Title: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: The Vanilla Gorilla on June 23, 2009, 02:52:00 PM
Post by: The Vanilla Gorilla on June 23, 2009, 02:52:00 PM
Camped out one night over the weekend with a buddy of mine hoping to get into some pigs. This is the same place I took pdk25 to recently.
The morning started off pretty bad. Didn't realize how early the Mr. Sun wakes up this time of year. Then, the truck key fairies locked the keys in the truck. By the time we got to where we wanted to be, it was around 8am, and just hot enough to make me rethink my current situation. Coulda been at home in the AC watching that Giada girl cook Italian food on the Food Network.
I had 4 ticks on me before I even got changed into my hunting clothes. I snapped a bootlace on my Vasques while cinching em up. I had unbelievable heartburn after having 2 pickled eggs and a pint of orange juice for breakfast. Breakfast of Champions, right there. (Those new Rolaids Chewables are FANTASTIC...but you gotta eat 3 of them to really get the full benefit)
We took off and made a wide circle that took us almost 3 hours to complete. Up and down ridges, thru bottoms and across meadows that had pokeweed chin high on me. But I'm kinda short, too. Bryan, the guy I was with, is well over 6 foot tall and has like a 5 foot stride, so when we walked together, I was wearing myself out trying to keep up with him.
By the time the circle took us within a half mile of where we started, I was wore plum out. Gnats didnt care that I had a Thermacell on. They kept trying to get up my nose. One of them got caught up in my mustache and I left him there to die in agony from drowning in my sweat. I had developed a headache, too, probably from the heat, and my pee was the color of orange Gatorade even though I had nearly emptied my water bladder. I would have taken a flat fisted punch in the throat from Mike Tyson for a shower and a fistful of Gold Bond powder. In other words, I was ready to go home.
About 15 minutes from the truck, Bryan, who was about 20yds ahead of me stopped and squatted. Thought he was tying his bootlaces or something, then I heard a soft grunt. I froze, and looked up and saw a sumac bush rocking wildly about 40 yds up the road. There were 3 pigs milling about in the shade, that were wet from a wallowing session, and were rubbing on the sumac. Bryan is tall and clumsy, but turns into a stone cold killer when a pig appears. He squatted down and covered a lot of distance really fast, thanks to the high pokeweed growing along the road. I stayed back and hoped that after he made his shot the remaining pigs would make the poor decision to funnel past me.
It worked. I heard his compound go "click", then all hell broke loose. Nothing satisfies me more than hearing a pig go, "RRRRHHHHHEEEEEE!" I equate that sound with the sound of a successful ATM withdrawal. The first pig I saw go thru my shooting lane had a big red bubbly spot on its side. My use of derivative thinking told me that this was the pig Bryan shot. Hot on the heels of Bryans pig was another...
As soon as that hog came into view, I drew and anchored. The hog stopped and checked me out just a fraction of a second too long. I don't remember releasing the arrow, or even picking a spot...I never remember cool stuff like that. But I do remember seeing red fletching and a yellow nock disappearing into the side of the pig. The pig jumped foreward, and the arrow was laying in the grass.
Me and Bryan regrouped, celebrated with a Clif bar and what remaining water we had under the shade of a big hickory tree. Gave em both about 10 or 15 minutes to expire. We knew in this heat, we had better be Johnny-on-the-Spot with cleaning the pigs, so we went to dust up. Both our pigs roughly tried to escape the same way. Bryans hog went about 40 yards. His pig had turned at the last second and entered at the shoulder, and exited at the paunch. My pig was nice enough to give me a perfect broadside, doublelung shot with a pass thru. About a 60 yard recovery. Good bloodtrails on both.
Great Plains "Rio Bravo" 48#
Beman MFX Classic 500 shaft
Ace 160gr broadhead, with a SS 75gr adapter (570gr total weight)
This was my first session with the Ace heads. I'm usually a Ribtek fan, but wanted to switch to something that was a little easier to find. I am VERY impressed with the performance of the Ace head.
Thanks for takin the time to read and look!
