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<blockquote data-quote="Packrat 6" data-source="post: 1591901" data-attributes="member: 80288"><p>John, I sure hope some of them aren't still walking around! Nice pictures, but didn't realize they had gotten so far North in California. Are these Feral Hogs or a cross breed with Javelina? Apparently further down in the southern USA, they cross breed with the European wild boar and can get pretty good sized. I can see that the distance you are shooting is a lot further than I normally get to shoot. We're usually shooting about 50 - [ATTACH]125836[/ATTACH] 60 yards with only one blind that has a 112 yd open shot to the feeder. If you look past the hogs, the brush is usually what we are hunting in. Not a lot of visibility of 20 - 40' if we are tracking them on foot. We can't leave wounded hogs because of adjoining ranches where there are a lot of young kids. Could be worse, I've seen pictures of Florida and even worse visibility if chasing a wounded one. </p><p></p><p>We get some nice sized hogs, and quite a few of them, with some going to about 400 lbs. As far as eating them, you have to boil all the fat out of the big ones to make them edible from them eating Mesquite beans, but the small ones make good eating. The big ones just aren't worth the effort, although the Mexican Braceros, take all we give them. djones has the right area where there are a lot of crops for them to feed on, and a reasonable distance to shoot, but keeping him sober enough to hit them is often the problem.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.longrangehunting.com/data/attachments/41/41149-a432c823d5071b98b3691a8c1814bc84.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>The only reason I didn't become a lawyer was self respect! Packrat 6, 2019</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Packrat 6, post: 1591901, member: 80288"] John, I sure hope some of them aren't still walking around! Nice pictures, but didn't realize they had gotten so far North in California. Are these Feral Hogs or a cross breed with Javelina? Apparently further down in the southern USA, they cross breed with the European wild boar and can get pretty good sized. I can see that the distance you are shooting is a lot further than I normally get to shoot. We're usually shooting about 50 - [ATTACH]125836[/ATTACH] 60 yards with only one blind that has a 112 yd open shot to the feeder. If you look past the hogs, the brush is usually what we are hunting in. Not a lot of visibility of 20 - 40' if we are tracking them on foot. We can't leave wounded hogs because of adjoining ranches where there are a lot of young kids. Could be worse, I've seen pictures of Florida and even worse visibility if chasing a wounded one. We get some nice sized hogs, and quite a few of them, with some going to about 400 lbs. As far as eating them, you have to boil all the fat out of the big ones to make them edible from them eating Mesquite beans, but the small ones make good eating. The big ones just aren't worth the effort, although the Mexican Braceros, take all we give them. djones has the right area where there are a lot of crops for them to feed on, and a reasonable distance to shoot, but keeping him sober enough to hit them is often the problem. [IMG]https://www.longrangehunting.com/data/attachments/41/41149-a432c823d5071b98b3691a8c1814bc84.jpg[/IMG] The only reason I didn't become a lawyer was self respect! Packrat 6, 2019 [/QUOTE]
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