Great job James!!!

Now you can concentrate on those hogs.

Someone else lost a tag today also....

Managed to tag one today, with a lot of help from my friends, including Terry, who gave me a crash course in javelina hunting last year.

Nice job guys!

Quote from: Terry Green on February 02, 2026, 08:08:23 AM

Quote from: highpoint on February 01, 2026, 07:59:43 PMNice heavy boar for sure........wish I signed up but there's always 2027.

I might as well get this over with...  there will not be a two thousand and twenty seven hunt on this ranch.  Too many people backed out at the last minute. Now, the outfitter does not want to run Tradgang hunts due to loss of money from people backing out. In the last three weeks, four people have bailed on the third week of this hunt.

So maybe we'll find somewhere else, maybe we won't. I will be a inspecting other properties, but we will not have 3 hunts. We will not have 2. We will have one hunt and those that have been before get first dibs.

I can assure you that if I find another place, it will be an ace.

Do you think that crazy winter storm had something to do with the cancelations?

No. They were cancelled weeks before the storm was ever thought of.

Welllllllll sh****. I hunted north of Laredo in Eagle Pass for ten years on 60k acres and that is some very special country indeed. Deer unlike anything you've seen naturally free ranging. Please announce the 2027 when you know something and I'd second the deposits.

Here's a picture from last year of the same boar that I chased, that Joe is now chasing...

I sure hope you find another ranch. Unfortunately as a controller were are working on issuing our financial statements so mid January through March I have a vacation freeze but i plan on retiring in two years or so and this hunt will be a definite for me.

I have been on date night with this guy every night since I've been here. I gave him a flesh wound Sunday and shot under him (light went dim and it was all silhouette in the full moon) last night.

That really sucks Terry, you kept me on the waiting list for a couple years for this hunt and I really appreciate it!!! I am at a point that I am seeing the light of retirement coming by this spring and am still hoping to make one of these hunts.  I hope you can put something together again!!!  Good luck to all those still hunting!! Waiting to hear some stories and see some pictures.       


Jason

Quote from: JamesD on February 03, 2026, 06:46:35 PMI have been on date night with this guy every night since I've been here. I gave him a flesh wound Sunday and shot under him (light went dim and it was all silhouette in the full moon) last night.

I'm shocked he came back, but then no gun noises and he probably had no idea.....I shot and missed one from above like 7ft shot hit the ground next to him sticking straight up and he never even slowed down or looked at that arrow, second shot went right through the spine above shoulder, keeled over like lightning hit him.

That guy will go 275 easily.

The big boar stood me up Tuesday night. Last night during my final approach, he decided he was full and slowly ambled off into the brush. The wind was quite swirly last night. I had a stalk fall apart at another location in the last 10 yards. The camera recorded a video of the pigs blowing out on me. I've attached a still shot below. All three came back later and there is a great shot of the boar in that group.

That is a beast of a boar.  I have some good pics of him last year.  He has to slip up eventually.

I knew months ago that I wouldn't be able to go this year.  I had an opportunity to hunt another ranch for 2 weeks rather than my normal one.  That ranch has all but done away with hunting, and we were only allowed because we were essentially grandfathered in, with my friend having hunted there the last 16 years and being friends with the higher ups at the ranch.

Sure hope that there are some more animals that get taken.

That is him from last year.

Yes, I have a few pictures from last year.Also this is great stuff....

X

I hope everyone had a great last day!!!

Any stories from week three?

It was a rather difficult week, only three javelinas killed. James D got two and McDave got one. The wind was tricky all week, and the temperture was all over the place.

I had a 45 minute stalk on a hog in daylight, and I shot an arrow through his chest. He went into thick cover and we could not find him. The arrow was coated front to back with blood.

The hogs started coming into our night set up in daylight...just a wierd week.

Finally taking time to tell LTR stories.

Day one, Week 3, LTR 2026

    Upon arriving at the ranch, I was advised of an area by Gerry (outfitter) that no one had been chasing javelinas or hogs in. Since we still had an hour or so before carrying on the tradition of eating great Texmex, I chose to go out and corn a couple of senderos right away. Based upon past experiences here, I knew it sometimes takes a day or two for the Javies to find the corn. The next morning I corned the one sendero that ran east/west. I chose to corn only the east/west sendero due to forecasted southerly winds for the morning and northerly winds predicted for the afternoon. I left to set up night time hog stalking scenarios and came back to javies in the sendero. Figuring that most of the corn was already gone, I took an early lunch break. Once the sendero was empty, I picked out an ambush spot, cleaned it up, and corned the sendero a second time. I hadn't been in the ambush location an hour when I had a good group of javelinas working towards me. The group had two really nice boars in it. At this point, it wasn't meant to be. I was spotted by the biggest boar, who went on full alert, and was busted twice trying to draw back on others. Ultimately, the entire group fed by me at five yards. After they disappeared I went back to the truck and quickly came up with plan B. The wind was shifting to the north within the next two hours. I went a little farther down the sendero from ambush spot A, and created a new ambush spot (a few yards farther off the sendero). While building the ambush location, I actually had a couple of javelina come out in the sendero and appear to check out what was going on. Once I had my stool set and the new hiding spot finished, I went back to the truck and killed an hour or so waiting for the wind to switch. As the wind began its shift, I corned the sendero again, parked the truck, and got into position. The wait was longer this time. With about an hour to go before dark, I had a group of javelinas on me. There was one that was much bigger than the rest. I had him broadside at 12 yards. He sensed me drawing back and trotted off with all the group but one, which froze looking away from me with a hind leg in the air. The javelina stayed frozen for quite a awhile. After a few minutes it unfroze and went back to eating. All of the group slowly filtered back into the sendero in front of me, including the big one. The big guy turned quartering away at about 12 yards. I slowly drew back and dropped the string. Upon release, the javelina spun, and appeared to take the arrow in the face. I let about twenty minutes pass, and went to where he was standing, and where part of my arrow was laying. There was good blood on the arrow. I walked to the other side of the sendero, and my headlamp immediately landed on the big javelina laying dead about fifteen yards into the brush and cactus. When I retrieved him, he had a cut on his snout. When I skinned him, I found the broadhead and about three inches of shaft buried in his chest. The arrow grazed his snout and went in between the neck and shoulder. This spin move must have been his escape pattern. When I skinned the skull, I found another arrow shaft buried in his snout. See photo for evidence. I opted to leave the shaft in place and have the skull mounted as is. I'll post a photo when I get the skull back.
I'll try to tell the second hunting story in the next day or so.