The “Hog Shootinest Gent’man” is still at it!
I’ve been getting emails and photos from my friend Matt, who I’ve proclaimed to be the “hog shootinest gent’man”. With this recent little communication, he shows that not only is he completely deserving of the title, but he’s raising a new generation to follow along in his big boot steps!
Matt writes in a pretty informal style, so I’ve added a little punctuation and such just to clean things up a bit. But the message sure comes through! Check it out!
Well boys…. as some of you know, I have identical triplet boys.
Mommy took big sister and 1 boy down to a girlfriends house this weekend..and 2 boys stayed with me. Well after about an hour of puttzing around the house…I blew. I put the guys in the truck and headed north…we had a great weekend of special dad and son time.. we brought the bow…rifle….410…and .22. Basically ..if it was legal..it was going down!!
Which left us with 4 choices..pigs ,cottontails,jacks and coyotes…well. we mananged to hammer 2 out of the 4 species… we had hogs around us every morning and night..with saturday morning being an unforgetable hunt!! I glassed up a “bomber ” of a boar at first light walking back to the bedding grounds..well. after trying to get two 8 year olds in sinc…by the time we got over there …he was moving fast and made the brush line…DAMN!! i had a shot and decided to walk him as the boys were not in position yet to view the final. Well, We hiked around a bit and decided to head back down to the truck..on our way down we ran into 3 “neopolitans”headind back up the canyon.
I deployed the bipod and we sat in wait..the first one passed at about 100yds.. I asked the boys what they wanted to do?? They both replied, “lets hammer them!”
Well, the safety came off and at the report of the rifle the first icecream boar was down!!! The other 2 ran up the draw and stopped to look back…bam!! #2
is rolling down the hill, as the 3rd made its way up the thick chamise the boys are yelling shoot…shoot…{blood thirsty little guys}i tell them boys..we gotta leave some seed…that went right over thier heads.We went to assess our harvest..2 nice dry sows in the bag… after many high 5,s and money shots daddy started the process of boning them out..damn I can’t wait til they get older and do the dirty work for thier old man.
This morning it was time to pull out the mdl.24 savage 22/410 the rabbits were gonna be in trouble..the boys only managed to pull one out of the brush…but man what an adventure!!! that jack is the talk of the trip!!!
Enjoy the money shots boys…and there really is nothing like taking the kids out for some time in the field!
And here’s a little photographic taste of the adventure!
What a great story, and it looks like everyone had a great time. I can’t even begin to imagine shooting a rabbit THAT BIG. Geesh.
September 29th, 2009 at 7:07 am
straight up killas right there!! man they have the eye of the tiger!! they digg seeing themselves on your site phil!!
thanks for posting it up!!im gonna tan up his rabbit pelt
so he can keep in his room…there could be a boone&crockett
buck in the freezer..but what do the boys go look at every night and morning??? that jackrabbit!! good times for sure.
September 29th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Awesome kids raised up right, Matt! Nice work!
Funny stuff about that jackrabbit, but tells you a lot about how those kids place value on things, huh?
September 29th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Can’t wait for my two youngun’s to be able to hoist a rifle up to their shoulder, Great job Matt!
September 29th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
That looks like a huge jack or a small deer next to those little men! Very cool.
September 29th, 2009 at 5:48 pm