i agree that we should go ahead and chip in a small donation to be used for the next prize or for the club.

i am working (research and development in the garage) on a secret hog drawing formula. this may be so easy i'll feel guilty, almost.

i just hope it is not so strong as to draw any "losthawgs" into my hunting area. :lol:

Just ain't no tellin'. Onct I git goin'... :twisted:

I'm still up for the donation as well.

I am still up for the donation as well. Chunky we appreciate your donation but don't feel like you have to. After I turn over the money I don't care who ends up with it. Well, except Tomme.

Now, I'm always thinking and sometimes it pays off and other times it doesn't. I just thought of a twist we could add to the little wager. The biggest hog gets the trophy with the signatures and picture and so on. How about the first person to (from our little group) bring in a hawg will have it skinned and cleaned by the others in the group. From skinning rack to cooler. There would of course be the gratuitous picture of said individual enjoying a cool beverage while the others toil over his hog. Now that would make for a memorable picture. Any one willing to risk a little labor? :twisted:

Don't know if I'm gonna be there yet but just a suggestion for the trophy, how about instead of first killed or biggest, going by total weight brought in by the end of the hunt. Be kinda like a fishing tourney. Takes some luck out of it and gives all involved insintive to hunt hard threw the weekend.

Sounds like a good idea to me. Puts a little more suspenders to the hunt. A guy with a couple of hogs could be beat by a last minute monster hog. I'm up for the change. I still think Tomme should have to clean the first hog I bring in.

you guys are just lucky this is all traditional, or i would turn "killer" loose on ya.

wow i got the attachment to work, cool, now you guys have to tell me how to get one of those ugly disembodied heads on my posts. i have an ugly head now i need to know how to attach it.

as far as the bets go, i am up for anything. just call me the house, as in what have you got bet against the house, and you can sometimes beat the house, but the odds are always in the house's favor. :lol:

if we do change to most total weight, you guys may have to take some of my hog meat. i only have an F250, and don't want anything to go to waste. :lol:

really looking forward to the hunt.

Oh no Chunky! No secret weapons or pinch hitters. Just stick flingers. :)

As for the disembodied head. Mine is a pic that Spike had and he stuck it on there for me. I have no idea how to do that stuff. Heck you're one up on me just for posting the pic.

We pause for a moment of inspiration:

And...

Sorry guys, I had to throw them in there. Notice that Errol Flynn is checking the back tension of Howard Hill. Notice how intense is the expression in Fred Bear's eyes.

Cool stuff.

Now, remember when you are butchering my hogs, I can't eat sausage. So, I need to save as many cuts as possible. If you folks want the sausage meat, just say so. I don't think I have room for 2500 pounds of pork anyway.

Let's see, we're allowed 10 hogs per day at an average of 100lbs. I better get some more coolers! 8)

Great pics Losthawg. I've been reading Fred Bears biography and hes was deffinately an exceptional man.

That bow howard is using must be a stage prop. look how far back the string is on his face. How about the hog with the least wieght. That is for my bothers from back east!! :lol:

I heard that.

checking back tension huh? well there will be no checking back tension at the hunt! no, no, no, there will be none of that. :lol: :lol:

He was shooting actual broadheads at the stuntmen, so I suppose he did gear down a bit. He generally hunted with 70# up to even over 100#. Took 3 elephants in his time. I'm sure that took some KE. Amazing, the stuntmen actually WANTED to be shot by Howard. Go figure. :?: :?:

The smallest hog? Sure, I reckon Tomme needs to win something. :twisted:

And, you're right Chunky. No checking for folks back tension. :shock: :lol:

the more i think about it, the more i like the idea of the biggest.

never been a fan of the "wack em and stack em" philosophy. I am still in regardless of what we decide.

i am good with the smallest gets something, if we totally exclude tomme he will just go back to compound for good.

thanks for the pic's losthawg.

I've got lots of "kin" in arkansas and can call hogs!

Well I see there has been some loose usage of my name here!

