duck_god1982
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Just curious if there are any good public places to hunt boar in southeren Cali.
Hog Hunting in SOCal
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Gordon
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Don't know about southern Ca. but from Santa Maria up Central Ca. is IT for hogs.
Bwana John
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Not public, but Tejon Ranch has got Russian Boar.
I second driving up around SLO
I second driving up around SLO
Chuck Dye
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More central CA, but the upper Salinas River Valley and adjacent coast range are good.
Gordon
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You have to remember the original European wild boar strain came from the Hearst Ranch in San Simeon and the Oppenheimer Ranch in Carmel Valley/Arroyo Seca . The farther you get from these areas the more feral the hogs get! I don't know about Teton Ranch, maybe they imported some boar at one time?
Gordon
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This happened about 5 miles away last sunday. Tom is the boyfriend of a good friend of ours. The Medina victim was an a person I see at local gun events, I knew his dad pretty well. The latest twist in this sad tale is the ballistics have shown that the bullet actualy skidded off the hogs skull and went about 30 degrees off path before hitting the victim right in the heart.The victim was down(range )on the hillside about 35feet and maybe 18feet off to the side!The hog was wounded by their arrows and was running in circles in the brush when they tried to finish it. This has very much destroyed the emotional lives of the two survivors! Be Carefull!
Santa Cruz
Sheriff releases details of fatal hunting accident
By Jennifer Squires
Sentinel Staff Writer
A longtime friend accidentally shot and killed the son of Watsonville Police Chief Terry Medina with a .45-caliber pistol during a legal hunt Monday that had ventured outside the bounds of the permit.
Details released Friday by the Sheriff's Office reveal the events surrounding the killing of 38-year-old Timothy Medina, and the state Department of Fish and Game said the trio of hunters had gone beyond the area allowed by their depredation permit to hunt feral pigs when Medina was shot.
The Soquel man's death has been ruled an accident; no charges have been filed against the other men in his hunting party.
"We don't have any reason to believe it was anything more than an accident," sheriff's Lt. Phil Wowak said Friday.
Medina suffered a single gunshot wound to the abdomen just before 8:30 a.m. Monday while he and two Santa Cruz men — Gregory Hill and Thomas Pennington — tracked a feral pig in a wooded ravine on private property near Cabrillo College in Aptos, according to a sheriff's news release.
Hill and Pennington had wounded the pig with an arrow hours before, the Sheriff's Office reported. The men had returned with a dog to track the animal through thick brush and poison oak in the steep canyon, the release said. Hill and Pennington were armed with .45-caliber pistols; Medina did not carry a gun, investigators reported.
Medina and Hill followed the pig into the ravine while Pennington waited on the ridge opposite the animal, the release said. Medina and Hill, neither of whom were wearing "hunter orange" clothing, became separated and the boar charged between them, the Sheriff's Office reported.
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Hill, 45, fired three shots at the pig, one of which hit Medina, the release said.
When Hill realized his friend had been wounded, he carried Medina out of the ravine while Pennington, 42, ran to get help.
Firefighters from Aptos/La Selva Fire Protection District tended to the unconscious Medina and carried him from the edge of the ravine to a waiting ambulance.
The bullet had hit a major blood vessel, however, and Medina died later at Dominican Hospital, investigators reported.
After the shooting, sheriff's investigators interviewed Hill and Pennington.
Both men also underwent and passed blood-alcohol tests, Wowak said. Investigators concluded the men did not commit gross negligence rising to the level of a criminal act, or an intentional act that caused Medina's death, the release said.
"Nothing really unusual came out of that," Wowak said of the investigation.
However, the shooting did occur on a parcel of private land on which the trio was not authorized to hunt, said Fish and Game Lt. Don Kelly. The permit had been issued for a 1.5-acre parcel of land adjacent to the 142-acre plot where Hill fired his weapon, Kelly said.
The permit also recommended hunters use live traps or archery equipment — not firearms — to eliminate the animals, Kelly said. The area, between the college and The Forest of the Nisene Marks State Park, is a county-designated no-shoot zone, but exceptions are made for depredation permits, Kelly said.
