Hunting & Fishing Good year of hunting

[Pigman]

This isn't everything I've taken, just all the stuff I have pictures of:

Benelli 20ga

Remington .25-06

Remington .25-06

Benelli M1 Super 90

RRA AR-15/Benelli M2

Lever-action .444 Marlin

These are a few of the hogs/javelina from this past weekend:

RRA AR-15

Savage .17 HMR

Remington .25-06

 

[Pigman]

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Another picture from this past weekend:

Remington .25-06/Benelli M2

 

[donovan]

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Alot of bacon there...........

 

[snave58]

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outstanding work there, I am with you, nothing better than stacking up the hogs. right on!

 

[Cody Petersen]

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Awesome job josh!

 

[redirt78]

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A good season for sure, nice work. Looks like you killed a great buck, then you killed his daddy. Congratulations man. I love chasing hogs myself, stalking them is my favorite.

 

[Southbreeze]

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By God, you should have a freezer full o pork meat! Keep hammering them hogs!

Breeze

 

[tireys]

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Jeeez, Every good superhero needs a sidekick, let me know if you need a reliable ammo man to get all that killin done or just someone to do all the grillin.

 

[jsthntn247]

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I hope you count your blessings everyday to have a place like that to hunt. Nice shooting by the way.

 

[JCH]

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a lot of killin in those pictures....

 

[tireys]

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Damn! Oh well I guess I'll have to be content with what I can hunt here in Missouri

 

[snave58]

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Oh come on Josh, cleaning and skinning them is not all that bad, its worse...its horrible! I think in 2011 I cleaned over 200 hogs and caped out 25 for mounts. I call them Texas Grizzly Bears and they are always covered in tics and fleas. Love to hunt then, hate to clean them like your self...

 

[Pigman]

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Yeah they're nasty animals for sure. After I got done cleaning the hog a couple weeks ago I took a shower for what seemed like an hour before I started to feel sort of clean. The good thing though is that the guy only had me skin it down half way and just get the hindquarters. It wasn't hard, it only took about 15 minutes or so, but it was one of the nastiest things I've ever had to do. It was a good experience though I guess.

Kimmel- did you clean and cape out all those hogs for other people or did you kill them?

 

[snave58]

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Hey Josh, I had a really good year hunting hogs in texas. I killed 112 hogs myself at 2 different ranches and still wanted more. I am a full time Taxidermist and about half of the 25 caped were for me and the rest for customers. we take the majority of the meat and is very good eating. cant wait for this years tally.

 

[Pigman]

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Sounds like a great year, Kimmel! There were a little less than 400 hogs taken on our place last year and my cousin and I accounted for about 250 of those. Our goal for this year is 350 between me and my cousin. Hopefully we can do it!

 

[snave58]

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that is a blast Josh, hope you get to your numbers. I think I will fall way short of mine in 2012. the heat wave in the Paduca area has killed the majority of the hogs last year. I will still give it hell of a try.

 

[Southbreeze]

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Have either of you tried the "butt out" tool yet? Best $8 piece of plasic you'll ever buy. Pop it in and twist it loose, pull it out and tie it off. That nasty job is done.

Another suggestion for cleaning is strip skinning? Nothing new, but it's quick and painless. Get a utility knife and put a carpet "hooked" blade in. Hang that rascal by the head. Ring his neck with you hooked blade, then run the down the length of him in strips about 1 1/2"-2" wide and peel 'em like a banana.

It was something new for me that really sped things up for cleaning a bunch of hogs up at one time. wasn't trying to piss on you post.

We cook between 8-10 tons of pork each year for US Soldiers Foundation and other fundraisers. We like the shoulders best.

Cheers,
Breeze

 

[snave58]

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hey Breeze, have not tried that one but well try it next time.
thx

 

[Southbreeze]

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Oh yeah, go ahead and cut the ears off first. They just get in the way!

 

[aaronraby1]

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atta boy! you sure do put the hurt on those pigs!

 

[Pigman]

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A few small pigs from a few weeks ago. Hogs haven't been out in the fields as much here lately since we've been getting alot of rain. We got 12 on this trip but my cousin's phone died after these pictures so we couldn't get pictures of the rest. Oh well.

Remington .25-06

Remington .25-06

Remington .25-06

 

[Hntelk]

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pigman...with amount of hogs...you need to forget killing for tails and start your own pig hunting business...lol

Last couple of leases I have been on we killed way more pigs then anything but I am not in any lease now and get the itchy finger for some pig killing this time of year ( the time when you gotta wait for elk season )

You need a pig killing stand in when your cousin cant go...let me know asap!! Ill pay for the gas and ammo and you can keep the tails!! I'll even throw in dinner at Waffle house...

 

[Pigman]

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Here's a bobcat we got last weekend with a .17 HMR.

 

[calling4life]

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So you don't eat them? We don't really have them up here, but I always thought it would be a fantastic meal at the camp while out on long hunts for other critters.

Fire, spit, bit of a pig roast? No?

 

[Pigman]

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Popped this guy last weekend at 125 yards with my cousin's .17 HMR. We couldn't find an entry or exit wound but we're assuming it was an earhole.

 

[Infinity]

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That's impressive. I'm not all about the hogs but those are some great deer. Props again...

 

[mulie_mike]

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Man your tearing it up!
Congrats.

 

[SFree]

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What location meathods are you using, spot light, bait and stands, drive by shootings?
Excellent work!

 

[Pigman]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SFree</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What location meathods are you using, spot light, bait and stands, drive by shootings?
Excellent work! </div></div>

All of the above. We usually corn the roads and put out our bait(secret recipe) a couple hours before we go sit on the stands or ride around. Normally we each split up and sit on separate stands in the afternoon so we're pretty much guaranteed to kill 2 hogs. Then we go ride around on the mule with the spotlight after dinner from about 9pm-3am. Back during the drought we used to ride through the wide open fields in the middle of the night and we would come across COUNTLESS amounts of hogs rooting up the fields. One weekend we actually counted roughly 250+ hogs in 2 nights while riding around. But now that we've been getting so much rain all the grass is so grown up in the fields so we have to mainly stick to the roads and hope we get lucky and come across some hogs in the road. We're hoping that during the summer my dad will let us mow and disc the fields so we can go back to hunting the fields. We also trap them but both our 40ft trap and our 8x4ft are broken so we haven't been able to trap them recently.

 

[Pigman]

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Here's a picture I just found of one of my bucks from a few years ago

 

[Pigman]

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Here's some hogs and coons from the past week or so. We ended up getting 25 hogs, 12 coons, and 1 yote.

 

[Pigman]

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[S_Lunsford]

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Heck of a season, you're a killing machine. Those are some dang nice bucks you got!

 

[bassani]

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they are a bit more of a pain than deer....tough hide...dirty...short legs..but probaly only adds an extra 5 minutes on to the dressing and thats alot of good meat

 

[Pigman]

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I went out for a ride in the truck this morning and caught this guy trying to blend in with some turkeys, and he almost got away with it. As I passed the feeder about 60 yards away I saw a bunch of turkeys eating corn under the feeder and didn't think much about it. All of a sudden they took off and left this boar hangin. He ran off about 10 feet away from the feeder and then went back to eat so I opened the door real easily and popped em in the head. My cousin and I are going back down next week and will be there for a few weeks so hopefully we can rack up some more hogs.

 

[Pigman]

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A couple hogs from saturday night.

 

[jorefice]

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With all those hogs you boys have down there no one should go hungry in this country!