Do any of you all hunt the West?

[Willy P]

Years that I can manage to draw a tag I am always amazed at the "hoops" I have to jump through transporting firearms through IL, IA, and NB. You have to love that "in a package too large to be concealed on or about the body" section of law for truck transport and trying to comply with your CCW arm at the IN IL border and then digging it out again when you hit a state that allows us to carry. By the time I make it to WY I'm not as worried about BG's in that state as I was in IL! were I wished I could have carried. You also have to really love a common sense state like WY where you can open carry in the vehicle and it's not even cared about.

[TunnelRat]

You also have to really love a common sense state like WY where you can open carry in the vehicle and it's not even cared about.

Yup, like Ohio for example....

[Willy P]

Well I really meant that I can clear the chamber on my rifle and move spots in the truck and it is no harm no foul. It is a ticket here in Ohio and I can step back into the truck with the 44 loaded and not worry rather it is under my coat if it is raining or cold rather it's loaded or not. They leave it to me to be safe and if I'm not I reap the end results myself. The hunting laws and CC laws flow together pretty nice out there and no one has a knot in their shorts over what a person has in their heart, they just bust you when you poach or violate the law in some other way. Unlike here where I am a poacher at heart in the eyes of the DNR. Oh and I can carry all the firearms my scrawny butt can handle and they don't care as long as it is a legal caliber I use to harvest game with and not a lesser caliber/power factor that I am using as a CC arm or backup arm.

[Petrovich]

I've always wanted to go hog hunting in Texas.

[Willy P]

Any special reason you wanted to go all the way to TX to hunt a hog? There are a lot of places closer that could use ferel hogs reduced. Unless you were thinking of a Javelina?

[Petrovich]

Any special reason you wanted to go all the way to TX to hunt a hog? There are a lot of places closer that could use ferel hogs reduced. Unless you were thinking of a Javelina?

I just heard they grow them bigger in Texas.

Actually, I was watching a show on the outdoor channel the other day. I guess there's some real good hunting all over the east coast. There's even a couple places here in Buckeye country.

I wanna go someplace where they snipe them from tree stands. This silliness of chasing them down with dogs and stickin' 'em with a knife is not my idea of a primitive hunt.

[JJones]

Not really...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,127373,00.html

[Petrovich]

Not really...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,127373,00.html

Yeah, that's the one.....man.....tackle that one with a bowie knife tied to a stick.

[TunnelRat]

.....tackle that one with a bowie knife tied to a stick.

A bowie knife tied to a stick, huh? That's nothing -- I used to hunt mountain lions with a club!

['course, truth be told, there were dozens of us in the club...]

[TunnelRat]

Not really...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,127373,00.html

Hmmmph, when the article said "Hogzilla", I thought it was going to be about Hillary...

[Willy P]

Hogs are a real problem in the South. FL has places that I can not believe they can get a crop of anything off of. Whole fields rooted up . They do stand hunting and spot and stalk type stuff. Speaking about hunting with dogs. We have an old school teacher here in town that was a big time black bear hunter with dogs. Matter of fact here a couple years ago when a little black wandered into town Jack put him up a tree with a little spank on the flanks and it took half the sweet rolls from the McDonalds to coax him back down the tree and into the DNR's trap and transport cage. The poor little bear made one too many lefts after he switched off the Scioto river and onto the Darbys and into a residential area about 300 yards from the house here. Last I heard he is still down in Southern Ohio where they returned him to.

[Petrovich]

.....tackle that one with a bowie knife tied to a stick.

A bowie knife tied to a stick, huh? That's nothing -- I used to hunt mountain lions with a club!

['course, truth be told, there were dozens of us in the club...]

All armed to the teeth, no doubt!!

[Petrovich]

Hogs are a real problem in the South. FL has places that I can not believe they can get a crop of anything off of. Whole fields rooted up . They do stand hunting and spot and stalk type stuff. Speaking about hunting with dogs. We have an old school teacher here in town that was a big time black bear hunter with dogs. Matter of fact here a couple years ago when a little black wandered into town Jack put him up a tree with a little spank on the flanks and it took half the sweet rolls from the McDonalds to coax him back down the tree and into the DNR's trap and transport cage. The poor little bear made one too many lefts after he switched off the Scioto river and onto the Darbys and into a residential area about 300 yards from the house here. Last I heard he is still down in Southern Ohio where they returned him to.

One time a couple neighbor kids came running across my property all excited and said they were chasing a bear. I pretty much figured they were chasing a dog named bear.

I have since heard there have been occasional sightings in muskingum county of black bears.

[haspelbein]

I used to go hog hunting in California, but they are pretty hard to get on public land, even though getting access is usually not a problem. I used to hunt on William Hearst's old hunting grounds, now an artillery range. (Fort Hunter Liggett) It should post a picture, actually. It's a very scenic place, with the original hunting lodge and an old mission still in place.

But hog hunting in California is great on private property. As anti-CCW as the state is, it sure is beautiful.

Even though many parts of California have a problem with hogs, they are not accessible to hunters. The local state parks actually have the taxpayer spend money on trapping, killing, and discarding hogs. What a waste.

[Petrovich]

I used to go hog hunting in California, but they are pretty hard to get on public land, even though getting access is usually not a problem. I used to hunt on William Hearst's old hunting grounds, now an artillery range. (Fort Hunter Liggett) It should post a picture, actually. It's a very scenic place, with the original hunting lodge and an old mission still in place.

But hog hunting in California is great on private property. As anti-CCW as the state is, it sure is beautiful.

Even though many parts of California have a problem with hogs, they are not accessible to hunters. The local state parks actually have the taxpayer spend money on trapping, killing, and discarding hogs. What a waste.

That's the left coast for you.

I was watching a show on the outdoor channel and a guided trip was for a boar and a 'meathog' as they called it. Apparently they rounded up small hogs, turned them into barrows, and set them loose again. You could shoot a barrow, a small sow or a gilt for your 'meathog' and they even made it into sausage for you to take home.