Another Quick Hunt

[Bowhntr6pt]

After a really good night coyote hunting last night, I figured I try a different area pending the come-and-go rain we were having. On the way to my spot I saw some hogs about 400 yards away feeding just a few yards into the cow pasture. There just so happened to be an old trail that paralleled the tree line so I parked and started my walk.

I got right up on several and with the rain and wet ground I was quiet as a church mouse. I shot one and the others kind of ran a couple steps and stopped. The .300 BO with 190 Sub-X and loads is really quiet. I moved a little and ended up killing five in total.

After I got set up an old scared up boar, obviously caught, cut, and released some years back, came out and I shot him at about 125 yards. The rain started to move in so my night was cut short.

 

[Fodderwing]

After a really good night coyote hunting last night, I figured I try a different area pending the come-and-go rain we were having. On the way to my spot I saw some hogs about 400 yards away feeding just a few yards into the cow pasture. There just so happened to be an old trail that paralleled the tree line so I parked and started my walk.

I got right up on several and with the rain and wet ground I was quiet as a church mouse. I shot one and the others kind of ran a couple steps and stopped. The .300 BO with 190 Sub-X and loads is really quiet. I moved a little and ended up killing five in total.

After I got set up an old scared up boar, obviously caught, cut, and released some years back, came out and I shot him at about 125 yards. The rain started to move in so my night was cut short.

In FL cracker jargon, that last one would be referred to as bar or barr. Formally a barrow, aka a boar that has been castrated.

Old "barr" hogs usually make good smokers and sausage.

 

[DAS HUGH!]

When I was younger i worked around a brick Mason. Him and most of his crew at the time would hunt hogs with nothing but a pocket knife and dogs. I always thought that was crazy and said I'd at least want a pistol.
I haven't tried the 190s yet. I'll have to check into them. Nice hogs bud!

 

[Fodderwing]

In my youth, the caretaker of the property bowhnter6pt hunts was Mr. "Jigs" Upshaw. To supplement his income, Jigs would trap hogs and sell them to a "boar man". The boar man would sell the hogs to the "hunting preserves" that advertised in the back pages of Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, etc.

I never did learn Mr. Upshaw's given name, just Jigs.

 

[DAS HUGH!]

In my youth, the caretaker of the property bowhnter6pt hunts was Mr. "Jigs" Upshaw. To supplement his income, Jigs would trap hogs and sell them to a "boar man". The boar man would sell the hogs to the "hunting preserves" that advertised in the back pages of Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, etc.

I never did learn Mr. Upshaw's given name, just Jigs.

Wow. I didn't know there ever was a market for live wild Hogs like that. I always sorta thought they was a known nuisance in my lifetime. I usually see folks paying to get rid of them instead lol. Sounds like a fun side hustle tho
I saw an article the other week. Didn't read it much tho and just gave it a glance. But apparently some geniuses in Canada bred a new hog type that was more resilient to the cold and harsh weather. Bigger too I think. But as always some got loose. It said like 50 or so was making it south into USA. In a fee months that will be a few hundred, and spreading very fast even further south. So Bowhunter should be seeing some of them in about a year or two I guess too

 

[Bowhntr6pt]

In my youth, the caretaker of the property bowhnter6pt hunts was Mr. "Jigs" Upshaw. To supplement his income, Jigs would trap hogs and sell them to a "boar man". The boar man would sell the hogs to the "hunting preserves" that advertised in the back pages of Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, etc.

I never did learn Mr. Upshaw's given name, just Jigs.

Interesting what years was this? I’ll ask about him.

 

[Bowhntr6pt]

Last night I came upon an old hog trap, about five feet in length, three feet wide, and three feet tall.

It has to be at least twenty years old, wish now I took a picture of it. Next time I’m in that are I will.

Now I think about it, I bet it’s 30 plus years old.

 

[Fodderwing]

Interesting what years was this? I’ll ask about him.

60's, 70's and 80's, but Mr. Upshaw was just one of many old timers I encountered growing up and listening to them rehash their lives over coffee at the local greasy spoon.

I left the area in 89 when I graduated from UF. Left Florida in 1990, moved back to Florida in 2019.

 

[RHINOWSO]

That's interesting that you mention live hog trade because that is about the only thing you aren't supposed do with hogs these days in FL - Trap them and transport them alive.

 

[Bowhntr6pt]

That's interesting that you mention live hog trade because that is about the only thing you aren't supposed do with hogs these days in FL - Trap them and transport them alive.

Interesting... didn't know it was this involved...

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