Seanote
Member
ok folks, made it back Thursday evening. After 2520 miles, and 163 gallons of diesel fuel.
First off if you dont read the rest of this post, let me tell you, DO NOT BOOK A HUNT FROM THES PLACE! THEY GO BY SEVERAL NAMES, HAVE MORE THAN ONE WEB SITE ARE LOCATED IN WAELDER TEXAS, PM ME IF YOU ARE NOT SURE. www.hoghuntinghoghunting.com
When we arrived at the ranch (3:00pm) as expected we were given some ground rules by Eli (not the owner, just a ranch hand). No guns allowed in sleeping quarters, violators will be ejected with no refund! This was the first thing that went wrong. They give you some spill about how this guy came up two years ago and had a "accidental discharge" blew his own head off, permanant hearing damage to the two people next to him. I'm already starting to have doubts.
Next, when night hunting go directly to and from your stand, no walking around because there are two bengal tigers on the property. A guy bought and paid for them two months ago at $60k a piece and never showed up to hunt them. They haven't been spotted in a while but they do find carcasses in trees that they have killed! Man is this guy for real?? His name should have been I lie not Eli. I askn about all the predators they talk obout on the web site "we haven't had any predators killed here in months" my blood instantly boils, thats the main reason I'm here!!
Ok everyone get unpacked and we will have supper at 5:00, sight your guns in at 6:00 then at 7:00 we will take you to your stand for the first night hunt.
Supper was meatloaf, mashed taters, corn, and salad. It was actually very good.
Ok, 6:00 lets sight in our guns after the 1000+ mile journey.
Ok, 6:30 lets sight in our guns after the 1000+ mile journey.
Ok, its 6:45, I ask the other help "wheres Eli so we can sight our guns in?
"Oh he's gone for the day I'll be taking you to your stand in just a minute"
7:00 pm its dark in tx.
Ok now we are in our stand, in the dark, with no idea of how the property lays or what is in front, behind, or on either side of us. I dont like this. We sit there for two hours... nothing. Then, here comes something, get ready, hit the lights!! WAIT DONT SHOOT!! Its 5 elk eating about two lbs of corn they had put out in front of us. Then 2 red stag come in, this is cool but we aint huntin elk or red stag, and all our bait is now gone. Lets get out of here.
Next morning we goto the same stand for 2 hrs more elk and fallow deer. Back for breakfast then from 10:00 till 1:00 we do a spot and stalk. 17 people split into 3 groups and get in line standing beside of one another, and circle the property in a pin wheel fashion. For 3 hrs, not one living pig is spotted by anyone! But there were literally hundreds of dead pigs that had been shot and lost or just left. HUNDREDS!! Guess what, there aint no pigs here, we find out that in the 2 previous days a large group from Mn had killed 27 hogs. They sent 17 guys out there walking for 3 hrs knowing there were no pigs!! I get one of the young workers drunk that night on some of my homemade wine and get the truth. There has never been an accident on the ranch, there are of course no bengal tigers, and all the pigs were killed over the weekend, and the ground is too wet to get to the traps in the surronding area where the fresh pigs are!
We dont waste our time with the morning hunt. After breakfast they release 6 pigs they are of course all killed in the first stalk hunt of the day. I did actually see 5 of these. But no clear shot.
Ok more pigs are brought in later that day, (all pigs are actually wild pigs, just trapped at other places and brought here) my buddy gets one, so things are getting better.
So after supper that evening a guide approaches us in a jeep and says "you ready?"
"ready for what"
him: "Your trophy hunt"
We had paid for a trophy hunt package, I tell him that I still hadn't sighted in my gun and would really like to, Its about 6:00 pm not a lot of day light and I dont want to do this hunt in the dark!
He lets me use his 7mm mag garantees its dead on. Ok if you garantee it.
They take me and my buddy out to a spot where the pigs were last seen ( and I really believe they had gps trackers on them as they were using there iphones to find them)
There it is and its BIG my buddy is first, he shoots and the big hog drops like a ton of bricks! His 7mm mag done its job. As we approach BAM just like it was startled from a deep sleep its back up and coming this way, SHOOT IT! Two more shots and its finished, we gather around and our guide toutches it on the eyeball to make sure its dead, it takes its last breath at that moment! The guide thought he had his last breath, he jumped and yelled it was the funniest moment of the whole trip! But none the less the pig was dead!