(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/Xtortion66/IMG_0295.jpg)
(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/Xtortion66/IMG_0292.jpg)
The morning started off pretty bad. Didn't realize how early the Mr. Sun wakes up this time of year. Then, the truck key fairies locked the keys in the truck. By the time we got to where we wanted to be, it was around 8am, and just hot enough to make me rethink my current situation. Coulda been at home in the AC watching that Giada girl cook Italian food on the Food Network.
I had 4 ticks on me before I even got changed into my hunting clothes. I snapped a bootlace on my Vasques while cinching em up. I had unbelievable heartburn after having 2 pickled eggs and a pint of orange juice for breakfast. Breakfast of Champions, right there. (Those new Rolaids Chewables are FANTASTIC...but you gotta eat 3 of them to really get the full benefit)
We took off and made a wide circle that took us almost 3 hours to complete. Up and down ridges, thru bottoms and across meadows that had pokeweed chin high on me. But I'm kinda short, too. Bryan, the guy I was with, is well over 6 foot tall and has like a 5 foot stride, so when we walked together, I was wearing myself out trying to keep up with him.
By the time the circle took us within a half mile of where we started, I was wore plum out. Gnats didnt care that I had a Thermacell on. They kept trying to get up my nose. One of them got caught up in my mustache and I left him there to die in agony from drowning in my sweat. I had developed a headache, too, probably from the heat, and my pee was the color of orange Gatorade even though I had nearly emptied my water bladder. I would have taken a flat fisted punch in the throat from Mike Tyson for a shower and a fistful of Gold Bond powder. In other words, I was ready to go home.
About 15 minutes from the truck, Bryan, who was about 20yds ahead of me stopped and squatted. Thought he was tying his bootlaces or something, then I heard a soft grunt. I froze, and looked up and saw a sumac bush rocking wildly about 40 yds up the road. There were 3 pigs milling about in the shade, that were wet from a wallowing session, and were rubbing on the sumac. Bryan is tall and clumsy, but turns into a stone cold killer when a pig appears. He squatted down and covered a lot of distance really fast, thanks to the high pokeweed growing along the road. I stayed back and hoped that after he made his shot the remaining pigs would make the poor decision to funnel past me.
It worked. I heard his compound go "click", then all hell broke loose. Nothing satisfies me more than hearing a pig go, "RRRRHHHHHEEEEEE!" I equate that sound with the sound of a successful ATM withdrawal. The first pig I saw go thru my shooting lane had a big red bubbly spot on its side. My use of derivative thinking told me that this was the pig Bryan shot. Hot on the heels of Bryans pig was another...
As soon as that hog came into view, I drew and anchored. The hog stopped and checked me out just a fraction of a second too long. I don't remember releasing the arrow, or even picking a spot...I never remember cool stuff like that. But I do remember seeing red fletching and a yellow nock disappearing into the side of the pig. The pig jumped foreward, and the arrow was laying in the grass.
Me and Bryan regrouped, celebrated with a Clif bar and what remaining water we had under the shade of a big hickory tree. Gave em both about 10 or 15 minutes to expire. We knew in this heat, we had better be Johnny-on-the-Spot with cleaning the pigs, so we went to dust up. Both our pigs roughly tried to escape the same way. Bryans hog went about 40 yards. His pig had turned at the last second and entered at the shoulder, and exited at the paunch. My pig was nice enough to give me a perfect broadside, doublelung shot with a pass thru. About a 60 yard recovery. Good bloodtrails on both.
Great Plains "Rio Bravo" 48#
Beman MFX Classic 500 shaft
Ace 160gr broadhead, with a SS 75gr adapter (570gr total weight)
This was my first session with the Ace heads. I'm usually a Ribtek fan, but wanted to switch to something that was a little easier to find. I am VERY impressed with the performance of the Ace head.
Thanks for takin the time to read and look!
(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/Xtortion66/IMG_0295.jpg)
(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/Xtortion66/IMG_0292.jpg)
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: pdk25 on June 23, 2009, 02:53:00 PM
Post by: pdk25 on June 23, 2009, 02:53:00 PM
Nice shooting. Should be tasty.
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Brian Gillispie on June 23, 2009, 02:58:00 PM
Post by: Brian Gillispie on June 23, 2009, 02:58:00 PM
Good Lord that entrance wound looks like ya pitched a Machette at that pig. Congrats
Brian
Brian
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Chester Thompson on June 23, 2009, 03:00:00 PM
Post by: Chester Thompson on June 23, 2009, 03:00:00 PM
Great read, sounds like a great way to spend you time, why would you want to be in the AC?
