. :)
Brace yourself Ray, the FA-KOW-EE's from PA will be rolling in soon!
Brace yourself Ray, the FA-KOW-EE's from PA will be rolling in soon!
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Apex Predator on January 29, 2009, 06:02:00 AM
Post by: Apex Predator on January 29, 2009, 06:02:00 AM
I love to read the "after the hunt" stories Ray! Great job again.
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 29, 2009, 08:31:00 AM
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 29, 2009, 08:31:00 AM
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e322/rayhammond123/Jan09wallowandrub.jpg)
a little wallow and rub action!
a little wallow and rub action!
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: benny on January 29, 2009, 10:03:00 AM
Post by: benny on January 29, 2009, 10:03:00 AM
Oh man what a blast. Ray and Mike are great hosts. Friday the themp got up to 65 and coming from low 20's, it felt like 90. Saturday morning started with the sweet sound of rain on tin roof. Makes me want to sleep, but then the smeel of Rays great cooking dragged me out.Just wait until your try Rays homemade cheese spread on his biscuits. Rain and drizzel all day. Fog layed in that afternoon. Sunday was cold with the wind swirling. Found a mob of pigs with two the same color hair as me. Got close but those dudes move around alot when they are rooting. Then one made a low grunt. Wow can they run.
Mike,Joe and Alan hopefully we can share camp again in the future. Really injoyed it. Ray and Mike are a hoot for sure. Lokking forward to coming back.
Benny
Mike,Joe and Alan hopefully we can share camp again in the future. Really injoyed it. Ray and Mike are a hoot for sure. Lokking forward to coming back.
Benny
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Mike Gerardi on January 29, 2009, 10:22:00 AM
Post by: Mike Gerardi on January 29, 2009, 10:22:00 AM
Biscuts!!! Cheese spread!!!! :scared: !["[dntthnk]"]("graemlins/dntthnk.gif" "\"\"")
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Molson on January 29, 2009, 10:36:00 AM
Post by: Molson on January 29, 2009, 10:36:00 AM
Yeah Ray... I DON'T WANT NO CHEESE SPREAD!!!!
Benny if you only knew..... :bigsmyl:
Benny if you only knew..... :bigsmyl:
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 29, 2009, 10:42:00 AM
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 29, 2009, 10:42:00 AM
It's not a spread though, it's baked IN the biscuits boys!
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Kingwouldbe on January 29, 2009, 11:19:00 AM
Post by: Kingwouldbe on January 29, 2009, 11:19:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by Ray Hammond:Ray, this is vary interesting, tell me more about it.
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e322/rayhammond123/550gig012809039.jpg)
what a 100 lber hog can do to a 190 Ribtek
What weight bow?
What weight arrow?
How far was the shot?
What angle was the shot?
etc.......
I believe the wild boar is the pound for pound toughest animal out there.
I once watched a 300lb'er get shot with a 300mag at 10 yards, the shot picked it up, with 3 of its 4 feet off the ground, when it's 3 feet got back on the ground, it bolted out of there never to be seen again :eek: unbelievable, but I was there.
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: pronghorn23 on January 29, 2009, 11:37:00 AM
Post by: pronghorn23 on January 29, 2009, 11:37:00 AM
Glad to see Mike picture...haven't seen him post in awhile..
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 29, 2009, 03:49:00 PM
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 29, 2009, 03:49:00 PM
King,
It was a 64 lb longbow, arrow around 650 grains, 25 yard shot from the ground.
The blade hit the offside elbow/shoulder
It was a 64 lb longbow, arrow around 650 grains, 25 yard shot from the ground.
The blade hit the offside elbow/shoulder
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Jason Jelinek on January 29, 2009, 04:20:00 PM
Post by: Jason Jelinek on January 29, 2009, 04:20:00 PM
I just realized it's a Ribtek on an aluminum arrow.
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 29, 2009, 05:46:00 PM
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 29, 2009, 05:46:00 PM
yep...the head bent, the insert didnt bend..the arrow did, but away from the damage and because the hog rolled onto it.
Here's another view....a little better pic
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e322/rayhammond123/550gig012809034.jpg)
Here's another view....a little better pic
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e322/rayhammond123/550gig012809034.jpg)
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Guru on January 29, 2009, 05:58:00 PM
Post by: Guru on January 29, 2009, 05:58:00 PM
looks to be a real short adapter.....wouldn't the heads strength be compromised right off the bat without the support of a long adapter?
Don't know anything about Ribtec's, just an observation....
Did someone kill a hog?
Don't know anything about Ribtec's, just an observation....
Did someone kill a hog?
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 29, 2009, 06:15:00 PM
Post by: Ray Hammond on January 29, 2009, 06:15:00 PM
you are right, it was the short adapter....but the dead hog in question is in the first post on this thread..and it wasn't a very big one...and I wouldn't have thought hitting a leg bone would cause broadhead steel to buckle like that, short adapter or not...but it DID bend right where the adapter STOPPED Curt.
Title: Re: Hard Core Hog Haranguers
Post by: Guru on January 29, 2009, 07:31:00 PM
Post by: Guru on January 29, 2009, 07:31:00 PM
Always wondered about those ribtec ferrules... wondered how they could be as strong as folks say they are.....
Good stuff...any more pix to share bud?
Good stuff...any more pix to share bud?