2008 deer hunting and general hunting adventures - POSSIBLE BLOODY PICS INSIDE!!

[kneedownnate]

I'd love to shoot a pig!  It was nicer when you could get 5 pig tags for $8, but what's it now, like $15 a tag?  And I've yet to see any improvements to public lands for pig hunting like the extra funds were SUPPOSED to be for!

[brainlessfool]

5 pig tags for $8, but what's it now, like $15 a tag?  And I've yet to see any improvements to public lands for pig hunting like the extra funds were SUPPOSED to be for!

WHAT?!?!?! last time I got pig "stamps" that what it was. 

[kneedownnate]

  at least several years ago the price went up, and when I asked dfg why I was told it was because pig hunting had become very popular but most opportunities were on private land.  They said the extra funds were to go to improving public land pig hunting opportunities, and I later read an article that backed that up.  I've yet to hear of any of the great work they've done, and honestly wouldn't be surprised if they'd funneled the funds to something else and hoped we forgot.

[SLIVER]

Here is my friend Megan's elk that she got last weekend. She made a great shot and we all had a great time.
Pic's aren't very bloody, however I thought i'd post them anyways.

))--SLIVER-->

[kneedownnate]

Awesome!  That's a very nice set of antlers.  I saw a small herd of elk today, a big rarity around here, and after the last one crossed the road I stayed on the brakes because deer like to CRAP! there's a bull!  Luckily just as he got to the edge of the road he realized we'd be fawked if we made contact and did a quick about face.  Anyway, congrats to her on the elk!  Some day...

Oh yea, what caliber was she shooting?

[toyotamobing]

Hey im up for hunting anytime... Did anyone kill any good a zone bucks around SLO town???

my dad got a little 2x2 with a cheater "I" guard on cuesta grade and my buddy shot a 26" wide 3x4 with 15" back tines up on highway 46 between paso and cambria.

if anyone knows of some good pig hunting please let me know...i would love to shoot a pig. the only pigs ive shot were in a pen

[mudguts]

no bucks, no hogs, just a coyote pushing up daiseys

[porkchop]

can wait till duck hunting...blinds almost ready to go and imm ready as well

yeah man seeing some honkers down here and had a reall good early wood duck and teal season

[joey0712]

my dad got a little 2x2 with a cheater "I" guard on cuesta grade and my buddy shot a 26" wide 3x4 with 15" back tines up on highway 46 between paso and cambria.

Are you talking about Chad?

[kneedownnate]

my buddy shot a 26" wide 3x4 with 15" back tines up on highway 46 between paso and cambria.

  I'm assuming that's a mulie?

[joey0712]

No black tail....... ha its a toad if we are talkin about the same one. My dad killed a forket horn that was 19 wide and 17 tall.... Such a nice buck....

[kneedownnate]

Holy crap    Monster blacktial like that are a rarity but are out there.  I've seen one once, deep enough in blacktail country that there's no doubt what it was, that could easily have passed for a mulie.  There's a columbian blacktail site that has some pictures of some absolute monsters, I just don't remember the name of the site right now 

[joey0712]

If ya think of it post it will ya ide like to see that

[Ramrod]

my widest is 22" but I know a 29" was shot at edenvalleyranch over the hill from me last year.  Hopefully ill beat that this weekend but more likely next when we get this coldfront

[toyotamobing]

Are you talking about Chad?

mike silva is the guy that shot this one...and yes its a blacktail

[joey0712]

Hmmmm i dont no him.. Is anyone goin to the big buck contest in nipos tomorrow?

[toyotamobing]

idk but my buddy should.


hey does anyone on here go pig hunting with dogs???

like this...gotcha

[joey0712]

I do all the time.. my buddy from pozo has 10 dogs its soooooooo nuts have u ever been?

