14 August 2008
Hoggin’ with Phillip
Posted by John under: hunting .
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Well, I hope none of you came down with a bad case of the gout while waiting for me to get off my tardy keester and back to work. Alas, the wait is over for now, so pipe down you friggin’ toothless banshees and enjoy this new video that features Phillip from the Hog Blog.
That’s right, Crazy Jim isn’t in this video. He was on vacation. OK…actually he got a little too deep into the sauce the night before the hunt, thanks to our generous host T. Michael Riddle and his Native Hunt’s special collection of fine liquors . We couldn’t wake him up to save our lives. And believe me, I tried. But waking the Crazy One from a deep slumber is about as easy as doing the the Fox Trot with a corpse. He wasn’t budging.
So Phillip and I headed out with T. Michael * on our mission: to harvest a hog that had been identified to have some undesirable genetic traits that Native Hunt didn’t want being passed down to their ranch’s otherwise pure-bred Eurasian wild boar population. Surprisingly, it didn’t take us long to find this hog and it quickly became a rather eventful hunt as you’ll see in the video.
On a parallel hunt, our other partner for the weekend and fellow blogger, Holly, headed out with a couple of Native Hunt’s professional guides to take down her first-ever large game animal. Unfortunately, the camera couldn’t be in two places at once, so you’ll have to read all about her hog hunting escapades with us on her blog, NorCal Cazadora. And from what the guides told me, she had quite a shot at over 200 yards. That’s a big boo-ya for Holly.
But even if Phillip and Holly’s hunts had not turned out as well as they did, it still would have been a pleasure to explore all that Native Hunt has to offer. T. Michael Riddle and his staff have really put together an exciting wildlife experience with populations of animals as diverse as the exotic liquors that Crazy Jim ingested. Thanks, Native Hunt. You complete me.
But enough of this typing. No one reads this shit anyways. So sit back, rub your gout-ridden feet and enjoy the hell out of this video because there’s no telling when you might see another one.
Respectfully yours, The Management
* Phillip and T. Michael were actually up just as late as Crazy Jim and they were still able to get up for the hunt. Thus the first recipient of our coveted Sally of the Week award goes to our very own Crazy Jim.
10 Comments so far...
Tom Sorenson Says:
18 August 2008 at 9:37 am.
Nice - the wait is over. Good camera work - looks like killer country for a cameraman. That’s steep enough to cause a revolt for most cameramen!
Phillip Says:
18 August 2008 at 2:13 pm.
Nice work, John!
Jim doesn’t know what he missed sleeping in that morning, but then again, I can only imagine what that first climb uphill would have done for him after the previous evening…
Phillip Says:
18 August 2008 at 2:14 pm.
Oh yeah.. this is, of course, a teaser now because I’m dying to see the footage (and relive the hours) from Jim’s hog at Cholame.
Jon Says:
20 August 2008 at 2:59 pm.
Nice hog! That is a great area for hog harvesting. Tell Jim, that is the tusks of the hog don’t get ya, the snake bite at T. Michael’s the night before sure will!
Kris Says:
24 August 2008 at 11:19 am.
Great video. Makes me want to go hunting.
Way to be a Sally CJ!
chrissy Says:
3 September 2008 at 7:45 pm.
jim- still the same. love ya. raiden vs. cage was your downfall.
chrissy Says:
3 September 2008 at 7:46 pm.
antiqued lately????
chrissy Says:
3 September 2008 at 7:48 pm.
smoked paprika is great with wild hog. use a low oven after sauteeing. you know my number jim.
T. Michael Riddle Says:
19 September 2008 at 4:27 am.
Tell Jim that next time he is goin’ even if we have to load him in the back of the Polaris and drive him up.
Nice camera work John!
