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Title: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: Silencer on March 23, 2010, 06:11:08 PM
We purchased this house bout 5 yrs ago and had a hog living out back since I've moved in.  He's pretty skiddish and hard to get at.   Seen him scoot across the lawn this evenin triggerin DevonD and myself into stalk mode with the bow but he gave us the slip.  I think I might make a blind in the backyard lol. 

Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: HaMeR on March 23, 2010, 06:53:06 PM
 :laf: :laf:  Go for it Vic!! You might end up with the 1st hog of the FnF season!!  :yoyo: :yoyo:
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: Carolina Coyote on March 23, 2010, 07:24:47 PM
Just be careful with them Hogs, Last year a Hunter in Georgia shot a Hog with a 243 and the Hog ran into a thicket the Hunter went to find the Hog, the Hunter did not reload after shooting. The Hog charged him out of the Thicket and knocked him to the ground and cut him up pretty bad before he could get his rifle reloaded  and made a lucky [b shot and killed the hog. He almost bled to death before a friend that was also hunting found him. The Hunter was a Doctor. I think I if I was Bow Hunting Hogs on the Ground I would also carry a Hog leg on my side easy to get to. Good luck and be careful cc
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: FinsnFur on March 23, 2010, 08:09:24 PM
Well, this wasnt about what I thought it was going to be about. We used to have a different version of Hoggin when we was younger :eyebrow:
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: HaMeR on March 23, 2010, 09:20:01 PM
Hi Carl. I took this post as groundhoggin. Not the real big ones you guys got down there.  :nono:
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: Hawks Feather on March 23, 2010, 10:47:23 PM
I found on the DNR website that we have hogs right here in Defiance County.  I called the game warden to find out where they were and found out that they really don't exist around here.  There were 5 hogs that escaped about 10 years ago and that put the county on the map as having wild hogs.  The problem is that no one has seen them or any damage done by them since they escaped.  So it doesn't look like I will have any flat land to hunt hogs on.   :sad:

Jerry
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: Silencer on March 24, 2010, 04:20:50 AM
I shoulda worded it differ, ground grizzly ( woodchuck/groundhog ) is what was in the backyard.  Dont want them big hogs in the yard, there's enough of them hanging on the mahogoney ridge watering holes. 
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: Carolina Coyote on March 24, 2010, 06:57:40 AM
 :laf: Boy I missed that one, at lease you will not need the Hog leg for them critters, The big hogs are a different story, a couple of years ago a good friend of mine got put up a tree by a wounded hog that he was tracking after he had shot it, just need to be prepared when hunting them boys. cc
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: Silencer on March 25, 2010, 05:26:24 PM
He was out this afternoon, as soon as I moved the curtain in the kitchen he took off   

dern fat little bugger !!!
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: LORDDAL on March 26, 2010, 05:13:40 PM
went and got the Lic. the other day danred if ole Wv didnt raise em up yet agian this year dependin on the weather tomorrow Logan and I may just take the new stevens 22-250 out and see if we cant find a ground grizz or maybe even ole wiley his own self in the AM if we do and have any luck we will post pics sunday after midnight

Charlie
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: HaMeR on March 26, 2010, 07:55:15 PM
Them fat little buggers are quick too aint they??  :laf: :laf:
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: Silencer on April 19, 2010, 05:57:53 PM
JUST MISSED !!!!!!!!  I hit a few inches low  :doh2: :argh:   Now he's gonna be even harder !!!!!!!!
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: HaMeR on April 19, 2010, 06:08:02 PM
 :laf: :laf: Wait til he stands up.  :eyebrownod: :eyebrownod:
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: FOsteology on April 19, 2010, 08:59:27 PM
Hawgin' (with dawgs and a knife) ..... heck yeah! Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.... 24/7/365 if Mama would let me.


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/FOsteology/Hawgs/Doggin/CIMG0002-6.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/FOsteology/Hawgs/Doggin/bay003.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/FOsteology/Hawgs/Doggin/CIMG3280.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/FOsteology/Hawgs/Doggin/HPIM0692.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/FOsteology/Hawgs/Doggin/hog1.jpg)
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: Hawks Feather on April 19, 2010, 09:14:19 PM
Those teeth would do a number on you.

Jerry
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: FOsteology on April 19, 2010, 09:51:01 PM
Quote from: Hawks Feather on April 19, 2010, 09:14:19 PM
Those teeth would do a number on you.

Jerry

No doubt...

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/FOsteology/Hawgs/Doggin/September-12_22.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/FOsteology/Hawgs/Doggin/DSC05727.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/FOsteology/Hawgs/Doggin/DSC05733.jpg)

Knock on wood I've been lucky thus far. A couple close calls.... Numerous dogs injured over the years, as well as a few killed by boars.
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: Hawks Feather on April 19, 2010, 10:28:46 PM
I think I might want to be hunting from a tree.  The dogs look beat, but the leg looks worse.

Jerry
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: nailbender on April 20, 2010, 08:47:26 PM
 OUCH!  That could sting a little.
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: Silencer on April 21, 2010, 11:28:06 AM
any hunting with hounds and/or dogs i'm into.   Great pics !!!    they run em like a coon or coyote ?   I know they dont tree em lol...   Not sure how they run them hogs. 
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: pitw on April 21, 2010, 01:37:18 PM
Quote from: Silencer on April 21, 2010, 11:28:06 AM
   I know they dont tree em lol...   

:laugh2: :thumb2: :laugh2:
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: FOsteology on April 21, 2010, 02:37:50 PM
Yeah, we run them. Pretty much similar in concept to running bear or coons, except of course no treeing involved..... except us hunters from time to time when it get's a little dicey.... and if we can find a tree big enough and tall enough! lol

We have catch dogs (American Pits or Dogo) that charge in and grab a boar and hold him down. One of us will maneuver behind the hawg and grab his rear legs (hold 'em up like a wheelbarrel) to limit his mobility. The Catch dog will grab a hold of the snout or ear and hold the hogs head down to the ground and one of us will slip in and stick the boar with a knife. Pure adrenaline rush!
Title: Re: any spring Hoggin ?
Post by: Silencer on April 21, 2010, 03:03:53 PM
I've got to try that !!!   awesome  :yoyo: