[St. Gunner]

I just spent 4 hrs this afternoon stalking up on stock tanks here in South Texas hunting hogs. I only used up 1.5 gallons of water in that time and bagged two hogs. Not monsters or anything, just good eatin hogs. Only checked about 1/8 of the tanks we can check, Four total today, found fresh sign at all four, but only hogs home at 2 of em.

I went yesterday and hunted one tank I normally find some bruisers at, but a doe and fawn laid up about 50yds from the tank ruined it, I nearly stepped on em and she blew out making all manner of racket, I heard the hog leaving the tank and found the wallow, he was another good sized one.

So does anyone else abuse themselves by walking around hunting hogs in this heat, bank clock showed 101degrees at 5pm today, the Weather guys where saying 70-80% humidity, it was a little warm.:D It is one of my favorite sports, You have to be quiet as all get out, really watch the wind, not move to quick or they see it, and shoot very quickly when the opportunity presents. Any of this I have to get a rest, I have to take my time, I have to line it all up, and the hog will be 200yds away and heading for the next water. The 2nd one today I glassed the tank from about 200yds out, couldn't find anything, walked up quietly to see if I could hear any hogs around, suddenly from under a tree limb in the water bolted a hog. I never saw him.

[DFBonnett]

Only hogs worth hunting here in Nazi Jersey are in the State House and wear suits. For some reason they are always out of season. I have hunted deer and turkeys in some of the most foul weather imagineable and thought nothing of it. Why do we do it?

[Art Eatman]

:D

Reminds me of a cartoon from long ago. Two duck hunters, sitting in a blind in a blizzard, with icycles hanging off them, their guns and the decoys. They're looking at two guys in a boat, fishing, and similarly iced. Cut line: "Look at those two fools, out fishing in weather like this!"

I've gone dove hunting in early September in temperatues that would have a sane person sitting home in the A/C.

:), Art

[4v50 Gary]

Good mental discipline makes for good snipers. Training under adverse conditions hardens the individual for combat. Didn't know you were in training, did you? :)

[St. Gunner]

Training under adverse conditions hardens the individual for combat.

Then the folks in the Axis of Evil better pray GW don't turn me loose on em. I only hunt about 300days a year, at least some portion of the day. I don't miss many this time of year, I know those suckers are gonna be around water someplace.:D My job allows me to do both work and hunt alll at the same time, I am self employed at present and build fence. Here the hogs are considered a real pest and I am asked to shoot everyone I see on most jobs. :D It truly breaks my heart.

I took a physical fitness test for the Fire Department last year and breezed through it when most guys where dying. When one of the PT proctors asked me how I trained I told him, "I hunt all summer in the heat, middle part of the day, then when I kill something I drag it back out to the truck from who knows where." He started laughing and said, "I guess dragging a 180lb dummy 150' doesn't seem like much does it." :D



I've gone dove hunting in early September in temperatues that would have a sane person sitting home in the A/C.

Yep, you are as dumb as me:D Actually I don't dove hunt that much, maybe three times a year, and two of those are in the late season when it is cold and quail is open also. Truth is, The Dog Days you ought to be sitting inside in the AC. I'm working alone right now and I have been calling it a day after 5-6hrs, it just flat aint worth getting killed over, working around power equipment with your brain fried from the heat.

[inGobwetrust]

I am full of envy and would jump at the chance to do that every day, regardless of the weather. It may be hot as Hell but it sounds like Heaven to me!

[H&Hhunter]

Heck yes I hunt hogs all summer long and only during the day. And when that gets to be to comfortable I head over to Africa and track critters for miles in blistering sun just to keep the wus out of my inner child.:D

[Bruz]

Any other idiots here?

Yes and no...I hunt pigs year round here, but the average temp during the summer is only 72 degrees. Sometimes I go inland though where it is hotter, but nothing compared to your abuse!

[Bigjake]

umm, i keep my marlin 94 in the tractor cab while i tet hay and other hot tasks aroung the farm and do my best to pop rabbits and woodchucks when they run out, does that count?

[plainsman66]

yup,90+ here and if the prarie dogs are dumb enough to come outa the hole I'm dumb enough to smoke'em!lol-counseling is for folks that can't shoot!

[Smoke]

yeah....maybe.

I hunt hogs during the summer here too. I just do it different. I have feeders on timers. I park the pickup in the shade, climb in the back next to the cooler filled with...um...barley pop. And wait for the hogs to come in. SHoot sa many as I can and go home.