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Mike Bolin on June 23, 2009, 03:01:00 PM
Post by: Mike Bolin on June 23, 2009, 03:01:00 PM
Good shootin' Cam! Must be all those lessons I gave ya? LOL!! Nice looking pig my friend! Mike
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Kingwouldbe on June 23, 2009, 03:06:00 PM
Post by: Kingwouldbe on June 23, 2009, 03:06:00 PM
Gorilla your to funny my friend, however you first must procure the pork, then you may process it.
Nice job on the procuring :thumbsup:
Nice job on the procuring :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Chris Surtees on June 23, 2009, 03:10:00 PM
Post by: Chris Surtees on June 23, 2009, 03:10:00 PM
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Hogtamer on June 23, 2009, 03:14:00 PM
Post by: Hogtamer on June 23, 2009, 03:14:00 PM
Great story but just one thing...pigs down hear don't have heels...
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: MJB on June 23, 2009, 03:15:00 PM
Post by: MJB on June 23, 2009, 03:15:00 PM
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: dragon rider on June 23, 2009, 03:17:00 PM
Post by: dragon rider on June 23, 2009, 03:17:00 PM
The King is right, man. You can downright tell a story. That was a fun read. Thanks. And congratulations on the shot.
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: bowhunterfrompast on June 23, 2009, 03:19:00 PM
Post by: bowhunterfrompast on June 23, 2009, 03:19:00 PM
Congrats :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Kachow on June 23, 2009, 03:37:00 PM
Post by: Kachow on June 23, 2009, 03:37:00 PM
That's some good eatin right there! Congrats!
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Ringneck on June 23, 2009, 03:40:00 PM
Post by: Ringneck on June 23, 2009, 03:40:00 PM
I got heartburn just at the mention of pickled eggs and orange juice :scared: Good job on the pork!
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Brian Krebs on June 23, 2009, 03:42:00 PM
Post by: Brian Krebs on June 23, 2009, 03:42:00 PM
congrats & good story :thumbsup: :campfire:
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: rbbhunt on June 23, 2009, 03:46:00 PM
Post by: rbbhunt on June 23, 2009, 03:46:00 PM
way to go Cam, give me a call when you go again!
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Fritz on June 23, 2009, 03:58:00 PM
Post by: Fritz on June 23, 2009, 03:58:00 PM
Awesome! Way to stick it out in the miserable temps. :) :thumbsup: :notworthy:
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: John3 on June 23, 2009, 04:02:00 PM
Post by: John3 on June 23, 2009, 04:02:00 PM
Great story.. great pics.
John III
John III
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: bloodyarrow on June 23, 2009, 04:11:00 PM
Post by: bloodyarrow on June 23, 2009, 04:11:00 PM
holly smoken bacon CAM good shooting there bud
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: amicus on June 23, 2009, 04:14:00 PM
Post by: amicus on June 23, 2009, 04:14:00 PM
Nice story and pig. Congrats.
Gilbert Lozano
Gilbert Lozano
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Zbearclaw on June 23, 2009, 04:15:00 PM
Post by: Zbearclaw on June 23, 2009, 04:15:00 PM
Nice work, and you are a great storyteller as already mentioned.
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: robtattoo on June 23, 2009, 04:27:00 PM
Post by: robtattoo on June 23, 2009, 04:27:00 PM
Brilliant story VG :biglaugh: "Breakfast of Champions" :biglaugh:
Congrats on the soon-to-be-sausage!
Congrats on the soon-to-be-sausage!
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: joevan125 on June 23, 2009, 04:36:00 PM
Post by: joevan125 on June 23, 2009, 04:36:00 PM
That was great :biglaugh:
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Apex Predator on June 23, 2009, 04:55:00 PM
Post by: Apex Predator on June 23, 2009, 04:55:00 PM
That was a great story! Thanks for sharing and congrats on the pigs!
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: turkey522 on June 23, 2009, 05:18:00 PM
Post by: turkey522 on June 23, 2009, 05:18:00 PM
Congrats and thanks for sharing.
