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Title: First longbow hog
Post by: The Vanilla Gorilla on February 23, 2007, 04:24:00 PM
Think those California Hogs over in the Dangerous Game thread were big?  Well check this porker out!

We were out stretching fence when the guy I was working with pointed out the hogs and told me to get after them with my longbow. I'm always willing to put off work in order to chase critters with my bow, so I headed up the hill with my stick and arrows in hand. The older pigs in the group were bedded up in the thick sumac, but the younger pigs roamed around outside the group. I stalked and watched for quite a time before this youngin offered up a shot. I ain't picky!  

He aint a trophy pig by any means, but he's my first with the longbow, so I'm proud of him.

If I had been shooting arrows instead of shooting pictures, I maybe could have taken a bigger hog, but like I said, I ain't greedy when it comes to free meat.  

(50lb longbow, gold tip traditionals 3555's, and a 125gr Magnus 2 blade head)


Cam

(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/Xtortion66/pig-1.jpg)

(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/Xtortion66/herd.jpg)

(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/Xtortion66/herd2.jpg)

(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/Xtortion66/herd3.jpg)
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: Mike Bolin on February 23, 2007, 04:29:00 PM
...and the little guy cooked up nice too! Mike
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: ishiwannabe on February 23, 2007, 04:33:00 PM
Thats cool. Congrats!
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: The Vanilla Gorilla on February 23, 2007, 04:40:00 PM
Indeed he did Mike!   I still feel bad about the pig snapping off one of Big Mikes arrows, but I think bringing in that smoked pork to the shoot the other night helped make up for it!

Cam
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: Stone Knife on February 23, 2007, 04:47:00 PM
Nice little porker! I want to hunt them someday when i can.
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: bentpole on February 23, 2007, 05:17:00 PM
Good Job. Looks like that new longbow has some good mojo already! MMMMM bacon.
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: Mike Orton on February 23, 2007, 06:51:00 PM
Skin him out, hold a match under him and that's a one meal fast food for the Vanilla Gorilla!  Yahoo!  :jumper:
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: Bjorn on February 23, 2007, 08:04:00 PM
Congrats!! Great paint job on that youngster. It will make someone a very happy eater!
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: James Wrenn on February 23, 2007, 08:08:00 PM
Ain't nothing wrong with that porker.  :)  I know often times I might be in close to a pack of pigs and see a nicer hog I would like to shoot.However knowing how they can leave as fast as they come I take the one that gives me the right shot as soon as the shot is there.I will think about the bigger ones that might have been while skinning.   :D
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: robslifts on February 23, 2007, 08:55:00 PM
awesome pig I wish I lived down south where I could hunt them more often they sure do taste good.

congrats on your first pig with a longbow
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: 2 dogs on February 23, 2007, 09:19:00 PM
great shootin.them big ones look cool but you got the good eats.
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: joe skipp on February 23, 2007, 09:21:00 PM
Nice going! Some good eating there...  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: hawgslayer on February 23, 2007, 09:43:00 PM
:wavey:
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: paleFace on February 24, 2007, 12:05:00 AM
you brung home the bacon and that's what counts. looks like a great eat'n size to me. reminds me of my first pig a few years ago. cool colors. man i can taste those back straps. congrads....
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: 9 Mile Archer on February 24, 2007, 12:35:00 AM
:thumbsup:    :clapper:
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: Curtiss Cardinal on February 24, 2007, 12:49:00 AM
Way to go!
Those little ones do indeed offer the best eating.
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: Kingwouldbe on February 24, 2007, 03:54:00 AM
Yo, Vanilla, you got to start some where man, and that's a great place to start.
Butterfly that thing and deep it into some BBQ sauce and you got a pig on a stick.

Way to go, now go get his daddy and triple your groceries.

PS. If he charged you, you can put him in the DAGERUS GAME link.
But I think you could of just punted that pigskin, LOL, just messing with you, congratulations on your first hog with your longbow and nice pic's.
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: 4runr on February 24, 2007, 07:19:00 AM
Congrats on your first. Many more to come.
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: Littlefeather on February 24, 2007, 07:32:00 AM
:bigsmyl:
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: Littlefeather on February 24, 2007, 07:32:00 AM
Nice un'! Go get another. You are going to have a huge appetite to fill with your new addiction! CK
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: Frenchymanny on February 24, 2007, 07:25:00 PM
Well done!

Congrats

F-Manny
Title: Re: First longbow hog
Post by: Wudstix on February 24, 2007, 07:33:00 PM
Them littles ones are hard to hit.  Good job.