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HOG HUNTING ON THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA!

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Palmer:

--- Quote from: Bofire on December 21, 2007, 06:52:13 AM --- :)My brother and his friend mark went to a place near Cheney Washington, near Spokane, hunted hogs. They were on a ranch but the place was huge and the hogs free to range. I think it was called Canyon Crest Ranch.
I do not know how much $.
Carl

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This sounds like the ranch advertising at near Seahawks stadium.  They were charging $900 back in '99.  They had one on display that weighed maybe 800#.  They charge $2000 for a buffalo.

Michelle_Nelson:
Boars to me taste and smell nasty.  Sow's (up to 150lbs) ans small Boars (up to 100) are pretty good eating.  As for killing them they can be a tough animal to take down.  We've killed them with everything from knives to .22's and some larger rifles. 

I have a picture somewhere of a Boar pushing 400 lbs that a couple of my buddies killed with a knife.  That blond and black boar on my website was killed with a .223.

I like the sowes up to 100 lbs.  Skin them, gut em, and quarter them up.  Put the meat in a cooler with a drain and wash the meat realy well.  Than I put ice in the bottom of the cooler than a layer of meat.  Than more ice another layer of meat and put a final layer of ice on top.  Than I pore 1 quart of Apple Cidar Vinagar all over the ice on top.  Leave the meat in ice for 24 hours to 48 hourskeeping plenty of ice on it.

Than slow cook it on a grill!  :drool:

Mbell:
Sorry to dig this one up, but I registered just to put my 2 cents in. I am not a hunter yet, however I am taking my hunters ed this coming weekend. What brought me to this post was I watched the show dual survival on the Discovery channel the other day and they were on the Olympic peninsula. During the show they found and killed a wild turkey.
    Now what I currently am, is a Steelhead fisherman. I have been fishing the Peninsula with my father since I can remember. I currently live in North Seattle and usually spend as much as 50 plus days a year out there, sometimes more, rarely less, mostly in the winter.
So when watching the show, they were trying to head west to the coast. they walked in a small river and found a "dead" steelhead also to eat. But then later when trying to head "west" they ended up back high in the mountains and had to navigate a steep gorge. I immediatly called BS because if they were as smart as they would like us to think they would have just followed the river to the coast, Duh.....
    So I found myself trying to further debunk them by looking up Peninsula Turkeys because out of my 30 plus years of exploring most of the peninsula river valleys from top to bottom I have never heard or seen one. My search brought me to this thread.
I do have several family members that live in Aberdeen, and one of them, my cousins father in law once told me about plentiful trout in the Klone Lakes. and so in the summer of 05 I thought I would hike up there for the weekend with mentioned cousin, his girlfriend, my wife and son. Anyone familiar with the area knows that there is a huge slide that made the road to this particular area impassible. This is where I parked my car and we started the hike. This could get really long, but the short version is my cousin walking ahead of us disturbed a ground hornets nest, and when we got to this point the hornets targeted my wife, she was stung 9 times initially, and were swarming, so I told everyone to go back the way we came. we got about a half mile back....and they followed and stung my wife 13 more times. So what I had us do is beeline straight down the side of the mountain as this would bring us back lower on the road than where my truck was parked. After much slipping and sliding down the hill we came out onto the road, me my wife and son first and as soon as we came out we startled a pig about 30 yards down the road. He/she grunted, stared long enough to for us to see exactly what is was (I thought it was a bear at first because wasnt expecting a pig) and then crashed into the brush, downhill side. At this point I thought I knew about the local wildlife so was kind of dumbfounded that I saw a pig. When we returned to Aberdeen (my wife was OK, but as you can guess doesnt do much back country hiking with me anymore) I asked Bill, the same guy that told me about klone lakes, about the pig. Now he grew up in the area, but is more of a mountaineer than hunter/fisherman and told me the same thing most of you are saying, that wynoochi pigs are a myth and yada yada he's never seen one, but I know what I saw and my then 7 year old boy recognized it was a pig. If I had to guess I would say it was about 100-125 pounds, dark brownish/black in color but I couldnt make out if it had tusks or not. I fish the upper nooch (below the dam) for summer runs frequently also and have never seen a pig before or after that one encounter.

Practical Approach:
I too saw that same episode and watched with disgust. At first I thought, are they really going to try to shoot an elk with a homemade bow in a National Park???  Then when I saw the guy shoot this poor turkey that looked lost in the sea of sword ferns I was filled with anger.  What a lame show.  There are not any wild turkeys roaming the Olympic National Park.  What kind of research do these guys do prior to their shows?  As far as the pigs go, I believe the intend was to try to eradicate them ASAP due to all the damage they cause and for the most part the hunts were effective.  However, there could be a straggler or a recently escaped pig that has adapted to forest life.

chevysquid:
I've heard rumors off and on for the last 6 years or so about hogs over there.  Would be fun to know where to hunt them.  As few of them as there seem to be and with such a dense area would be like winning the power ball though.

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