Well I am very disappointed to not being able to leave for my dreamed elk annual hunt because a gengivitis it occured me just a couple of days before leaving.I had already my ticket when my doctor said:no way..I am mostly an elk hunter and I dream elk every night so to give up to the 2012 season is been a bad awaking for me.The only way to cure my desperation is to go hunting for something here.I took my SXT,Zipper,that was called the Hugly Sister since Bill made for me the Beauty Queen.
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Me with the Hugly sister.
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I went to a place I call the swimming pool,since it looks the boars love to wallow and take mudd bath in this place.
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Every tree in a circle of 200 yards was rubbed this way.
Somebody is going to be BBQ-ing :campfire:
The Hugly Sister isn't that bad looking,but she is nasty with the hogs and in one year she has already taken 4.
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This was the last one.#4
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Sorry about the elk hunt not happening, but at least you did manage to do some hunting.
Yes Bill,but here I can hunt boar all year round elk are open just a month and with the global warming maybe just 10 days see action.Anyway as we say:a bad day hunting is better that a good day working!
Really sorry to hear you can't make the trip! Hope everything works out ok for you!
Congrats Felix.
Sorry to hear you are stuck over there Felix. Way to make lemonade out of the lemons though.
Sorry about your elk trip....keep the hog story coming!
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I'd be happy with 365 days a year hog hunting!! We don't have that option in PA. I'm going to have to move South.
Sorry to hear you couldn't make your elk trip. It looks like you might just get to kill something though anyway.
Theres a lot of Pancetta there Felix! Congrats!
Sorry you couldn't make it out this year my friend. Congrats on the hog! I hope you get feeling better.
Hey my friend,in mind you were with me all this week Elk hunting and in 2 days we,ll be going for Moose for 5 days, you,ll see some great country and hopefully you'll watch me shoot a great Bull.Just keep reminding me to pick a spot.I pm,d you my friend.
hey bro nice looking hog and the bow aint to bad as well :biglaugh:
I am feeling better and maybe I regret to have listened at the doctor!
Anyway...the area is filled with some big boars as you can easily understand from the tracks on the ground and the rubs on the trees. Sometimes you can have a body print on the mudd where they wallow.When the temperatures are high they love to take a bath or roll in the mudd during the the afternoon.From my trail cameras I have seen they go from the 1PM to 5PM.They are bedded not far so it is always better to go much earlier to don't spook the area.Tons of mosquitos fill up the area,but you must be good with thermacell.When is very hot you don't want to kill a big one since the area is pretty difficult to access and it can spoils in short time.The evening didn't give any good news,maybe because a cold front approcing and some high winds,so I decided to try to find them feeding late evening in the walnut tree.The walnuts are falling now here and you can hear them crushing the nuts at dark.Just before dark a bunch of them arrived next to the walnut tree as supposed.They are not so easy predictible,this is a several week long tracking work,plus I am not the only one chasing them and the guys with hounds have many people scouting and many noses working for them,plus the farmers see the boars like a pestilence and they call the team with dogs to send and kill the pigs in their properties.Work of many days is usually destroyed by them.
I could see some very big black blobs feeding in the dark and I could hear them crunching nuts.The wind was good from my position,but I had to cross some open terrain to arrive at a decent shooting distance,plus those were big,not too big like the ones that everybody immagine in their dreams,but big enough to make problems and a lot of skinning work.Since I have the freezers already filled of boar meat I wanted something good to make sausages in warm weather.A small piglet went my way facing and walking too fast,almost running;it came very close,like 10yards,but didn't spook;this proved my position on the ground was good.It deseappered in the bush,but still very close,all them were approching,then a little bigger one took my way feeding at a wrong angle and moving fast,looking for the nuts.It made a loop and gave me a 6yards broadside shot,maybe it spun a little seeing me drawing my bow,but the arrow was already passed through. it screamed and was gone.The rest shoot up but them kept feeding around.After a good half hour some pigs were still around,but I needed to check.The arrow was laying on the ground with the Nocturnal nock still on,great help for tracking games,IMHO.It was stinking a little so the angle wasn't as good as I first figured,blood trail was good tough.
After some difficult tracking because the dense foliage I found it well done but still alive about 60 yards away.It didn't move so I was able at 10 yards to give it the final shot;it jumped and after a second I heard asome loud noises like a game breaking limbs and rolling.Then all was silence.It felt in a place with many thorns and limbs and I had to circle to enter the place and to pull it downhill,this is another good reason I wasn't interested in the bigger ones.
The first arrow took the liver and maybe one lung and went out from the pounch,as you can see in the next pic.
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The Hugly Sister at 57# and with a 270 single bevel head,570 grains total weight has easily put down and passed through this 100#young boar. [/QB][/QUOTE]
The second arrow broke maybe because it was laying down in the dirt,but it took lungs and the heart.
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Ready to go by the meat processor to become salami and sausages.
#5 for my SXT
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This is #4. It is the smallest pig I have killed to date,but the one that convinced me small it is better!!!!
Awesome!!
Congrats Felix, good shooting! Love the pics and story telling.
Salami & sausage......a fine way for that hog to end up!
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Fantastic Felix, Congratulations on another fine Boar! The Zipper did its job too.
Congrats Felix on the boar, sorry about you elk hunt
doug77
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Good Shoot'n!
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I would of gone Elk hunting Felix. I always remind myself they (medical community) call it "practicing medicine"
lol. Great hog hunt my friend.
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Congratulations on the boar mi Amico. So sorry you could not go on your elk hunt this year.
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Awesome Stuff
That sister may be hugly but she gets the job done.
Once again, Felix. CONGRATS on the pigs!! :clapper:
You are quite the pig slayer!
Sorry to hear you are going to miss Elk season.
Sorry about missing out on elk, but nice job keeping yourself hunting. Thanks for sharing
Nice Zipper, nice pig, sorry about the elk trip!
Molto carino.
Sorry about having to cancel your elk hunt, but you've found a great way to still go hunting! Nice looking bow!
Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
Wild boar salami........that sounds fantastic!! Well done!! :thumbsup: :notworthy:
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Excellent hunt. Well done! :jumper:
Felix,
wild Boar Ragu, sausage and pig roasts! You're making me hungry. Sorry to hear about your Elk Hunt but you know how to make lemonade from lemons.
Martin
Can't beat a pretty bow and bacon. Good job.
Thanks for the kind words,still to give up elk season hurts!
Go to Africa !!
Nice boars ..
Pat,I am planning that,but my kind of place is N America though.
Pat,I am planning that,but my kind of place is N America though.Good people, freedom and plenty of wide open spaces.