[kneedownnate]

I haven't and never could, though I'd never try and restrict anybody's right or desire to.  It just seems cruel to the animal.  An ethical kill (to me) is a quick, clean kill, and that seems to be causing unnecessary stress to the pig.  And before you call me a ninny, I grew up with my dad helping his friend guide for bear over dogs and helped a couple or few times, went in later to help recover the bear more times.  I just never felt right about how it went down, but to me a big part of the fun was being out in the woods and hearing the dogs running the bear.  I quickly learned the different barks for running and treed, and it was funny standing on a ridge hearing the dogs in the distance when the old men couldn't    though some of that might have been from my ever-moving mouth 

[Stocker]

I grew up with my dad helping his friend guide for bear over dogs and helped a couple or few times, went in later to help recover the bear more times.  I just never felt right about how it went down, but to me a big part of the fun was being out in the woods and hearing the dogs running the bear.  I quickly learned the different barks for running and treed

I think you nailed the essence of hound hunting, at least as I see it.  It's all fun & games (and a lot of exercise!) until some darn fool pulls the trigger.  Then the real work begins!!   


Guess I shoulda gone coon huntin' instead.  Never saw a coon run to 400# or more...   

[kneedownnate]

So today I didn't go where I was going to for pigeon.  I went out a little later and headed for where a co-worker had mentioned hunting them in the past.  I've also heard the asian guys at work talk about hunting this area, one of them even took a deer in this area last year.  I always questioned whether they went off the paved road or waited till it turned to a dirt road before hunting, and there was always hesitation in their answer... I knew the truth but let it go while letting them know how much trouble they could get in for shooting from the road.

Well, when I went there today almost every truck was a toyota, and all driven by asians.  If you just sat beside the road for an hour you'd see 30-40 trucks, and EVERY SINGLE FRICKIN ONE OF THEM was crossing over the lines into my lane    On the way out I caught up to a brand new tacoma poking along very slowly on the pavement, half way in the other lane, and just as I came around the corner behind them they stopped suddenly as a squirrel ran across the road.  At the same time they looked back and saw me coming up behind them, pulled back in our lane and continued on.  I know damn well they would have jumped out and shot it had I not driven by, but I got the feeling they got kinda spooked by me driving up so quickly behind them and they proceeded to drive quickly the rest of the way out   

[kneedownnate]

I think you nailed the essence of hound hunting, at least as I see it.  It's all fun & games (and a lot of exercise!) until some darn fool pulls the trigger.  Then the real work begins!!   


Guess I shoulda gone coon huntin' instead.  Never saw a coon run to 400# or more...   

Thanks for a good chuckle   

Just imagine if you'd had digital camera technology back then!  You'd have a ton of great pics.... I hafta wonder how many bears you had a hand in taking over the years    Man, I'd sure like to have a nice chunk o' bear meat to roast up    Wish you guys had the pic of that monster 3 legged bear!  Didn't you guys figure him to be around 500lbs?

[Stocker]

Wish you guys had the pic of that monster 3 legged bear!  Didn't you guys figure him to be around 500lbs?

As I recall (and it's been a loooong time ago), it was all of that, from what I was told -- I wasn't on that hunt. 

Dunno if I told you, a few weeks ago we took a drive downriver (yer Ma wanted to see the burned areas) and came back through Corral Bottom -- where we got to see a jet-black, very tasty healthy-looking bear cross the road not more than a couple hundred feet in front of us.   

[kneedownnate]

Nice!  I can kinda hear mom gasping right now    Is corral bottom the one which goes through to hayfork?  I should be pigeon hunting on hayfork summit tomorrow... hope they're thick in there like they were last year 

I always forget you weren't on that hunt, it's just been too long since I've heard the story.  I do like the one about the bear that expired in a tight cave, dave went in toward the bear's head and the bear started moving.... didn't realize the dogs found a back way in and were tugging on the bear     I'm sure I butchered it some and probably got the characters mixed up though 

[Stocker]

Nah, she was just real excited & happy to see it so close!!   

