Hunting season 2020

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Unconventional said:
Trail cams are such fun. One of my co-workers placed one at the bottom of one of our inactive pits at the rock farm. We were pretty sure we had wild pigs and just wanted to see. One of the images looked similar to this. View attachment 1715577896
The head and torso weren't quite captured that well but the rump and distinguishing tail were very plain to see :lol:.
Yeah. Little Lucy (the pit) has wildlife. :lol:
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That's one big cat. I'm glad we dont have them around here coyotes and bear are hard enough on the deer heard
 
Our Al season starts in November. I don’t like tracking deer therefore I shoot a 300 Wetherby magnum. Normally they go about. 2ft, straight down.
 
SGBARRACUDA said:
Our Al season starts in November. I don’t like tracking deer therefore I shoot a 300 Wetherby magnum. Normally they go about. 2ft, straight down.
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My go to is a 3006 i have used that round for many years and have never had to track a deer with it. I also have hunted with a 7mm mag, 35 rem, 308. 7mm08, 30-30 and 243. I'm not a a huge fan of 243 I know alot of ppl swear by them but I have tracked alot of deer with fatal hits and no blood trial from a 243 Iv never lost one but I dont like not finding blood. I like my 3006 if never shot one with it and not watched it fall. I am excited to see what the 338 fed does it has similar ballistics to the 3006
 
dartfreak75 said:
264 is a awesome round. Iv always liked the 260 and 6.5x55 in the 264 class. I am(was) working on a 6.5x55 mauser project it got pushed to the side this spring so I could work on my car hopefully this winter I can get back on it.
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I have a .260 Remington. Nice shooting gun!
 
Got my tags.:thumbsup:
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pauly said:
I have a .260 Remington. Nice shooting gun!
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Yea they are awesome. Iv always wanted one. I had planned on building one on my ruger American but I already have 2 6.5x55s and a 6.5 grendel didnt see the point in a 4th 264. Haha
 
dartfreak75 said:
Yea they are awesome. Iv always wanted one. I had planned on building one on my ruger American but I already have 2 6.5x55s and a 6.5 grendel didnt see the point in a 4th 264. Haha
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I hear you! I have a .257 Roberts, as well, both Rem 700 Mountain rifles.
 
dartfreak75 said:
That's one big cat. I'm glad we dont have them around here coyotes and bear are hard enough on the deer heard
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You must have some slow deer. lol Wolves do the damage to the elk and deer herds around these parts.
 
Remington 700 7mm for my deer and Weatherby Mark V 338 for elk and bear.
 
fishmens67 said:
You must have some slow deer. lol Wolves do the damage to the elk and deer herds around these parts.
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They kill mostly the fawns in the spring when they cant walk yet. I had a game warden tell me that coyotes and bears kill 90 percent of the fawns born. There a few years ago before ppl really started hunting predators around here you could see a noticable decrease in the deer population. Where I used to hunt it was hard hunting to begin with but then it went to impossible hunting lol I saw zero deer in a three year period. I would set bait piles and trial cameras and coulnt even get a picture of one. I got a lot of raccoons and coyotes tho. Some of the neighbors on bordering land saw it too and started cracking down in the coyotes and the deer numbers picked back up the last year I hunted there I killed one good buck and a nice doe and my buddy shot a really good 8 on the bordering property
 
dartfreak75 said:
Some of the neighbors on bordering land saw it too and started cracking down in the coyotes and the deer numbers picked back up the last year I hunted there I killed one good buck and a nice doe and my buddy shot a really good 8 on the bordering property
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folks in the deep south should consider harvesting pigs too whenever they encounter them. They are hard on forest regeneration, water quality, and they attract the entire suite of predators to your huntin' spot. I leave a couple cheap arrows and old broadheads at my stand for the occasion. Hate wasting a 340 weatherby round on them but never hesitate.... cant wait for October!!
 
Since we're on the subject of pigs...

Friend of mine stuck this sow with his bow from 30 yards last weekend...

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He's 6'-1" and 270 lbs...

She was HUGE!
 
Gamedog said:
Since we're on the subject of pigs...

Friend of mine stuck this sow with his bow from 30 yards last weekend...

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He's 6'-1" and 270 lbs...

She was HUGE!
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That is awesome! I gotta get me a new bow I sold my mathews to buy car parts. Lol I plan on buying a crossbow for this year and maybe picking up a used compound next year during the offseason.
 
Pig populations got out of hand in the 80’s when the price of pork dropped to record lows. Seemed like everyone was a hog farmer back then in Al. Guy that leased us our hunting land was big into it. When prices dropped below 37 cents a pound. Farmers started turning their hogs loose as it cost more to feed them that they could sell them for. So the domestic hogs started breading with the wild ones. This is why in Fl, Ga, Al, and other states you can hunt them year round.
 
SGBARRACUDA said:
Pig populations got out of hand in the 80’s when the price of pork dropped to record lows. Seemed like everyone was a hog farmer back then in Al. Guy that leased us our hunting land was big into it. When prices dropped below 37 cents a pound. Farmers started turning their hogs loose as it cost more to feed them that they could sell them for. So the domestic hogs started breading with the wild ones. This is why in Fl, Ga, Al, and other states you can hunt them year round.
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I was reading in a hunting magazine pretty much the same thing you just said. They said between the farmers that turned them loose because of the cost of feed and the ones that just escaped from the farm the numbers skyrocketed. I think this article was written about texas but the same goes. They said that the domestic pigs would turn feral in a matter of months they would even grow hair and tusks. So the same old domestic farm pig you seen in the neighbors corral would be a full blow wild bore in a matter of months and those suckers breed like crazy. The numbers just keep growing and growing. I'd love to go to texas or someplace like that and go on a wild bore hunt.
 
