Pics from our hunting trip to Texas.

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NOTICE Do not view this thread if you find images of hunted animals offensive!!!

As promised I am finally getting around to posting some pics from our annual hunting trip to Texas. We went the last weekend in February. My partner has a 22,000 acre hunting lease just outside of Turkey, TX on the Turkey Creek Ranch. He is very generous with this privelege and likes to take all the guys from our shop down once a year to show them a good time. We also include some close friends that help us out from time to time.

I tried to pick out a variety of pics showing different aspects of the trip to try and show the full spectrum of what we do.

Pic 1 sunset the first night we were there from my stand.
Pic 2 This was his first time to hunt hog. Very first hog for him.
Pic 3 Unloading the days harvest.

 

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Pic 1 View from the blind where I spent a majority of my time. The closest feeder is 30 yards, the far feeder is 115 yards.
Pic 2 Outside view of the blind. He has about 35 of these set up with 2 feeder at each of them. Each feeder feeds twice a day 365 days a year.
Pic 3 It was a good day for our team.

 

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Pic 1 A well needed break between the morning and evening hunt.
Pic 2 A couple of unfortunate Porcupines.
Pic 3 The crew.

 

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Pic 1 Front side of base camp.
Pic 2 Back side of camp.
Pic 3 The relaxation area and camp stove.

 

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Pic 1 Heading out for an afternoon snake hunt.
Pic 2 He's not smart enough to skin the snake before using it as a belt.
Pic 3 Digging for Diamondbacks.

 

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Pic 1 Fat Daddy. By far the biggest one we found this weekend. Probably the biggest I've seen in the wild.
Pic 2 The area landscape.
Pic 3 This is a crack in the cliff face that we found. There was a lot of Porcupine dung in front of it leading us to believe we would find one in it. Our suspicions we correct as we found two in it.....along with a full den of Diamondbacks to boot. We don't know the total number of rattlers that were in this den because it was too deep to see all of them. We harvested 15 from it and there were many more. I had only seen things like this in movies. It gave me a pretty good case of the willies. We pumped between 65 and 70 into it of various caliber. Unfortunately I had to step up and help with the process. :leaving: There were a total of 18 Diamondbacks found that day.

 

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Pic 1 The massacre. If you look closely you can see the Porcupine quills and dung on the ground. There were many holes that had this in front of them. Some were occupied, some weren't.

Pic 2 Shooting the S&W 500.

Pic 3 I wish I could begin to explain this. If you knew him you would understand. I couldn't even look at him to take the pic. Someone else had to take it. Yuck!!!

 

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Pic 1 Snake fang.
Pic 2 Digging for more Diamondbacks. You can actually see a fat one on the ground just between the two of them and a little further back under the cliff. This is the one from the first pic in post #6. I believe a 12 gauge put him to rest if I remember correctly.
Pic 3 Weighing the evening's harvest.

 

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Final pic...boarding the plane for the trip home.

 

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I have many more pics of the landscape and beauty of the area we were fortunate enough to hunt. About 250 total were taken. If the quality isn't that great on these I apologize, I was using the old sony point and shoot. Didn't want to take the good camera out in the field in my gear.

I tried to post pics of the highlights and not bore you with the general stuff.

We took our kids back down to the lease for their spring break this past weekend. I have a few pics of that hunt I will post in a couple more days. I am leaving town for the weekend first thing in the morning and don't have time to resize them now. These pics will be a little family oriented and much more tame.

I look forward to comments and questions you guys may have about the hunt.

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[Perlmudder]

cool pics! so do you eat the snakes or what do you do with them?

 

[Bobcat]

looks like a blast !

 

[buck]

cool pics! so do you eat the snakes or what do you do with them?

Didn't eat them. Just took the rattles off them. Most were too mangled from lead poisoning to do anything else with.

Buck

 

[Tony]

Looks like the filming of Delta Farce 2.

Cool pics man.

 

[Magic Medicine]

Cools pics. Do the wild bores taste good?

 

[buck]

Magic,

A smaller boar isn't bad. Get a larger one and things get a little "gamey" for my taste.
A low to medium weight sow is the way to go. Find a piglet with a little weight on it and you've struck gold.

If we manage to harvest anything that is injured or has a wound from a previous hunter it is automatically considered no good.

 

[Magic Medicine]

Magic,

A smaller boar isn't bad. Get a larger one and things get a little "gamey" for my taste.
A low to medium weight sow is the way to go. Find a piglet with a little weight on it and you've struck gold.

If we manage to harvest anything that is injured or has a wound from a previous hunter it is automatically considered no good.

Thanks. BBQ the m fer

 

[JupiterSunsation]

My neighbor bow hunts wild boar in FL. He is a little guy (5'6 130 maybe) and won't kill the big boar since they are too heavy to mess with and the smaller ones have better meat. I have eaten some and it wasn't that bad. His one liner was, what you are eating was running around this morning before he met me........

 

[JupiterSunsation]

Pic 1 Heading out for an afternoon snake hunt.
Pic 2 He's not smart enough to skin the snake before using it as a belt.
Pic 3 Digging for Diamondbacks.

On the snake hunt, are you concerned about ricochet from the fired rounds into a cave or getting bitten by a snake mistaken for dead? How far from a hospital are you in case of an emergency?

 

[Offshoredrillin]

you shot babe!!!!:ack2: