361 MILES ON ONE TANK
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ORIGINAL: BirdEye
Yep...361 miles. I've never even gotten over 320. The ol' H3 must be a little more broken in or something. We took a trip down to Freer (Texas) for opening day of Turkey Season. The H3 was awesome on our 860 mile round-trip. The leather and the XM make these trips much easier. Of course, there's also plenty of room to bring back piggies like this...got him with a knife. No $hit. 153 lb. wild hog.
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Yep...361 miles. I've never even gotten over 320. The ol' H3 must be a little more broken in or something. We took a trip down to Freer (Texas) for opening day of Turkey Season. The H3 was awesome on our 860 mile round-trip. The leather and the XM make these trips much easier. Of course, there's also plenty of room to bring back piggies like this...got him with a knife. No $hit. 153 lb. wild hog.
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Tell me about it. I never owned a dog until I married my wife, who has this male beast. It pees all over the place, it takes 10 minutes to calm down when you come back home to it, and if you leave for 5 minutes, it acts like you have been gone for 10 days. Here is our other beast:
She howls at any moving object, but doesn't go around peeing on everything. We are actually getting a fence installed next week for them. They barely get out since it's been so cold, but now I'm warned about the big birds that come out in the summer that can possibly be a threat to them and try to attack them.
I really need to get used to this living in the country thing
You don't have any pics of yours?
Tell me about it. I never owned a dog until I married my wife, who has this male beast. It pees all over the place, it takes 10 minutes to calm down when you come back home to it, and if you leave for 5 minutes, it acts like you have been gone for 10 days. Here is our other beast:
She howls at any moving object, but doesn't go around peeing on everything. We are actually getting a fence installed next week for them. They barely get out since it's been so cold, but now I'm warned about the big birds that come out in the summer that can possibly be a threat to them and try to attack them.
I really need to get used to this living in the country thing
You don't have any pics of yours?
gr8 dogs
here is a pic of mine
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Well, to explain the knifing of said piggy first:
We hopped on the back of our buddy Lupe Tervino's F-350 at about 12:30 AM at the La Parrilla Ranch about 14 miles South of Freer. Almost a completely full moon. In the bed of the F-350 is a kennel with about 4 Dogos in it. They are a badass stocky breed of dog from Argentina I believe. They are the "catch" dogs. Three Catahoulas sat on top of the kennel where our seats were conveniently located next to the cooler (this facilitates 2 things: a) the slamming of a plethora of icy cold pilsners and b) the Catahoulas' ability to jump off the back of the truck when swine is to be smelled.)
SO we drove up and down the cenderos all over this 7000-acre ranch with a few false alarms. Finally after about an hour of slowly cruisin', the Catahoulas leaped from the truck and tore off through the brush. We killed the engine (and another beer) and listened for the dogs. We knew they had found the piggy when we could hear them baying in between the squeals of the swine about to be skewered. SO we then released the Dogos (complete with kevlar vests to protect them from the tusks) and they tore off after the Catahoula hounds.
We followed, sprinting through cactus, thorns, and really unfriendly south Texas scrub brush, with a beer in one hand and a mag light in the other. When we got to the dogs, the Dogos had the boar by the ears. Lupe grabbed his two back legs and told me, "Now's yer chance." So I jumped into the commotion, grabbed his back with my left hand, positioned the knife next to his vitals (or where I thought I'd shoot if I was less buzzed and armed), and simply pushed the knife in and cut down. It was over in 10 seconds.
We grabbed the Dogos off the hog one by one. This isn't easy. They basically hold on until the skin they are holding in their teeth rips away from the pig. Vicious dogs. Then the sucky part began...we had to drag that 152 lb. boar back through the 80 or 100 yards of that brush we had just run through to get to the pig. That made 152 pounds feel more like 300. But finally we arrived back to the truck and threw him on the back of the Polaris Ranger the other guys were following us in.
We quartered him up and threw him into the cooler. Now he's being turned into sausage, tamales, etc. at Kuby's here in Dallas.
No PCM chip to answer your question. Must've been the tail wind. I was goin between 65 and 80 the whole way.
We hopped on the back of our buddy Lupe Tervino's F-350 at about 12:30 AM at the La Parrilla Ranch about 14 miles South of Freer. Almost a completely full moon. In the bed of the F-350 is a kennel with about 4 Dogos in it. They are a badass stocky breed of dog from Argentina I believe. They are the "catch" dogs. Three Catahoulas sat on top of the kennel where our seats were conveniently located next to the cooler (this facilitates 2 things: a) the slamming of a plethora of icy cold pilsners and b) the Catahoulas' ability to jump off the back of the truck when swine is to be smelled.)
SO we drove up and down the cenderos all over this 7000-acre ranch with a few false alarms. Finally after about an hour of slowly cruisin', the Catahoulas leaped from the truck and tore off through the brush. We killed the engine (and another beer) and listened for the dogs. We knew they had found the piggy when we could hear them baying in between the squeals of the swine about to be skewered. SO we then released the Dogos (complete with kevlar vests to protect them from the tusks) and they tore off after the Catahoula hounds.
We followed, sprinting through cactus, thorns, and really unfriendly south Texas scrub brush, with a beer in one hand and a mag light in the other. When we got to the dogs, the Dogos had the boar by the ears. Lupe grabbed his two back legs and told me, "Now's yer chance." So I jumped into the commotion, grabbed his back with my left hand, positioned the knife next to his vitals (or where I thought I'd shoot if I was less buzzed and armed), and simply pushed the knife in and cut down. It was over in 10 seconds.
We grabbed the Dogos off the hog one by one. This isn't easy. They basically hold on until the skin they are holding in their teeth rips away from the pig. Vicious dogs. Then the sucky part began...we had to drag that 152 lb. boar back through the 80 or 100 yards of that brush we had just run through to get to the pig. That made 152 pounds feel more like 300. But finally we arrived back to the truck and threw him on the back of the Polaris Ranger the other guys were following us in.
We quartered him up and threw him into the cooler. Now he's being turned into sausage, tamales, etc. at Kuby's here in Dallas.
No PCM chip to answer your question. Must've been the tail wind. I was goin between 65 and 80 the whole way.
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Congratulations, Justin! Sounds like a very exciting hunt. You should write for some of the hunting magazines as this is VERY WELL written. I popped a 220-lb. boar many years ago with a .270 Winchester using 130 grain bullets. I should have known they were too light weight as I had to blast that beast three times. Both my brother and I had .44 revolvers on our sides just in case. Sure wish I had a movie camera at the time as it was truly an exciting hunt especially when they attack as mine did. Congrats on the turkey kill too!
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Amazing, what a great hunt! I was thinking some sort of snare or trap would have been employedbecause boar are such tough and mean customers. Also a nice gesture that you let the dogs wear the Kelvar vests, I would have saved them for myself! 
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Boy this thread has made some hard turns.
I'm deep frying a turkey for Easter. Any of you guys out there like those Cajun injected deep fried turkeys?
Dennis, you said I got better mileage going to New Orleans than on the way back because it was downhill... well that may be technically true but I consider ALL ROADS DOWNHILL when I'm in my HUMMER.
I'm deep frying a turkey for Easter. Any of you guys out there like those Cajun injected deep fried turkeys?
Dennis, you said I got better mileage going to New Orleans than on the way back because it was downhill... well that may be technically true but I consider ALL ROADS DOWNHILL when I'm in my HUMMER.