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Not at liberty to disclose the locations, but some real nice fellas I know thru work let me come out to try and chase down some Permian basin boars. As nice as the offer and accommodations were, we didn't get much good done on account of 11" of snow. It was still a wonderful trip and a real fun drive.
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Well with the fun of the snow fading into being being cold wet and tired, the guys who mattered moved on to greener pastures so when I woke up the next morning I made a fast run on the only track I saw with my gyp, Ratty. She did work her but off, took the set of tracks off the road, tracked them .7 mile to the patch of woods, 1.3 miles thru those woods and was headed to the horizon where the tracks were leading to the next patch quickly, but it wasn't meant to be. All that land and the hog still vamanosed to the set of woods off our property. We picked her up at the highway and said our goodbyes to the llano estacado.

Next stop after some backbreaking labor was in slightly more familiar territory. Won't say where, but west of kerrville, east of junction. When the important folks arrived we shot the breeze a bit and finally dropped Red and Ratty. Wish I had taken more pics but the place was beautiful. Rocky country to say the least. Seems like everything out there wants to hurt you, over the course of the hunt we ran a few shoats off a deadfall canyon and thank God red didn't follow. Red learned what a porcupine tasted like and not to get gritty with them and that cactus paddles freakin hurrrrrrrrt! After 6 hours and thousands of acres worth of tracks covered my Ratty girl shot into the cedars and came bayed. I wondered how come there was no squeal with Red on the ground so I checked the garmin, he was 400 yards east of her and opening on track. I cut my two pups out to see where they'd go, Misty in the picture below went to Ratty while Skeeter went towards Red. We hacked our way thru a cedar THICKET and misty was caught on Rattys sow, maybe 175 - 200 pounds while ratty had already rolled toward Red and skeeter. They were bayed solid at 900 yards on a crisp cool soundless night but we couldn't hear them, 900 yards ain't nothing back home, not so in that country, dang dogs were in a canyon! More precisely in a cave in a canyon. To hurry thru the story, it took two more hours to find a good climbing down place and get all the hunters down. And when I came around some big ol rocks I was greeted by the kind of boar that makes all the hard work worth it.
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Nice hunt an he has some jewelry in his mouth

sounds fun and hard, always nice to see some new country, nice hog!

Nice hunt Terry, are you back in town?

No, unfortunately, im out of town off and on for the next 5weeks. Fortunately im getting to take a few dogs on some of the trips.  ;)

How long we're those teeth T? Nice hunts, story and pictures buddy

NICE GUYS!!!!

Them are some great teeth on that boar, I'd like to know how long they were myself. Impressive to say the least.

The guy in the picture with me is a taxidermist as well as a hunting guide in a northwestern state. I didnt get a tape measure back in the woods, but I just texted him and hopefully he'll send me measurements and more pics.

I know they were big, but his whetters were broken back and the cutters were broke where you see them. Pretty cool to me that even though they were broke they were still the biggest I've caught with my dogs alone and were symmetrical. Meaning they were both sheared off around the same length. On one side of his face there was a nasty sore spot where I assume the tusk had been rubbing his jaw.

That's too cool of a hunt! i love the snow! I wish it snowed more (or at all) in NE Texas! Cool pics T-Bob, good dang hog, and thanks for sharing!

Looks like a good hunt!

Great teeth

Nice hog and cool pictures... You usually dont see them both broken off at the same length...

Good hog T-Bob... them teeth grow good out there in those rocks.

Yes sir. I got high hopes for that spot, the ranch managers who were there had a real good time and opened up a few more gates to me in the future. I've never had any large properties so I feel pretty blessed.

Nice hog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tbob you look like you were in my area  ;)

good teeth tho

Monster I'm sure every body wishes they could catch one this size I no me an my boys would love to leg an tie this one

Dang good hog........looks cold in that snow.

Wish we could see some of that cold weather here.  That is a good story and a good boar hog. 

spaz im pretty sure if that first picture was south fl id have to light my house on fire with me in it to stay warm.. ;D

Good hunt T looks like a lot of fun!