Terry
Terry
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: reddogge on June 23, 2009, 06:01:00 PM
Post by: reddogge on June 23, 2009, 06:01:00 PM
I really liked the story. Way to go.
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: rushlush on June 23, 2009, 06:27:00 PM
Post by: rushlush on June 23, 2009, 06:27:00 PM
That was a great story. Nice pig too.
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: TheFatboy on June 23, 2009, 06:33:00 PM
Post by: TheFatboy on June 23, 2009, 06:33:00 PM
MMH... unprocessed bacon! *Homer Simpson drool*
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on June 23, 2009, 06:35:00 PM
Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on June 23, 2009, 06:35:00 PM
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: The Vanilla Gorilla on June 23, 2009, 07:01:00 PM
Post by: The Vanilla Gorilla on June 23, 2009, 07:01:00 PM
Thanks for the great comments guy! This was my first trad harvest in a good while. I had a pretty lame deer and turkey season, so this more than made up for it!
Again, I appreciate the comments!
Again, I appreciate the comments!
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Fletcher on June 23, 2009, 07:18:00 PM
Post by: Fletcher on June 23, 2009, 07:18:00 PM
Great story and pig, VG. :clapper: Congrats! Lots of us here in IL are liking the Ace heads, too, but I'm gonna back away from the pickled eggs. !["[dntthnk]"]("graemlins/dntthnk.gif" "\"\"")
They sound like an acquired taste.
They sound like an acquired taste.
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: South MS Bowhunter on June 23, 2009, 08:16:00 PM
Post by: South MS Bowhunter on June 23, 2009, 08:16:00 PM
Great story, one of the better told, short, humorous, and a great theme.
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Mo. Huntin on June 23, 2009, 08:27:00 PM
Post by: Mo. Huntin on June 23, 2009, 08:27:00 PM
GREAT story. Congratulations you earned that one for sure. That gold bond is the best thing ever invented. Too funny bud.
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: razorsharptokill on June 23, 2009, 08:42:00 PM
Post by: razorsharptokill on June 23, 2009, 08:42:00 PM
HA! Nicely told and done! Congrats! Sent you a PM.
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: pine nut on June 23, 2009, 09:54:00 PM
Post by: pine nut on June 23, 2009, 09:54:00 PM
Congrats on a good read and some good pork!
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: straitera on June 23, 2009, 10:22:00 PM
Post by: straitera on June 23, 2009, 10:22:00 PM
Good story. Nice descriptions. Pigs for icing the cake.
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: razorsharptokill on June 23, 2009, 10:38:00 PM
Post by: razorsharptokill on June 23, 2009, 10:38:00 PM
Made the mistake of sitting on the ground like that at the McAlester AAP. HUNDREDS of seed ticks no joke!
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: bayoulongbowman on June 23, 2009, 11:23:00 PM
Post by: bayoulongbowman on June 23, 2009, 11:23:00 PM
cameron, you the man! congrats..marco :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Bill Turner on June 26, 2009, 02:44:00 PM
Post by: Bill Turner on June 26, 2009, 02:44:00 PM
Great hunt and an even better read. Congrats to you and your bud. Been thinking about giving the Ace head a shot. That picture convinced me. "Keep'um Sharp".
Bill Turner
Bill Turner
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: smokin feathers on June 26, 2009, 11:11:00 PM
Post by: smokin feathers on June 26, 2009, 11:11:00 PM
Congrats, great story telling there as well.
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: GRINCH on June 27, 2009, 01:15:00 AM
Post by: GRINCH on June 27, 2009, 01:15:00 AM
Nice hunt, :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: Rob DiStefano on June 27, 2009, 06:31:00 AM
Post by: Rob DiStefano on June 27, 2009, 06:31:00 AM
congrats cam!
great story with great results!
:thumbsup:
great story with great results!
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: the ASSASSIN on June 27, 2009, 07:01:00 AM
Post by: the ASSASSIN on June 27, 2009, 07:01:00 AM
congrats
Title: Re: Unprocessed Pork
Post by: COOCH on June 27, 2009, 11:29:00 AM
Post by: COOCH on June 27, 2009, 11:29:00 AM
Pickled eggs and pork nicly done :thumbsup: