Trad Gang

Another one down in Italy.
Pics and story tomorrow.  :bigsmyl:

:bigsmyl:

Nice    :campfire:

We are ready    :coffee:

Congratulations Felix!
Can't wait for the story and picture.  :thumbsup:  

Chuck

Great job Felix....Pork and A bottle of red or a bottle of white ? or one of each?

Way to go Felix! Ready for the pictures ..Congrats

Lookin forward to the story and pic's

doug77

Congrats Felix, but no fair making us wait until tomorrow...I'll be sitting in a tree all day!!

Felix,we are waiting!Congrats

Alright Felix. At least tell us which bow?

This Italy thing is getting interesting. I thought the only good thing out of Italy was my wife. Waiting to hear the story.

:thumbsup:  

Now for the "Rest Of The Story"

Gene  :coffee:

Felix, always enjoy your adventures  :thumbsup:

Let me get a slice of pizza and beer, while we're waiting for the pics and story:^)

Anyone else wants a slice of pizza and some cold beer?


Darren

Man this is cruel !!!    :campfire:    :coffee:

Great!

Felix,
 Way to stick with it and put one down!

 I will be looking for the story ..   :clapper:

Looking forward to it  :thumbsup:

anxious to see it man...

I'll be checking back.  :campfire:

:clapper:  You sure are tough on the hog population!  :clapper:  
Bill

Tomorrow I will be watching congrats buddy.

I'll pick up some beer on the way over.  What time is the ham dinner?    :D

Be waiting.

Congratulations Felix.  Can't wait to hear the rest of the story!

Nice going Felix!

Congrats!

Bisch

Congrats   :archer:

:notworthy:    :clapper:    :clapper:

congrats, can't wait for this one!

Felix, you ratbag!

Well-done!  :clapper:

It's tomorrow!    :thumbsup:

Thanks for your patience,avid bowhunters!
When I posted yesterday was something like 2AM here and I was quite a bit beaten.i had my shot late in the evening and after the waiting time I started to track it with a friend,we didn't find any track on the dry ground between thorns and thick bush,then the recovery ,the field dressing,skinning and quartering.Then I had a 1 hour drive back home and to store the meet in the refrigerator.....Story is coming.

This hunt indirectly involves few Trad Gangers,but now a pic:it isn't a great pic because it is been taken in situ at dark where we found this sow and taken with my phone.
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Congrats Felix!
Nice sow thats ought to be good eating.

It looks still really green down there, all brown and yellow round here already.

Nice   :thumbsup:

Congrats ! Nice Hog.

Congrats.

Congrats Felix on another nice piggie!

Nice piggie!!

Congrats Felix!!

Nice sow

Good job Felix!!

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Good shooting!!!

Fantastic! Very happy for you!

thanks everybody my friends!
Axel,here it is still very warm during the day like I have never seen and in south of Italy it is still full summer,unbealible!
When I'll be less lazy I need to share some recepies for wild boar and one is with chocolate(it is much better of what it sounds!)

Now I need to say thank you to few TGangers somehow related with this hunt.
The bow is a Shafer Silvertip 63# with a Carbon Expresss 350 and 50 grains insert,BH VPA Terminator 250 1-1/4 with a 680 grs total arrow weight.
First:thanks to the CHILDREN in St Judes Hospital that gave some luck to the VPA Terminator offered by BIG JIM on the auction that I won.The Shafer limbs were a trade with Jack Witmire JR,traded them for a Kodiak 1966,thanks Jack,I promised you to christen a wild boar with them and I did!The string is made by our beloved AS,Allen makes some really good strings!And finally my good friend Pat Norris-Tater who gave me an incredible knife made by Wayne Depperschmidt from Colorado.

Nice to hear, your never alone on your journeys to the wild.

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QuoteOriginally posted by cacciatore:
When I'll be less lazy I need to share some recepies for wild boar and one is with chocolate(it is much better of what it sounds!)

My brothers wife makes a great wild boar rost with chocolate and dried plums. Yummy!

Here in Italy the hunting pressure is really heavy with hunter using lot of hounds and big team to hunt wild boars.So to try to pattern them on a one on one hunt it is very difficult and they are very spooked,but I am lucky to have a good friend,that hunt himself,that let me know when the boar are present in his area and feed them to keep them there.

He told me to have boars visiting regularly his place but they were really nocturnal and not predictible.
Last week he saw some before dark so on Sunday I went there to try to ambush them in their moving from bedding and feeding area.
Just before dark I was on a rise, in the hill side,when I felt some soft walking:2 big boar come out from the bush but they were facing me and were feeding without giving me a good shooting angle,I prepared but one that was approching me some 10 yards away feelt something wrong and they went back in the dirt and dark woods.

They weren't really spooken and since I ain't made any noise and the wind was just perfect they kept feeding around me and approching.One was maybe 5-6 yards away but the bush was so thick that I couldn't see it and they couldn't see me.It was already too dark when the bigger one went back to feed in a good shooting position.He was broadside a little quartering away at 10 yards so I drew my bow and released the arrow,he was gone,without much noise.
After 15-20 minutes I went were he was standing and found the arrow stuck on the ground.Clean miss  :banghead:  probably between his legs.

It was a little discouraging to miss a big boar at 10 paces when practicing I brake nocks at that distance!  :confused:  
So on Monday and Tuesday I worked again on my form and replaced the Woodsman 150 and weight with a same spine 250 VPA Terminator.

The very best of congratulations to you Felix! So nice to know that you now have fresh pork to match one of your very nice wines with.

Pop!......

Felix: As I was saying we need to start a bacon/ham/jerky swap.  Congrats on a nice pig.
MAP

Congrats nice pig  :clapper:

Congrats Felix!

Congrats ,Felix!!  :thumbsup:   Nice hog!! and nice shot!

Ciao il mio buon amico Felix,

quello è un maiale selvaggio grande, una certa fucilazione piacevole con l'arco di Schafer Silvertip.

Congratulazioni.

Danny

:thumbsup:    :thumbsup:  Good for you Felix.

Beautiful pig. I saw a sicilian woman make a rabbit recipe using chocolate. Sounds nice, kind of like Mexican mole'. I would like to hear your recipe.

Congrats Felix!

More story please...

So Wednesday I was full of hopes since my friend told me the boars were back and feeding on his bait.

There aren't many tree were to hang a stand,so I found the steep wall of the hill from were they come from,to protect my back there is some really thick thorns that also the pigs don't cross.
Just at the fading light I could heard some grounting and noise,then in second a bunch of pigs arrived to the bait.
5 or 6 small pigs and a bigger sow,on the back there was another one still in the cover but talking to her piglets; when all the other were already feeding she came out broadside.

I decided to don't shot the leading sow also if she was much bigger than the other.
If you kill the leader the rest will change their routes.

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Congratulations felix! Good hunting and shooting ! Where in the south of Italy were you?   :clapper:

Hey young Fella ! LOL,That is to cool!You are a Swine Killin' machine,No one deserves it more than you my friend,So good to see!

U Rule Dude!!   :clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:

Sergio,I live in N/W Italy at the foothills of the mighty Alps.
So Danny you are saying that the sow was happy to have been killed with a Tip?LOL
Izzy give me few days and I plan to post the recepie.

Steve,that's no true in 2011 I killed 3,missed 2 and wounded 1.The wounded one is a big boar still roaming around much smart and walking on 3 legs and half.  :knothead:

Congrats Felix! A great hog  :thumbsup:

Congrat's

Darren

LOL, Felix,

It lost a bit in the translation, my Italian is not what it used to be.

In English it would be,

That is a great wild pig and a fine shot with the Schafer Silvertip recurve.

Danny

So when the other sow offered me the quartering away shot, that I always look on wild boar, I released the string;they exploded all together but a small one that remained there without understanding what was happened!The grunt from the big sow called it aways and it was silent.
I heard some broken limbs on my left where the wounded pig runned away,then nothing.After 15 minutes I went to look for my arrow,nothing.

Congratulations Felix, heck of a boar.

Gil

Congrats Felix!

I called my friend and started to look for blood trail,nothing for begining,so I went to the side where I heard it running away,looking every single trail.
I was figuring that with a 63# bow a 680grs arrow and a vetal BH like a VPA I could have the best of the blood trail  :mad:  
Not finding anything I guessed the the arrow was stick inside the sow and in the downhill shot the entry hole would have been to high to bleed outside.We lost a half a hour when my friend smelled something on the other side of the trail where I figured that the rest of the band runned away.As he looked around he found the last 20" of the shaft and a blood trail that also Ray Charles........less than 40 yards from the shot the sow was stone death.  :bigsmyl:

The VPA made a terrible work entering angled braking ribs destroing liver,lungs and heart!
Blood was sprayed everywhere in the death run.
I found the Bh bedded between 2 ribs with the point just pushing the skin to exit.  :thumbsup:  
Then it is been just work and butchering,in the wait to have guests in my home to test it.
Thanks everybody,your friend in Italy.
Italy

Way to go Felix! That's the way to put that VPA to good use!  :clapper:

very well done & really nice boar   :clapper:

Felix great story gald you could put the limbs to use on the  hogs over there .

They now have Mojo   :clapper:

bravo felix !

Sounds like a truely challenging hunt...greatjob!

Nice shot, congrats!
Thanks for sharing!!

Congrats on a nice boar!