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« on: April 11, 2009, 12:20:11 pm »

Callcott and I got into the hogs right at daylight.   We watched on GPS attempting to drive to the dogs.   We parked the truck about 50yards from them, my 3 curs and Jagd were bayed.  We sent my Pit Sadie to catch and all we heard was grunting.

Out of a Cedar thicket walked a hog that stood as high as Wills waist with Saide and all the bay dogs hanging on.  I got her legged and Will Disbatched her quickly.

We loaded dogs and took them to cool at a near by windmill.  The dogs got a wasted no time putting their nose down and started tracking off from the tank.  In about 20min that had gone a little over a mile in a giant U shape(watching on the GPS)they were bayed again.

This time they were caught when we drove up and had a nice blonde hog with black spots.

Will shot another one that ran off while we were driving and we used Rocky to find and stop the cripple, on our way out. totaling 3 confrimed for the morning.

Here is Big Bertha, anyone want to offer a dressed weight guess?






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« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2009, 12:21:55 pm »

Forgot to mention that Most Hill Country sows are not anywhere near this size and we have been capturing this sow on game cam pics for a few years now.  It has got to be her or one just like her....LOL  could be sisters?
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« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2009, 12:31:44 pm »

That's a big girl... i'll guess 250 gutted?Huh?
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« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2009, 12:39:11 pm »

That is a tough one to guess but she is all there I say 210lbs dressed but what do I know.
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« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2009, 05:33:24 pm »

250+?  Sounds like a great hunt.  I spent the morning fighting saw briars for two small sows.  Wish we had more country like that around here.

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« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2009, 06:45:39 pm »

275
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« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2009, 06:56:27 pm »

Nice hog for sure .   Im gonna say 220
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« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2009, 07:35:11 pm »

230-240lbs i'd guess....it's a biggin.
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« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2009, 07:42:25 pm »

245???
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« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2009, 08:09:38 pm »

ill go with the 250 range also great hunt,story and pictures
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« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2009, 08:24:10 pm »

im gonna guess 260-270 nice sow
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« Reply #11 on: April 12, 2009, 11:33:39 am »

Nice big sow, I would say 240, looks huge next to your jagds!

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« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2009, 12:00:46 pm »

I dont think the hogs get as big here since all they have to eat is limestone and cedar sprouts....LOL

Field dressed weight was 165lbs on our scale.   I would guess on the Hoof around 220lbs

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« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2009, 12:42:30 pm »

Well, it was not the "crunch and munch" hunt we expected !!  I had been seeing a ton of 50-65 lbs hogs at a close by feeder.  I have a ton of pics from a few years ago at a protein feeder where she helped herself.  Not sure how many hogs we saw that morning but killed 3 for sure and I hit one or two more with my .30 carbine.  We did see a huge boar but were unable to get on him since all the dogs were already bayed on this big girl.  A great hunt, and not dogs got injured !!  I did get a good suprise when I got to the bay and she drug the catch dog and 4 bay dogs out of the brush towards me !!  Great hunt James, can not wait to go for round 2.
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« Reply #14 on: April 13, 2009, 06:06:13 pm »

Nice Hog
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