Corral Bottom is a section of the same road network, but not the part that goes to Hayfork...  we went in on Underwood Mountain Road at the top of the hill west of Cedar Flat, just as you come into the Burnt Ranch area -- then headed east through Corral Bottom (past the Hyampom turnoff) and came out at Big Bar.  Some of those roads have been closed for logging and fire cleanup, and I heard someone got a big $$ ticket for driving through a closed road, so be advised...

Good luck with the pigeons, hope to see some pics by tonight.

And you got the story right.  That was the first big bear I had seen, about 400 pounds. After Dave shot it, he crawled in to tie leashes around its front legs so we could drag it out -- that's when the dogs started tugging on its back legs!     That hunt took all day, most of it in wet snow averaging 3' deep -- at his age & size, the bear wouldn't tree.  We spent the entire next day getting him out of the woods.  Fun times!

[kneedownnate]

Sorry, this will not be paragraphed right, but I'm tired and lazy 

I got up at 4:20 AM this morning to go pigeon hunting, got there just before 7:15 and spotted pigeons flying overhead while getting my stuff ready.  I loaded the gun and set it on the cooler as soon as I saw the birds, looked up and saw more and took a couple bad shots, re-loaded and shot at a few more, missed again but figured out I was leading too far, taking long shots and not aiming well enough.  I hung out by the truck for a short while but none flew close enough, walked a little up the dirt road and saw some sitting in a tree but they never flew. 

I then headed up into the old burn area and kept seeing them, but again they were spooking easily and flying far off.  A little up that road another forks off and heads down into the valley, and I noticed a lot of the birds getting spooked were heading down there and some were landing in a few trees that looked to be near the road, so I figured I'd head down that way since I've never been down there in all the years I've hunted that area. 

A whole bunch flew off as I walked down because of a genius on a very loud motorbike, including the ones in that tree, but I kept seeing them fly back to that tree.  I figued since they seemed to like that spot so much I'd test my patience and stake out a spot where I had a good shot, and while getting just under the tree I was stocking one just up the hill from it another landed just above me!  I looked behind me to see if there were trippables and started backing up slowly while watching the one above me and caught another one landing.... I popped him as he flew in and caught the other as he flew out of the tree.  After all that I limited out in 3 seconds 

I'll post pics later, I still hafta bring in my gear and camera and clean up, then I'll probably take a little nap before working on the 4by 

[kneedownnate]

Oh yea, I just bought another bird hunting vest last night and asked if they'd had any issues with the elastic stretching.  They said no, so I bought it and sported it today for maybe 1 1/2 hours.  I took out the shells when I got back to the truck and noticed one of the outer shell holders had become mostly un-stitched    I guess I shoulda asked if the stitching was shitty    It will go back, and will be returned with a 3"x1" blood stain accompanied by multiple smaller blood stains 

[toyotamobing]

I do all the time.. my buddy from pozo has 10 dogs its soooooooo nuts have u ever been?

no i havent but ive got a buddy who does it alot and hes been telling me that hes going to take me but nothings happend.

where in pozo does your buddy go? i live like 30 minutes from pozo

[kneedownnate]

I have a little dilemma.  I've had these deer ravaging my garden for a while now, but the last several weeks has seen most go away.  2 have stuck it out, a doe and a spike, which I just found out tonight is actually a legal spike/fork.  When I got home tonight I found him standing inside my deer fence I built around my garden eating the new growth on my tomatoe plants, the plants they ate down to nothing a while back.  The same plants I had nursed back to a point where I had multiple blooms on.

I left the truck running in the driveway, calmly started walking toward him while he just stared at me.  He started to turn his head and I took off at a full run and chased him as he jumped out of my garden. 

This makes 3 times in 2 days I've chased him out of my yard.  It doesn't seem that he's getting the hint that I don't like him, or the hint that the only way I will like him is about 9 ounces at a time    My landlord doesn't want me killing them and my neighbors are too close to shoot it, so I'm at a loss right now 

[Ramrod]

in alaska we blast bears with 8 shot out of the 12 guage in camp and they never come back or even have blood drawn, tell you neighbors you truck backfired