PIGS DOWN!!!!!

[oregoncritters]

Well, I don't even know where to begin with this one. I usually don't post lengthy stories so i will try to keep this one short as well. Like some of you know, i've been after these pigs for several months. Got a few on my camera, found sign all over, actually spotted one a week ago but could'nt get around on him...Blah Blah Blah...Needless to say, they've caused me some restless nights trying to guess their next move..
After spotting them last week.. I found a great vantage point i could sit and see lots of country and still have time to make a move if i needed too. Two nights ago, Sara went up with me and we sat til dark with only elk, turkeys and deer to be seen. It was storming like crazy last night so Sara decided she was going to stay home.. 7 months prego, so i let her off the hook.. Heres what came out first.
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Takes about 45 minutes to hike in, so i got settled into my spot at about 6:00...After watching a coyote play in the middle of the meadow and test every nerve i had not to whack him, a boar hog fed out at 477yds below me.. I just bought this gun to shoot that far, but i would hate myself if i missed an only chance..I slipped to 151 yds and got a great rest.. Problem was, the pig was no longer visible..I just waited for about 10 minutes praying the wind wouldn't change and then i saw pigs moving all over...Several piglets were moving around.. I big hog finally stepped into an opening an BAM..She went down....Pigs scattered everywhere...I waited about 10 minutes to see if anything returned, Nothing.. I hiked up the hill to get my camera that i left about 50 yds back. As i was getting back to my gun...The boar comes running over and is sniffing the dead sow...Same rest, same shooting lane...BAM!! Game over for too piggies....
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This sounds kinda crazy, but i'm more excited about these two critters then any i have ever taken...Lots of work went into these, but it finally paid off..

[YoungBlood]

Great job on those hogs. Hoping to nail one at Chopper's this weekend. Congrats again. - YB

[oregoncritters]

Another pic...
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[snoopdogg]

Dude--awesome! Those are some good looking chunkers--glad to hear you finally caught up with those fat b*stards!

[Oregon Archer]

I have to give it up to you OC. That right there is a great accomplishment. Some might think "its only a pig" but considering we dont really have established populations here thats quite a feat to take not one but TWO in one day. Great job man

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

so when do you find time to work! congrats on your h am s lam OC, hogs look like they came from the same litter, I like your kitchen were you skin your hogs, nice photo's!............tra

[Metdawg44]

Way to go! The piggie daily double.

[beastslayer]

Congratulations!

And for the self-discipline. Am not that strong as I would not have waited and would have run to get a look at a positive kill.

Wow, two pigs in one outing. How lucky can you get?

[greyghost10]

Nice job!!! All I have to say is when one of those is in my sights his next stop is my DCS BAR-B-Q.

[oregoncritters]

Thanks guys,
Oregon Archer is right.. These are not just pigs to me. We really don't have any viable populations of them here and nobody can really explain why they are here...Lots of time into these suckers..Now i better get some work done at home...I'm still grinning from ear to ear....

[jkvshooter]

Congratulations! I have been reading your posts and it was really cool to watch the story unfold. It went from sign to sightings to dead pigs. Way to go!

JKVSHOOTER

[hogwild757]

Good job Oregon critter If you need help, Ill drive up with camper and help ya.

[jhuhtala]

Congrats, that some nice looking country and some great looking pigs!

[Fowlshooter]

Great job on the pigs!

[el_vaquero]

Looks like good eats! Congrats on the two porkers...

[SDHNTR]

Really cool. I'm green with envy.

[MikenSoCo]

Nice work OC ..... Hey Hoot, did you get Specks permission to use his pic in your avatar?

[Brettski]

great double up shot...that pig looks much larger hanging up than it does in the field...great job

[RLL]

Wow. I love the pics of your country. For some reason, those red hogs tend to be the meatiest pigs. They will be great eating. Congrats.

[Speckmisser]

Nicely done, OC! Sounds like you've got one heck of a hunting spot up there!

If I could stand growing gills and fungus between my toes, I'd move up to the great wet north... the hunting looks like it'd be almost worth it.

[Franklin3]

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Thanks guys,
Oregon Archer is right.. These are not just pigs to me. We really don&#39;t have any viable populations of them here and nobody can really explain why they are here...Lots of time into these suckers..Now i better get some work done at home...I&#39;m still grinning from ear to ear....[/b]

I can explain why they&#39;re there for you.
Its simple.

Everyone from California eventually ends up in Oregon!
even the hogs!

Well done teacher and I hope you share your field experiences in the classroom it would be a shame to not do so.

[larrysogla]

Congratulations!!! Those are boootiful red hogs. My favorities are the solid black hogs, solidbrown hogs and solid red hogs. They are deeeeelicious!!!! Awesome!!!! Thanks for sharing the blow by blow account and the pictures.
Now we have wild hog populations from Washinton state(remember the post of JJHack about hunting wild pigs in the Evergreen state of Washington) to Oregon to Northern California to Central California to Arizona at the Colorado river riparian area to New Mexico(remember the post of PaulC regarding hunting wild hogs in the upper elevations of New Mexico) to the great state of Texas to Louisiana to Georgia to Florida to South and North Carolina. Now my prediction is that because the youth generation are preoccupied with video games and with the aversion of a big majority of people to firearms and hunting, GUESS WHAT!!! the wild hog populations will continue to proliferate, expand, multiply and eventually will explode to where there will be wild hogs where there were NONE BEFORE!!! We don&#39;t like the destruction that these NON-NATIVE porkers do to the environment so we wll gladly put our hand to the plow so to speak and do our good citizen part in killing(errr.....harvesting to us hunters) these pesky wild porkers and we are on a roll while pulling the trigger on these pesky pigs. My prediction is that the Oregon hog population will NOT ONLY TAKE HOLD BUT WILL EXPAND!!!! &#39;Nuff said.

[oregoncritters]

Speck,
I wouldn&#39;t even consider living somewhere else...I can hunt several different species within 10 minutes of my house..Believe me, i take full advantage of that option....

[dw33]

Very nice.

[Flatbroke]

Great job. Now if we could only get the elk to migrate over here. How long did it take you to pack them out? If it took 45 min to hike in must have seemed like forever packing to pigs out.

[oregoncritters]

Kinda worked out nice..One of my past students works on that place.. I made a phone call and he brought in a quad and hauled them out for me.. That was one of the luckier events that has happened for me in a while. It would have been a long haul if not....

[fishbites]

Way to go! I live in NC and go to TX, AL, SC, GA and any other place that has pigs if I can. I can shoot all the deer I want here but I find hunting and shooting pigs gets my blood flowing more than our deer.
Just like to be able to hunt something all YEAR!

[oregoncritters]

Surely something to be said for being able to hunt all year...Now the yotes are in trouble...

[Sasquatch619]

Nice job on the porkers. What kind of gun/scope/ caliber is that?

[wyemjohnson]

Those are beaut&#39;s! Congrats!