Big Bore Hunting

[Onebaddj]

Man now those are some kills! Great pics and stories. You guys definatly gave me  the itch for a big bore now. Great shooting guys and thanks for the stories.

[Nomadic Pirate]

It rained hard for a couple of days, so I decided to go for a midday hunt at one of my favorite wallows, umbelivebly a young Boar showed up only after 45 minutes after I set up, He came in hot, started to rub his neck at the edges of the wallow, I had the scope trained on him but he wouldn't stand still or give me a good shot, than all of a sudden he calmed down and whent to drink, luckyly he was facing me, has he put his head downhe gave me the perfect square shot, squeezed the trigger of the 9mm DAQ pistol and the young Boar just collapsed, from 20 yards I was shooting a .357 Dash Caliber 105gr

[Butcher45]

Impressive!  Looks like perfect eatin' size.......time to get the smoker goin'!

[only1harry]

Very nice Manny.  You are the Big Bore man on this forum for sure.

Big Bore J. (Woodcock) would post here in the past once in a while but not lately.  He has hunted a lot with Big Bore AG's and has a ton of them.  100+ AG's in total including Springers.  I have his Diana 350 .22.  He is the one with the hat shooting the ram in this video.  If I recall it is actually a heavily modified Crosman pistol (2240 I think but in a much larger caliber)!  There is a better video of the hunt out there on youtube somewhere where you can see the gun a lot better.



I am not so sure the 2nd shooter was using an airgun though.  I don't see an air tank on that gun and does not sound like an AG either.  Anything is possible though..

[Butcher45]

Very nice Manny.  You are the Big Bore man on this forum for sure.

Big Bore J. (Woodcock) would post here in the past once in a while but not lately.  He has hunted a lot with Big Bore AG's and has a ton of them.  100+ AG's in total including Springers.  I have his Diana 350 .22.  He is the one with the hat shooting the ram in this video.  If I recall it is actually a heavily modified Crosman pistol (2240 I think but in a much larger caliber)!  There is a better video of the hunt out there on youtube somewhere where you can see the gun a lot better.



I am not so sure the 2nd shooter was using an airgun though.  I don't see an air tank on that gun and does not sound like an AG either.  Anything is possible though..

Yea a CNS shot with a bigbore airgun=lights out!

The rifle used on the hog was an airgun....a .457 (DAQ?) "Destroyer" with the air reservoir apparently  located somewhere inside the stock.  It is a "dump gun", dumping all of it's air in one shot.  This likely makes for a different type of sound.

[Nomadic Pirate]

Very nice Manny.  You are the Big Bore man on this forum for sure.

Sorry, but I have to totally disagree with you on that one, I'm an airgun rooky and surely a Big Bore rooky, what I have on my side is several years of primitive archery (homemade) hunting, I know my quarry very well, and I can get real close to them ( when I find them)   , that translates real good to airgun hunting, as a matter of fact the opportunity to surgically take precision headshot has increased my chances by alot.

[JonnyReb]

 You are one heck of a hunter Manny, can't deny that one  , love the pics, thanks SO much for sharing.  Those bows are absolutely gorgeous too, i guess you made all of them? The buckskin suit you were wearing, is it pigskin? Handmade? Very impressive sir!! J

[Butcher45]

Hunting Bobcat in Western Oregon, bordering the Siuslaw National Forest.  There are many sub-species of Bobcat in the states.  The local sub-species of Bobcat I hunt here on the west side of Oregon is L. rufus fasciatus.

Day started out promising at dawn, then tree workers entered the woods and really made some noise.  I trekked away from the commotion as far as I could, and did more stalking than calling for several miles thru the forest. 

I wasn't able to do any pre-season scouting, so it was mostly new ground.  Got into some ridiculous thick stuff following a foot trail off of a foot trail.  What a mess.

If a particular location does not look IDEAL to make a stand, I don't want to sit there and call for an hour when there are better stands to make down the way.

I had finished calling for the day, and was hunting my way back to the gate with as much focus as I could muster.  I learned on the last stand on the last legal bobcat hunting day of last season, that it is not over until you have crossed that gate. 

15 minutes after my last stand, I was stalking and spotting the bottom border road of a steep reprod clearcut, when I peered around the bend and guess what I saw sitting in the middle of the path quartering away at about 35 yards ahead? 

I could tell from where she was that I did not want her going ANYWHERE, as any tracking in that terrain is a nightmare.  Reprod to the left, gully with thick overgrown brush on the right.  I have been saying that I would try for a headshot on a bobcat if given the opportunity just to be certain it went straight down, but this one was sitting quartered away from me to the right, presenting the perfect neck shot.

Thank goodness I had my rifle cocked and ready to go.  That bobcat would have spooked immediately at the sound of an action I am sure of it.  Took the neck shot and it worked perfectly. 

Here is where she lay.  Down the road behind her around the bend is where I was when I took the shot to the neck.



I immediately reloaded, and put an insurance shot into here heart as I approached her....probably at about 20 yards.  No way was I going to let that cat get out of sight.  Another hole or two in the hide doesn't bother me a bit, but a lost hide sure does! 

After I filled out my Bobcat Report Card, I paced off from the bend in the road where I took the shot, where the Bobcat was sitting when I put that EPP/UG into her neck that put her down with authority on video afterwards.

http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x65/butcher45/?action=view&current=100_0188.mp4

I hunt alone for the most part, but use the self-timer on my camera while afixed to my mono-pod stuck in the ground.  Took this picture real quick before putting the tag on her.




I took some more pictures after I hitched a ride to the highway to meet my ride.





After I got home, I took additional pictures of the wounds.  This is the entry wound from the neck shot as she was quartering away from me.





The exit wound from the neck shot.





This is the shot I took to the heart as she lay in the road.  The exit hole was later found  in her back while skinning.







Some shots of her tools







Got her home and weighed her..... 14.5 lbs after having bleed out a whole lot.  Pelt looks great!






More soon!

[Nomadic Pirate]

Being able to sneak up unheard on a cat is sure sign of excellent hunting techniques.

Neck shot surely did the business, I'm a big fan of the head/neck shots, I too have some tremendusly challenging terrain for tracking, a dead aminal shot thru the lung/heart area can go a considerable way, ......and the option of dropping a critter where hit is huge.

[Nomadic Pirate]

You are one heck of a hunter Manny, can't deny that one  , love the pics, thanks SO much for sharing.  Those bows are absolutely gorgeous too, i guess you made all of them? The buckskin suit you were wearing, is it pigskin? Handmade? Very impressive sir!! J

Thanks Jeff, Yeah I make all my bows, but the skins are deer, made for me by a Canadian Lady

[Nomadic Pirate]

Sitting in a blind all day is pretty boring, where I hunt there's no real wildlife to watch for entertainment, If a critter shows up it's probably gonnaget shot at

vision if very limited too, the 30 so yards of open ground that give the chance for a shot is just about as far as you can see beyond that is extremely thick vegetation, imprengnatable to the eye,

Just before dark this little Saw came in, as soon as she gave me a good shot I took it, the 909s accuracy with the 150gr EEP/UP is fantastic and the slug hit exactly where I wanted, between the eye and the hear, you can see the awsome power of the untuned Sam Yang in the damage to the porker skull