How many people have good friends out hunting and you are stuck at work... I can't focus on work, just daydream about being with them and check for updates non stop.
It's awful. :rolleyes:
Hi There Charlie! :wavey:
I'm not out there hunting but working on the Cos Cob Archers 3D course to make it "feel" like hunting...
... mike ... :archer2: ...
Sometimes yes........sometimes not so much!!!
I get told I do that to my friends a lot....
,,,Sam,,,
Cyclic, I think you are going to enjoy retirement when you finally get there! I guess I'm one of the dummies. I retired and then went back to work part time.
I love to see my friends get to hunt, and root for them to be successful, but if I'm stuck somewhere else, I'm also jealous because I want to be out there too!!!!
Bisch
Many pigs were seen. None harmed. It's warm where they are which makes me want to be there more, although 24 feels pretty darn good right now.
Regarding the retirement statement, I'm looking for future farming options that will allow for falls and winters off. Might try to pick up a part time job during those months. This plan is still a couple years out.
Yeah, but at least you're working in Wisconsin now! :goldtooth:
Joe, where'd you get all that salt? Rubbing it into my wounds well lol
The boys are covered up in swine tonight.
I get a bit jealous also when my friends are out hunting, but that jealousy quickly disappears when I see them straining under the burden of packing out an elk.
Pigs are hitting the ground. Maybe after they get back some photos and stories will be posted.
GREAT time with old friends. Missed you out there Charlie. Hopefully next year. I'm planning the next trip already. The group definitely brought home some bacon. What a fantastic time.
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I want to thank BigJim and Barbara for having us down to hunt. A great time was had by all and good memories made with old friends .
Charlie you where very much missed on this trip and i saved a pig for you by shooting right over its back :rolleyes:
Good Shooting, Drew! :clapper:
Great job Drew, thats a dandy for sure!!
I had a great time as well and missed seeing you too Charlie.
I really look forward to the "Yankee Pig Hunt" week every year. It's funny, I only just now thought to call it that. Everyone in the group is a Yankee except me... and I'm a Damn Yankee acording to my wife! lol
It leaves me totally exhausted due to the late night hunts and early mornings back to work, but I wouldn't give it up for anything.
This year was a turning point for the group. They held off on the pocket pigs in hopes of taking bigger pigs. It seemed to work to a degree as pig sightings continued throughtout the week, where they would normally wain after multiple shootings.
Drews pig and the pictures are deceiving. both being taken at night and from different angles. It was one of the biggest pigs weve't had harvested in quite some time and I was interested in having it weighed.
They nocked the guts out of it at the lease and we stopped of at an ice machine to fill the cavity with ice for the eveneing... heck, it was only 5 hours until daylight anyway.
The next morning we hung it from my digital scale that has a maximum reading of 220 lbs and it pegged the scale.. field dressed. So that means it weighed 221+lbs + guts.
BigJim
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Great pics Casey thanks for sharing them.
i hunted the first night out of the Keep out stand and had two good pigs come in just after dark. I waited while one rubbed on a tree and planned my shot for just after it passed by the tree but as happens the second pig skweeeeled and took them both into the brush before I could shoot.
There was however a very large pig ( by the sound) of it in the brush right under the stand to my right. I tried several times to see it with my red light but the brush was just too thick.That pig rested there for three hours before I had to get down . I grunted and used my phone to skweel but it would not leave . I finally lowered my bow and it ran off a little then walked away. so ends the first nights hunt.
The next night i hunted in a ground blind in the swamp with no feeder but i put out some corn and it wasn't ten minutes and I had pigs in . They where all 40-50 lb pigs and we had decided no smaller pigs early in the hunt to preserve the stands. That group came in twice and I could hear some bigger sounding pigs just out of sight but never came in and so ends the second hunt.
the third night I was in a natural ground blind beyond another stand by 200 yds , though I heard pigs none came to the corn I had spread . I went out at ten to meet Manny - (frenchymanny) and on the way saw his light on the ground and assumed he was just waiting on me. I spooked a very small pig as I came up to the feeder and found Manny was stalking it . We waited ten minutes and it didn't return but I could hear it so into the brush I went. I found a nest of very small pocket pigs and put my arrow away to see if I could catch one by hand however that didn't work out. end the third hunt
The fourth and final night I hunted double bull stand which is where Manny had been the night before and this stand has a green solar LED light . I had a group of small pigs in just about dark with the green light on it was easy to see. Two maybe 80 lb pigs came in after them and I decided to take one . I waited for the shot I wanted and when it came i was ready so i thought. I reminded myself at the last second to aim low which I did not and shot right over its back and they all ran out of there.
I heard another one coming in and had already put another arrow on the string.This time it was a large sow and came right in from behind the feeder. She noticed my lighted nocturnal right away and spooked a little but stopped beyond the left rear leg of the feeder at about 25 yds and with no time to think i drew and released. The shot looked good and she ran off with my nocturnal lighting the way she went. I watched until she went into the woods at probably 200 yds away but on a dead run it didn't take her long to reach the woods.
I texted casey - (zmonster) after that and had him stalk in as another group of pigs had come in and I wanted him to try to shoot one . The pigs left just before he got in range , no fault of his as a large pig had scared them away. Dave arrived about then after getting his pig out and we went after my pig. Casey found blood right away and off we went with pretty good blood and after one missed turn that dave figured out the blood just kept getting better. We had to crawl into the brush after her but found her with no problem . Casey found us a short trail out and dragged her to the field. A quick call to BigJim and she was in the truck .
Thanks again to all the guys that made this hunt such a great adventure . Drew
That week of hunting pig is so important to me!
This combination of a wonderful hunting ground, the South hospitality and weather, and old friends. Charlie, you were missed!
F-Manny
Awesome Guys. It certainly was a difficult week for me to focus on work everyday knowing what I was missing.
After Helping Dave get his pig out last year, be thankful you shot that one where you didn't have to drag through soft sand drew.
Thank you for saving one for me for next year.
Congratulations guys. Nice hog Drew.
Thanks
Congrats Drew :thumbsup:
thanks
TTT for Friend
Thank you Drew...
A spectalur hunt, exceptional action, splendid harvest, memories for a lifetime and the priceless shared friendships make for the complete experience.
Congrats and thank you for sharing.
Thanks Scott and looking forward to getting the chance to spend time in the woods with you. Drew
Drew...Would be quite honored to share a hunt andam looking forward to the propspective.