Saturday it starts, deer season 2008. I’ve got my ground blind set beside a pond that typically attacts bucks during hot weather. I’ve missed a couple from this spot, but never put my tag on one yet. But this may be the year.
My blind is commercially made and has several ports to shoot through. I [...]
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During the several years that I part timed as a pig guide, we killed about 25 to 30 wild boars. Several hunters came back for a second or even third time. One of those was Roger Fung. Roger was very excited about killing a big pig.
He was slight of stature, probably in the 150 [...]
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The first few trips to the ranch after the close of duck season are an awakening. I make very few trips to the hills during duck season, mainly because I’m focused on ducks and once the hills on our ranch become saturated by winter rains, travel becomes difficult.
(Note: Click on photos to enlarge them.)
Once duck [...]
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(Caption: Tom Campbell with the wet boar. Click to enlarge.)
The water was cold and my bare feet were barely touching the slime mud on the pond bottom. Somewhere beneath or beside me was a 200-pound boar that had sunk beneath the chocolate-brown water of the stock pond.
I was surprised that the pond was so deep. [...]
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A fellow named Jaime Carpenter shot this boar. Jaime was from the South Bay and had been out late the night before. I wasn’t sure if he’d stay awake long enough to shoot this boar.
The boar and another small boar (say a 200 pounder) were following some sows and apparently they were receptive. The small [...]
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Over the years of heard about some very big boars killed in the hills near Livermore, but the largest boar I know of was taken in 2000 near Williams Gulch. Since that time, pigs have nearly disappeared in this area.
The reason? I believe it’s primarily depredation hunting by contract pig hunters who use many [...]
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My brother spotted a deer in Mocho Creek last week. It was a doe. Having lived along Livermore’s Mocho Creek for much of our lives, we know that spotting a deer in the creek is unusual. So unusual that the last deer we saw in Mocho Creek was over 40 years ago.
Our previous deer sighting occured [...]
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