KahrMan

Had lunch Friday at the Turkey Hotel. It was fantastic. Some of the best food I have had in a while. Turkey Texas, home of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

Most of the hogs we chased were 500-1200 yards from the trucks by the time the dogs caught them. You have get there as fast as you can. That is what I was not ready for. we did put one stalk on a pig with a thermal but it just disappeared after about a 500 yard stalk. I was using these guys. https://safariunlimitedworldwide.com/ same outfitter I used for a Sandhill crane hunt a couple of years ago.

The last two pics are of the the storage container we stayed in. It was really pretty nice.

Just got back from a hog hunt in Quitacue Texas. Had a blast but it wore me out. Was not ready for how physically demanding this hunt was going to be. The plan was to hunt hogs with dogs and also with night vision. They had recently had quite a bit of rain which is very unusual for them. This got the hogs out of their normal patterns because there was a lot more water and lush grass and crops to eat than normal for September. Both nights we hunted from about 9-10 pm until 4am ish. We would load up the dogs in the kennels and on top of the kennels and head out driving around. We had 4 chase dogs and two catch dogs. We would drive along or through fields with different crops waiting for the dogs to catch a scent. When they would start barking we would stop and send the chase dogs out. If they came back within a couple of minutes we would load them up and keep driving. If they starting baying like crazy we would grab the catch dogs and head out in the dark trying to catch up to the chase dogs. We would run through dark trying not to trip and crawling under, through and over barbed wire fences until we caught up with the dogs. Let me just say a pig running from a bunch of dogs can run a loooong way before the dogs catch him. The cash dogs would eventually corner the pig or surround him and keep him from running. Once we get there with the catch dog is when it gets hectic. The main catch dog was a tank of a pit bull. Sweet dog that wants nothing more than head rubs until it sees a pig. When you let the catch dog go it latches onto the pigs head/face/ear area and does not let go. While the pig is dealing with the dog you run up and grab the back legs and lift and twist to get him down. You then kneel on his back and stick a big knife into his chest up into his heart to kill him. The smaller ones we would cut out the backstops and leave the rest. The bigger ones we would just leave where they lay. The hogs do a lot of damage to the crops. The farmers are very happy when a lot of hogs are killed. As long as you stay to the sides of the fields with the truck or stay in the appropriate lanes through the field the farmers love having the hunters on their properties. It is a lot of hard work, exhilarating and pretty brutal way to hunt. I am glad I did the hunt but will probably not do this kind of hunting again. The rattlesnakes were pretty active and we killed a couple of them as well.

Good luck. Just got back last night from the Quitacue/Silverton area of Texas. Watch out for rattle snakes. They were very active the last couple of days.

Did you say a small frame ar in 6.5 Grendel…

Can I get a list of the 1000 trades you will consider…

Welcome

Actually saw my grandma do this.

I’ll take it.

I’m in if schedule allows.

Welcome. I will be in Palo Duro Canyon next week chasing hogs.

Because is gets expensive hosting all the large pics. Most people use one of the free site to host the pics and them link them here. I use postimg.cc I like that site and it makes it very easy to post pics.

I saw that and was like I need that. Then I was like that looks familiar. Oh yeah that used to be mine.

What a gorgeous gun

Don’t hate me but I am season ticket holder. Actually posting this from the stadium.

Pic is too low res for these old eyes to see the cougar.

Gotcha. Used to live in Ft Worth. The metroplex sure has changed over the last 30 years.

Welcome

Welcome. What part of Texas are you from?

Pics please.