From the looks of the Ca hunting regs, Pigs are still considered varmints, so to speak. Open season and no bag limit. I'm shocked. A truck owner/driver friend invited me to his Christmas party at his yard one year. He's got the BBQ going, the ice chest is loaded with beer, threw the adult beverages I brought in there for consumption and proceed to start visiting. "Hey Alex, you gotta try the pedophile pig on the pit." WTF are these guys talking about? I heard it from everybody I knew there. "The pedophile pig is killer, you gotta try it". I wandered over there and grabbed some of the bbqed pig and yes, it was very tasty. "OK WTF is pedophile pig?". Seems my truck owner friend had just acquired a .500 S&W and they were on the way up to the national forest to play. One road into the forest went right past Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. It seems our dinner presented itself across the street from the front gate of Neverland and he tested the S&W successfully and loaded dinner in the truck. :realcrazy:
 
Unconventional said:
From the looks of the Ca hunting regs, Pigs are still considered varmints, so to speak. Open season and no bag limit. I'm shocked. A truck owner/driver friend invited me to his Christmas party at his yard one year. He's got the BBQ going, the ice chest is loaded with beer, threw the adult beverages I brought in there for consumption and proceed to start visiting. "Hey Alex, you gotta try the pedophile pig on the pit." WTF are these guys talking about? I heard it from everybody I knew there. "The pedophile pig is killer, you gotta try it". I wandered over there and grabbed some of the bbqed pig and yes, it was very tasty. "OK WTF is pedophile pig?". Seems my truck owner friend had just acquired a .500 S&W and they were on the way up to the national forest to play. One road into the forest went right past Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. It seems our dinner presented itself across the street from the front gate of Neverland and he tested the S&W successfully and loaded dinner in the truck. :realcrazy:
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:rofl:
 
We just picked up 60 acres in rural Ark. I turned my boy and his buddies loose on the hogs. Man they are destructive. I compete with a rifle and do all kind of reloading but hands down the rifle that has fed my family for years and years is a beater Remington 06. Might bring fifty bucks at a pawn shop! I love my custom rifles but that old 06 just melts into my hands. I bought it when I was young and just starting a family. We would have starved without it. And FYI my wife dropped her last elk at 520 yards. That girl hunts elk like nobodies business. Our camping/hunting trips together are some of our families best memories. The goose hunters are out in force this morning. My front yard is full of dogs decoys and some serious calling! Fall is in the air! Be safe all and take a kid hunting this year. (Shameless plug as I am a Hunters Ed instructor!)
 
Sublime one said:
We just picked up 60 acres in rural Ark. I turned my boy and his buddies loose on the hogs. Man they are destructive. I compete with a rifle and do all kind of reloading but hands down the rifle that has fed my family for years and years is a beater Remington 06. Might bring fifty bucks at a pawn shop! I love my custom rifles but that old 06 just melts into my hands. I bought it when I was young and just starting a family. We would have starved without it. And FYI my wife dropped her last elk at 520 yards. That girl hunts elk like nobodies business. Our camping/hunting trips together are some of our families best memories. The goose hunters are out in force this morning. My front yard is full of dogs decoys and some serious calling! Fall is in the air! Be safe all and take a kid hunting this year. (Shameless plug as I am a Hunters Ed instructor!)
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I love it! I know what you mean about the old 06. I dont know why but a 3006 just caught my attention at a very young age. My first love was guns and hunting way before I was old enough to even think about cars. (Well and motorcycles I loved motorcycles from the time I learned to think in my own lol) my uncle was a gun dealer and a gunsmith and I remember going in his shop at a very young age and just being fascinated with all the different guns. My favorite one he had was a old Springfield 1903 and that gun started my love affair with 3006 long before I was old enough to even shoot it. When I turned 10 my uncle gave me my first gun an old iver Johnson 410 that I still own to this day. But I never forget about that 3006 lol I remember I had a old coffee jar my nana gave me and it had 3006 fund written on the side. I saved all my nickels and pennies for years. I hunted with that old 410 loaded with a slug until I was probably 16 then I bought a mosin nagant with my money I'd saved I couldnt afford a 3006 and I got that old mosin for 89 bucks and it looked new (i still have it too) that is what started my love for surplus arms. I eventually got my 3006 some years later I was probably 19 20. It was a single shot handy rifle. Somewhere around that time I really got into it bad. I started working on the side and training gunsmithing with my cousin who is also a gunsmith I apprenticed under him for a while I always wanted to do it for a living but never could afford the overhead to get started on my own. So now I just do it for myself i build custom rifles and do restorations on old shotguns and that sorta thing. I really enjoy it. If you would like to see some pictures of my guns iv built pm me I'd be happy to send you some pics. Oh and the 3006 I hunt with mostly now is a savage 111. I have owned half a dozen 3006s threw the years now and that savage is the one I have hung on to I really like it alot.
 
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