Just because I'm accurate enough to hit those small porkers (unlike some on this thread that can only hit the big ones) several of you have seen fit to make slanderous statements. That does it, I'm really practicing now. I'm working my way up to three arrows a day. I might even have to put that Pearson away and use a better recurve (should I go with an Indian or a Shakespeare?).

Pauls suggestion of most poundage was an interesting idea, but I don't want to work that hard. Besides I'll be working the check out booth while a lot of you will be out hunting (Hunting defined as visiting the pig auction in town), so I'd vote for biggest hog for the main prize. I'll pick up the trophy for whichever of you takes the smallest. I think a bag of pork rinds would be appropriate, don't you? Maybe a small bag.

Okay, I like the biggest and smallest the best as well. What say you?

Tomme, I must confess, you just may have a point. It is more difficult to shoot the smallest. Provided you shoot one from your stand. But, I think we should make it a rule that the pig has to be free ranging and outside the 3 foot range.

I like pork rinds. Like cracklins better though.

OK, biggest hog gets the cement piggy, smallest gets the small bag of pork rinds. What about the first hunter to bring in a hog has it cleaned and quartered by the hunters? This should get interesting.

You guys are killing me. This has been toooooo funny. And hey those shots at two feet are hard to connect on, tougher then 20 yards if you ask me, especially if he's about to take a bite out of your leg!

Steve I've got this picture...kind of rodeo roping style you know. Shoot the pig.....bail out of the stand.... run to where it's stopped...grab it and run like mad back to the truck....spinning tires, dirt and gravel flying through the air everywhere, a Dukes of Hazards fishtailing run back to camp.... I'm first, you guys clean...

That'd be hillarious. I could just picture one of you guys doing something like that. Especially Mike. I'm too lanky and would hurt myself trying to get out of the stand. :oops: :lol:

WOW Mike, losthawg sure has alot of confidence in you!! :P

you guys are just too funny
 

OK, I thought tomme was the unstable one. A concrete pig? this is unreal. be careful on your challenges as last year a kid outshot the adults practicing. And if bowjunkie shots trad he has had a dry spell and is due some luck. If any of you wound a hog, you should get tomme to help track it, he is good bait, I remember an hog chasing him through the woods and him yelling don't shoot it's me...as if we could not tell the differenc between a hog and tomme, ok difficult challenge but tomme would be the one making the noise.

Ok, I talked to Paul Hodges (Samsdad), he wants in on the concrete pig shoot. He says he may need us to carry the pig over and put it in this truck as his arm is too tired from shooting his stick 100 times a day in preparation for the trip up to Bugscuffle for the shootout. He did graciously allow that he would take a few minutes out of his busy schedule to show us how to harvest hogs and win the trophy. (Note - please address rebuttals to either Paul Hodges or Samsdad. )


Beware of hogslayer. Don't get on the other side of a hog from him. He's concentrating so much on the shot that he doesn't worry about pass throughs (as in pass through you). I had to shine a Q beam in his eyes to keep him from taking a shot at me. He kept hollering, stop shining the light in my eyes I can't see to shoot the hog. Since I was right in line with the hog,I hollered back "That's the Idea".

Now I don't think he would have really shot until I was out of the way. I think he said I'll give you to the count of three to get out of line. One, two ... twang. I think we should change his handle from Hogslayer to Safety Hazard.

That sounds very reminiscent of a hunt I attended some years back! :lol: I believe there were at least five people in the general area of the hog and for a short time no one had a bow. When the bow did arrive we were still hearding the hog around! :roll: Yep, I think I do remeber that hunt.

Hey, a thought just occurred to me. (Do ya smell the smoke?) Does anyone have a map of the ranch? Better yet, a map TO the ranch.

Don't worry junkie. No matter what Tomme says, we know where the squealing was comeing from. :P

:roll: I believe Mike thinks EVERYONE lives in SE Texas!!! LOL


That map'll get me there. Thanks.