Texas Boar hunt # 2

[trularin]

We have returned from our endeavors to stock the freezer with wild boar.

As many of you know we went to Texas to hunt for wild boar.

We arrived Jan. 23 in the afternoon and slept for the rest of the day.

Saturday we went out with Peter ( HLC's son ) to check sights on the rifles we were going to use when we met up with Wynn Jr. He offered to take my son Erich out for a Texas Pig sticking. We accepted.



The group closed



And Erich got ready.



He stuck a 200 pound pig. I know he was very excited.



Here he and I are caught in a pic. This was all we did on Saturday.

Sunday we hunted from late morning on and were very lucky.

This is a shot of the two pigs shot Sunday taking up most of the day.



The pig Erich shot was 300 poounds or more. Peter, the young man on the right, shot a nice 125 pount Boar.

Then I shot this pig later in the week.



It was a great hunt!

[Bugman]

Bet it's going to be great eating too!!

[Ron61]

Tru,

Great pictures and it looks as if you all had a good time. That is great that you got to go and had such good luck. Now back to the Winter and snow.

Ron

[4RE KLR]

Yea, looks like sausage to me!

Looks like you had fun as well.

[Joe Wicked]

Could tell as soon as Tru left. The ice melted and it got up to 70°

I guess the Shasta Goddess kept her eye on him so she didn't loose track again.

[trularin]

I was waiting for that comment.

I might add that there are no pictures of Jay and I at dinner.

[392cobra]

Originally Posted by trularin

I was waiting for that comment.

I might add that there are no pictures of Jay and I at dinner.

Should I post a picture or two of you two & Frenchy ?

Real sorry I missed seeing you again and getting to meet your son.

Is that Erich's first pig sticking ? I'm not sure who looks prouder,you or your son.

[Roscoe]

For historical purposes only:

I have in my hands a letter dated 25 June 1975.
Back then I used to make collars/leads/harnesses and stuff just for pit
dogs.

The letter is from a great guy named A.D. Castelli of South Florida. AD had
a house dog named "Savage Captain Bob", a red nose Pit Bull of about 85 lbs. I used
to make and repair 'Hog' collars (Catch Collars) for AD as he and "Bob"
would tangle with wild boar now and then. Well, here goes:

Dear Bob,
Your "Max" is one fine dog. I am interested in that fighting harness you
have on him. How would that work keeping a hog from cutting a dog? I am
sending you under seperate cover a catch collar that we use to protect our
dogs throat. Hoping you can repair it.

It needs a new strap. I like two straps instead of one but the guy I had
make it only put one on it. It slides around a lot.

About two weeks ago "Bob" was cut up so bad by a Russian Boar that we almost
lost him. We were hunting at night when its coolest. And to make a long
story short "Bob" jumped a 360 lb Russian and they were fighting a long
time, too long because "Bob" won't quit and he didn't have any help. He was
slowly bleeding out. It took 318 stitches to sew his throat, chin and
inside his mouth. You could have stuck a beer can thru his chin into his
mouth!. He was holding the boar by his tusk when we got there. It was the
only way. That hog didn't squeal once; not even when I shot him in the
spine to break his back. It was the quietest fight I ever witnessed.
Neither one trying to run. "Bob" was shakin him like a gator and so was the
boar. Both game as hell.

I think I am going to retire "Bob" from hunting as he's just been cut up too
much lately and I am afraid he'll get killed.

Your friend,
A.D. Castelli

[trularin]

Yes, that was Erich's first pig stick.



Yes, I was proud of him. He was geeked.



No, I do not need to see the same pictures again.