TALON Wild-Boar Roast 2004 ... almost!

[my2002lightning]

Well, it's been quite a wild weekend while hunting, so I'll keep it somewhat short! http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/cool.gif

Opening day, Regan (younger brother) drops a good-sized 8-ptr. running around in the middle of this pasture to the right of the stand with his .30-06.

http://www.svtgalleries.net/gallery/data/500/317View_Right.JPG

and wheels around and drops a doe in another pasture from the same stand - all legal in OK. :

Dad calls me on cell around 10am Sat. to call Regan asap! He's filled his bag-limit and I need to get in his stand asap as there's a much larger buck running around which didn't give a good shot at earlier!

I run up there Sat. with all my gear (.300 Win. Mag., too) and sit from noonish 'til dark.

Around 2pm, a nice-sized bob-cat rounds this oak tree in the middle of the below pic and just sits there for 10 min. looking around and sitting on her hind legs.

I WISH I HAD MY CAMERA WITH ME FOR ALL THIS! http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/bash.gif

http://www.svtgalleries.net/gallery/data/500/317Hog_Bob-Cat.JPG

She then walks almost toward me and almost under the "tower" stand and I can see her below me and she takes off to the north-west at a walk.

Hours later, I decide to take-off as nothing is moving, but I see this doe step out of the timber and I get back in the "La-Z-Boy in the sky" as that probably means the big buck is on to her.

She walks out of the timber and almost 40 yards from me and she's spooked at something off to my left for several minutes.

I look around and it's the biggest black wild boar hog stepping out of the timber I think I've ever seen! Regan's taken some big-boars before, too, as I've helped retrieve/dress with him.

Dad and Regan said they've seen trees around there recently with sand/mud rubbed waist-high to Regan and he's 6'1.http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/eek.gif I'm thinking TALON hog-roast.

It's 5:00-5:15pm with overcast skies as you can see (pics taken today around noon) and I can see he's after what's left from Regan cleaning the buck/doe from earlier in the day Sat. -they're scavengers and he was obviously sniffing the air from what I could see in the low-light.

He gets closer and I can see he's a Monster! He's closing in and figure I have to take him out as I'm having to eggress right past the boar/deer entrail piles and the grandparents house is just about a half-mile away at 5:30pm in the dark - their houseplace is on 190 acres.

I decide to try to take him upclose and flipped the safety off and take him. Lined up on his center-of-mass/rib-cage and let loose with the .300 Win. Mag - he was at a trot and it was pretty dark - tough shot.

It looked like the boar buckled and spun and he hauled ass back into the timber - legs wobbly. Later we saw the wire in GrandDad's fence as he broke it running THROUGH it, rather than UNDER it.

I was calling Regan and Dad to come get me as I've probably got a wounded boar just inside the timber and I don't want to get out of the tower stand and hoof it the 1/2 mile in the dark back to the Grandparents.

Regan says "Sorry dude, I'm in Sherman ...Good Luck!".... F#CK! and Dad's on foot on one of the other properties as I'm the wheel-man.

So, I have to nutz it up and sprint the 1/2 mile in the pitch black back to the Grandparents thinking this wounded monster boar is going to eat my a$$ alive.http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/cry.gif

Luckily, I get back to the house alive and get Dad and Regan and run back over there with Regan's 4x4 Dodge, spotlights and MAK-90/.45 around 11pm. as I want his a$$.

Turns out I grazed his back as it was so close as the .300 is sighted at 100yds.+.

He tore up a quite a patch of real-estate turning around at a trot and running WOT back into the timber mind you! http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/rofl2.gifNo guts/blood trail to mark a kill, but it was pretty low-light out there.

It was almost like a Scooby-Doo number where they run in one-spot for a minute or so! http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrinflip.gif Those SOBs can haul-a$$ once they hook-up with traction!

I'll be back in this tower-stand from Wed. until Sun. waiting on him, along with sights on another wall-hanger white-tail.

Oh yeah, I passed on the 6-ptr. this morning and I had the drop on him as I was counting his tines. He saw me 2nd and I let him pass to grow-up.

Gotta' love hunting season! Elaine's still telling me to calm down. http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Quite a weekend. Hunting rocks! http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/bows.gif

Apologies for the long post. http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/cool.gif Whew....

Ronald

http://www.svtgalleries.net/gallery/data/500/317Stand2.JPG

[my2002lightning]

Other follow-up pics:

http://www.svtgalleries.net/gallery/data/500/317Feeder_BottomPasture.JPG

http://www.svtgalleries.net/gallery/data/500/317View_StraightAhead.JPG

Also, I've made the decision this evening to put the Ruger M77-MkII .300 Win Mag. up for sale on TALON first.

I'm going to check into legal transfer of fire-arms from OK. to TX. and advise.

It's already scoped (Leupold - 3x9x40-I'm almost certain- with Butler-Creek flip-up caps) with a ton of 190 gr. Premium ammo. and Hornady/RCBS reloading dies. I'm tired of the ass-kicking and ready to go back to the .30-06. I'm almost positive I have dies, let me check - I'll take pics and post either way.

