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Title: Heading out for hogs in 30 minutes for the weekend.
Post by: highpoint forge on January 06, 2011, 02:33:00 PM
Wish me luck guys......
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Post by: hogdancer on January 06, 2011, 02:35:00 PM
good luck, ... you know what your doing, go get 'em
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Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on January 06, 2011, 02:38:00 PM
Private or Public land???
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Post by: magnus on January 06, 2011, 02:40:00 PM
Good luck sir!  I like bacon.

Keeping the Faith!
Magnus
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Post by: lovethehunt on January 06, 2011, 02:44:00 PM
sounds like fun to me!!!
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Post by: Dirtybird on January 06, 2011, 02:44:00 PM
Im jealous, I wanna go.  

Good luck to you sir.
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Post by: Green on January 06, 2011, 02:53:00 PM
Have a great hunt!  Take rain gear this weekend.
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Post by: Chester Thompson on January 06, 2011, 03:17:00 PM
Have run and good luck. Yeah from what I have heard rain gear might be required.
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Post by: Stumpkiller on January 06, 2011, 03:19:00 PM
Good luck!  

Stick a piggy for us!    :thumbsup:    (Man, I'm jealous).
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Post by: Big Bird on January 06, 2011, 03:22:00 PM
good luck!I'm also jealous.
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Post by: maxplan on January 06, 2011, 03:37:00 PM
I'm heading out in February to Texas
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Post by: cacciatore on January 06, 2011, 03:53:00 PM
Good luck,they are tough to hunt where I live because the hunting pressure with hounds, all year long.No mercy for the poor hogs.
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Post by: Apex Predator on January 06, 2011, 04:10:00 PM
Me and some buddies are gonna try to hunt some up Sat-Sun.  Maybe we will all get on some!  Good luck!
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Post by: highpoint forge on January 06, 2011, 08:27:00 PM
Private 2000 acres. Made a quick improvement on my original groundblind I walked into here and waited. Actually bumped a BIG doe and yearling group coming in. There was a single kernel of  corn on the ground beneath te feeder and the ENTIRE area was churned up, deer tracks everywhere, even several scrapes coming in on the sandy road. I set the feeder off again and waited. NADA.

Antler-less and spike Whitetails shootable until 1/16!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Doug in MN on January 06, 2011, 08:44:00 PM
Best of luck to you Alex !!!

D
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Post by: Cocklebur on January 06, 2011, 08:54:00 PM
Good Luck!
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Post by: highpoint forge on January 06, 2011, 10:56:00 PM
Gonna need to bring my chair tomorrow.....quick set up kneeling was not shootable.
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Post by: NorthernCaliforniaHunter on January 07, 2011, 11:54:00 AM
Bring a camera!
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Post by: sawtoothscream on January 07, 2011, 12:20:00 PM
sounds good. i want to go hog hunting so bad. hopefully in the near future. most likly will be a HF hunt which doesnt bother me.

have fun and good luck
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Post by: highpoint forge on January 07, 2011, 01:04:00 PM
Wouldn't bother me either as I'm behind one now!

Switching to the ghillie suit this afternoon, as I've finally got the gist of how to shoot in it without tangling the string. Just push the left sleeve ALL the way up.

My spot is hot but the wind is wrong so I need to switch sides of this X deer road junction. We shall see. Ghillie allows me do minimize blind construction, sneak in and sit down quickly and quietly.
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Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on January 07, 2011, 01:10:00 PM
trim the sleeves hanging camo or get a camo sleeve to go over it.
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Post by: wtpops on January 07, 2011, 04:18:00 PM
:campfire:  sounds like BBQ time to me, good luck
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Post by: TRAD900 on January 07, 2011, 04:49:00 PM
Good luck. Where in Texas are you going ?
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Post by: highpoint forge on January 07, 2011, 08:23:00 PM
Just an hour an a half from my front doorstep! Private 2000 acres hi fence club, nobody hunts.

Sat 10' from a large bobcat for about 10 minutes. No deer.

I pulled the left sleeve up to my armpit and secured it with the rancho safari arm strap.

Gotta love the ghillie......
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Post by: Friend on January 08, 2011, 06:39:00 PM
Looking forward to hearing more your hunt.

Best of luck.
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Post by: TKO on January 08, 2011, 06:58:00 PM
Good Luck? You're hunting hogs...On 2000 private acres...In Texas. Sounds like you've already got luck on your side:)

But, I guess you can't have too much luck so, I wish you the best of luck. Take lots of photos!

Tom
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Post by: SEMO_HUNTER on January 08, 2011, 07:51:00 PM
I'm glad in a way that we don't have them here where I live because they over populate so fast and do so much damage, but I can't help but envy you all who can be hog huntin in less than an hour.
I've never got to hunt hogs, but I sure would love to!

Good luck, hope you stick a pig!

I'll fire up the grill and pick up a bottle of Sweet Baby Rays! :thumbsup:
   :campfire:
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Post by: highpoint forge on January 08, 2011, 10:03:00 PM
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/alexeinspruch/601b659c.jpg)

SKUNKED. I duck hunted this AM and was in the wrong spot.

On my way out going home, I went to check the feeder this PM at 12:30. Every single kernel of corn gone. Every single one. Tracks everywhere. I followed the high fence to the NW corner and came back to follow it to the NE corner. Multiple breaches in it bordering a very nice oak forest, hog and deer tracks covering both roads:

NW fenceline:

  (http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/alexeinspruch/c44bac6d.jpg)

NE fenceline:

  (http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/alexeinspruch/925b1683.jpg)

The view of the blind from the deer's perspective @ 17 paces:

 (http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/alexeinspruch/540c33ed.jpg)

As I've posted before, I surround myself with those weeds, and pile them high behind me, brushing myself in. The shooting spot is elevated about 4' high from the ground the feeder rests on. Awesome spot. Jan 16th closes the season.
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Post by: Friend on January 09, 2011, 09:30:00 AM
Keep rolling the dice - you will score.
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Post by: highpoint forge on January 09, 2011, 02:54:00 PM
I'm just floored by the amount of tracks in that area, still..........
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Post by: highpoint forge on January 09, 2011, 10:38:00 PM
Another thing is the drainage of the big lake on the property, or the marsh, or Ducktopia, as my buddy calls it, has plenty of, well, marsh and you would not believe the amount of hog tracks in there. Anywhere you wouldn't be in water in that marsh, there were zillions of hog tracks. I envision a hog hunt in that marsh at some point, if there's a way to beat the skeeters, it would be NUTS. Pretty sure it would be safer in winter due to gators in the lake (do they like marshes?).

I think it would be awesome to hunt that marsh. Anyone done this type of either spot and stalk or still hunt?
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Post by: rdoggsilva on January 10, 2011, 01:32:00 AM
You lucky dog, we do not have wild hogs here in Utah. Have to go home to Cali and hunt them on the central coast.  :mad: