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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 17, 2018 12:15:09 GMT -5
Sure would like to put one up a tree with some cur dogs.
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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 17, 2018 11:19:59 GMT -5
I was working up in PA a few years ago. I spent a lot in the evenings riding looking for bear because I'd never seen one in the wild. After 5 or 6 potential sighting I finally saw one and there was no question. Big pretty critters
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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 17, 2018 6:19:48 GMT -5
Supposedly we are starting to get some black bears back in Northeast Texas. I haven't run into one yet but they say some pics have shown up on game cameras. I do know that game and fish have put up signs showing a black bear and a hog and state that you better know the difference. If the black bear is not native to your state and has not been purposely introduced, is it illegal to kill one? They are native to Texas but hunted to extinction in east Texas a while back. Now thanks to growing populations in Louisiana and Oklahoma they are slowly coming back. If you kill one your in big trouble.
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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 16, 2018 14:29:11 GMT -5
Been in West Texas for best part of last 3 months working. Driving me nuts cause all I'm getting is a few pictures and some over the Phone reports. Well I'm finally going to get some days off and it looks like it will line up on next weekend. Some boys from Iowa are coming down and we are going to fill up some coolers. I'll let y'all know how it goes.
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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 16, 2018 14:22:13 GMT -5
I never really had anything much against them, but my B-I-L doesn't think very highly of 'em. He put in a nice large garden at his place in the country, and he high-fenced it, set out fake owls on the tops of the corner posts, elecrified the perimeter with another low fence near ground level to deter tunnelers. The crows still hit his sweet corn pretty hard when it's almost ripe enough to pick. Back when I was 14, and had put up enough hay to get my first rifle and some ammo, I spent several hours in the woods on our small farm, practicing. One day, I noticed some crows circling around and apparently complaining about my being there. I spotted one on a branch, but my .22 short roundnose bullet didn't do a very good job and he fell to the ground alive and squawking. I started to walk over to where he landed to finish him, and all of a sudden the air was FULL of crows! This was a few years before the movie "Birds", but the scene was similar, and while I wasn't yet being actually hit, they were sure letting me know their intentions, at very close range just out of arm's reach. I had about sixty shells left in my pockets, and I actually warmed up the barrel of that little bolt action single shot .22 using up all those anemic shorts without hitting another crow as they kept diving at me until I finally retreated. I noticed the barrel warmth when I grabbed it to use the gun as a bat if needed when I left. I had only gone maybe twenty yards when the crows abandoned their attack on me. Next cutting of the neighbor's hay, when I restocked my ammo supply, I paid the higher price to buy long rifle hollow points. That's the trick right there. You wing the lookout and he will call in every crow around. Get him out in the open hopping around and get the shotgun shells ready cause you are fixing to have some fun.
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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 16, 2018 14:15:17 GMT -5
Supposedly we are starting to get some black bears back in Northeast Texas. I haven't run into one yet but they say some pics have shown up on game cameras. I do know that game and fish have put up signs showing a black bear and a hog and state that you better know the difference.
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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 14, 2018 9:06:49 GMT -5
Definitely a wall hanger. Good job.
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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 3, 2018 22:47:52 GMT -5
They are all good hogs. Not huge but definitely respectable. That's the thing about dog hunting. Dogs don't care if they are 50 lbs. Or 500 lbs. If it's a hog they going to bay it. You never really know what you got til you get there. Sometimes if you know your dogs well enough you can tell if it's a big one by the way the sound.
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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 3, 2018 20:42:12 GMT -5
The other group caught five but no pics yet. They are still hunting.
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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 3, 2018 18:37:13 GMT -5
Yeah she is a young just started catch dog and she does not like pigs. Ha. I hope she turns out for me only caught 4 or 5 times but is doing good so far.
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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 3, 2018 16:21:50 GMT -5
Well at least one group is catching some hogs. Still waiting to hear some details and get more pictures.
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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 3, 2018 16:19:49 GMT -5
Thanks it was all her and her team mates. I was super proud
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Post by hugedogleg on Feb 2, 2018 23:42:16 GMT -5
Two big hunts this weekend. I'm stuck at work but looks like the dogs will get some good action. Got two dogs hunting with one buddy in the boars of texas hunt. Three dogs are going with another friend to a local hunt. They are supposed to keep me updated. I'll let y'all know how it goes.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jan 24, 2018 17:24:07 GMT -5
Boar about 140 Shoat about 70 Just a little pleasure hunt. Got some good work in with dogs and pups.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jan 21, 2018 16:54:30 GMT -5
I'm 7 hrs away at work but it sure made the weekend getting reports back. Sure wish I could have been there.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jan 21, 2018 16:10:55 GMT -5
Well my daughter and her team won it all. Big hog and big stringer. I'm very proud of them. They donated the winning back too. Couldn't be prouder.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jan 21, 2018 14:26:24 GMT -5
If you ask around you can usually find someone who will take you. But having a place that you just go to anytime you want is tough.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jan 21, 2018 14:24:15 GMT -5
That looks like a lot of fun! Is it easy to get free permission down there? Everything you ever hear about Texas is that it's all pay to play. Yeah it's pretty hard to find places. Most are spoken for and the farmers don't like to make their hunters mad because these guys go 2 to 5 times a week and save the farmers a lot of money. It's a win win the farmer gets hog control and the hunter gets to have a blast hunting. There is some public land but the rules are different.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jan 21, 2018 14:20:09 GMT -5
264 was her big hog. 3 hog stringer 687. Not to bad.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jan 21, 2018 8:46:10 GMT -5
She shot this sow last night. Ended up with 12 hogs. Shot 4 with the thermal and caught 8 with dogs. The weight in is today. I'll let you know how she does.
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