That Remington H-Bar fluted Sendero is looking pretty good in .30-06. :)

I'll be posting in the F/S section soon.

Ronald

[StormShadow]

PM me the price first. I've been looking for a Hog Killer.

[Silver_2000]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=2&u=/ap/20041122/ap_on_re_us/hunters_shot

Well we can expect some crazy new legislation from this



A deer hunter shot and killed five people and wounded three others in northwestern Wisconsin following a dispute about a tree stand during the hunt's opening weekend, authorities said.
Ironically he was haunting with an SKS - I used to have one - What a hunk of **** ...

[my2002lightning]

Doug,

I heard this in the news, too. Sad news.

It just goes to prove that the hot-rod and hunting world(s) is a small place: http://www.ls2.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=149813&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

I can say that having hunted since my early teens, this sort of behavior is from the extreme fringes of the community. Also, this is the first I've heard of an Asian-American out hunting deer - I hope that's the preferred nomenclature. :cool:

Regan thinks like I do! He designed/built that stand with a pad-locked trap door in the bottom - only one way in and only we have the keys! :D

Did you buy your SKS used/modded? I bought mine right out of the wooden foot-locker back in the day fresh off the slow-boat from China and it was just swimming in cosmoline - functions fine to this day.

Same with my MAK-90 which Dad and I fitted with aftermkt. black syn. stocks. The stock wooden shoulder piece was designed for a midget, I'm thinking. :confused: Very fun gun and never a jam!

I know that AKs/SKSs are specifically designed to function/cycle with mud/grit/etc. thrown at them. M-16s/etc. are designed/manufactured with close-tolerances in mind and are prone to failure under some dirty combat conditions - but, they're very accurate on the shooting-range, more so than the AKs/Dragunovs.

I've been told of Special Forces members in 'Nam found dead with their cleaning rods down the bbl. of their CAR-15s.:(

I understand that's been fixed since then.

Adam,

That's fine, but BC_Lightning first expressed an interest in the piece recently and I want to be fair to everyone: http://www.talonclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6864

I'm prepping the rifle now as I had camo. tape on the bbl.

I'll follow-up with pics.

Ronald


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=2&u=/ap/20041122/ap_on_re_us/hunters_shot

Well we can expect some crazy new legislation from this



Ironically he was haunting with an SKS - I used to have one - What a hunk of **** ...

[my2002lightning]

Adam/Michael,

After alot of thought, I've decided to hang on to the .300 Ruger. Sorry for any inconvenience.
I've decided that this rig is some "big shoes" I want to grow into.:bows

As for big boar, check this out: http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20041122%2F1344518282.htm&sc=1110&photoid=20040728GAEM101

"the half-ton beast that supposedly had 9-inch tusks and measured 12 feet long."

That looks like fun hunting! :evil

http://channels.aimtoday.com/fotosrch/3/20040728GAEM101.jpg


If I don't get the chance to post tomorrow on my way up north, Happy Thanksgiving TALON and be safe on your journies to visit loved ones!

Ronald

[03LightningRocks]

Ronald...the proper word for that killer is...Focking Gook. The reason we don't see them deer hunting is they eat dogs. I hope they fry that fricking slope.

Meanwhile....back at the ranch. Those are some really nice outdoor pics. A couple of them look like paintings. Nice photo work Ronald :tu: :tu: :tu: .


Rocks:beer:

[StormShadow]

Bobby, I think I could outrun that thing! BTW when are we going hog huntin?

[Silver_2000]

Ronald the manufacturing tolerances on those SKS's were non existant

They were prone to slam firing and also tended to bend when heated.

Let say you bought an SKS and 1000 rounds of steel core ammo for $125 - you spent 3 hours cleaning the cosmoline off and put in a synthetioc stock since the stocker was made for 6 in arms .. THEN you and some buddys took some loaded 30 round clips into the woods... Since you were bored you decided to cut trees down with your steel core miltary ammo ....

3 of us would open up on a 6 inch or smaller tree and could knock it down in short order.......

Then take those rifles to the range .. the barrels looked like corkscrews....

We also got kicked out of the range cause the steel core ammo would over penetrate the backstop

thats my :ron:

[SpeedyBolt]

I've shot some pretty big hogs down here! It seems farmers don't mind if you hunt them when they plant corn or maze and the hogs are tearing it up! I have seen some big M'ther F'rs around when out "running the fences". We usually go to Milford to go hunting for hogs/cayote. The X-boss grew up there and knows everybody! There is a creek that runs through the town, richland creek, you can walk down and just count endless wallers in the mud!