[Newt]

I'd have to agree with inGob on this one; I envy you for being able to hunt all year long (even if in extreme temperatures). However, I have been doing a lot of fishing while there's no hunting season in now. You're just one of the lucky ones. :(

Newt

[grampster]

Just started reading my Robert Ruark stories again last night. The Old Man and the Boy. Story about going duck hunting during the best weather for ducks; 30 degrees, ice in the sloughs, 40 mph wind, sleet, clouds etc. Best time The Boy ever had; called it "better than bluebird days"........filled the boat with ducks, so many ducks they got selective and only shot teal and canvasbacks. Shoo'd the mallard and others off with a broom stick 'cause they were a bother. The Boy swore the geese were trying to come into the blind to get warm around the kerosene stove. Had to shoot a few for the pot as the blind was getting too crowded. Sigh......those were the good ole days.

:D

[St. Gunner]

Grampster,

Last year my dad and I where hunting Specklebellies on a peanut field. It was socked in with fog, you could barely see 30', we dug our holes to hide in, set out a few decoys close in and covered up. At shooting time you could hear the geese coming, a couple calls and they literally came in on top of us, I blew the head clean off the first one and he landed within reach of the hole, the second was a little further and dad picked it up and threw it to me. He bagged his two and they both fell right by him. We just sat and waited to see if any snows would show. The geese just kept landing in the decoys and I have some crazy video of it and a few still pics. By the time the fog lifted we had about 5-7 thousand geese as close at 10yds away and out to a 100yds or so. It was awesome, the snows ended up setting down on the outskirts of the flock of Specks so we never got a chance, but I wouldn't trade that day for any other in a blind.:D

Newt,

I love this place, we are covered up with game, the state gives us liberal bag limits and no bag limits on hogs and some other critters. I am truly blessed to live in a state like this. It may be hot as hell a few months a year, but it is worth every minute of it. The coast is 2hrs away and I can hook up with Reds, Trout, Shark, Pompano, jack Crevalle, and assorted other fish right along the beach.

[Lennyjoe]

I've gone dove hunting in early September in temperatues that would have a sane person sitting home in the A/C.

That will be me on 1 Sept when early dove season opens here in Arizona. :fire:

[Dr.Rob]

I strode out of the woods once so covered with snow you couldn't see i was wearing orange. Ran into my uncle who was doing his own yeti impression in the hollow of a tree. Snow was falling in flakes as big as quarters and it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. We just smiled at each other and enjoyed the silence for a while.

Somethimes hunting isn't about shooting anything. :)

[Keith]

Me and my son have been going out most mornings since deer season opened on August 1st. It's been so unusually hot and dry that the deer are (apparently) down in the spruce woods. The ridges and alpine country that is usually full of deer is just dotted with a few does and young spikes.
We went out this morning and were up in the high country when it got light at 4:30 or so. We watched a young fork trying to mount a doe who kept kicking him and moving away. It was kind of fun to watch.

There were few other young deer in the area that we could see with our binoculars, but by 5:30 it was already getting uncomfortable and they moved down into the woods. We were home by 7:30.

This all the exact opposite of the usual pattern. At this time of year, they normally LEAVE the woods and come up into the alpine to find a breeze and escape the bugs after dawn - and we're usually up there waiting for them.

I've decided to wait for a change in the weather before we go out again. No way I'll hunt down in the woods at this time of year!

Keith

[M67]

I'm not an idiot, I have never hunted in weather that hot.

I did go for a swim once to retrieve a duck. Water temperature was in the high 30's, air temp in the 20's. I also remember a trip when the ice on a marsh wasn't quite as thick as it looked. Soaked to the waist, three hours from the car. Also invigorating.

Dr.Rob is right. It aint about the killin', it's about the experience. :D

[Greybeard]

Well, since this thread has slid over to include a little fishin' I'll throw in my recent .02 ... Chaz (ScoutSniper here at THR) and I took off on a 100 degree Friday a couple of weeks back to go chase a few hybrids near damn at Lake Lavon.

Shortly after noon (in boat with no canopy) we had just got back in the boat after taking a dip because the constant sunshine had begun to bake the brain. There was no wind and lake was perfectly calm. We started noticing what looked liked minature "Jaws" prowling at the surface. I was watchin' one of the bigger ones around 50 yards out when it turned and started coming directly toward our boat.

Chaz was able to get a rod rigged quickly with a little float and a cricket suspended about 8" below. He flipped it out into the path of the "jaws" wake - and it was promptly taken by a nice blue catfish! :what: Yea, on the surface in deep water in the middle of the day! Since all fishermen are liars, I won't go into the size, but a nice one! And we caught two or three more "keepers" within half an hour in the similar fashion before we could not take the heat much longer and found us a bridge for some shade ...

Anyhoo, the catfish on the surface in the middle of the day in deep water was definitley a "first" for one pair of "idiots" ... ;) Maybe the fishes' brains were gettin' baked too ... :confused: