2015 Meat Pole Thread-Other Game

I was planning on posting this under deer meat pole BUT I guess that will have to wait a while since I only saw 1 legal buck and 15 total deer during our trip to the deer camp for muzzle loader deer season the past week... Came home early because of the weather and wanting to stay healthy for the modern gun deer season that starts in 3 weeks...

NOW to the other game meat pole... I\'m not much of a hog hunter but have been told to shoot everyone I can... Like coyote they are a number 1 nuisance in our area... Good meat is a by product...

After hunting deer for the 1st 4 days of season and seeing very few on Wednesday the morning it was still kind of cool but not as cool as the 1st 3 days, still very dry and a little chance of rain on Friday... No rain since back in July... Hunted from my stand from 6:45 AM till 11:15 AM and saw nothing but a bunny rabbit.... We (my wife was with since she didn\'t want me to be out there alone) went back to camp for breakfast/lunch and a nap..

That afternoon was hot and my wife really didn\'t want to go back out but was getting ready to... I told her to let me go by myself... I had a cellphone and would check in by text every 30 minutes or so... ;) ;) She agreed... :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Off I go in the ranger and get back in my stand about 4:00 PM... Did I say it was hot and dry... :downthumb: :downthumb: Made my regular check in\'s and was getting ready to make the 5:30 check in and low and behold out steps this big old boar hog in my shooting lane in what I call \"THE VALLEY OF DEATH\"... Now you have to consider like I said earlier I ain\'t no hog hunter... This was the 1st wild hog I\'d ever seen in person in the wild... He was about 145 yards... My feeder is 140 yards from the stand and I guessed him to be 5 or 10 yards behind the feeder... This was the same hog we had on trail camera trying to turn over the feeder before we staked it down with T-post... Being my 1st hog I really didn\'t want to mess up anything so when he finally turned broadside I take aim behind his ear and down a bit on his neck... Touched of the old muzzle loader and sent the .45 cal 250 gr Hornady XTP bullet on it\'s merry way.... :mg: :mg:

The view from my stand of the valley of death...

 
Lost my train of thought... ;) ;) Where was I???? :oops: :oops:

Now I remember... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Touched off the shot...

I heard the bullet hit and the big old hog dropped in his tracks...

I reloaded as quickly as I could and just set there looking at the hog... No movement... Guess he\'s done... Being late on my 5:30 check in and being by myself I text for help... My wife wanted me to come get her but I told her that we couldn\'t load the hog by ourselves... :D :D

Got out of my stand and got in the ranger driving it down to the hog... Sure enough he was to heavy for me to lift up his rear end much less his front.. No phone signal in the valley of death... Never has been and mostly never will be... Drove back up to top of hill and text the guy that normally helps me when my son isn\'t there... He\'s already on the way... Back down to hog...

When he arrives he can\'t pick up either end of hog either... No loading hog in bed of my ranger but he wouldn\'t fit anyway... I\'ve got one of the mid-size ranger and it\'s rear bed ain\'t as big as a full size ranger... My buddy told me and I later found out from others that the hog, since he was a big old boar, wasn\'t worth cleaning and no one he knew of would even eat any of him if we did clean him... :cry: :cry:

So what to do with the hog was solved... The coyote\'s and buzzard\'s would have a lot to eat if they would eat him... My buddy said that sometimes even the coyote\'s and buzzard\'s wouldn\'t eat a old boar hog that big.... :sick: :sick:

We hook up a rope to the hog and with my ranger we drug him out of the area and to a area no one hunted and left him for the coyote\'s and buzzard\'s.... :cry: :cry:

I know some of you are thinking why not at least give him to someone that wanted him... Well I tried and no one wanted him either... The only thing anyone wanted was his head for a mount... Since I wasn\'t going to mount him and didn\'t figure he deserved to be mounted for someone else he stayed intact...

I forgot to say how BIG he was didn\'t I??????? :silent: :silent:

Guesstimated by a long time hog man, 350#+.... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: As for me he was way to heavy for me to handle and for me and my buddy together it was a task just to drag him...

Here a few pictures of the big old boar hog... After the fact I wished I\'d use my muzzle loader as a size reference...





 
Missed a pig at 30 yds this AM...grrrr! :x

Not getting off to a good start this Season. I did manage to get a small consolation prize:

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Goose with the bow. Too much fun!

A friend invited me to try to bowhunt some geese yesterday. Had a blast! One of them is not a decoy ;) 22yd shot
 

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My first archery goose. Great way to end the 2015 bow season :upthumb:
 

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Nice Will! So were you guys in a blind and just had to wait for them to land? I might have to give that a try with the new bow... :think:
 
Thanks guys! This was more fun than you can imagine.

Derek, If you go let me know if ya want some company. I\'ll never look at a goose the same :)
 
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