Officials would not discuss how the hunters ended up on the wrong piece of property, but Kelly said a depredation permit must be used on the private land for which it's issued.
"That's why we do suggest the traps that would draw the animals," Kelly said.
It's unclear if the hunters will face any disciplinary action for going outside the bounds of the hunt.
Members of Medina's family have made no public statement about his death; no funeral services had been announced Friday night.
"The Medinas are obviously still in shock because of the loss," Wowak said.
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)on the hillside about 35feet and maybe 18feet off to the side!The hog was wounded by their arrows and was running in circles in the brush when they tried to finish it. This has very much destroyed the emotional lives of the two survivors! Be Carefull!Santa Cruz
Sheriff releases details of fatal hunting accident
By Jennifer Squires
Sentinel Staff Writer
A longtime friend accidentally shot and killed the son of Watsonville Police Chief Terry Medina with a .45-caliber pistol during a legal hunt Monday that had ventured outside the bounds of the permit.
Details released Friday by the Sheriff's Office reveal the events surrounding the killing of 38-year-old Timothy Medina, and the state Department of Fish and Game said the trio of hunters had gone beyond the area allowed by their depredation permit to hunt feral pigs when Medina was shot.
The Soquel man's death has been ruled an accident; no charges have been filed against the other men in his hunting party.
"We don't have any reason to believe it was anything more than an accident," sheriff's Lt. Phil Wowak said Friday.
Medina suffered a single gunshot wound to the abdomen just before 8:30 a.m. Monday while he and two Santa Cruz men — Gregory Hill and Thomas Pennington — tracked a feral pig in a wooded ravine on private property near Cabrillo College in Aptos, according to a sheriff's news release.
Hill and Pennington had wounded the pig with an arrow hours before, the Sheriff's Office reported. The men had returned with a dog to track the animal through thick brush and poison oak in the steep canyon, the release said. Hill and Pennington were armed with .45-caliber pistols; Medina did not carry a gun, investigators reported.
Medina and Hill followed the pig into the ravine while Pennington waited on the ridge opposite the animal, the release said. Medina and Hill, neither of whom were wearing "hunter orange" clothing, became separated and the boar charged between them, the Sheriff's Office reported.
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Hill, 45, fired three shots at the pig, one of which hit Medina, the release said.
When Hill realized his friend had been wounded, he carried Medina out of the ravine while Pennington, 42, ran to get help.
Firefighters from Aptos/La Selva Fire Protection District tended to the unconscious Medina and carried him from the edge of the ravine to a waiting ambulance.
The bullet had hit a major blood vessel, however, and Medina died later at Dominican Hospital, investigators reported.
After the shooting, sheriff's investigators interviewed Hill and Pennington.
Both men also underwent and passed blood-alcohol tests, Wowak said. Investigators concluded the men did not commit gross negligence rising to the level of a criminal act, or an intentional act that caused Medina's death, the release said.
"Nothing really unusual came out of that," Wowak said of the investigation.
However, the shooting did occur on a parcel of private land on which the trio was not authorized to hunt, said Fish and Game Lt. Don Kelly. The permit had been issued for a 1.5-acre parcel of land adjacent to the 142-acre plot where Hill fired his weapon, Kelly said.
The permit also recommended hunters use live traps or archery equipment — not firearms — to eliminate the animals, Kelly said. The area, between the college and The Forest of the Nisene Marks State Park, is a county-designated no-shoot zone, but exceptions are made for depredation permits, Kelly said.
Officials would not discuss how the hunters ended up on the wrong piece of property, but Kelly said a depredation permit must be used on the private land for which it's issued.
"That's why we do suggest the traps that would draw the animals," Kelly said.
It's unclear if the hunters will face any disciplinary action for going outside the bounds of the hunt.
Members of Medina's family have made no public statement about his death; no funeral services had been announced Friday night.
"The Medinas are obviously still in shock because of the loss," Wowak said.
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duck_god1982
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THANKS TO ALL
THANK YOU I WLL LOOK INTO THE INFO
THANK YOU I WLL LOOK INTO THE INFO
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