All About Pocket Knives

Cool pics, Treefarmer.

My trip to the lease was fruitful this weekend. Took a gobbler home on Friday, so have some turkey in the freezer.

Also some pics from my game camera. That big boy comes in around 7 every morning and 7 every evening. His punctuality may be his undoing.

Wow, that's a bunch of sausage meat, Unk! Good job on the gobbler.
Treefarmer

Congrats on the big bird Unk.

Is there a hog hunting season in Texas or can you hunt them anytime ?

Hi Phil,

You can hunt hogs 365 days a year here in Texas. The critters breed so fast we can't keep'em under control.

Mike

Lordy! That is a big porker. Nice bird, too.

Good job with the turkey and shoot that pig and his family.

To see boar hunting with a young man that rarely misses, view some YouTube videos of Franz Albrecht. There are other shooters involved in some of the videos, but Franz is just unbelievable. There is one segment where he kills five boar in six seconds and they were running full out.

These are driven hunts to reduce the population. The boar are harvested and used for commercial purposes.



https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... +oettingen

Charlie Noyes

Nice turkey, Unk! Very cool photos of the wild hogs. How much do you figure that big fellow would weigh ... 400 pounds?

Interesting photo with the fire, treefarmer.

Nice bird Unc can u shoot them hogs year round?

Unk wrote:Hi Phil,

You can hunt hogs 365 days a year here in Texas. The critters breed so fast we can't keep'em under control.

Mike

That's a hunting bucket list item for me. Never had a chance to hunt them locally and have thought it would be a fun hunt to make someday.

garddogg56 wrote:Nice bird Unc can u shoot them hogs year round?

365, 24-7. No bag limits, no possession limits.

Feral hogs are a pest causing huge damage, multi-millions of dollars, to agricultural crops and pasture land. They crowd out native game species. Hogs eat eggs and destroy nests of birds that nest on or near the ground (like quail). They're smart, quickly learn to avoid traps. And they reproduce so fast hunting and trapping hasn't made even a small dent in the population.

Ken

The same policy applies to private land in Florida, 24-7-365 using any legal to own weapon, no hunting license required.
We see and experience the same damage as Ken's pictures show.
Treefarmer

Yowza I'd go on a tare with them hogs too.

Dinadan wrote:Nice turkey, Unk! Very cool photos of the wild hogs. How much do you figure that big fellow would weigh ... 400 pounds?

Interesting photo with the fire, treefarmer.

Hi Mel, I figure he's over 300 lbs, at least. If he gets much bigger, I'm going to have to buy a taller feeder!

We usually give a nickname to some of the critters that show up repeatedly on the game camera. We call this guy "Nut-job".

Not great elk photo's but good with the view. Again Jackson, Wy. 2015

Clearly beautiful and dramatic country. Some years ago Elk were reintroduced to KY. The state now has the largest herd east of the Rockies.

Love the pics, doglegg!!

doglegg, it looks like a late Fall picture. Were you hunting ? Nice bull with 2 cows in last picture.
kj

My Picnic Table

My picnic table is a lot like me. It's old and worn, weathered and torn, broken and ready to return to be dirt again.

It was a hot July afternoon and my wife and 3 small children went down to the beach, a bay of pebbles rather than rocks on Kootenay Lake below our property.
I did not want to stop working, always too much to do to take a break. There were small sections of logs, tops & butts from house building the previous year. I managed to make a picnic table before they got back. That was 35 years ago. My wife went her way 10 years later and the 3 children are now scattered: Zanzibar, Mals, Italy, and Calgary. But the picnic table and i are still here.
kj

LOve that Roland!!! Love it bro!!!

KJ - poignant picnic table! A couple of thousand years ago someone said: times change, and we change with them. Some of us are a bit more resistant to changing with the times than are others.

kootenay joe wrote:doglegg, it looks like a late Fall picture. Were you hunting ? Nice bull with 2 cows in last picture.
kj

It was around Thanksgiving and we were just visiting. This was on Gros Ventre Butte with the Town of Jackson just over the hill.

doglegg those elk photos are stunning!

Roland, that table tells a story all by itself.

kootenay joe wrote:My Picnic Table

My picnic table is a lot like me. It's old and worn, weathered and torn, broken and ready to return to be dirt again.

It was a hot July afternoon and my wife and 3 small children went down to the beach, a bay of pebbles rather than rocks on Kootenay Lake below our property.
I did not want to stop working, always too much to do to take a break. There were small sections of logs, tops & butts from house building the previous year. I managed to make a picnic table before they got back. That was 35 years ago. My wife went her way 10 years later and the 3 children are now scattered: Zanzibar, Mals, Italy, and Calgary. But the picnic table and i are still here.
kj

Time claims and reclaims, Roland. I am glad you have fared better.

Just so you'll see that I don't strike out on every fishing trip, here is a photo of the morning's catch.
The large one is 19 inches in a cooler that is 22 inches. She weighed in at 4lbs plus. Hard for my old eyes to read a Deliar any more. The small one would not be legal except that since he came out of a private tank he is legal and since there was enough for a mess, I kept him.

Ray