[StormShadow]

I've shot some pretty big hogs down here! It seems farmers don't mind if you hunt them when they plant corn or maze and the hogs are tearing it up! I have seen some big M'ther F'rs around when out "running the fences". We usually go to Milford to go hunting for hogs/cayote. The X-boss grew up there and knows everybody! There is a creek that runs through the town, richland creek, you can walk down and just count endless wallers in the mud!
I did some work for a cust in Italy who owns over 500 acres. He said we coud hunt hogs down there. Me Terry and Bobby are looking for other places to shoot 'em too. If you got some ideas let us know.

[Alpine]

Ummmm...I want to kill something too.:( Bobby told me he has alot of experience going "hoggin'".:rll:

[StormShadow]

Ummmm...I want to kill something too.:( Bobby told me he has alot of experience going "hoggin'".:rll:
C'mon Cleatus.

[Alpine]

C'mon Cleatus.knana :beer:

[L8 APEX]

Adam, Go to a pawn shop or Wallymart and buy a lever action 30-30. They range from 150-300 and are great for hoggin. You want the ability for clsoe rapid shots. A bolt action with a scope will be too slow.

[Wht95Lightning]

Adam, Go to a pawn shop or Wallymart and buy a lever action 30-30. They range from 150-300 and are great for hoggin. You want the ability for clsoe rapid shots. A bolt action with a scope will be too slow.
7 1/2" Ruger Super Redhawk with a gold bead/v notch setup. :tu:

[my2002lightning]

Uncle Rocks,

I just snapped the pics as I saw them! I just love getting "away" for a while from all of "it".

Thanks! :tu:

Adam/Terry/Jeff,

Just a suggestion,

Depending if you want to "snipe" at pigs, .30-30 is an alright choice up-close. .30-06 and better and you can make the hit on the Big-One at distance.

If you want to get in the fray and take out as many as you can - I would suggest a MAK-90 with 123 gr. SP ammo. with plenty of 30 rd. mags. You can't beat quick follow-up shots with that rig.

The first round goes off and they scatter like mice throughout the creek bottoms and cattle trails out of the place.

I hope that most of you can climb a tree with a p!ssed off boar charging, correct?

Trust me.

[StormShadow]

I think I'll just take a Knife!

[Alpine]

I think I'll just take a Knife!I'm deadly with a slingshot.:D

[StormShadow]

Speedybolt, did you find out anything about the hunt?

[SpeedyBolt]

Not yet! The guy I know is out of town right now on a job and doesn't know when he'll be back! We really need to wait untill some type of grain gets planted though!(maze, corn) They love that stuff!

[StormShadow]

Adam, Go to a pawn shop or Wallymart and buy a lever action 30-30. They range from 150-300 and are great for hoggin. You want the ability for clsoe rapid shots. A bolt action with a scope will be too slow.
I went to the WalMart website and looked at the 30-30's. There are a few different ones and I don't know the differences. I only looked at Remmington because I have a shotgun that they make so I'm familiar with them, but if you know something better let me know. I also saw where they have a .44 mag lever action rifle, I thought this was a pistol caliber. I don't know very much about rifles so I'm not sure how much power each caliber has or what each one is used for. I would like a rifle that i could use for a few different hunts (hog, deer, etc)

[my2002lightning]

Just my $.02, Remington/Ruger/Winchester are all SOLID makes of firearms. From what I've seen the lever-action .44 Mag. rifle is a 2x purpose camp rifle with a .44 side-arm - only one round to keep on your person.

I suggested the MAK-90 with 30 rd. mags. that you need follow-up shots as the situation gets "hairy" when that first shot goes off and you need multiple follow-up shots with open-sights.

And too, the MAK-90 is cheap as is the ammo. and it's a beater gun! You can bang it around and not feel bad as you're slamming it around in-out of farm-trucks, stomping around pastures/woods and climbing trees if need-be. :D :banana: Don't get me wrong, I love my QUALITY firearms.

Another thing, if any of you want to actually eat any of your wild-boar kills and your dressing it yourselves, take a look at the livers and slice them several ways and inspect!

If it has a marbled-look to it, then their ate-up with worms, etc. as wild-boar are typical scavengers. They're nasty b#stards and eat ANYTHING - trust me!

If so, just take the skull/trophy and let "nature" take care of the rest of the carcass.

I hope the packing-house calls for my buck tomorrow so I can "justify" an OK. trip and hunt boar on the other side of the Red River this week! :bows




I went to the WalMart website and looked at the 30-30's. There are a few different ones and I don't know the differences. I only looked at Remmington because I have a shotgun that they make so I'm familiar with them, but if you know something better let me know. I also saw where they have a .44 mag lever action rifle, I thought this was a pistol caliber. I don't know very much about rifles so I'm not sure how much power each caliber has or what each one is used for. I would like a rifle that i could use for a few different hunts (hog, deer, etc)

[Moonshine]

Adam, Go to a pawn shop or Wallymart and buy a lever action 30-30. They range from 150-300 and are great for hoggin. You want the ability for clsoe rapid shots. A bolt action with a scope will be too slow.
Somebody lookin' for a good hog gun? Email me. Got one I'd consider parting with.