another refuge hunt...

i laughed out loud with this one...im drinking wine from the bottle and smoking apple tobacco while Daniel plays bobby dylan. Daniel is probably on his 8th cup of coffee for the day

hunting south TX

caught the light with this candid shot..

There are too many crazy stories to tell but I'll delve into one of the shorter ones...

Daniel and I were hunting a 35,000 acre refuge down south, posted up on 2 different ends of a hunt area. I was off to myself by a vast expanse of mudflats.  It was early and I was glassing some far off reeds with my binos when I saw two huge brown boars emerge from the other side of the flats, covered only by a small clump of reeds.

QuoteOriginally posted by Fishnhunt:
i laughed out loud with this one...im drinking wine from the bottle and smoking apple tobacco while Daniel plays bobby dylan. Daniel is probably on his 8th cup of coffee for the day


 

Glad you cleared that one up Chris!! LOL!! Saw that pic and thought I walked into "Tradguys gone wild"!!

I had good wind so I started the excruciatingly slow process of trudging towards them in the knee deep mud. At times the mudflats opened up into tributaries then more mud. I finally made it across the expanse and was about 20 yards from the hogs, sidestepping for a better shot. I started to draw back then caught movement in the reeds. Creeping up on the boars was a huge gator, and were were all in the center of a mud flat, 150+ yards from shore.  I pondered the situation then turned and decided to make haste.  After I had trudged about 75 yards I hear something and looked back to see one of the big boars running at me from across the flat!!? At first I thought the gator chased him out but the boar was coming directly towards me.  He slowed and I turned to face him and we stared eachtother down for a few minutes at 50 yards.  He held his ground and I decided to leave, I was perflexed, but more worried about the gator than the hog.
Whats even crazier is that I mentioned the episode to another hunter and he immediately went into the flats in search of the pigs, no fear, solo!




Daniel - its was fun! I'll be in touch!

BISCH - it was great to meet you! You are the 2nd tranganger I've met (Daniel being the first).  Thanks for the meal I owe you one!!

I'm not much into 3D but if you ever want to meet up and hunt lemme know. And good luck on the rest of your season!

FNH: Thanks for adding the pics and your side of the adventure.

TX hunting is like no other....

Thread just gets better and better

This thread is making me home sick!

Thanks for the photos and sharing. Dave

Daniel looks like you and everyone involved had ablast thanks for sharing.

always enjoy reading your posts daniel.
when i log on to pow wow and see yononindo has a thread it's the 1st i read.
looks like a great time.

BTW, i can't believe no one has mentioned this but can someone tell me what is odd in this pic?  

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Meeting of the Generations at Smittys.

 

The target seems to be behind them??

Daniel just a great post - looks to be a great time

J

We were shooting at a running deer target about 15 yards in front of us. Great time for sure. That is Smitty's daughter and her 4 children, Daniel and me. Smitty was setting the target and letting it go for us to shoot at.

a few more =)   .......

on one of the hunts I was in ankle deep water and saw a railraod tie next to me.  I looked over and saw another "railroad tie" next to me and quickly realized the second one was a gator!

Fred creeping up on some hogs

more hogs at 10 yds... (left side pic)