Ok daylight is dwindling and I gotta get my trophy, we'll come back for this later.
Ok there it is 70 yards out behind some trees, I circle around to about 40 yards to get a shot, put the rifle on my shooting stick, cross hairs on its neck squeeze. The first thing I get is a loud ringing in my left ear and I'm nearly deaf. The gun had a compensator on it and it was literally deafening. Luckily the pig is down, its kicking, flailing, squaling, trying to get up, but with the pain I have in my left ear I din't want to pull the trigger again, so what do I do? Maybe not the smartest thing in the world but I aint pulling that trigger and I sure aint about to let him get away. I run up on him pull out my Ontario Spec Plus Marine and stab him right in the heart! Yes this was a RUSH! I sliced downward pulled out the knife, his heart pumped about twice and it was over.
530 pounds!
If not for the climactic finish I would have cancelled the payment on my cc
There are ALOT more details to this hunt none of it good We did not get what we paid for.
The septic system was not up to parr, or non existent sewage was backing up into the shower house, I didnt shower from sun. until wed night when we got a hotel!! They had a pump that took the gray water to a sprinkler head out behind the shower house and sprayed it out in the field, when this came on it stunk up the entire camp like raw sewage!
We killed a 500+ lbs hog, a 480+ lbs hog, one that was 135 and one that was 165, over 1300 pounds total. We had a deep freeze in the back of the truck, the kids working there loaded our meat while wwe were packing to leave ( hogs were skinned, quartered, and de-boned)
and this is our own fault but when we got to our place we were going to have the meat processed here at home, there was a total of 325 POUNDS OF MEAT!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR MEAT??? And some of it wasn't our meat! We could tell because it was wrapped and in the freezer a total of 30 hours and it was freezer burned!!
I could go on and on but I'm tired of typing.
On a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being the best I give the place a 1.
Just read their web page, it sounds so good, no where is a fence mentioned, predators everywhere!! False
www.hoghuntinghoghunting.com
First off if you dont read the rest of this post, let me tell you, DO NOT BOOK A HUNT FROM THES PLACE! THEY GO BY SEVERAL NAMES, HAVE MORE THAN ONE WEB SITE ARE LOCATED IN WAELDER TEXAS, PM ME IF YOU ARE NOT SURE. www.hoghuntinghoghunting.com
When we arrived at the ranch (3:00pm) as expected we were given some ground rules by Eli (not the owner, just a ranch hand). No guns allowed in sleeping quarters, violators will be ejected with no refund! This was the first thing that went wrong. They give you some spill about how this guy came up two years ago and had a "accidental discharge" blew his own head off, permanant hearing damage to the two people next to him. I'm already starting to have doubts.
Next, when night hunting go directly to and from your stand, no walking around because there are two bengal tigers on the property. A guy bought and paid for them two months ago at $60k a piece and never showed up to hunt them. They haven't been spotted in a while but they do find carcasses in trees that they have killed! Man is this guy for real?? His name should have been I lie not Eli. I askn about all the predators they talk obout on the web site "we haven't had any predators killed here in months" my blood instantly boils, thats the main reason I'm here!!
Ok everyone get unpacked and we will have supper at 5:00, sight your guns in at 6:00 then at 7:00 we will take you to your stand for the first night hunt.
Supper was meatloaf, mashed taters, corn, and salad. It was actually very good.
Ok, 6:00 lets sight in our guns after the 1000+ mile journey.
Ok, 6:30 lets sight in our guns after the 1000+ mile journey.
Ok, its 6:45, I ask the other help "wheres Eli so we can sight our guns in?
"Oh he's gone for the day I'll be taking you to your stand in just a minute"
7:00 pm its dark in tx.
Ok now we are in our stand, in the dark, with no idea of how the property lays or what is in front, behind, or on either side of us. I dont like this. We sit there for two hours... nothing. Then, here comes something, get ready, hit the lights!! WAIT DONT SHOOT!! Its 5 elk eating about two lbs of corn they had put out in front of us. Then 2 red stag come in, this is cool but we aint huntin elk or red stag, and all our bait is now gone. Lets get out of here.
