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Cawlin  Posts: 1,759
Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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vn_anon63xxx posted:
This year is dedicated to fishing. I have three trips planned. An 8 day for tuna in June. Then in November I'm doing a week of salmon and steelhead. I'm also taking the wife to Hawaii at some point so I'll do a couple days targeting Ahi when I'm there.
So, there's not much time for hunting this year. Will take the dog out 4-5 times for pheasant, quail and chukar.
2013 is scheduled to be my hunting year. Planning an Elk hunt to New Mexico and several boar hunts here in CA.
2014 will be another year of fishing.
2015 will be the Alaska hunting trip of a lifetime.
/envy!
My dad is an extremely avid and fairly well traveled and accomplished fly-fisherman. He has been trying to get me to go with him to Bristol Bay Lodge in Alaska for a trip for years now - apparently through his old job at an outfitter's shop, he has a reasonable relationship with the folks at Bristol Bay such that if he personally books people on something like 10 trips he gets a freebie himself - he's done two trips there paying only his own airfare. The kind of trips you're planning put me in mind of this.
I am most definitely jealous! Happy fishing and hunting to you.
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vn_anon63xxx  Title: Darwin's Revenge
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Registered: 2001-3-12 14:43:10
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I don't believe in living with regret.
Go with your dad. Just do it.
No regrets.
I wish I had taken up tuna fishing years ago. It's the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
http://www.americananglersportfishing.com/fishing_reports.htm
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Achim_LC  Title: Knuckle Dragging Thug
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Registered: 2002-1-20 00:31:45
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Not sure where you are planning on boar hunting in California but there are some HUGE ones around the Coalinga area.
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vn_anon63xxx Title: Darwin's Revenge
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Achim_LC posted:
Not sure where you are planning on boar hunting in California but there are some HUGE ones around the Coalinga area.
A buddy of mine grew up in Paso Robles. All of his childhood friends have giant private ranches forus to camp/hunt at. Boars are like vermin up there. The tags come in packs of 5 for around $50.
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Achim_LC Title: Knuckle Dragging Thug
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1/1/00 12:01am
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vn_anon63xxx posted:
Achim_LC posted:
Not sure where you are planning on boar hunting in California but there are some HUGE ones around the Coalinga area.
A buddy of mine grew up in Paso Robles. All of his childhood friends have giant private ranches forus to camp/hunt at. Boars are like vermin up there. The tags come in packs of 5 for around $50.
Yeah, tags are cheap in California. I used to hunt them on the ranches around Coalinga. The ranchers will often let you hunt their lands for free just to get rid of them.
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
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vn_anon63xxx posted:
I don't believe in living with regret.
Go with your dad. Just do it.
No regrets.
I wish I had taken up tuna fishing years ago. It's the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
http://www.americananglersportfishing.com/fishing_reports.htm
This is the boat I'm taking in June. Look at the pictures from their last trip.
Good advice and again, I am jealous of your fishing trip coming up!
Maybe not this year but the next I will try to plan an Alaska fly fishing trip with my Dad for salmon...
Re: boar hunting - this is definitely something I would like to do - is the meat from these worth butchering and eating or do people just turn them over to homeless shelters and whatnot?
Did you ever hear of or see these guys who go boar hunting with spears and stuff? Sounds like a bucket list item for the crazy brave or the insane... 
http://www.coldsteel.com/boarspear.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeii7r_ySiA
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Achim_LC Title: Knuckle Dragging Thug
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Boar meat is REALLY gamey. If you get a smaller boar the meat is pretty good and you can always make sausage out of it which helps the flavor. The big boars taste like ass IMHO.
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vn_anon63xxx Title: Darwin's Revenge
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The one I shot was really tasty. The hams, pork chops and sausage was exceptional. Not very gamey at all.
Of course, I shot it through the heart and both lungs with 45-70 hotload. That may have helped. Even the guys at the ranch were impressed with the shot.
I can't really take credit for it. It was only 150 yards. The Sharps is so damn accurate that 150 yards is not even fair. 400 yards open sights is not even fair. You have to get out to 500 yards for it to be a challenge.
I can take a novice out to the range and have them hitting 400 yards with only four rounds. I've done it maybe 4-5 times.
It is that accurate.
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Cawlin posted:
That looks remarkably phallic when squished down.
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
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vn_anon63xxx posted:
The one I shot was really tasty. The hams, pork chops and sausage was exceptional. Not very gamey at all.
Of course, I shot it through the heart and both lungs with 45-70 hotload. That may have helped. Even the guys at the ranch were impressed with the shot.
I can't really take credit for it. It was only 150 yards. The Sharps is so damn accurate that 150 yards is not even fair. 400 yards open sights is not even fair. You have to get out to 500 yards for it to be a challenge.
I can take a novice out to the range and have them hitting 400 yards with only four rounds. I've done it maybe 4-5 times.
It is that accurate.
I believe that about the rifle. For 400 yards, did you shoot it off of a rest or bipod or something?
The issue I have with open/iron sights at longer than 100 yards or so is that I can't make out a small enough target on the animal given the size of the front sight post/ring and how small an animal like a boar would look relative to the post/ring. Even the peep sights I use on the 50' indoor 22 matches I will be shooting this winter make a dime sized bullseye seem like the head of a pin relative to the front sight ring.
The bead on the top of the post on the semi-buckhorn sights on my 45-70 pretty much covers 12 inches at 100 yards...
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