Wife shot another hog

[EddieWalker]

You are a lucky man Eddie. I sure wish my wife would hunt with me. I do miss her opening week of Texas deer season, and almost every weekend of Louisiana deer season.

Thank you. She never shot a gun in her life before we met, and now she has killed a total of three hogs and two springbok. Pretty soon we are going on a hunt where the exotics have escaped the high fence ranches and grown in numbers to where the owner of the ranch wants so many shot per year. I'm going after a sika deer buck, and Karen is going to try to get a couple of axis does.

I've come home from work to see her out in the deer blind target practicing by herself. She used to take her rifle with her when she goes jogging on the land to shoot snakes, but now I gave her a Ruger LCP .380 for that because she would put her rifle down and then have to come back for it to kill the snake, and by the time she got back to where it had been, it was gone. We have quite a few water moccasins here.

As for the hogs, everyone pretty much answered that except for taste. I think that a young hog under a hundred pounds is one of the best tasting meats out there. And I've tasted quite a few. It is much better then deer meat, it's not even close. Bigger hogs get a little tougher and I wont even bother wit trying to eat one over 200 pounds. Those become coyote bait.

One of my favorite things to do with a hog carcass is to drag it out to the middle of my pasture and then check on it every morning for as long as it remains. I've killed as many as 3 coyotes off of one carcass and last year I shot my first double on coyotes!!!

My fence around my feeder is just two pines stacked on top of each other like a log cabin. I did this on three sides and then a four foot field fence is in front so we can see what's in there from the deer blind. It's not perfect as I have one hog that is able to jump it and get in. I've seen him three times in the last month and have just missed having a shot at him once. He's quick and as soon as he sees movement, he's running flat out into the thick stuff. I'll get him, he's become addicted to the corn and it's just a matter of time. Actually, it's more fun for me to see others shoot hogs, so hopefully Karen gets him!!!

 

[KubotaToy]

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Will you guys adopt me? :laughing::cool2:

Me too!!!! Two is better than one.

 

[EddieWalker]

Just a little more bragging on Karen. Here are the two springbok she shot in South Africa last year.






And here she is showing them off on our wall. The one in the middle is the one I shot when I hunted in Namibia before I knew Karen

 

[KubotaToy]

Just a little more bragging on Karen. Here are the two springbok she shot in South Africa last year.
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And here she is showing them off on our wall. The one in the middle is the one I shot when I hunted in Namibia before I knew Karen

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Go ahead, rub it in:laughing::laughing::thumbsup:

 

[gsganzer]

I'm covered up pretty good with hogs at our lease in central TX. They disappeared for a bit, but the wet spring brought them back big time. I have them on the camera between 8pm and midnight every night. It's funny to watch a time lapse of game photo's through the summer. You can watch each litter get born and grow up and then a new batch shows up for photo's.
here's a good photo during the daylight. You can see the variations in colors. Black is always the most dominant.

 

[MacLawn]

Eddie, how them springboks eat? Hope y'all got to eat some. Reckon it'd be hard to bring meat back.

 

[EddieWalker]

Your right in that we couldn't bring any meat back, but we sure did eat a lot of different types while we where there. Springbok is OK. I like Impala a lot better