Next morning we goto the same stand for 2 hrs more elk and fallow deer. Back for breakfast then from 10:00 till 1:00 we do a spot and stalk. 17 people split into 3 groups and get in line standing beside of one another, and circle the property in a pin wheel fashion. For 3 hrs, not one living pig is spotted by anyone! But there were literally hundreds of dead pigs that had been shot and lost or just left. HUNDREDS!! Guess what, there aint no pigs here, we find out that in the 2 previous days a large group from Mn had killed 27 hogs. They sent 17 guys out there walking for 3 hrs knowing there were no pigs!! I get one of the young workers drunk that night on some of my homemade wine and get the truth. There has never been an accident on the ranch, there are of course no bengal tigers, and all the pigs were killed over the weekend, and the ground is too wet to get to the traps in the surronding area where the fresh pigs are!
We dont waste our time with the morning hunt. After breakfast they release 6 pigs they are of course all killed in the first stalk hunt of the day. I did actually see 5 of these. But no clear shot.
Ok more pigs are brought in later that day, (all pigs are actually wild pigs, just trapped at other places and brought here) my buddy gets one, so things are getting better.
So after supper that evening a guide approaches us in a jeep and says "you ready?"
"ready for what"
him: "Your trophy hunt"
We had paid for a trophy hunt package, I tell him that I still hadn't sighted in my gun and would really like to, Its about 6:00 pm not a lot of day light and I dont want to do this hunt in the dark!
He lets me use his 7mm mag garantees its dead on. Ok if you garantee it.
They take me and my buddy out to a spot where the pigs were last seen ( and I really believe they had gps trackers on them as they were using there iphones to find them)
There it is and its BIG my buddy is first, he shoots and the big hog drops like a ton of bricks! His 7mm mag done its job. As we approach BAM just like it was startled from a deep sleep its back up and coming this way, SHOOT IT! Two more shots and its finished, we gather around and our guide toutches it on the eyeball to make sure its dead, it takes its last breath at that moment! The guide thought he had his last breath, he jumped and yelled it was the funniest moment of the whole trip! But none the less the pig was dead!
Ok daylight is dwindling and I gotta get my trophy, we'll come back for this later.
Ok there it is 70 yards out behind some trees, I circle around to about 40 yards to get a shot, put the rifle on my shooting stick, cross hairs on its neck squeeze. The first thing I get is a loud ringing in my left ear and I'm nearly deaf. The gun had a compensator on it and it was literally deafening. Luckily the pig is down, its kicking, flailing, squaling, trying to get up, but with the pain I have in my left ear I din't want to pull the trigger again, so what do I do? Maybe not the smartest thing in the world but I aint pulling that trigger and I sure aint about to let him get away. I run up on him pull out my Ontario Spec Plus Marine and stab him right in the heart! Yes this was a RUSH! I sliced downward pulled out the knife, his heart pumped about twice and it was over.
530 pounds!
If not for the climactic finish I would have cancelled the payment on my cc
There are ALOT more details to this hunt none of it good We did not get what we paid for.
The septic system was not up to parr, or non existent sewage was backing up into the shower house, I didnt shower from sun. until wed night when we got a hotel!! They had a pump that took the gray water to a sprinkler head out behind the shower house and sprayed it out in the field, when this came on it stunk up the entire camp like raw sewage!
We killed a 500+ lbs hog, a 480+ lbs hog, one that was 135 and one that was 165, over 1300 pounds total. We had a deep freeze in the back of the truck, the kids working there loaded our meat while wwe were packing to leave ( hogs were skinned, quartered, and de-boned)
and this is our own fault but when we got to our place we were going to have the meat processed here at home, there was a total of 325 POUNDS OF MEAT!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR MEAT??? And some of it wasn't our meat! We could tell because it was wrapped and in the freezer a total of 30 hours and it was freezer burned!!
I could go on and on but I'm tired of typing.
On a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being the best I give the place a 1.
Just read their web page, it sounds so good, no where is a fence mentioned, predators everywhere!! False
www.hoghuntinghoghunting.com
